Harley Benton vows to deliver dying battery tones with its $65 PowerPlant ISO-3AC SAG Modular power supply

New unit features four isolated outputs that aim to emulate the “sound of a fuzz box on its last legs” via ‘sag’ volume trim pot controls

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ALBUM REVIEW: Rebelator – Shaman’s Harvest

It isn’t unusual for a band to go on hiatus after an album release. Nor is it remiss for there to be a level of expectation upon that band’s return….

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Hooked: Papooz on Santo & Johnny's “Sleepwalk”

The French rockers detail how they appreciate the original ’50s classic, but Jeff Beck’s stirring rendition is an instrumental apex.

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Watch Sister Rosetta Tharpe shape the future of blues-rock guitar with an incendiary 1964 performance at an English train station

Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Keith Richards and Brian Jones were on hand to witness this legendary concert, which was filmed for a Granada TV special called Blues and Gospel Train

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Porcupine Tree announce first tour in 12 years, share deceptively complex new single, Of The New Day

Listen to the second single from the Steven Wilson-fronted prog trio’s forthcoming album, Closure/Continuation

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Cort introduces the updated G290 FAT II, equipped with an alder body and roasted maple neck

Voiced Tone VTH-77 humbuckers, Luminlay side dots, a flame maple top and a Trans Black Burst finish head up the latest generation of Cort’s award-winning axe

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Electro-Harmonix shakes up its tremolo pedal lineup with the Nano Pulsar

Like its bigger-boxed forebears, the versatile stompbox packs multiple tremolo shapes across triangle and square wave modes – now with added volume control

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Demo:listen: Plasmodulated

This week Demo:listen gets slimed by an exclusive full demo premiere from oozing Floridian abomination Plasmodulated, the latest solo mutation from Wharflurch’s Myk Colby.
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Mélissa Laveaux talks luthiers, representation and her “Pretty Woman moment” with Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s guitar

Ahead of her upcoming release, Mama Forgot Her Name Was Miracle, the Canadian indie-roots phenom reflects on her career so far, and how Stairway to Heaven inspired her to pick up the guitar again after years apart

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ALBUM REVIEW: SKIN – Ho99o9

There are many ways to describe the music of HO99O9 but incendiary has to be the way to capture it best. Mixing hardcore hip hop, industrial, hardcore punk and much…

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