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“A deeper low-end presence within the StingRay lineup”: Sterling by Music Man launches its first ever baritone electric guitar

NAMM 2026: Sterling by Music Man reveals the company’s first-ever baritone electric guitar, refreshes its popular Luke series and we get two new signature models

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“You think back over what you have done and you drinka bottle of red wine and get out all the old albums and listen tothem until four o’clock in the morning”: Ex-Scorpions bassist Francis Buchholz dies aged 71

He played on the band’s landmark albums and the worldwide hit Wind Of Change

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“If you can describe the effect, you can make your own”: Polyend Endless is a customisable stompbox with a text-to-effect generator

NAMM 2026: Polyend’s new pedal can load custom effects coded in C++, or created with Polyend’s text-based Playground generator

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“Our amplifier learns your cabinet’s impedance through controlled sweeps and continues to monitor it in real-time”: Synergy’s Power Amp Machine-Learning tech could be 'revolutionary'

NAMM 2026: Rise of the robots! Synergy’s latest amplifier uses cutting-edge Machine-Learning tech to fuse punchy tube tones with solid state conveniences

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“The truest conduit between the acoustic resonance of the guitar and its electric voice” says Chris Buck of the custom P90-style pickups in his new signature Yamaha Revstar

NAMM 2026: Music Radar’s Best New Guitarist 2017 Chris Buck gets his own signature Yamaha Revstar, while Yamaha also debuts a new Pacifica SC body shape and two 60th Anniversary editions

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Mapex targets comfort and speed with the Design Lab Swift belt-drive bass drum pedal

The belt-driven pedal features a host of features aimed at usability, performance and fast response

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DW expands DWe line-up with Roland module and cymbal-equipped bundles

Premium DW shells paired with Roland's next-generation V71 and V51 modules and a choice of DW or Roland cymbals

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“Delivers portability without compromising the authentic feel and expressiveness of an acoustic drum kit": Donner enters the pro-level electronic drum set market with new flagship Groove Series

Mesh pads, space-saving setups and well-stocked modules are all on the menu from Donner's new line-up

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MXR's high-gain Eddie Van Halen collab headlines Jim Dunlop's fresh pedal drop – and there's an Iron Maiden Killers Cry Baby too

NAMM 2026: The MXR EVH Modern High Gain Pedal was co-designed with Eddie Van Halen in 2015 and is officially here, and it's joined by a special Way Huge fuzz and some cool Cry Babies

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“For those seeking acoustic power, projection and an enormous amount of volume": Faith unleashes a slew of updates and new models at NAMM

NAMM 2026: Faith Guitars reveals its new Nexus Venus and Neptune electro-acoustics – and they look out of this world!

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“We are proud to support the invaluable work War Child do and hope the record will make a positive difference to the lives of children affected by war”: Arctic Monkeys contribute brand new track to HELP(2) album

Project is a successor to 1995’s fondly-remembered Help album

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Seymour Duncan unveils MortalCoil active humbucker set, a multi-voiced pairing featuring the crushing new MC1 plus classic JB and Jazz humbucker voicings – will it dethrone Fishman as metal’s state-of-the-art pickup?

NAMM 2026: A serious upgrade to any high-performance electric guitar, Seymour Duncan promises a super-fast attack, clarity even when the gain is dimed – and hey, there's a single-coil voicing too

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"From professionals to advanced amateurs, EAD50 empowers every drummer to achieve their ideal sound": Yamaha confirms the EAD50, and it looks set to be your one-stop hybrid drum module

NAMM 2026: After a couple of weeks of teasers, Yamaha has finally lifted the lid on its next-level EAD product

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“A seamless start-to-finish creative workflow”: LANDR announces new “ethical” AI music-making assistants for songwriting and production, but will using them leave you feeling empty inside?

NAMM 2026: Blueprints and Layers can do so much that you might wonder what you’re bringing to the party

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“We hashed it out. It was hard. It is like a marriage. You go through these ups and downs, and try to understand your partner”: Jack Black and Kyle Gass have repaired their friendship

And Tenacious D will return, says Gass

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“Give the average guitar player the chance to own my live rig. My tone. The tone worth $100,000s”: Billy Corgan and Laney Amplification unveil the ultimate Smashing Pumpkins amp-in-a-box pedal

NAMM 2026: The Supergrace is a two-hander between Laney and Brian Carstens, and Corgan gave it a trial by fire when playing with My Chemical Romance in front of 60,000 fans

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“Everybody can play it... Just bring your own energy”: Fatoumata Diawara’s signature SG wears her Malian roots proudly on its horns

NAMM 2026: Push/pull coil splitting and phase shifting for the genre-breaking fusion fun

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“Who knows what’ll happen but I suspect some music will eventually come out”: Geddy Lee says he and Alex Lifeson will work on new Rush material – if they “manage to survive the tour”

The Rush frontman says he’s open to writing new material once reunion tour wraps and says “it would be fun” to get tour drummer Anika Nilles involved too

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Champagne Symphony Nova? Apogee’s latest audio interface is fizzing with ARM-based DSP and has built-in speaker correction, too

NAMM 2026: Where were you when we were getting high-gain mic preamps and realtime processing on every channel?

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“Uncompromising tone whenever inspiration strikes”: Blackstar unveils the Beam Mini – it’s portable, desktop-friendly, and as the first guitar amp to allow players to load Neural Amp Modeller captures, it's a game-changer too

NAMM 2026: Out this spring, the Beam Mini gives guitarists access to more than 200,000 neural captures created by the Tone3000 commuity

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“I’m constantly surprised by how many punks I see on my Facebook thing that are pro-Trump. It’s a bit weird”: So who could Glen Matlock be talking about, we wonder…?

Plus Jack White mocks Trump’s ‘accomplishments’ - "Trump smart. Good boy deserve Nobel Peace Prize! Dementia? What is? NO!"

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"He's been scoring moments of our culture for decades, and that wisdom hits different when it meets the now”: Chuck D and John Densmore have made a concept album about ageing

No Country For Old Men by doPE is out in April

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"Rethinking motion, balance, and response": Strandberg’s new Arc TILT tremolo has been designed from the ground up for a more natural, expressive and inspiring playing experience

NAMM 2026: Strandberg reveals brand-new Arc TILT tremolo system for smooth motion and stable pitch control – debuts on two of its most popular headless 6-string guitar models

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“It’s beyond analogue vs digital – it’s even beyond electronics”: Korg opens pre-orders for experimental Phase8 eight-voice "acoustic synthesizer"

NAMM 2026: The unconventional Phase8 brings together acoustic sound generation with electronic control via synth-style sequencing and modulation

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"Cutting rimshots and controlled overtones": PDP brings a "world-first" to the acrylic drum market with its latest Concept Acrylic Kit and Snare

NAMM 2026: The all-acrylic design extends to the hoops for what could be some of the most focused acrylic sounds yet

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