Alvarez Grateful Dead Series The Grateful Dead or the surviving members of the band, the undead, will be celebrating 50 years in 2015. Alvarez Guitars will be celebrating the same milestone of creating cool acoustics. To commemorate their shared birthdays, Alvarez has created The Grateful …
Johnny Ramone’s 1965 Mosrite Ventures V1 The thirst for rock and roll memorabilia continues to prove more unquenchable than Jack White’s desire to start a new band. This past Thursday, Jonnny Ramone’s Red Mosrite guitar was auctioned off for $71,875. A sum that would have …
The DTX502 Eletro Acoustic Hybrid Pack Yamaha is releasing the world’s first acoustic electronic drumset with its DTX502 Hybrid Packs. When you think of it, Yamaha is the James Franco of instrument manufacturers. They make guitars, their acoustics are actually very good, they make pianos, …
Yamaha DX7 With the success of Future Islands and the presence of keyboards on the latest Spoon release, 80’s synth was a major influence on 2014’s coolest releases. Any doubts of the resurgence of the 80s sound, check out the title of Ms. Swift’s latest …
Gretsch Chet Atkins Dark Eyes On February 19, the holy grail of collectible axes is going up for auction at NYC’s Guernsey’s. Part of the Tom Doyle collection, there’s been a lot of ink spilt on the sale of the Les Paul Black Beauty. But it …
Deluxe Stratocaster HSS Plus Top with IOS Connectivity What you’re looking at is the Star Wars of Strats. If James T. Kirk played guitar, this would be it. Tweet your friends, poke your neighbours, this Duluxe Stratocaster HSS Plus Top has a built in USB …
Les Paul Black Beauty This guitar widely believed to be most likely to give collectors a boner is hitting the auction block at Guernsey’s. It’s part of the Tom Doyle collection of which the coveted Les Paul is the top item up for bid. The auctioneer’s …
Les Paul Junior 2015 Gibson’s 2015 Les Paul Junior has grown a wider neck offering players increased playability. It’s a sweet upgrade. More contentious is the Gibson G FORCE robot tuning, which seems to really polarise fans reviews. When updating a guitar that has been played by …
Pearl’s Chad Smith Limited & Chad Smith Free Floater Chad Smith’s latest collaboration with Pearl has produced a pair of seriously smackworthy signature snares. To those who know Chad Smith only as Will Farrell’s doppelgänger, or the winner of the 2014 Drum Off with the …
Bono has released a statement recently that he may never play guitar on stage again. All the rock star pomp and pageantry aside, anyone who loves to play, nevermind made it your livelihood, will understand what a bummer this is. Hell no one would even …
Martin LX1E Ed Sheeran The biggest selling artist of 2014 was a busker, a one-man band, a ginger head no less. While the rise of EDM continues with bigger festivals and more wattage every year, the most popular artist of 2014 won the day (the …
The Gibson Firebird 7 Cars have inspired plenty of rock ‘n’ roll songs. If you’ve ever put on a Bruce Springsteen album you’ve heard several of them. But the auto industry’s influence on rock ‘n’ roll doesn’t stop at allusions to route 66. In 1963, Gibson …
Jack: The WiFi Guitar Cable So you just watched your favourite rock god strut down the catwalk without a care or a cord in the world. And you’ve thought to yourself, if only I had a catwalk and a wireless jack. Well Scotland’s Ingenious Audio …
Bob Dylan SJ-200 Autographed Collector’s Edition Gibson has released not one but two signature Bob Dylan acoustic guitars. The guitars are said to have been made with a direct collaboration with Dylan himself. We’ll start with the SJ-200 Autographed Collector’s Edition. Featured above, it …
(GRETSCH)RED Electromatic Center-Block Bono Signature This isn’t the first signature Gretsch with Bono’s name on it, but it’s the reddest. The (GRETSCH)RED Electromatic Center-Block Bono Signature bears the (RED) logo. (Product)red co-founded by Bono in 2006, partners with companies to create products. The sale of …