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Keanu Reeves picks up the bass guitar again as his band Dogstar ready new music and live dates
By Michael Astley-Brown published
The Hollywood star is up to his old Ma-trix

Carol Kaye played a Fender Precision Bass on most of her classic sessions – but she preferred the Music Man StingRay
By Matt Owen last updated
The session bass legend was recruited by Music Man to demo the first-ever StingRay in 1978, and recorded a fusion track especially for the occasion

Fender teams up with Mastodon's Troy Sanders for well-spec'd Silverburst signature P-Bass
By Jackson Maxwell published
The Mastodon low-end ranger's new four-string is outfitted with a custom Jazz Bass single-coil bridge pickup, a Split-Coil P-Bass unit in the middle, and eye-catching custom graphics throughout

Sandberg unveils the Florence Bass, a small bass with a giant humbucker
By Matt Parker published
The retro-flavored short-scale build seeks to cover old-school EB-2 and split-coil P-Bass tones thanks to a push-pull tone pot

A piece of bass history has been listed on Reverb
By Nick Wells published
What do you mean, you don’t have $7,250 for an original Gibson EB-1?

This luthier has built a video game-inspired pixelated ‘8-bit bass’
By Matt Parker published
Tone Masons Guitar Repairs has put together a full-sized, bit-crushed bass build – and fortunately for us, filmed the process

Which is better: 4- or 5-string bass?
By Nick Wells published
“Unless you’re Les Claypool, more than four is unnecessary!” Duff McKagan, Adam Blackstone and Glenn Hughes weigh in on the age-old debate

Epiphone revives the Newport Bass and introduces a new acoustic four-string, the El Capitan J-200 Studio Bass, for 2023
By Sam Roche published
Both instruments pay homage to age-old Gibson and Epiphone designs, but implement a series of more modern appointments
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