In the video, which was shot at Bubba’s Country Store in Austin, Texas, the customers of the shop are lured to a fridge with drum beats and flashing lights. Once the fridge is open, there stands ZZ TOP playing the new song equipped with dancing girls. This video was totally unscripted and although only 90 [...]
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Guitar Center – the worlds largest music retailer – and legendary guitarist Slash have teamed up to offer an incredible opportunity to twenty unsigned American bands. By submitting an original song at GCOnstage.com, bands can enter for the chance to open for Slash on his upcoming fall tour, supporting his new album, APOCALYPTIC LOVE, out [...]
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Alongside the release of the powerful new single “Headlong Flight,” Live Nation announced today that Rush will embark on a North American Tour in support of their upcoming and highly anticipated new album, “CLOCKWORK ANGELS.” This year’s fall tour will visit approximately 33 cities beginning September 7th in Manchester, NH, and finishing December 2nd in [...]
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Tom Hess, international guitar teacher and member of the power metal band Rhapsody Of Fire has announced the release of a new online resource designed to help guitar players create their own guitar solos. This resource teaches the idea of guitar soloing with a combination of vocal melodies (sung by Rhapsody Of Fire vocalist Fabio [...]
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Well-known guitarist, vocalist, songwriter Michael “Iron Man” Burks died in Atlanta on Sunday. The 54 years old blues musician, who performed at Montgomery’s Capitol Oyster bar in February was returning from a tour of Europe and collapsed at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, according to a release from his label, Alligator Records.. He was rushed to [...]
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Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor reveals that “construction” on the band’s new album began today. He added, “It’s gonna be a motherf–king MONSTER.“ Taylor previously said that Stone Sour’s follow-up to 2010′s “Audio Secrecy” would probably be recorded in Iowa with producer David Bottrill, who has previously worked with Tool, Muse and Peter Gabriel, among [...]
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According to Blabbermouth.net, all 60,000 tickets to Metallica‘s three shows at the Sports Palace in Mexico City – scheduled for August 1, 2 and 4 – sold out in less than 90 minutes last week. As a result, the band has added two more dates in Mexico City: August 6 and 7 at the same [...]
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The You Rock Guitar is a digital guitar designed for musicians, performers, music teachers, beginners and video gamers. The device has strings and a finger board, just like a real guitar, but it never needs tuning. Furthermore, it provides 99 built-in presets and 25 digitally-sampled guitars, allowing it to sound like a six-string acoustic or [...]
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Guitars, a piano and early recording machines belonging to the late Les Paul, who pioneered the design of solid body Gibson electric guitars, are to be auctioned in June in Beverly Hills, Julien’s Auctions said on Monday. Memorabilia, instruments and personal effects that belonged to Paul’s estate will be auctioned on June 8-9, on what [...]
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Say “electric guitar” and we tend to think of heavy metal rather than conventional business. But earlier this month, Fender, the maker of Stratocaster and Telecaster guitars, announced plans to raise 200 million dollars through a stock market flotation. Meanwhile, its rival Gibson, maker of the iconic Les Paul, has faced some tough challenges after [...]
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Archivists have uncovered Here Comes the Sun‘s long-lost guitar solo. The DVD and Blu-ray releases of Martin Scorsese‘s recent documentary George Harrison: Living in the Material World include a never-before-heard solo from one of the Beatles‘ best-known songs. The snippet of music, the LA Times reports, is part of a video bonus feature showing a [...]
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Perfect for a Han Solo! Film fan’s incredible collection of Star Wars-themed GUITARS built from scrap A music-mad sci-fi fan has combined two great loves of his life – by building a unique collection of Star Wars-themed guitars.Creative film fan Tom Bingham has spent the past decade building electric guitars in the style of the [...]
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