Guides & News
Reviews, tutorials and buying advice from two decades of covering recording and instrument gear.
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Aerosmith and Cheap Trick to Tour This Summer
Aerosmith Great news for fans of a more vintage taste in rock, as Aerosmith and Cheap Trick have announced they will be…
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50 Years Later, Stones Finally Get Satisfaction With New Documentary
The Rolling Stones fifty years ago Listen up all you honky tonk women and street fighting men! In what should be sweeter…
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McCartney Led Nirvana ‘Reunion’ Fails to Kill Cobain’s Legacy
Paul McCartney and Dave Grohl jam for HurricaneSandy Benefit concert. For those of you who missed yesterday’s 12-12-12 Sandy Benefit concert –…
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Check Out Upcoming Gear From Fender, Carl Martin And More!
Top: Fender Pawn Shop Vaporizer Amplifiers. Bottom From Left: Carl Martin Dual Injection and Purple Moon. A new year means new gear and…
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Our Favorite Songs For Your Thanksgiving Jubilee
This is a collection of some of our favorite odes to the big Gobbler. Hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your…
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Robert Plant Announces New Band
Robert Plant CBE While we haven’t heard any word on an official Led Zeppelin reunion or let alone another show since their…
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Soundaria’s Top Rock and Roll Holiday Songs
Good afternoon, music fans! It’s December 10, 2012, and you know what that means – 11 more days until the end of…
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New White Stripes Concert DVD Announced
Photo courtesy of Third Man Records Fans of the late great White Stripes will finally have a little something to cheer about…
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New Gear Roundup: Electro-Harmonix
The EHX Tortion Hailed by company founder and president, Mike Matthews, as “our flagship overdrive/distortion,” the new EHX TORTION covers tremendous tonal…
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Mod My Axe: Pickup Alterations
Let Scott here tell you a little something about coil tapping Few modifications can alter a guitar’s primary tone as much as…
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Lindsey Buckingham Announces Added Tour Dates
Buckingham with Fleetwood Mac in ’09 PC: Wikimedia Commons Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac fame has just announced added dates to his…
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TECH TIPS: Guitar Storage
Cases are king when it comes to storing you guitars. Here are some tips from our friends at Fender: If you have…