A 1973 Fender Mustang that was smashed onstage by Kurt Cobain during Nirvana’s first tour in 1989 sold for nearly $500,000 at auction. The winning bid of $486,400 far exceeded the original estimate of $200,000, […]
Lil Wayne “immersed” himself in the guitar so he could play the instrument in a music video. In an interview for Rolling Stone, the rapper recalled how he decided he needed to learn the guitar […]
Bruce Springsteen made his debut appearance on The Howard Stern Show on Monday, where he sat down for a lengthy two-and-a-half-hour career-spanning conversation about his life and music. Springsteen also performed solo acoustic renditions of […]
Zakk Wylde has announced an online guitar course, “Zakk Wylde Berserker Guitar Camp,” which launches October 14th via Riffhard. If you’ve ever wanted to shred like the imitable Ozzy Osbourne/Black Label Society guitarist, now is […]
As teased over social media this summer, guitar icon Zakk Wylde is putting on his instructor hat and offering musicians a chance to learn guitar from the man himself. Taking a break from his guitar […]
Photo Credit: Sweetwater Sweetwater’s Guitar Month celebrates new additions to the massive music store’s amazing guitar line-up. This year some of the new arrivals include guitars made by The Loar, Warwick, Recording King, Larrivee, Sterling […]
Dave Mustaine won’t hang up his guitar until he physically can’t play anymore. The Megadeth axe-slayer battled throat cancer in 2019, and even when he was going through chemotherapy and radiotherapy, he was still working […]
Play video content Twitter / @kevinbacon Kevin Bacon‘s musical farm just dove into the Beyhive, but he’s not getting — instead, the dude’s getting mad props … and one of his animals might be partially […]
You really can get everything at IKEA. Even musical instruments it turns out, if you’re handy enough. A hobbyist in Belgium certainly is, proving you can make a stylish working guitar from pieces of an […]
Dave Grohl’s guitar he used in Foo Fighters’ ‘Monkey Wrench’ music video is expected to fetch £30,000 at auction. The former Nirvana drummer’s Gretsch White Falcon will go under the hammer at Gardiner Houlgate in […]
Dave Mustaine wasn’t going to let cancer impact his guitar playing after a doctor told him he would lose “80 per cent use of his arm” to a previous hand injury. In 2002, the Megadeth […]
Photo Credit: Freebird / CC by 2.0 Gibson has won a permanent injunction against Dean Guitars for its trademarked guitar shapes. Here’s the latest. On May 27, 2022, a Texas federal jury found that Armadillo […]
Shockwaves hit the metal world on Wednesday (July 13th) when it was reported that singer Philip Anselmo and bassist Rex Brown would be touring as Pantera in 2023. The thought of a Pantera reunion without […]
Editor’s Note: The following article contains some minor spoilers for Stranger Things Season 4. While Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo’s son Tye played “additional guitar tracks” for a key scene in Stranger Things in which the […]
“Stranger Things” has had its best season in terms of music. The season four finale featured a 3-minute action-packed scene where Eddie Munson, one of our heroes, plays one of Metallica’s greatest songs in the […]
Dave Mustaine chastised a guitar tech for soundchecking on an adjacent stage during Megadeth’s set at Barcelona Rock Fest. The incident happened this past weekend at the fest in Parc de Can Zam, which features two […]
The Canadian rock legend Randy Bachman’s long search has come to an end with him being reunited in Tokyo with a cherished guitar 45 years after it was stolen from a Toronto hotel. “My girlfriend […]
Megadeth mastermind Dave Mustaine and Gibson have unveiled the Flying V EXP Rust in Peace signature model — the newest axe in the growing Dave Mustaine Collection. Paying tribute to Megadeth’s seminal 1990 album Rust […]
Metallica have teamed with Yousician for a new series of courses that let fans and aspiring guitarists play alongside the band members themselves. It’s the closest you can get to actually jamming with Metallica, as […]
Photo Credit: Freebird / CC by 2.0 Gibson has won its lawsuit over guitar shape, with the court ruling that shape is part and parcel of a brand. Back in 2019, Gibson filed a lawsuit […]