Bob Weir and fellow bandmate, Ron ’Pigpen’ McKernan, were briefly kicked out of the Grateful Dead in 1968 by Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh for reportedly not evolving with the band.

MoFi’s Ultradisc One-Step process reduces the generational loss experienced in the traditional three-step plating process by ...

Popularized by Hendrix and Clapton, resplendent on some of guitar's greatest tracks, the wah pedal might divide opinion, but ...

Melvin Rhyne was born in Indianapolis in 1936 and started playing the piano shortly thereafter. At 19 years old, Rhyne started playing piano with then-unknown tenor saxophonist Rahsaan Roland Kirk but ...

In Akron, Ohio, a small company known worldwide among guitar players is struggling to stay alive. EarthQuaker Devices, which hand-makes guitar effects pedals used by famous bands like Radiohead and ...

As local fusion group Organism continues their return from hiatus, they will be providing those at Hamilton Studios with reimagined versions of 1980s classics. Don Goodwin, who was born and raised in ...

This has been quite an eventful year for Sri Lankan Music. These two events motivated me to reflect on the entertainment scene in the first half of the 1970s, about 50 years ago - when the youth of ...

Having Zoom's multi-effects in a compact form factor could provide the most practical chameleon pedal so far. MusicRadar's got your back Our team of expert musicians and producers spends hours testing ...

Along with the punk classic Les Paul Junior double-cut, the twin pickup Special is now readily available from Gibson USA. It might be stripped down but it’s a great platform for its two P-90s.