How did a guitar that failed to grab its intended market – the market it was literally named after – end up becoming the instrument of choice across surf-rock, post-punk, new wave, power pop, shoegaze ...

Taken from the fourth Police album, Ghost in the Machine, Sting's fretwork is filled with chord inversions, syncopations, and dynamics – all the right stuff for a dynamite bassline ...

G&L Musical Instruments, which made guitars, basses and other gear on Fender Avenue in Fullerton since 1980, quietly closed down last month.

From heavy metal shredding to country twang, no one guitar is built the same. The nuances of guitars, such as the versatile tone and the varying bodies, differentiate brands and, more importantly, ...

Electric guitars are like fine wines. Everyone has slightly different tastes, and they feel more comfortable the longer you ...

This six-string bass completely changed the way your favorite country and pop songs from the 1960s sounded. Can you hear the difference?

Kirk Hammett, Tommy Lee, and U2's Adam Clayton are selling tons of gear for Julien's "Played, Worn, & Torn" charity auction.

The founders of Houston's Rockin' Robin guitar store also earlier founded Rockin' Guitars and manufactured guitars.

His 200 Lakland Joe Osborn J sunburst bass, played during the U2’s Vertigo tour a decade earlier, as well as on their classic ...

Besides his work with pop stars and jazz greats, he is credited with helping to invent the six-string contrabass guitar.

Musician Ryan Camaioni grew up in California and moved to Connecticut in 2014, and has spent a decade working as a musician, ...

Godzilla is in the building. And the building is Fender Flagship Tokyo, the US brand’s temple to the guitar that opened in ...