The film won for best music supervision for a major budget film, while Oscar-nominated "I Lied To You" won best original song ...

What if the strings of a guitar could float, untethered, held in place by nothing but invisible magnetic forces? It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but Mattias Krantz outlines how he turned ...

Guild’s I Series guitars are an avowed classic. Guild I-12 electric Starfire model, as Paul Riario demonstrates here, “maintains classic Guild tone and response without sacrificing playability,” all ...

When Swedish metal icons Meshuggah unleashed their mighty, low down, single-string riffs on Nothing in 2002, the meaning of the word heavy was henceforth redefined. From then, the 8-string guitar has ...

The artist Larry Bell has amassed a vast collection of acoustic instruments, carefully stored in a climate-controlled room. By Zoë Lescaze In My Obsession, one creative person reveals their most ...

Paulo Szot is spending a lot of time at the beach this week, washing up upon the sandy “South Pacific” shores of our collective imagination, and he’s bringing us with him. In “Song on the Sand” (from ...

You can’t rush a painstaking artist like Iowa City's Chris Threlkeld-Wiegand. Known for years in prominent nationwide orchestral circles for his exquisitely crafted string basses selling for $40,000 ...

Mark has been thinking and writing about games since a Gameboy Pocket and a copy of Link's Awakening was first placed into his tender, seven-year-old hands. Since then, he snagged a creative writing ...

Touring behind his 2023 solo electric guitar album, “Dream Box,” Pat Metheny started a new sonic adventure, performing an occasional song on a new instrument: a custom-made nylon-string baritone ...