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This year’s most unexpected guitar solo? Lil Wayne wields an Eddie Van Halen Frankenstein for a crossover collaboration you probably never expected to see
Jon Batiste's new single Uneasy, which hosts Weezy's solo, seems to tip its cap to Van Halen and Michael Jackson's watershed song, Beat It
“Ladies and gentlemen: Edward... Van... Halen!” EVH’s full nine-minute guitar solo at Van Halen’s legendary 1984 Monsters Of Rock show surfaces online for the first time ever
Pro-shot footage of the band’s iconic Monsters of Rock performance – one of their last with David Lee Roth – has appeared on YouTube
Gibson’s Mat Koehler says he rates this guitar among the most “beautiful designs ever to come out of Kalamazoo” – and it’s an Epiphone
“Clearly positioned as the pinnacle flat-top that Gibson made” – the acoustic guitar now has a modern equivalent that Koehler reckons punches well above its weight
Dean Zelinsky has issued another Dimebag Guitarz tease – and it looks like the Stealth is returning
It's long been believed that a Razorback reboot was in the works, but now it seems the new Dimebag Darrell guitar brand has more models planned – surely an official announcement is imminent?
Jackson has reprised a cult electric guitar associated with Jeff Beck for a super-limited Custom Shop run
The Music Zoo exclusives meld Jackson’s lesser-spotted 3S build with the specs of another limited run with the retailer – making for an unusual hybrid
“Like playing molten lava”: Is Way Huge’s new Stone Burner Sub Atomic Fuzz its heaviest octave fuzz pedal yet?
The effects specialist has unleashed another Dune-inspired stompbox – and it's got all the hallmarks of a future fan favorite fuzz
Gossamer tremolo picking and the stuff of Phrygian nightmares: This week's essential guitar tracks
Unmissable new songs from Fiddlehead, HotWax, Guns N’ Roses, Emily Wolfe, Born of Osiris, Babymetal ft. Tom Morello, CLT DRP, and more
“I was playing a Van Halen solo in my mind”: Post Malone trips up during Tiny Desk performance – because he was busy thinking about Eddie Van Halen’s playing
“I can," the pop-rap superstar quipped in regards to playing a Van Halen-like solo, "I just don’t really feel like it”
“I hate admitting this but I started bawling like a baby”: Kirk Hammett says his iconic ‘Greeny’ Les Paul recently had another gut-wrenching injury
Another footnote has just been added to the iconic Les Paul's long medical history – but, as the Metallica maestro explains to Rick Beato, it could have been a whole lot worse
