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No room for a full-sized expression pedal?Watch this newly-surfaced video of a Fugazi show from 1999
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Kicking off on Thursday 16 July.Matt Berry announces new album, releases single Something In My Eye
Following his appearance on last year’s Desert Sessions.
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Electro-Harmonix announces the ‘set it and forget it’ Cntl Knob static expression pedal
No room for a full-sized expression pedal?Watch this newly-surfaced video of a Fugazi show from 1999
Supporting their 1998 record End Hits.Bill Callahan, Sharon Van Etten and many more to perform a live-streamed benefit concert or the people of the Amazon
Kicking off on Thursday 16 July.Matt Berry announces new album, releases single Something In My Eye
Following his appearance on last year’s Desert Sessions.
- Features
“I picked up the guitar when I was really sick in the hospital”: Covet’s Yvette Young
The Californian band’s new LP fuses math-rock, post-rock, prog and jazz, with Yvette Young’s breathtaking technique always centre-stage. She tells us how the guitar saved her and sings praises of her new signature Ibanez Talman.Introducing… Madison Cunningham: the Jazzmaster-playing songwriter putting her stamp on modern Americana
The Californian songwriter's stunning major label debut has set her on the course for very big things.The Industry Interview: Orange Amps founder and CEO Cliff Cooper
From making waves in Swinging London to heading up a world-leading amplifier brand and winning awards along the way, Cliff Cooper looks back on more than 50 years in the business.“Take no prisoners”: Rabea Massaad recalls Nuno Bettencourt’s advice
Rabea is best known as a YouTube guitar star, but the Anderton’s man has also forged a career as a guitar player in atmospheric prog outfit Toska. Here he talks about his hidden love for Strats and sharing Portuguese wine with Nuno Bettencourt.
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