With spare time in the studio, Gordon Lightfoot peeled off a commemoration to a modern tragedy that's 50 years old today: ...

Fogerty wasn’t writing in a vacuum. This was November 1968 – allegedly, Fogerty wrote the lyrics on the day Richard Nixon was ...

Legendary maskandi artist Ihhashi Elimhlophe is proud to announce the release of his new album, Ma-Afrika — a powerful collection of songs that celebrate ...

Feb. 9, 1964 — an evening burned into the fabric of nearly every American youngster my age — The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. Actually, the Fab Four appeared on television three consecutive Sunday ...

Band Industries, the company behind the Roadie automatic guitar tuners, is returning to Kickstarter with Roadie 4, its “most advanced” tuner to date. I’ve reviewed these guitar tuners in the past, as ...

The not-so-humble 12-string guitar. Like its six-string brother but beefed up on steroids, its impact on a song is unmistakable. While it packs double the ergonomic punch, the result isn’t necessarily ...

Does anyone remember tuning before smartphones? In the era in which I started learning to play guitar (middle millennial here), there were these little electronic tuners. Remember those? To be honest, ...

My first guitar lesson ended in discomfort, confusion and despair. But I was hooked. I was 10 but still sensed an intense connection to this beautiful and mysterious instrument. Since then, guitars ...

Although an astrophysicist, Brian May will always be remembered for his time with the hit band Queen. Helping form the band alongside Roger Taylor and Freddie Mercury, the band gained icon status when ...

Sir Brian May requested a star-themed design for his Gibson limited-edition guitar. The Queen rocker has collaborated with the instrument brand on the Brian May SJ-200 12-String acoustic guitar and ...