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Jason Momoa saved their career. Keanu Reeves rocked up to a show. Flea let them crash at his house. How did the Bobby Lees get here?
After calling BS on streaming services payouts, guitarist and vocalist Sam Quartin announced her band’s hiatus. She never could have anticipated what happened next…
Remembering Dave Mason, the former Traffic guitarist who made a habit of playing on iconic tracks
The Traffic guitarist’s best work of the ’60s and ’70s was magical, but the stop/start nature of his career held him off household-name status
The classic (and unlikely) gear behind the Eagles’ Hotel California
What Joe Walsh and Don Felder needed was Les Pauls and Teles, and lots of them – and Felder in particular made use of a Texan horse trader who also stocked some thoroughbred guitars
Robert Smith on the flash of inspiration that shaped the Cure's biggest hit
Proving beyond doubt that the band's range extended far beyond dense, brooding epics, it remains the Cure song to reference for those who know only of the band's name and maybe their frontman's inimitable hairdo
How Marla Kether landed the Little Simz gig and made her debut on the UK’s biggest festival stage
The London-born bassist, DJ and producer enjoyed a baptism of fire on the Pyramid Stage – now her solo work brings her Afro-Brazilian influences to the fore as she plans her next step
A guide to the basses, amps, and signature tone of Jefferson Airplane bassist Jack Casady
From his early-‘60s Jazz Bass to a Flying V, Jack Casady was among the first to embrace custom bass builds – and it changed his tone forever
Why Furch’s new Red Series acoustic is the $7,000 guitar that dreams are made of
The Furch Red Deluxe GC-LI 2026 combines high-end aesthetic flourishes with some seriously well thought-out design elements – and we don't want to hand it back.
Peppino D’Agostino on his nylon-string collab with a neuroscientist that could literally heal your mind
Serenity now! One of the world's most “transcendent” players teams up with a neuroscientist on pipe organ for an album of brain-healing melodies and zero harsh frequencies
