Tinsley Ellis is stepping out of his comfort zone to bring a new sound to Albuquerque: acoustic blues. Hailing from Georgia, Ellis wanted to create a mixture of traditional acoustic blues sounds that ...

David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. Steve Hackett is primarily known as an electric guitarist whose ...

Choosing the best acoustic guitar for your personal needs is a tough one. With so many options on offer these days it’s not surprising that many find themselves faced with option paralysis when ...

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A few months ago, Mikael Åkerfeldt and Fredrik Åkesson, guitarists for Swedish metal perennials Opeth, stopped by the Martin ...

NAIROBI - The guitar thrummed, drumsticks smashed into ... After years in the wilderness, Kenya’s small rock and metal scene is exploding, with bands like Irony Destroyed, Last Year’s Tragedy ...

sleek production that gets under your skin (especially the elegant piano melodies on "Die for You" and acoustic guitar strums of "Ari's Interlude"), and a shimmering voice that deepens the ...

The grunge goliaths picked up the acoustic guitar and delivered a stellar EP He added, “I went on vacation and didn’t play my guitar at all. We booked a week and came in off of vacation. Everybody ...

As Bell says, “We recorded fresh parts to allow us to create new acoustic versions and added the vocals Philip ... "My parents were academics and not thrilled about me joining a thrash metal band." ...

“From an early age, my passions were guitar and astrophysics, cosmology – the song ‘Simon in Space’ merges the two," the guitarist says of that song, "Simon is my cat — that's him ...

British loudspeaker brand Acoustic Energy has entirely redesigned its mid-ranging 300 Series speakers, with no part of its previous, 2018-released iteration carrying over into the new models. The ...

He was already experimenting with a violin with a metal resonator, a conical device to amplify its sound, for which he eventually got a patent in the US. Around the same time, musicians were looking ...