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On About Time, Dennis Jones gets real with blues-rock that comprises one part drama, one part top-tier production, and guitar tones that melt faces....

Lee Ritenour’s latest album, Brasil, finds the jazz icon traveling to São Paulo with co-producer Dave Grusin to immerse themselves in the nation’s rich...

Known for decades as The Texas Tornado and The Malice from Dallas, Rocky Athas is still kickin’ blues-rock ass on Livin’ My Best Life,...

Though he replaced Steve Morse two years ago, Belfast native Simon McBride is still Deep Purple’s “new” guitarist. The band’s latest album, =1, is...

Joanne Shaw Taylor’s Heavy Soul mixes epic tales of turbulent love affairs with bodacious guitar playing. With Anton Fig on drums and producer extraordinaire...

Formed in 1988, Mr. Big was an all-star effort made up of bassist Billy Sheehan, drummer Pat Torpey, vocalist Eric Martin, and guitarist Paul...

One of the few family-owned guitar/amplifier manufacturing enterprises remaining in the industry, Carvin was founded by Lowell Kiesel in 1946 and started by making...

In an age of rampant globalization, brand names have become virtually independent of place of manufacture. Few people care where something is built, as...

Blue Cheer was arguably the most-notorious band to emerge from San Francisco’s psychedelic scene in the late ’60s, its decibel-drenched assault steamrolling the “peace...

History has it that rock and roll materialized in the wee hours of July 6, 1954, when a painfully introverted teenager suddenly grabbed his...