Bill Lee, jazz bassist, composer and father of Spike Lee, dies aged 94
Bill Lee – the jazz bassist and composer who worked with some of the biggest names in music – has died at the age of…
Eric Clapton and Gary Clark Jr. played Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers at the recent Jeff Beck tribute – see how they handled the show’s most daunting task
Eric Clapton and Gary Clark Jr.’s performance of Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers was undoubtedly the poison chalice of the evening when it came to…
7 ways playing guitar can benefit your mental health
Playing guitar brings enrichment and fulfillment in many ways. Clinical studies have proven that learning guitar, or any instrument for that matter, benefits bodies and…
Watch Foo Fighters play their first show with new drummer Josh Freese – and is that Dave Grohl’s new Gibson DG-335 signature guitar?
Earlier this week, Foo Fighters announced that Josh Freese would be joining the band full-time as their new drummer. Freese, who replaces the late Taylor…
Sweetwater’s Memorial Day sale is the place for pedal lovers with sizable discounts on Line 6, Eventide, Walrus Audio, Pigtronix and more
It may be early, but the Memorial Day guitar sales are well and truly underway – and this latest offering from Sweetwater might just be…
Meet Xander & the Peace Pirates, the triple-guitar band discovered by an ex-Gibson CEO, featuring Liverpool's answer to Stevie Ray Vaughan
Since being discovered on YouTube by former Gibson CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, guitarist brothers Keith and Stuart Xander haven’t looked back – and neither have their…
George Lynch shows us what’s on his pedalboard
“I have a small pedalboard that I use for fly-in dates. On that you’ll find a Klon, a second-year Malaysian chip [Ibanez Tube Screamer] TS808,…
How to use chromatics in a blues guitar solo
There is an old musician’s adage that says when improvising, you’re only ever a semitone away from the ‘right note’. While this is perfectly true,…
Alex Skolnick says Phil Demmel is the Winston Wolf of metal guitarists, as the ex-Machine Head man joins Testament’s EU tour
Testament guitarist Alex Skolnick has compared Phil Demmel to Harvey Keitel’s iconic Pulp Fiction fixer, Winston Wolf – describing him as “the guy you call…
Legendary singer Tina Turner dies at 83
Tina Turner, an iconic, enormously influential singer who bridged the gap between rock n’ roll, R&B, soul, and even country, has died at the age…