NOTHING MORE Announces 'Spirits 2023' Headlining Tour With DEAD POET SOCIETY, HYRO THE HERO And POST PROFIT
After pulverizing stages across North America on the first leg of their headlining “Spirits 2023” tour earlier this spring, including sold-out shows in New York, Philadelphia, Sacramento and Toronto, three-time-Grammy-nominated rockers NOTHING MORE will continue to bring their potent live experience…
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Meet RVG, the Melbourne post-punks redefining the indie guitar hero with $5 Partscasters and Kate Bush’s acoustic guitar
The term guitar hero has become a loaded term in indie circles, but as the Australian quartet observe: “It doesn’t help that so many of them are talking f**king s**t nowadays”
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Track Premiere: Precious Blood – “X You Out”
Precious Blood, Eastern Canada’s ferocious experimental hardcore punk five-piece, drop their highly anticipated debut EP I No Longer Wish For Salvation on June 16, and Decibel is proud to debut their latest vicious single, “X You Out”.
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ZAKK WYLDE Says PANTERA Tour Is 'A Beautiful Thing': 'It Brings Joy To So Many People'
Zakk Wylde says that the current PANTERA tour is the ultimate tribute to the band’s late co-founders, guitarist “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott and drummer Vincent “Vinnie Paul” Abbott.
Wylde and ANTHRAX drummer Charlie Benante, along with PANTERA’s surviving members, singer Philip Anselmo and bassist Rex…
Ana Popović: “I don’t want anything that is not legit on my stage. When it’s a cheap drum kit or a cheap bass, I hear it and it bothers me”
The Serbian blues-rocker tells tales of capturing a ’64 Strat in the wild and why single-coil pickups leave the mighty humbucker in the shade…
Read more » How a pair of weight-lifting gloves helped Louis Johnson play slap bass
Louis Johnson: “I wear gloves to slow me down. When I take them off, it makes me play too fast”
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Watch: RICHIE FAULKNER's ELEGANT WEAPONS Performs Live For First Time
ELEGANT WEAPONS, the new project featuring guitarist Richie Faulkner (JUDAS PRIEST) and singer Ronnie Romero (RAINBOW, MSG), made its live debut last night (Monday, June 12) at O2 Arena in Prague, Czech Republic as the support act for PANTERA. Fan-filmed video of the performance can be seen below.
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Bohlinger Carves a Martin Neck
Watch PG’s John Bohlinger take a swing at handshaping an acoustic neck. Plus, learn how Martin’s master craftsman reverse engineers the company’s gold-standard profiles from their most-heralded instruments.Instrument design manager Rameen Shayegan leads Bohlinger into the Martin Custom Shop where he gets a crash course in how their team makes neck shapes that are snowflakes. However, the talented crew also divulges how they explore guitarcheology by reproducing some of the neck profiles that are on their most-iconic instruments within the Martin museum. This is one of the process that helped create the company’s popular Authentic Series.Watch the full factory tour here.
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FOO FIGHTERS' 'But Here We Are' Makes Top 10 Worldwide Chart Debut
FOO FIGHTERS’ brand new album, “But Here We Are”, unanimously hailed as one of the band’s strongest to date, has become its tenth album to break the Top 10 of the US Album chart. “But Here We Are” also marks FOO FIGHTERS’ sixth U.K. No. 1, ninth Australian No. 1, with additional No. 1 spots in Switz…
Read more » Dental floss as guitar strings? It works – but only just
On paper, the ultra-light gauge floss shouldn’t work, but experimental six-string stuntman Bernth has found a way
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