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Fender has announced its new CEO – what does it mean for the future of the iconic guitar brand?
Fender’s new CEO pioneered the firm’s most talked-about projects. Now he’s taking his innovative Fender Japan ethos global
What Brandi Disterheft learned from her studies with bass legend Ron Carter
The New York jazzer lifts the lid on her early lessons with the world’s most recorded bassist
Bootsy Collins was tripping on LSD when he took the James Brown bass chair to its most in-your-face level
Unable to deal with Brown’s disciplinary code, Bootsy was gone within a year
The Aristocrats' Bryan Beller recalls the moment he met Guthrie Govan and formed a new kind of supergroup
As per Aristocrats lore, the power trio formed right after an impromptu jam at NAMM 2011
How the bass guitar became a crucial part of Sheryl Crow’s songwriting process
Already a Grammy-winning, global pop star, Sheryl Crow geeks out on bass for all the right reasons
The Cult’s Charlie Jones on how he almost never got his Grammy for Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ Please Read the Letter
Irony is alive and well
Stuart Zender on sessioning for Stevie Wonder and supplying the funk to Jamiroquai’s first three albums
After he quit Jamiroquai, Stuart Zender became an in-demand session bassist, jamming with Gorillaz, Stevie Wonder, and Amy Winehouse co-writer Mark Ronson
When Jimmy Haslip met Jaco Pastorius at Frank Zappa’s studio
The Yellowjackets co-founder and then-bassist tells the story of his first encounter with bass royalty
Remembering the guitarists we lost in 2025
2025 has been a big year for the guitar, but we've also had to sadly say goodbye to dozens of guitar greats, from many eras, and every imaginable genre. Here, we recognize those guitarists, and their contributions to the instrument
Chris Dreja turned down Led Zeppelin, but he will be remembered as the Yardbirds’ unsung bass hero in a band of guitar superstars
Co-founder of the Yardbirds, Chris Dreja – who supported Clapton, Beck and Page on rhythm or bass guitar, then went on to become a photographer – has died, aged 79
