New Year New Gear: Dean and Spector conjure multiscale madness, Maxon cranks up the gain with the Custom Shop SSD-9 Super Sonic Distortion pedal By Richard Bienstock Bring your playing to life in 2021 with this top-notch equipment
Royal Blood announce new album, share groovy new single, Typhoons By Richard Bienstock The British duo's third full-length, also titled Typhoons, is out in April
NUX ups its multi-FX game with the MG-30 Versatile Modeler By Richard Bienstock New sub-$300 processor is highlighted by 30 amp models, a host of cabs, mics, effects and IRs
Red Panda offers serious bitcrushing power with the Bitmap 2 By Richard Bienstock Versatile pedal drops guitar signal fidelity for digital distorted goodness
John Petrucci-led prog supergroup Liquid Tension Experiment share new song, The Passage of Time By Richard Bienstock Liquid Tension Experiment 3, the band's first studio album in more than two decades, is out in March
New Year New Gear: PRS' new Core models, Darkglass' ADAM distortion/compression and Fishman's PowerTap acoustic pickup system By Richard Bienstock Bring your playing to life in 2021 with this top-notch equipment
Get to know the Gibson App, the “only guitar app you’ll need” By Richard Bienstock The Gibson App offers song instruction with real-time feedback, video tutorials, a digital guitar tuner and much more
Tech 21 reboots the original SansAmp as the SansAmp Classic By Richard Bienstock All-analog DI boasts same control set and identical circuitry to the 1989 model
UK tribute act Pearl Jamm changes name after receiving cease-and-desist letter from the real Pearl Jam By Richard Bienstock “We have always been clear that we will 'Yield' to Pearl Jam’s demands,” says the newly renamed Legal Jam
Celestion debuts the smokin’ new G12M-50 Hempback speaker By Richard Bienstock Hemp-cone design offers power low end and “smooth, singing highs”
Aclam recreates Pete Townshend’s “clear fuzz dirge” tone with the Windmiller Preamp By Richard Bienstock Achieve maximum R&B with new pedal based on the Who guitarist’s vintage Grampian 636 unit
Kramer debuts Snake Sabo Baretta, Tracii Guns Gunstar Voyager and Charlie Parra Vanguard signature models By Richard Bienstock Company also unveils new Original and Modern guitars, headlined by Baretta, Jersey Star and Assault designs
Ernie Ball Music Man freshens up its electric guitar and bass finishes for 2021 By Richard Bienstock Sabre, Stingray, Cutlass and Bongo models outfitted in head-turning colors, including Snowy Night, Raspberry Burst and Smoked Chrome
Brian May reacts to Bohemian Rhapsody topping Total Guitar’s greatest solo of all time poll By Richard Bienstock “I am not worthy, but it’s much appreciated,” says the Queen guitarist
Johnny Marr receives Boss Lifetime Achievement Award at NAMM Believe in Music Week By Richard Bienstock The Smiths legend and CE-2 Chorus pedal devotee is honored for “inspiring a generation to pick up a guitar”
New Year New Gear: Tascam introduces new audio interfaces, FU-Tone brings fully-loaded guitars and Blackstar unveils the ID:Core V3 amp line By Richard Bienstock Bring your playing to life in 2021 with this top-notch equipment
Could D’Addario’s new XS designs be the best coated strings yet? By Richard Bienstock "Technological breakthrough" promises incredibly thin coating to protect wound and plain steel strings with no tone dampening
Mix and match the most iconic fuzz tones in rock with Jackson Audio’s Modular Fuzz Pedal with Octave By Richard Bienstock New offering features swappable fuzz modules, separately switchable octave circuit and more
Collings and Julian Lage team up for a signature electric guitar, the 470 JL By Richard Bienstock Fully hollow model boasts hybrid profile neck, Bigsby vibrato and Ron Ellis Ellisonics pickups
Dean shreds the price tag, but not the feature set, with affordable new Kerry King Signature V By Richard Bienstock Cut-price version of the company's limited-edition Kerry King model offers maple top and EMG pickups
Neural DSP unleashes Archetype: Gojira, the “heaviest plugin in the universe” By Richard Bienstock New software for Gojira guitarist Joe Duplantier offers high-gain crunch and, of course, wild pitch shifting and octave effects
Frank Hannon tells the story behind his signature Gibson Love Dove acoustic By Richard Bienstock “The first time I met [Gibson CMO] Cesar Gueikian, he had a guitar and he was playing my acoustic intro part from [Tesla’s] Love Song!”
Watch Pete Thorn demo IK Multimedia’s feature-packed AmpliTube 5 By Richard Bienstock Fifth iteration of popular modeling software adds 129 new gear models, impressive new cab sim technology and much more
Nancy Wilson bought Eddie Van Halen an acoustic guitar after he told her he didn’t own one By Richard Bienstock The Heart guitarist has also penned an instrumental tribute to the Van Halen legend
Iced Earth’s Jon Schaffer arrested, facing six charges related to Capitol Building riots By Richard Bienstock The guitarist, who was photographed carrying bear mace, turned himself in to authorities on January 17
