Joni Mitchell on why she invented her own guitar language from more than 50 tunings

Teachers told her to play the masters instead of writing songs, but she was determined to create the sounds she heard in her head ...

Ando San on marrying hip-hop with prog, thumping, and his eight-string guitar personally spec'd by Jeff Kiesel

Inspired by Tosin Abasi and J Dilla, San's mission to merge modern prog with experimental hip-hop required him to mature as an artist – and he has no plans to stop evolving ...

Unique Band Launches Fret Salad: A Bold Fusion of Human Strings and AI Session Musicians

What began as a studio experiment became an exploration of how artificial intelligence can act as real musical ...

Alabama music legend who played on rock, R&B and country hits, has died

Travis Wammack, a Memphis native who relocated to Muscle Shoals, played on many '70s hits and was Little Richard's longtime ...
CNET

I Wanted to See if AI Could Help Me Get Better at Playing Guitar. Here's What I Learned

Macy is a writer on the AI Team. She covers how AI is changing daily life and how to make the most of it. This includes writing about consumer AI products and their real-world impact, from ...

Shane Parish Unplugs Autechre

Beats per minute” is not a concept that fingerstyle guitarists usually have to worry about. The world of instrumental solo ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Dr Karl's How Things Work quiz: How much do you really know about guitars?

Have you ever wondered how a guitar is transformed from a piece of timber into the celebrated instrument behind some of the world's most recognisable riffs? For the new season of How Things Work, Dr ...
MusicRadar

“Engineered for modern electric players seeking authentic nylon tine without the traditional limitations of classical instruments”: Abasi’s nylon 7-string opens for pre ...

NAMM 2026: Abasi Guitars debuts its long-awaited Córdoba Stage 7 nylon string guitar at Booth 4230, Hall D, and pre-orders have opened for a summer 2026 release. The firm was formed in 2017 when Tosin ...
Automation World

How Taylor Guitars Went from Pen and Paper to a Single Pane of Glass SCADA with Ignition

Taylor Guitars used Inductive Automation’s Ignition platform to integrate decades-old CNCs, RFID workbenches and 3D scanners to help it maintain and boost quality while building 600+ instruments daily ...
Whiskey Riff

Billy Strings And Bryan Sutton Reimagine A Charlie Daniels Classic With Bluegrass Barnburner “The Devil Went Down To Deep Gap”

You ever wonder what would happen if the devil wound up in a high-stakes guitar competition with a prodigious young bluegrass picker? Honestly, I can’t say the thought has crossed my mind. But I’m ...
MusicRadar

Stylistically radical, Ibanez’s multi-scale Alpha series might just be the 21st-century prog-metal player’s favourite new guitar – but do you get the 7-string or the 8?

Ibanez has unveiled the Alpha series, a state-of-the-art extended-range electric guitar that throws all notions of traditional guitar shape out of the window in favour of an ergonomically radical ...
Rolling Stone

Billy Strings Makes His Debut on ‘Tiny Desk’ After Sending Audition Tape: ‘It Only Took 12 More Years’

Michigan bluegrass phenom Billy Strings and his band stopped by NPR’s Tiny Desk for a performance more than a decade in the making. Backed by his band — Alex Hargreaves on fiddle, backing vocalist ...