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Taking yourself or your band on the road is a critical part of the music business

Where can you get an authentic Gibson Les Paul Supreme for $297? Or an ES-335 Dot Reissue for $346?

DiMarzio’s Area J set is designed to sound as close to original J bass pickups as possible, but in a humbucking configuration to remove any background noise.

I just finished a new finger style lesson I call the 'Double Stop Blues'. It's an interesting one, a minimalist approach to stating a chord progression ...

Maton’s now-classic Mastersound model has gone through many permutations over the years, from the original versions in those famous photos of Phil and Tommy Emmanuel as young kids traveling aroun...

Surely a sign of the end of the world :)

Baden guitars are as unique and innovative as they are sparse and minimal, Like the D-Style dreadnaught, the A-Style is free of the types of showy flash that seem to dominate much of the acoustic m...

It’s not what you play, it’s how you play it.

Launched in 1992 by Jorge Tripps, Way Huge Electronics kickstarted the boutique pedal craze, but weren't around long enough to really enjoy the acclaim.

The idea of mixing entirely different sounds for the high and low end isn’t a new one – bass players have been doing it for years and Roger Mayer experimented with this technique on Jimi Hendri...