We’re halfway through 2025, and it’s been…well, eventful, to put it politely. But hey, at least there’s great music to get us ...

For Metallica’s Kirk Hammett, there is one electric guitar that stands above the rest in his arsenal for the metal band’s ...

EA "passed" on buying a number of blockbuster Activision Blizzard games, including Call of Duty, Guitar Hero, and even World of Warcraft developer Blizzard. That's according to former EA chief ...

Dissatisfied with the quality of the day’s commercial recordings, Paul, who’d worked with pop stars including Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters, and was a guitar virtuoso and bandleader ...

Chris Young is like country music Batman, hiding in the dark shadows until evil villains (airlines) strike innocent victims (guitar players). It's then the hitmaker whooshes in and delivers ...

Maybe one of the biggest surprises in this sale is to find an acoustic guitar so normal, and so high-end. But the Taylor 314e is just that, and was played by Ranaldo when Sonic Youth supported ...

There's also a custom-built parametric EQ, gifted to Ranaldo by his old Fluks bandmate and used on Sonic Youth's debut Confusion Is Sex. A Taylor 314ce acoustic guitar with a link to Neil Young ...

And this year's haul is looking pretty enticing as well. One highlight: Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo's very first guitar. The guitar, a Hagstrom II, rarely saw action outside of the budding ...

YARG (a.k.a. Yet Another Rhythm Game) is a free, open-source, plastic guitar game that is still in development. It supports guitar (five fret), drums (plastic or e-kit), vocals, pro-keys, and more!

It’s bizarre.” You may like Magic Mike Dawes has turned a Sleep Token track into a work of solo acoustic guitar genius Yngwie Malmsteen on why guitarists should look beyond the guitar for inspiration ...

And vocalist Eddie Vedder explained in detail why the Nashville resident is something of a hero to the Seattle band. “This gentleman was someone we looked up to before the Ramones. Some of our first ...

A homemade amplifier instrumental to NZ’s first wave of rock ‘n’ roll in the 1950s remains a favourite of some of our best-loved guitar heroes. When I found it in the basement, my life changed.