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The rising singer-songwriter on keeping the human element alive in music, his six-stringed piece of Syracuse history and his educational lockdown routine.

Inside the gear and guitar style of Led Zeppelin legend Jimmy Page, with review links, alternative gear choices and a playlist.

The National’s textured melancholia found a bigger audience in 2010 as their fourth album elevated the band to alt-rock’s top table. With an expanded 10th-anniversary reissue about to hit the shelves, we salute the slow-burn majesty of High Violet.

Five stellar drive tones in one stompbox? Perhaps this new unit from Walrus Audio really is an overdrive for the ages.

The ultimate secret weapon in the recording studio?

The musical polymath demonstrates that there’s much more to Blake Mills than being one of the hottest producers in Los Angeles.

Sing the blues, send your amp into raptures or unleash hell with these overdrive pedals that will find a home on any pedalboard.

Do you insist on having glowing glass tubes in your rig? Check out these tube amps that are the best in class for 2020.

Is your single-coil electric plagued by noise? We can help.

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