Saved By the Bell star Dustin Diamond’s dying wish was to meet Tool’s Justin Chancellor By Richard Bienstock Diamond, who played Screech Powers on the show, played bass and had plans to start a Tool tribute act
New Year New Gear: Boss releases the boutique-style Nextone amp, Eventide enters deep space with the Blackhole pedal and Singular Sound offers extreme flexibility with the Aeros Loop Studio By Richard Bienstock Bring your playing to life in 2021 with this top-notch equipment
Gorillaz' Noodle and St. Vincent on animating a modernist sound in which the unconscious mind speaks through guitar By Richard Bienstock Gorillaz' Song Machine, Season One: Strange Timez showcases some of the most inventive collaborations of the internet era
Watch bluegrass virtuoso Sierra Hull pick a winner on Furch’s Orange Series Master’s Choice acoustic By Richard Bienstock Well-appointed model boasts AAA-grade tonewoods, proprietary soundboard voicing technology and LR Baggs electronics
Brian May Guitars unveils asymmetric Arielle signature electric, “the Red Special in a parallel universe” By Richard Bienstock New model was designed for Austin-based singer-songwriter Arielle
Andy Summers is releasing a book of short stories, all of which “feature the guitar in a rather interesting way” By Richard Bienstock Fretted and Moaning will be out later this year
Interest in Eddie Van Halen guitars and gear has spiked in the months since his passing By Richard Bienstock The online marketplace reports that EVH searches are up as much as 80 percent
Steven Wilson explains why he was "never a fan" of Eddie Van Halen By Richard Bienstock The British prog musician on EVH's shred legacy, and why he feels the classic-rock guitar vocabulary "is absolutely exhausted"
New Year New Gear: Gibson unveils new signature models, Gator lets you store your guitars in style and Xsonic offers new flexibility and control with the Airstep By Richard Bienstock Bring your playing to life in 2021 with this top-notch equipment
Fender and Barrett-Jackson team up for a Custom '69 Strat and matching Fender Mustang – with a Tone Master amp in the trunk By Richard Bienstock The Resto-Mod will be documented in a 10-episode YouTube series
Eddie Van Halen showed a 12-year-old Dweezil Zappa how to play Runnin’ With the Devil at his school talent show rehearsal By Richard Bienstock “It was the craziest experience,” Zappa tells Gibson TV
Eddie Van Halen’s former guitar tech has plans to erect an EVH statue in Pasadena By Richard Bienstock Longtime tech Rudy Leiren is heading up the project to pay tribute to the guitar great in the city where he was raised
Peter Frampton covers David Bowie, Lenny Kravitz, Radiohead on new instrumental album, Frampton Forgets the Words By Richard Bienstock Listen to the guitar legend's take on Radiohead’s Reckoner now
New Year New Gear: Martin unveils the StreetMaster acoustic, Boss revolutionizes guitar instruction with the Pocket GT and Cort offers up the varied Core-OC Collection By Richard Bienstock Bring your playing to life in 2021 with this top-notch equipment
Dozens of guitars from Tom Petty, George Harrison, Bono and more are on the block at mammoth Gretsch Family Archives auction By Richard Bienstock You can also pick up Gretsch prototypes, mandolins, banjos, amps, drums and even factory tools
Fender goes heavy metal with Sterling Silver Playable Guitar Pick By Richard Bienstock The company has also unveiled a silver legal tender pick-shaped coin
Booker T. and the M.G.’s legend Steve Cropper announces Fire It Up, his “first proper solo album since 1969” By Richard Bienstock Listen to the soulful first single, Far Away, now
Steve Albini offered to produce Nirvana’s In Utero for free if they beat him in a game of pool By Richard Bienstock The band, however, “were a little more risk-averse than I was,” Albini says
The creator of the COVID vaccine/Boss Metal Zone pedal hoax reveals all: “There ain’t a lot of sane people in this world” By Richard Bienstock The Croatia-based individual created the schematic, which employed a Boss pedal diagram as evidence of the vaccine’s 5G tracking capabilities, to combat conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers
Watch Paul Riario unbox and rock a gig with the "sleek and refined" Bose L1 Pro16 PA system By Richard Bienstock “Game-changing” design features advanced functionality, app control, Tone Match technology and much more
Universal Audio launches its first-ever effects pedals, with “sonically authentic emulations” of classic reverb, delay and modulation circuits By Richard Bienstock The new UAFX range boasts dual-processor architecture and three distinct sounds per pedal
My Chemical Romance’s Frank Iero gave Gary Holt a signed Ampeg Dan Armstrong electric guitar By Richard Bienstock The Exodus/Slayer guitarist has called My Chem’s The Black Parade album “a masterpiece”
Prince’s “Diamonds and Pearls” Fender Gemini II acoustic guitar is hitting the auction block By Richard Bienstock The budget model, used to record the popular 1991 album, could fetch upwards of $100,000
New Year New Gear: PRS unveils new SE Series electrics, Vox offers the Mini Go portable amp range and IK Multimedia wows with feature-packed AmpliTube 5 By Richard Bienstock Bring your playing to life in 2021 with this top-notch equipment
Watch Ryan “Fluff” Bruce dive (bomb) into the new Dean MD24 F electric guitar By Richard Bienstock Floyd Rose-equipped model boasts direct-mount Seymour Duncan pickups, striking Vintage Blue finish
