Monthly Archives: May 2012
Steve Wariner
Steve Wariner is among the handful of guitarists designated as a certified guitar player (C.G.P.) by Chet Atkins. The last guitarist to receive the...
Epitaph Founder Gurewitz Receives Independent Spirit Award
Brett Gurewitz was awarded the National Association of Recording Merchandiser’s (NARM) Independent Spirit Award on May 9th. Gurewitz, the guitarist and songwriter for Bad...
Wallflowers Return With New Album
The Wallflowers are putting the finishing touches on a studio album that will be released this fall. The new album finds frontman Jakob Dylan joining...
EH Superego Synth Engine
The EH Superego Synth Engine captures and hold notes or chords, allowing the player to perform fluid glissandos and create oscillator-like synthesizer effects. Controls...
Tech 21 Offers SansAmp Liverpool Deluxe
The Tech 21 SansAmp Liverpool Deluxe has four independent footswitch actuators with controls for Drive, Character, Low, Mid, High, and Level. Its dual inputs...
Lollar Offers New Pickup
Lollar Pickups' new LollarTron is a humbucker-sized pickup designed to offer the tones of a vintage Filter’Tron. It uses Alnico II magnets and has...
Sonuus Wahoo Offers Dual Analog Filters
The Sonuus Wahoo is a dual-analog-filter stompbox that can be configured as low-pass or band-pass and operate independently in wah, envelope, LFO, and pitch-tracking...
Electro-Harmonix Intros Crying Tone
The Electro-Harmonix Crying Tone wah pedal uses no moving parts, offers instantaneous switching from bypass to effect, and has no footswitch. Learn more at...
The Cult: VG to TV
The Cult have scheduled appearances on two upcoming television shows. The first happens this Saturday, May 12, on VH1 Classic’s ”That Metal Show,” which...
July 2012
As his peers in other rock bands of the ’80s donned superstrats, Billy Duffy stuck to what worked for him – a Gretsch White Falcon....