Will the $400 Pono Music Player sound like a $27,500 stereo preamplifier? The Ayre KX-R Twenty costs as much as a car, but its designer claims the Pono Player will sound almost as good as the preamp! No doubt about it, the Ayre Acoustics KX-R Twenty preamplifier's sound...

Music Publishing is one of the most misunderstood areas of the music business. In this quick and painless video, Songspace co-founder Jesse Feister breaks it down to the very basics...  What are the different ways a song can make revenue? What are the different...

With the recent news that U2's "The Edge" and "Bono" have been signed-on to join Fender's board of directors, and be involved working on new ideas with Fender Inc., a big question has arisen as to; "Which Brand Guitars Does The Edge from U2 Actually Play?" If you immediately...

Bono and The Edge are to join Fender's board of directors, U2 pair to work on new ideas with Fender Inc. Commenting on the appointment, The Edge said it was: "something of a kid in a candy store situation for me. I've been a fan of Fender guitars from the beginning, playing...

Somewhere within us all lives a rock beast waiting to break free. Those looking to uncage the animal inside themselves have a wide range of new options in the digital age, and one of the highest rated options out there for the iPhone and iPad is now free for a limited time. Guitar...

By: Lukas Camenzind | Music Think Tank.com If you’re a performer and songwriter, of course you want to record and perform your own songs… But you might be missing out on a very effective and easy way to take your music career to the next level: Cover songs! Here’s...

by Rick Moore | American Songwriter.com When Martin’s Retro series, with Fishman’s F1 Aura Plus electronics system, was unveiled a couple years ago, the event marked the introduction of a major innovation in the acoustic-electric guitar industry.  Using 21st century...

What's the #1 Sign of Wealth and Intelligence of a Country? Why, HEAVY METAL of course... New research has shown how when there are more Metal bands that exist within a country that this is a surprisingly accurate indicator of a nation's prosperity and it's overall intelligence... It...

Jazz guitarist Pat Martino reveals how he stayed upbeat after brain aneurysm... Pat Martino has made a career out of wowing others through music, tearing through killer guitar riffs since the early 1960s. But it is the jazz guitarist's remarkable story of survival that...

Posted at Guitar World | by Chris Gill, Video by Paul Riario Not too long ago, if you were shopping for a multi-effect floorboard you were limited to a choice of affordable models with semi-pro-quality effects and moderately rugged construction or prohibitively expensive...

We all tend to go through countless music phases in our life. Young girls scream over boy bands, Teens cry out eyeliner for emo, or maybe donned a red baseball cap for Limp Bizkit, and maybe grew their hair long for the love of metal. The again, not every single one of us...

Add guitar salesman to Keith Urban's resume... Keith Urban has set a new shopping channel record record with guitar sales on the Home Shopping Network! The chart-topping country singer and "American Idol" judge appeared on HSN (Home Shopping Network) this week to promote...

The oldest metal performer in history, 91-year-old acting icon Sir Christopher Lee, will celebrate his 92nd birthday tomorrow. Marking the occasion, Lee has decided to unleash a new studio effort today, a four-track digital EP titled "Metal Knight." Sir Christopher briefly...

The ridiculous behavior occurred while bringing a copyright infringement lawsuit against Usher... A Pennsylvania federal judge has ordered sanctions against the attorney preparing to sue Led Zeppelin for "Stairway to Heaven," claiming that the lawyer behaved "in a flagrantly...

Dialtone Pickups allows players to alter the tone of their guitar using two knobs built directly into the pickup. The knobs can be independently adjusted to achieve the preferred tone, and easily tuned to produce a new tone in a matter of seconds. Dialtone Pickups Announces...

This new music video for Eugene McGuinness is absolutely hilarious. In fact, it get's to the very heart of what it might mean when someone says that they are “rocking out”. We might even go as far as to say that this video for Godvia is the definition of “rocking out”. Directed...

How Major Retailers are Using Music to Try and Control What We Are Buying, and How Much Money We're Spending... If you spend enough time in an Ann Taylor retail store, you'll notice that they only play female musicians. One store manager reported, in an interview with...

Back in March GuitarNoize shared a photo of a very special PRS Tremonti guitar that was hand painted by Joe Fenton for Mark Tremonti. The guitar looked pretty amazing so I was interested when I heard that the entire painting process had been documented by Joe Fenton...

Dave Davidson, (from the band "Revocation"), filmed a quick lesson at the Guitar World studios covering some cool pentatonic and modal concepts for Thrash...  The pentatonic scale is the one scale that just about every rock, metal, blues, jazz and country guitar player...

By Sam Behrens | PolyMic.com Five years after his death, Michael Jackson stole the show. He always did when he was alive, and it was no different during Sunday night's Billboard Music Awards (BBMA), when a holographic MJ joined a five-piece band and 16 dancers onstage. He...

The “record business” as we knew it 20 years ago has ceased to exist... If you'd like to have a good look into the current state of today's music industry, then I highly recommend the documentary, "Artifact," which chronicles the seemingly endless struggles between Jared...