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Ernie Ball fights battery waste with new rechargeable AA and 9V batteries that are tailored for effects pedals and active guitars
By Janelle Borg published
With recharge times as quick as 75 minutes to 80%, Ernie Ball guarantees that these batteries deliver a “consistent, full-voltage performance across instruments, wireless packs, pedals, tuners, and more”

Guitar heroes are hailing him as shred’s next big thing – but Spiro is already planning a blues left-turn
By Janelle Borg published
Touted as the guitar world's next big disruptor by Tim Henson, Misha Mansoor and Tosin Abasi, Spiro Dussias reveals his next project and why he hopes to record a blues album before he turns 30

From humble beginnings to a cameo in Michael B. Jordan's Sinners – Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram is bridging the generational gap in blues
By Janelle Borg published
Ingram waxes lyrical about how “blues isn’t just a guy with a guitar” – and why anything from rap and rock can be blues

IK Multimedia takes on Fender and Boss with the TONEX Plug – its first-ever headphone amp
By Matt Owen published
The pocket-sized headphone amp looks to win the hearts of players by offering more than 40,000 tones propped up by the same AI Machine Modeling behind the entire TONEX ecosystem

Geese are the latest indie-rock phenomenon – and their lead guitarist is repping this Billy Corgan-approved guitar brand
By Janelle Borg published
Ditching more mainstream brands, lead guitarist Emily Green looks back on how she got her go-to guitar

Bernie Marsden’s $1million ‘The Beast’ Les Paul was just played on stage by Slash’s favorite current British blues rock guitar hero
By Phil Weller published
Chris Buck paid homage to both his father and the late Whitesnake guitarist with the performance

Journey’s Neal Schon on that one time he tried Albert King’s mythical Gibson Flying V
By Janelle Borg published
Schon cut his teeth playing the blues and jamming with some of the genre’s greats – including Albert King

How Jim Root’s radical signature Telecaster updated a Fender mainstay for the 21st century
By Matt Owen published
The Slipknot guitarist was originally pushed towards Charvel, but he had his sights set on reinventing a Fender classic
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