The Latest Breaking News from Harmonix

I'm excited for Stage Tour, but Rock Band 4 will take a lot to beat

Harmonix's swan song for the plastic-instrument era lives on

GamesRadar · Aug 30

“The kid lost his mind: ‘You’re the guy from Guitar Hero! Do you play real guitar too?’”: How a 2000s videogame phenomenon made Slash famous all over again

Guitar Hero was a worldwide smash hit – and it introduced Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash to a whole new audience

Metal Hammer · Jun 10

“Quirky and off-the-wall, it’s waiting to throw a spanner in the works of your guitar tone”: Electro-Harmonix Pico Atomic Cluster review

EHX’s new Pico pedal is designed to deconstruct your tone to an atomic level

Guitar World · Jun 1

“First of its kind”: Electro-Harmonix’s Effects Interface turns your pedals into plugins – and puts your prized plugins on your pedalboard

The utility tool could be a game-changer for your rig, forgoing converters and complex cable methods for a frills-free approach

Guitar World · Jan 13

“We are building a system to stimulate and retrieve energy to Earth”: Electro-Harmonix wants to harness the magnetosphere’s energy to solve the AI power crisis

Brand founder Mike Matthews has teamed up with a former Bell Labs scientist to shape his plans

Guitar World · Dec 8, 2025

“Dipping our toe into the cosmic pool of glitchy synth pedals with this one”: EHX expands its Pico series with the Atomic Cluster Spectral Decomposer – a mini-pedal that sounds so wrong its right

The Atomic Cluster might be teeny tiny but it's packing transformative energy for your guitar tone, with celestial synth sounds that soundscapists and adventurous players will love

MusicRadar · Nov 13, 2025

Guitar Hero at 20 – how a plastic axe bridged the gap between rock generations

Guitar Hero’s controllers let anyone become a star in their own living room – and made the bands featured in the game household names again

The Guardian - UK · Nov 8, 2025

15 Years Ago, The Perfect Music Game Was Too Late To The Party

Harmonix's 'Rock Band 3' is the feel-good grand finale of gaming's rhythm game obsession, one that aimed for the stars just as the genre's popularity was waning.

Inverse · Nov 2, 2025

15 years later, the Guitar Hero studio that Activision acquired and killed is back and teasing a spiritual successor to the rhythm game that put it on the map: "They said the era of 5-fret music games was over"

The spirit of Guitar Hero lives on

GamesRadar · Aug 6, 2025

“The Oceans Abyss expands on Electro-Harmonix’s highly acclaimed reverb technology to deliver a truly immersive effects workstation”: EHX’s unveils Oceans Abyss – a stereo reverb powerhouse promising a “completely unique soundscape building experience”

It's not just any reverb pedal, it's an "Advanced Reverb Laboratory", and it allows you to run two stereo reverbs at once, pan them across the stereo field, add effects and get creative

MusicRadar · May 20, 2025