Simon Gallup has returned to The Cure following his departure in August By Matt Parker The English goth-rockers’ bassist says he remains in the band
Crypta's Fernanda Lira serves up a searing bass guitar playthrough of the impossibly heavy Dark Night of the Soul By Sam Roche The track is taken from the Brazilian/Dutch death metallers' debut album, Echoes of the Soul
James Jamerson or Carol Kaye: who played what? Uncovering the truth behind the Motown mystery By Joel McIver Academic and bassist Brian F. Wright details his research into Motown's contested history
Watch the first official trailer for Peter Jackson’s highly anticipated The Beatles: Get Back documentary By Matt Owen The stirring snippet splices together even more never-before-seen footage of the band as they rush to write and record 14 songs in three weeks, prior to their rooftop performance at London's Savile Row
Boss bolsters its looper lineup with advanced RC-600 and RC-505mkII Loop Stations By Matt Owen Two new intelligent offerings boast a wealth of onboard effects, over 200 rhythm patterns with automatic fills, intuitive assignable controls and 99 savable memory banks
Dusty Hill 1949-2021: paying tribute to the bearded boss of bass guitar By Jamie Blaine When the ZZ Top bassist left us on July 27, he left a legacy like few others. We look back at the career of a true bass original
Wolfgang Van Halen on his bass journey By Bass Player Staff It's not about the solos, or the virtuoso playing, says Van Halen – it's all about the songwriting
Wham! and George Michael bassist Deon Estus dies aged 65 By Sam Roche A student of James Jamerson, Estus played bass on both of Wham!'s albums, Fantastic and Make It Big, as well as Michael's first two LPs, Faith and Listen Without Prejudice Vol 1
Geezer Butler heads up the new issue of Bass Player magazine By Joel McIver The Black Sabbath icon is joined by Verdine White, Robert DeLeo, Nikki Sixx and more
Styx's Chuck Panozzo and Ricky Phillips share the low-end theories behind the AOR stalwarts' sound By Joel McIver Panozzo and Phillips talk gear, the influence of Macca et al, and the ultimate mission behind new album Crash of the Crown
Alain Johannes unearths 1979 demo of pre-Red Hot Chili Peppers band Anthym featuring Flea, Hillel Slovak and Jack Irons By Matt Parker Johannes found the demo at the bottom of a box of old cassettes and was astonished to hear it still worked
Google has incorporated a guitar tuner directly into its search page By Matt Parker Guitar players on the run can now search ‘Google tuner’ to access a built-in tuner from their device
Best bass guitars 2021: top long and short-scale bass options for beginners to pros By Jonathan Horsley Presenting the world’s finest low-end monsters, with the best bass guitars from Fender, EBMM, Yamaha and more…
Wolfgang Van Halen remembers his father one year on from his death: “There's so much I wish I could show you” By Sam Roche The Mammoth WVH leader takes to Twitter on the anniversary of Eddie's passing with an emotional tribute
Godin introduces a duo of semi-acoustic, two-voice pickup-loaded fretless basses, the A4 and A5 Ultra By Matt Owen Basswood bodies, Richlite fretboards and intuitive onboard controls adjusting both a Lace Sensor pickup and LR Baggs saddle transducer system headline the brand's all-new basses
Zoom launches B6 bass multi-effects processor with DI models and color touchscreen By Matt Parker The effects firm’s new multi-FX is a mid-range modeller designed solely for bassists
Tony Levin on his best bass albums By Bass Player Staff The bass player for David Bowie, Robert Fripp, Peter Gabriel and more revisits his back catalog
Nembrini Audio emulates the iconic RAT 2 distortion pedal with new free plugin, the Black Distortion By Sam Roche “Used as a primary distortion, it excels at arena rock rhythm tones and soaring leads” the Italian software company says
Benson Amps unveils game-changing Germanium Boost pedal By Matt Owen The self-biasing unit aims to offer up consistent germanium transistor tones impervious to component drift, leakage and temperature
Lieber Guitars Spellcaster review By Kevin Johnson And now for a taste of the supernatural... We get hands-on with Stanley Clarke's short-scale four-string Strat-alike bass
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