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A SEA OF GUITARS AND AMPS, DOGS RUNNING AMUCK, COFFEE, COMFY COUCHES--welcome to your favorite independent guitar shop. While giant chain stores and online retailers have changed the business landscape, [...]

PAPA ROACH'S EIGHTH FULL-LENGTH ALBUM, F.E.A.R. [Eleven Seven Music Group] contains the explosive, high-octane intensity fans expect from the Nor Cal rockers, only this album is fueled by a new [...]

TERRY ADAMS IS THE ELECTRIFYING PIANIST IN NRBQ, THE BAND HE CO-FOUNDED with a his guitarist friend Steve Ferguson in 1965. The New Rhythm and Blues Quartet was initially a [...]

THE U.S. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONSIDERS BOB MILNE A NATIONAL TREASURE BECAUSE OF HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO the preservation of ragtime. It had been 66 years since the Library had collected [...]

STUDIO MUSICIAN AND SIDEMAN VERNON 'Ice' Black--currently with the Booker T. Jones Band--has played with a huge range of industry legends including Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Chaka Kahn, [...]

LEXINGTON [INDUSTRIAL AMUSEMENT], Wayne Kramer's first jazz album, was inspired by the MC5 guitarist's incarceration at the Lexington Federal Prison in the mid 1970s for selling cocaine. The famous institution--once [...]

AFTER BEING IMPRESSED WITH STEF Burns' rendition of 'Surfing with the Alien' at the 1988 Bay Area Music Awards show, Joe Satriani soon helped change the course of the guitarist's [...]

WHEN HE WAS JUST 15 YEARS OLD, SOUL PIE guitarist Tommy Odetto was invited to jam with Carlos Santana. Soon after, Santana brought Odetto to Fantasy Studios, where he was [...]

'MY NAME IS WAYNE KRAMER, AND I'm mostly known as a guitar player, but for a few years I was known as 00180190 when I was in the custody of [...]

'There were no other bands playing our style of metal when we first appeared,' says Judas Priest vocalist Rob Halford. 'This was all created from an original source, and that [...]

'We recorded our demos with a boom box when I was a kid,' says Foo Fighters/Jackson/Me First and the Gimme Gimmes' guitarist Chris Shiflett, 'You were lucky if one of [...]

'A lot of metal fans still ask me why I left Testament,' says former speed metalist Alex Skolnick, 'and the main reason was that I felt limited playing only heavy [...]

WHO? Former Toad the Wet Sprocket singer, now a solo artist and member of Mutual Admiration Society. WHAT? The Solstice ($469 retail/$335 street) is a 2-channel, mixer/stereo preamp designed to […]

When singer/songwriter Jack Johnson finds himself in a moment he wants to capture, he thinks of a few words to sum up the experience, and draws on those words later. […]

'I'm left-handed, and early on, one of my guitar teachers, Jack Arsenault--who was a leftie, too made me turn the guitar around and play right-handed. It felt dreadfully awkward at […]

MUSICAL STYLE Indie rock. CHECK OUT Inches [French Kiss]. GUITARIST Seth Jabour. IDEAL TONE: I like a clean tone that can also break up nicely. I don't like distortion pedals. […]

Although best known as a gifted jazz guitarist and arranger, Leni Stern reinvented herself as a singer/songwriter for her recent release, When Evening Falls [Ryko]. The project required the German-born […]

'My first guitar teacher made me work through a Beatles songbook,' says Foe Fighters' lead guitarist Chris Shiflett. 'That was great advice, because the songs were kind of easy, and [...]

The article focuses American pianist Bob Milne, with regards to his contributions to the preservation of ragtime music. It provides a background of ragtime music which was invented in late 1800s. It discusses Milne's career who worked as a traveling musician starting in the early 1980s when supper clubs and piano bars became unpopular. It also details the results of a magnetic resonance imaging scan of Milne's brain which revealed that both sides can work simultaneously.

The article focuses on Terry Adams, the pianist for the rock band NRBQ, who has created a tribute dedicated to pianist Thelonious Monk as the band celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2015. Topics include the comment of Adams on listening to the music by Monk, the trademark and energy of Adams during his performances, and the move of Adams to change his focus to music composition and theory from jazz. INSET: TERRY ADAMS ON TOUR.

The article offers information on guitarist and vocalist Vernon Black, including his participation with the Booker T Jones Band, music styles, and career as an engineer or producer.

The article discusses an interview with guitarist Myles Kennedy who discussed his experience with guitarist Slash for five years.

The article informs about the 10th anniversary celebration for Little Kids Rock, which was held on September 29, 2012 at the Facebook office in Menlo Park, California.

Features the rock band Judas Priest. History; Members; Instruments they use.

Features James Robert Farmer, guitarist of the rock band Scatter the Ashes.