The NEW "Get In My Band" – Bandmate Search Engine: Press Release:  Imagine if you could find drummers, bass players, guitarists and band managers as easily as you can look up an address on Google. What if you could specify where you live, what kind of bandmates you are looking...

Iron Maiden have released an incredible 10-minute behind-the-scenes video from their massive, "Maiden England World Tour 2013." The tour, which kicked off in Spain in late May, won't wind down till it pulls into Santiago, Chile, on October 2. To see all the band's scheduled...

David Brent, (comedian Ricky Dene Gervais), responds to more questions from the fans... and gives a guitar tutorial for the song 'Slough'. If you haven't seen any of these silly guitar tutorials yet... David Brent has recently resurrected his "The Office" character in a series...

It's simply crazy that more guitarists don't use hearing protection, considering how important hearing is for musicians. In fact, most musicians never wear ear plugs. Most of us spend our teens going to very loud gigs, playing loud gigs in pubs and clubs (with cranked 100 watt...

The opening piece for my July 26, 2013 YouTube Guitar lesson, "Applied Hybrid and Finger Plucking."  I hope you enjoy the lesson on YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/creativeguitarstudio Donations keep the FREE lessons coming - Please consider!  www.andrewwasson.com/donations.p...

3D Printing is everywhere at the moment and it has totally changed the way that companies can prototype products before moving to a final manufacturing process. Fishman Audio are now using 3D printing for prototyping their on-board acoustic guitar pre-amps. Now, it's cool to see...

Giggem, the first matchmaking platform for musicians and music industry professionals... has announced the launch of a new "Auditions" feature that allows Giggem users to pre-screen new bandmates online. As the industry’s first comprehensive and cohesive platform dedicated ...

Spinal Tap will return in 2014, according to its co-creator and star Christopher Guest (via Guardian). Guest played guitarist Nigel Tufnel in the classic metal comedy "This is Spinal Tap" which remains a hilarious parody of hair metal in the 1980s. The band may have reformed...

In this new video, (created and posted by Roland), Richie Kotzen (Poison, Mr. Big, the Winery Dogs) demonstrates the Roland CUBE Lite guitar amplifier. He also discusses how he uses it with the CUBE JAM app to prepare for performing live on tour. • Compact guitar amp with...

Andrew Wasson of Creative Guitar Studio answers a viewers question... Q: I have been studying Minor Scales lately, but I seem to keep coming across different Minor Scale types. It's getting a little overwhelming. Could you please consider doing a lesson that uses the most popular of Minor Scales, explains the unique notes of each one, and can you...

If you appreciate some serious music history coupled with some VERY serious musicians, as well as, an extremely compelling story you won’t be disappointed with the new documentary, "Sound City," directed by Dave Grohl. The Sound City Studio was the birthplace of some extremely...

The opening piece for my July 19, 2013 YouTube Guitar lesson, "Common Minor Tonality Scales." I hope you enjoy the lesson on YouTube:  www.youtube.com/user/creativeguitarstudio Donations keep the FREE lessons coming - Please consider! www.andrewwasson.com/donations.p...

GUITAR WORLD Interview: So, who are the Winery Dogs? ...they are;  guitarist Richie Kotzen (Mr. Big, Poison), bassist Billy Sheehan (Mr. Big, Niacin) and drummer Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater, Adrenaline Mob)! The guys prefer to be considered a classic power trio rather than...

Modern Music Technology: 'Makes It Possible to Fool the General Public' Despite a vast array of advantages modern technology has brought to musicians around the globe, many prominent music figures still point at the negative aspects of various digital tools used for music recording...

This month, Guitar World Magazine posted a great video where guitarist Mike Stern talks about the track “Out of the Blue,” from his latest CD, All Over the Place (from the Heads-Up International division of Concord Music Group). This record is aptly named, because it features...

Video: Megadeth, Slash, Zakk Wylde, Jason Newsted, Vinnie Paul and David Draiman Perform Thin Lizzy's "Cold Sweat" Below, you can check out a fan-filmed video of Mustaine and Broderick with Slash, Zakk Wylde, Jason Newsted, Vinnie Paul and David Draiman, as they tear through "Cold...

SUMMER NAMM 2013: Martin made a lot of noise with the launch of the Ed Sheeran LX1E Signature model, but they showed of more new guitars at the show, including the killer looking new for 2013, "CEO-7." Inspired by Martin's successful Golden Era 00 models, the CEO-7 features a...

