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Bassists, ditch your pedalboards: the Sterling by Music Man DarkRay features two Darkglass distortion circuits in one bass
The Music Man DarkRay is now available as a more budget-friendly Sterling offering
“To me, he really is an alternative guitar player”: Watch Billy Corgan pay tribute to his hero Eddie Van Halen by joining Sammy Hagar for a knockout cover of Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love
Swapping his Reverend signature guitar for Sammy Hagar's Gibson Les Paul, the Smashing Pumpkins frontman tipped his cap to EVH with a flawless rhythm performance
The James Bond of travel guitars: meet the briefcase guitar – an all-in-one amp and foldable Strat that packs into a tweed carry case
The clever case solution is the invention of Japanese inventor and instrument maker Yuji Shimano
“The fantastic, the mythological, and the spiritual”: Epiphone’s latest Adam Jones Les Paul Custom Art very much gives a Fuchs
The latest stunning model from the Tool guitarist’s Custom Art series features a print of Anti-Laokoon 1965 by Ernst Fuchs on the rear of the body
“It’s the best front-end amp pedal I’ve ever heard”: Justin and Dan Hawkins have launched their own pedal brand – and its first stompbox is based on their tones from The Darkness’s debut album
The limited-edition unit – built in collaboration with Kirk Hammett's KHDK pedal brand – ushers in the pair's new gear venture, Hawkins Brothers Audio
“He wanted to trade for a specific guitar... or gold”: YouTuber finds rare Stars and Stripes Gibson Explorer – thought to be one of just five or six in existence
Demands for bullion, a 28-hour road trip and a deal made. Trogly's latest find is an epic tale of persistence. “It set off some red flags...” says the collector
“Beautiful”: Post Malone nods to his rock roots once again with a killer guitar cover of Alice In Chains' Them Bones – accompanied by a full choir
Armed with a beat-up Martin, the hip-hop icon nails the grunge era classic on the Howard Stern Show
“A lot of folk are ignorant. People watch a couple of Stevie Ray Vaughan videos and think all they need is distortion and fast licks”: Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram on where guitarists “go wrong” when playing the blues
The blues ambassador reflects on the state of the genre in the modern age
