Blackberry Smoke Premiere New Song, “Flesh and Bone”

Blackberry Smoke will release their sixth album, ‘Find a Light,’ April 6. Southern rock powerhouse Blackberry Smoke have premiered a new song, “Flesh and Bone,” and you can hear it…

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Whitesnake Unveil ‘The Purple Tour’ Live Album

Whitesnake revisited the music singer David Coverdale recorded with Deep Purple in the Seventies when they released The Purple Album two years ago. The album—and tour that followed—offered fans modern…

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Balaguer Guitars Releases The Astra

Balaguer Guitars has just unveiled The Astra, the company’s take on a classic singlecut design but with modern construction and appointments. The body shape is slightly offset, which lends added comfort…

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Top 10 Weirdest Guitar Sounds Ever Recorded

Squeaks, squeals, sirens, freak-outs, elephant sounds and much more! Electricity can do strange things. When it was added to the guitar, some years ago, it opened up new possibilities for…

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Meet ‘Re-Chord,’ a New Guitar-Themed Board Game

Have you ever looked upon a dusty pile of board games and thought “Gee, I sure wish I could play one of these and practice guitar at the same time”?…

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Esoterik Introduces New FR27 Baritone Guitar

Esoterik Guitars has introduced its newest model, the FR27 baritone guitar. With a 27” scale length neck and a five-piece maple and walnut neck with wenge accented strips, among other features,…

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Secrets of Shred with Sammy Boller: Speed Pentatonic Scales

This example demonstrates how to play the B minor pentatonic scale on the E and A strings using two notes on the E string and three notes on the A…

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Pure Tone Technologies Unveils Stereo Output Jack

Pure Tone Technologies and AP International have just launched the long-awaited stereo version of their popular Pure Tone Output Jack for use in instruments with active electronics or for stereo…

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Slayer Announce Farewell Tour

Slayer have announced in a video that, following one final world tour, they will call it a day. Though the video—which was uploaded to the band’s YouTube account this morning—was…

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Gear Review: Biyang Livemaster

Joe Walsh opened up his last studio album with “Analog Man,” a track airing his grievances of the new-fangled digital lifestyle. While I’m not on Walsh’s level of cool, experience…

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