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Reviews, tutorials and buying advice from two decades of covering recording and instrument gear.
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Electro Harmonix Micro POG Octave Pedal Review
The Micro Polyphonic Octave Generator Getting a little bored with the sound of your old six-string? Wish the thing could sound like…
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Metallica Announces 2012 Music Festival
Metallica Announces 2012 Festival Line-up Today Metallica announced their music festival, Orion Music + More. Slated for June 23rd and 24th in…
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McCartney Kisses On The Bottom Streaming Performance
MCartney Live – Photo: AFP/Getty This evening, Sir Paul himself will perform Kisses On The Bottom, his new album and it will…
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Fender Lucite Esquire – Cumberland River
Fender’s R&D department designed and built an extremely rare Fender Lucite Esquire that’s now being auctioned to benefit NASH2O, a charitable initiative…
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NAMM 2012: Line 6 launches StageScape M20d mixer and StageSource loudspeakers
StageScape™ M20 is the world’s first smart mixing system — an integrated live sound solution that uses touchscreen-based visual mixing to explode…
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Green Day Cancel ‘Secret Show’ in Burbank,CA
PC: Wikimedia Commons; Greenday at Camden, NJ in 2010 Bad news for fans of the California-bred pop-punk outfit Green Day as the…
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Fozzy to Tour and Release New Album
Image courtesy of Fozzy’s Myspace page The walls won’t be the only thing Chris Jericho will be breaking down this summer as…
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NAMM 2014: New Artist Signature Models From Fender
From Top: Kurt Cobain Jaguar, Jim Root Jazzmasterand the Troy Van Leeuwen Jazzmaster. Fender has just announced its latest offering of artist…
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Dave Grohl Sound City Documentary Trailer Released
Dave Grohl in Sound City Studios – Photo: Vimeo The trailer for Dave Grohl’s much-anticipated documentary about Sound City Studios has finally…
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Clapton Announces New Album, Shows for 2013
2013 will mark 50 years in the business for Clapton* It’s been a pretty quiet last couple of years for old Slow…
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Johnny Cash Memorabilia Auction
Johnny Cash guitars, handwritten lyrics, stage outfits and other memorabilia will be auctioned on December 10. Julien’s Auctions in Los Angeles is…
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Billy Corgan to Announce New Album Experience at SXSW
Photo: Pieter M Van Hattem Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan will announce a new approach to music distribution at South By Southwest…