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“It is a tribute to the enduring legacy of tube amplifier culture”: Would you buy a $40,000 guitar amp? Because Jens Ritter has just made one and the Encore is a Fender/Dumble inspired work of art

The Encore is Jens Ritter’s love letter to vintage tube amps and is a meticulously hand-wired 2x12 combo with mismatched speakers, and sapphire-encrusted control knobs ‘cos why not!?

MusicRadar · Feb 16, 2024

Prog supergroup Six By Six announce second album

Six By Six, featuring members of Saga, 3 and Saxon, will release new album Beyond Shadowland in April

Louder · Feb 16, 2024

“I loved the sound of doubled guitars, but it just becomes a slog. I couldn’t hate the process more… it goes right against the immediacy I wanted for this record”: Why Jawbox hero J. Robbins changed his attitude to recording… and smashing guitars

The Jawbox leader, who regrets breaking his “dearest companion” Jazzmaster, shares his love of hand-built Hiwatt clones, how Stone Temple Pilots hooked him up with his live guitar arsenal, and what it was like to snag Naked Raygun’s “secret shredder” John Haggerty for his latest album, Basilisk

Guitar World · Feb 16, 2024

"We have asked WWBBD? (What would Bad Brains do?) many times": Dave Grohl has recorded a Bad Brains cover with Anthrax's Scott Ian and Charlie Benante for a seven inch Record Store Day single

G.B.I.'s cover of The Regulator will be released on Record Store Day to raise money for Bad Brains' frontman HR's healthcare

Metal Hammer · Feb 16, 2024

“I knew the pre-choruses would be a challenge with all the percussive bits”: Mike Dawes plays every part of Foo Fighters’ Everlong on one guitar – transforming the Dave Grohl anthem into a breathtaking acoustic fingerstyle masterclass

It was one of the first songs Dawes ever learned on guitar. Now, he’s returned to his roots to give the classic track the percussive acoustic treatment

Guitar World · Feb 16, 2024

"The verse melody is subtly strange, and it took me a while to figure out why": A music professor breaks down the theory and production behind Tracy Chapman's Fast Car

We put Chapman's moving 1988 single under the musical microscope after Luke Combs' Grammy-nominated cover thrusts it back into the charts

MusicRadar · Feb 16, 2024

“I watched a video of them in a small room and my mouth just dropped. Listen to the fluidly, how easily these guys play this: seamless, and that’s impressive”: why Dave Lombardo loves The Fall of Troy

Ex Slayer rhythm master was blown away when he discovered the trio’s ability to record live, avoid too much computer contribution and inject emotion into their music

Metal Hammer · Feb 16, 2024

“I was never a huge Led Zeppelin fan, but I always loved that song, and the open strings just set it up for bass”: Watch Stuart Hamm’s bass arrangement of Led Zeppelin’s Going to California

Stuart Hamm walks you through the highlights of his fifth solo album, including a bass arrangement of a John Paul Jones classic

Guitar World · Feb 16, 2024

“Like having the greatest hits of synths on speed-dial”: UVI Synth Anthology 4 review

From the very old to the über new, UVI’s latest library has been collated with care. We blow off the dust on some classics

MusicRadar · Feb 16, 2024

Sir Paul McCartney reunited with lost bass guitar after more than 50 years

The Lost Bass Project launched a search to find the missing German violin-shaped bass in 2018, but traction picked up last year

Evening Standard · Feb 16, 2024