Accept guitarist Wolf Hoffmann has been speaking with Powerline (via Classic Rock Magazine) about the current state of play in the music industry. Hoffmann, who is also a keep photographer, admits that he doesn't expect to make much money out of Accept, and plays in the band...

Coutsey of By John McDuling - Quartz.com  It’s now 20 years since Steve Albini, the legendary rock music producer best known for Nirvana’s last studio album In Utero, penned a seminal essay for the literary magazine, The Baffler. It was titled “The Problem with Music,”...

Courtesy of Adam Perlmutter - Premier Guitar.com Like many guitarists, my first amplifier was a solid-state Peavey—an Audition Plus I saved up for in 1988. It was a reliable little amp. But when I caught the tube amp bug, I became more interested in the used and vintage...

The G1on offers 100 guitar effects, including a variety of distortion, compression, modulation, delay, reverb and amp models at a retail price point of only $49.00 US. And, the G1Xon offers an additional 5 pedal-controlled effects for only $25 more (retail only: $74.00 US). ...

If music be the food of love… then you’d better ditch Daft Punk and dig out the jazz. The more complex the music, the sexier women find it, according to a new study from the University of Sussex. When asked to choose between composers of different types of music for a,...

Courtesy of Hyperbot.com A recurring theme of business writers is the topic of personal psychology and success. Often this comes in the form of looking at an aggregate sample of successful entrepreneurs, figuring out top psychological traits and saying you need to be this...

Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Joe Perry pay tribute to last year's Boston Marathon bombing victims in this performance of 'Dream On' with the Southern California Children's Chorus. document.write('\x3Cscript type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="http://adn.ebay.com/cb?programId=1&campId=5336249331&toolId=10026&keyword=Guitar&width=336&height=280&font=1&textColor=000000&linkColor=0000AA&arrowColor=8BBC01&color1=709AEE&color2=[COLORTWO]&format=PixOver&contentType=IMAGE_ONLY&enableSearch=y&usePopularSearches=n&freeShipping=n&topRatedSeller=n&itemsWithPayPal=n&descriptionSearch=n&showKwCatLink=n&excludeCatId=&excludeKeyword=&catId=619&disWithin=200&ctx=n&flashEnabled='...

In response to a question left within the comments of my latest GuitarBlog "Improvising in Major Keys."  I did a video /lesson covering Layering Parts back in July of 2011. GENERAL LAYERING: When it comes to layering, using different guitars can be a nice...

by Cindy Atoji Keene | Boston Globe.com Music has healing properties — whether it’s quiet jazz or cacophonous rock anthems, a song can help long-repressed feelings to emerge, said Lisa Summer, one of more than 5,000 board-certified music therapists in the United States, and...

From Mega-Deaf to Megadeth... You might remember born-deaf Sarah Churman from a viral video dating back about two-and-a-half years. In an emotional clip, she was recorded at the doctor's office as she got to hear for the very first time. In the craziest possible twist,...

If you are a home-based recording engineer, producer, or just an 'at home jammer'... then the Bedroom Producer's Blog is the place to hit whenever you're searching for great recording tips, VST's, and home-studio information. Especially, what the latest goings on are in the...

Is having music "on" the same thing as actually listening to it? A couple of weeks ago Geoffrey Morrison wrote about listening to music from totally opposite perspectives. He started with "Music multitasking: How 'background' listening enhances life," and ended with "To...

Courtesy - Premiere Guitar.com In celebration of his new album A Day in Nashville, guitar virtuoso Robben Ford returned to the scene for two shows at Music City’s 3rd and Lindsley club. On March 5, ace luthier Joe Glaser filled in as the Premier Guitar Rig Rundown host, meeting...

Courtesy of Ben Smith VH-1 Music Metallica’s Robert Trujillo Talks About His New Jaco Pastorius Documentary And The Bassist’s Influence On His Music  People tend to think that if you play in one of the hardest and heaviest heavy metal bands of all time you must only...

In this new video, Alan Chaput from Eventide demos the company's new Eventide H9 Core. The H9 Core delivers the sounds of Eventide’s H910 and H949 harmonizers, (the prized studio processors used on stage by Frank Zappa, Jimmy Page and Eddie Van Halen). All of Eventide’s...

Wearable tech gloves that will change the way we make music... Wearable technology meets the music industry in the form of these gloves. They include motion technology that helps you to get closer to the music that you want to make. You often see musicians moving between...