He was a guitar god at 8, then he disappeared – the unlikely story of Thomas McRocklin

Vai handed him the Passion and Warfare guitar and produced his debut album, only for his protégé to give it all up. Decades ...
Tim Sway on MSN

Make a Guitar Vibrato Work on a Bass Guitar — Creative Tone Experiment

Experiment with new sounds! We demonstrate how a guitar vibrato can be adapted for bass, opening a world of creative tones ...
Milwaukee Magazine

Milwaukee Music Notes: Diet Lite Riffs With Relentless Energy at Album Release Show

The local rockers took the Vivarium stage on Nov. 22 to share their new album, “Double Wide Yukon.” ...
Opinion
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Why the Perfect Upright Bass Pickup Didn’t Exist… And How I Built One That Actually Works!

Tired of pickups that can’t capture the subtlety of bowing or the punch of plucking, I set out to create something better. Follow my journey designing, building, and testing a custom upright bass ...

Biffy Clyro talk us through five of the most important gigs they’ve ever played

Biffy Clyro – our newly christened Rolling Stone UK Live Award winners – are gearing up to play Finsbury Park next summer.

An ‘eternal showgirl’ puts a new spin on a grim classic about a woman cursed to dance forever

Performing in Melbourne, the band play their albums Bossanova (1990) and Trompe le Monde (1991) track by track, throwing in a ...