Guitar.com | All Things Guitar Guitar.com Live is rapidly approaching, offering a huge array of performances, clinics, panels and talks from every corner of the guitar world, and with it the chance for guitar fans to get an insight into the way that your favourite instruments are made, maintained and what makes them so special. … Continue reading Why Guitar.com Live Is A Celebration Of The Art Of Guitar Building →

Guitar.com | All Things Guitar Gibson has teamed with online music retailer zZounds.com to put out a special Flying V Tribute, dressed in a Worn Olive Drab satin finish. This mahogany-bodied guitar comes with a matching mahogany neck with a slim tapered profile for smooth and fast playing. It has a rosewood fingerboard which is … Continue reading Gibson’s olive drab Flying V Tribute takes flight →

Guitar.com | All Things Guitar Lollar Pickups has announced the Novel Foil pickups, which are designed as a drop-in replacement for humbucker-sized pickups. These derive the brand’s highly-popular Gold Foil pickups, previously only available in soapbar, dogear, surface- and floating-mount forms. Like the earlier Gold Foil pickups, the Novel Foils are said to offer much … Continue reading Lollar announces the Novel Foil pickup, drop-in replacements for humbuckers →

Guitar.com | All Things Guitar Trivium fan Hector Velasco received a surprise gift from frontman Matt Heafy after his random act of kindness towards a young boy was noticed by the Drew Barrymore Show. Valesco, a UPS driver, had on his usual delivery route noticed a young boy watching him from his balcony. Staying home … Continue reading Trivium fan’s kindness repaid in Gibson Les Paul Custom from frontman Matt Heafy →

Guitar.com | All Things Guitar Even before the current global pandemic (you know, the current global pandemic that’s been happening) moved live music into the virtual realm, forming a strong online presence as a musician was incredibly important – and what better time to learn about the secrets of online brand-building than at the world’s … Continue reading Guitar.com Live shares the secrets of online marketing for guitarists →

Guitar.com | All Things Guitar Calgary post-punk band Women have announced a tenth-anniversary reissue of their second and final album, Public Strain. It will be joined by an accompanying compilation of rare songs and B-sides from their three years as a band. The compilation, entitled Rarities 2007-2010, will feature five hard to find or unreleased songs … Continue reading Women announce 10-year anniversary reissue of Public Strain, alongside new rarities compilation →

Guitar.com | All Things Guitar Metallica have donated £250,000 to aid wildfire relief efforts across California and the US West Coast. The donation comes via the band’s All Within My Hands foundation, which has gifted significant sums to a series of worthy causes since launching back in 2017. “Wildfires have become a cruel and unwelcome … Continue reading Metallica’s All Within My Hands foundation donates $250,000 to US wildfire relief efforts →

Guitar.com | All Things Guitar Omar Apollo has released a new song, entitled Dos Uno Nueve. You can listen, and take a look at the official lyric video, above. The song in tribute to Indiana, and its title is Spanish for 219, the area code for his home state. In a statement, he said Indiana … Continue reading Omar Apollo releases new song Dos Uno Nueve →

Guitar.com | All Things Guitar Fender Custom Shop has launched its Master Built recreation of George Harrison‘s iconic ‘Rocky’ Stratocaster, famous for appearing on such classic Beatles records as Help! and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and in the Magical Mystery Tour film. The guitar is the work of Master Builder Paul Waller, who … Continue reading Fender launches Custom Shop recreation of George Harrison’s Rocky Strat →

Guitar.com | All Things Guitar The #WeMakeEvents campaign has announced a global day of action for tomorrow (30 September), highlighting the soaring unemployment in the events industry worldwide. The campaign follows the majority of the industry losing effectively all income since the beginning of the pandemic in March, the continued uncertainty surrounding a financially-viable return … Continue reading #WeMakeEvents campaign plans global day of action for 30 September →