First used by ’50s legends Chet Atkins and Les Paul, it is rock, metal and punk that have made palm muting so popular today ...

The Pantera icon loved digging into his Riffer Madness “Feedback Sack” and answering readers’ questions. Here he offers gear ...

Singer-songwriter Jeffrey Foucault talks about how a Gibson J-45 that he just seemed meant to have eventually found its way ...

Rising to prominence as the bassist for Pixies, Kim Deal has lent her talents to a wealth of effortlessly cool anthems over the years, but one stands out.

Lloyd Baggs has come full circle back to guitar design as a bespoke platform for his latest pickup system – the result could ...

A marathon runner in Taiwan wowed his fellow marathoners and spectators by completing the Sun Moon Lake Marathon while ...

This goes double for barre chords! The wide fingerboard on classical guitars makes thumb-over hand positions impractical, but ...

How any string instrument sounds depends on hundreds of factors; even the tiniest details matter. Seemingly inconsequential things like whether the tree that the wood came from grew on the north ...

The new Grateful Dead x McIntosh speakers pay homage to the band’s innovative “Wall of Sound.” The revolutionary audio system — designed by Owsley “Bear” Stanley with McIntosh amplifiers — provided ...

Berlin-based sitar collective debuts in Thiruvananthapuram, blending international sounds in a unique concert experience.

Out of nowhere, popularised by Phoebe Bridgers – and a legions of Tik Tok guitarists with elastic bands wrapped around their strings for a similarly muted effect – the rubber-bridge guitar presented a ...

Vendrán Las Aves - "The Birds Will Come" - is a brief, quiet, hopeful game about burnout recovery. Summarised as a "slice of ...