Bluegrass is more than just a style of music for Sonora’s Owen Ragland — it’s a family tradition. The 29-year-old Tuolumne County native was raised by parents who are both bluegrass musicians and ...

Larry Keel and Jon Stickley will independently release their eponymous debut EP in September. Keel and Stickley have been called two of the finest flatpicking guitarists of this generation, and with ...

The artist’s path is an increasingly tangled one in the year 2025, but for guitarists, it’s not so complicated. While money and adulation are fine intentions, a true six stringer needs but one thing ...

When it comes to types of electric vehicles (EVs), the choices people can buy go far beyond those powered by batteries alone. These days, they can find all types, including options that rely on fuel ...

The convention couldn’t sound less rock-and-roll — the National Association of Music Merchants Show. But when the doors open at the Anaheim Convention Center, people stream in to scour rows of Fenders ...

Well, here below, we wanted to explore that very question. Let’s dive into the careers of three songwriters and performers who helped promulgate the styles and sounds that the electric guitar has ...

I’ll admit it: When it comes to instruments, I’m a pretty emotional guy. What’s that phrase?—I think with my heart, not my head. I’ll buy an instrument only if, when I pick it up and play it, I feel ...

Thousands of counterfeit Gibson electric guitars were seized at the Los Angeles-Long Beach Seaport, in what local and federal authorities described as the "largest counterfeit musical instrument ...

Thousands of counterfeit Gibson electric guitars were seized in a multi-agency investigation at the Los Angeles-Long Beach Seaport. The 3,000 fake guitars, if real, would be valued at about $18 ...

Musicians will be amp-ed that these phonies are off the streets. More than 3,000 fake Gibson guitars that could have been sold for a combined $18.7 million were seized by federal authorities after the ...

They would have been worth nearly $18 million if they were genuine, making it the largest counterfeit instrument seizure in history, officials said. By Adeel Hassan At a glance, the Gibson guitars ...