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The recording of Nirvana's Bleach – and the band's “ultimate grunge song”
Recorded in four sessions in December 1988 for just $606.17, Bleach would signal the primal quality and rawness that came to define the grunge movement
How jazz bassist Richard Davis helped shape Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks
Released in 1968, Astral Weeks initially went unnoticed before eventually attaining near-mythical status among folk-rock fans
Keanu Reeves reveals the most important bass lesson he learned from Flea
The Hollywood A-lister made his musical comeback in 2023 with his band, Dogstar, and looks back on the rare occasion when his music and acting matrices collided
How Geezer Butler's P-Bass survived a Black Sabbath hater's attack
Butler’s iconic tone – sculpted by blasting his bass through a blown guitar cabinet – was made possible thanks to a beat-up 1968 Fender Precision Bass
The most advanced gig bag ever created? D’Addario has launched climate-controlled guitar cases with integrated humidity control
The premium bag looks to be the ultimate solution for guitar players on the go
It turns out the fake Russian Angine de Poitrine isn’t actually a real band. Here’s what actually happened
Footage from a Moscow show had led the internet to believe the microtonal mavericks had an imposter band
The call that ended Flea’s days as a pick-playing punk and set him on the path to worldwide fame with the Red Hot Chili Peppers
Flea went on to have major success with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who released their self-titled debut album later that year
A fake Angine de Poitrine has been passing themselves off as the real deal in Russia
The imitators are passing themselves off as the real thing – and show just how far the band’s success has gone
