“Cover music has been analog AI for a long time”: Fender CEO Bud Cole under fire from online guitar community for AI comments
“My biggest fear is that she was just dropped off on the street somewhere.” Linda Perhacs, influential psychedelic folk songwriter, reported missing
“Unrecognizable. Make it right”: Guitarist calls out American Airlines after his acoustic was returned to him in pieces
“It’s a great album, it rocks!” Tony Iommi announces his first solo album in years and premieres thunderous new single, “World Alone”
“There probably couldn’t be two to three musicians like him in the world.” Derek Trucks on the musician and instrument that made him a better slide player
“Small does not have to mean less”: Orange puts a Terror twist on one of its most popular modern amp series with new Baby lunchbox head
“I’ve been playing the same bass since the ’80s. It’s the only one that could survive a Bad Brains show”: Why Bad Brains icon Darryl Jenifer traded punk for instrumental jazz – without changing his bass
“We were going to form a group at the time of the Beck’s Bolero sessions”: Jeff Beck was going to be part of the original Led Zeppelin, according to Jimmy Page
“I got to play Gary’s Les Paul from the Lizzy days. It was quite difficult, the action was horrendous. He had big, big hands”: Brian Robertson busts myths and shares war stories from Thin Lizzy’s glory days
“Even at nearly 80, he was still creative and highly motivated, looking forward to what his next range of guitars might be”: Remembering the late Alan Entwistle – pickups guru, guitar electrics whiz and repairman to the British blues boom
“Stop looking at the screen, start feeling the patch”: Mach Devices’ MD-7 is an open-source mini-synth with motorized haptic controls that “talk back”
“It’s going to be definitively the most real experience ever of us, Queen, in our glory days. I think people will get lost in it and even forget they’re watching a film”: A restored and remixed version of Queen’s final filmed performance is on the way
Beatbox your ideas into reality with Vochlea’s DubBox, an app that converts your voice into drum loops
“One conversation you won’t want to miss.” Alex Van Halen and David Lee Roth to make rare public appearance together this week
“Traces the evolution of a century of sonic experimentation, underscoring the ideas, technologies and cultural movements that shaped electronic music as we know it today”: Jean-Michel Jarre has written a history of electronic music