The new Premium Series centres on Ibanez's core rock market with a range of guitars. Guitarist Magazine put the Vai-inspired Universe 7-string through its paces alongside Joe Satriani and Andy Timmons signature models. Read More......

The Supa-Trem has been an extremely successful pedal for me over the last 15 years, partly due to the TONE of the circuit, which has a very good sounding JFET amplifier at its heart. Another key ingredient has been the Fulltone Opto-1 photocell that I designed and have made...it...

Andrew Wasson of Creative Guitar Studio answers a viewers question... Q: My guitar project is bending and I've developed it to an ok level. Only thing I'm still having my troubles with is when I do "Silent Bends." I always over-bend, (especially when I'm higher up on the neck). Can you do a lesson on Silent Bending? Not getting the notes perfectly...

Premier Guitar.....  GALLERY: Summer NAMM 2013 - Day 1  See the Full Gallery Here...

An Ojibwe woman from Minnisota (that works part-time for the Tribal Band office, has four kids and an out-of-work husband)  happens to owe the Recording Institute of America [RIAA] a whopping $222,000 for downloading a couple dozen songs back in 2007... Jammie Thomas is...

The opening piece for my Friday July 12, 2013 YouTube Guitar lesson, "Silent Bend and Release Technique." I hope you enjoy the lesson on YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/creativeguitarstudio Donations keep the FREE lessons coming - Please consider! www.andrewwasson.com/donations.p...

Alice Cooper gave his honest opinion regarding the state of rock music and young rock bands, which he considers as far less rebellious than they should be to be called a, "Rock Band." Cooper focused on several specific acts he sees as the most problematic in the new 'rock domain,'...

A YouTube video (posted July 4) that's been making the rounds lately, shows Italian guitarist, Vittorio Camardese, showing off his own two-handed tapping technique on an Italian TV show (on the RAI network) in 1965. In the video, Camardese says he's an amateur guitarist who works...

Gwar front man, Oderus Urungus, has announced that the band will be launching their own brand of beer... The "GWAR-B-Q" beer was created from a recipe by Rob Chalmers, the Gauntlet reports. The beer will be the drink of choice at the band's upcoming "GWAR B-Q" event, which takes...

A guitar synth is a synth module whose input device is a guitar instead of a keyboard. To quote Norm Leet from Roland's UK website, "The most important part of a guitar synth system is the divided — or hexaphonic — pickup, which allows each string to be treated individually and...

Ritchie Blackmore's current band — Blackmore's Night — have released a new music video for the title track from their latest album, Dancer and the Moon. The album was released June 11 by Frontiers Records. Dancer and the Moon, the band's eighth studio album, features...

Spanish singer/guitarist Luis Martin presented a fully functional ceramic guitar in a town of Talavera de la Reina, expressing hope that the axe he made will help the town's dwindling ceramics industry. The guitar took about a month to produce and will hopefully attract new ...

The music industry has had a knock back after the bad news that digital music sales have fallen by 2.3 percent compared to last year in North America. And, in the UK sales have fallen by even worse... 5.6 percent.  Digital has been attempting to compensate for the decline...

The opening piece for my July 5th, 2013 YouTube Guitar lesson, "Harmony and Diatonic Function." I hope you enjoy the lesson on YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/creativeguitarstudio Donations keep the FREE lessons coming - Please consider! www.andrewwasson.com/donations....

 A coroner has ruled that a man who died at a music festival in the UK last year by slashing his wrists after taking a legal high. Daniel Parks, aged 35, took a substance called "Magic Crystals," similar to mephedrone, but had a serious paranoid reaction which led to his...

It's not easy to pick a band name. After 60 years of rock and roll, everything has been taken. There's the Eagles and the Eagles of Death Metal, the Who and the Guess Who. There's Asia, Europe, Chicago, Boston and Kansas. If you want to pick a color and an animal, there's already White Lion and Whitesnake. If you like the word "wolf," get in line...

Slash's Debut Horror Movie 'Nothing to Fear' Due in October Slash will release the first horror movie on his new production company Slasher Films this fall. "Nothing to Fear" was directed by Anthony Leonardi III, and will appear in selected theaters across the US on October 4....