Hotone Squeezes AI Tone Creation Into the Pocket-Sized Pulze Jr.
The $299.99 battery-powered modeling amp can build a tone from a typed description and pull guitar parts out of a song to build practice tracks.
Aug 30, 2026
Down Announce Volume V, Their First Album in 12 Years
The Anselmo/Windstein band's Nuclear Blast release lands November 20 with a King Diamond feature and lead single Blood Oath out now.
Aug 30, 2026
Pantera's Rex Brown Gets a Spector Euro 4 Signature Bass
The neck-through, Desert Gold-finished bass pairs EMG PJ-X pickups with Brown's own neck profile, available now for $3,599.99.
Aug 30, 2026
Harley Benton Pairs a P90 and a Humbucker on New SC-Special Hybrid
The 199-euro single-cut combines an Isola P90 in the neck with a coil-splittable humbucker in the bridge.
Aug 30, 2026
Tony Iommi Announces First Solo Album in 20 Years, From the Dark
The Black Sabbath guitarist teams with vocalist Jorn Lande for a 10-song record out October 23.
Aug 30, 2026
Queens of the Stone Age set their ninth album, 'Perfecth,' for October 30
Josh Homme's band paired the announcement with the single 'Insignificant Other' and confirmed a nine-track record produced by Homme and bassist Michael Shuman.
Aug 30, 2026
MXR builds Byron Chambers a signature talk box with double the M222's headroom
The Mr. TalkBox Signature runs on 18 volts with a 25-watt preamp, adds a neodymium driver and two rear switches, and ships in gold with a black tube.
Aug 30, 2026
Martin's LX2 Life is Good puts laser-etched slogans on a Little Martin travel guitar
A follow-up to 2024's LX1 Life is Good, the collaboration with the apparel brand keeps the short-scale Little Martin body and swaps in a more restrained cosmetic treatment.
Aug 30, 2026
Guitar Center's 2026 Crossroads collection revives Clapton's Blind Faith Tele and a 70-piece Mayer Silver Sky
The charity run, timed to this year's Crossroads Guitar Festival, spans Clapton signature Martins, a Fender Custom Shop recreation of his 1969 Telecaster and a limited PRS Silver Sky finished for John Mayer.
Aug 30, 2026
Session Guitar Legend Chris Spedding Diagnosed With Lymphoma
The 82-year-old guitarist, known for work with Roxy Music, Elton John and the Sex Pistols, began chemotherapy this month as a GoFundMe was launched to help cover his costs.
Aug 30, 2026
Adrian Belew, Steve Vai and Tony Levin's BEAT Adds Terry Bozzio for Fall 2026 Tour
The King Crimson-repertoire supergroup announced a 40-date North American run with Terry Bozzio filling in for Danny Carey, who is out on tour with Tool.
Aug 30, 2026
Ritchie Blackmore Rejoins Deep Purple Onstage for 'Smoke on the Water' After 33 Years
Blackmore returned for one song at Jones Beach Theater on August 12, his first appearance with the band since 1993.
Aug 30, 2026
JAM Pedals and King Gizzard's Stu Mackenzie Release the Tiny Amp Destroyer
A three-footswitch gain pedal built to recreate the blown-out sound of a cheap pawn-shop practice amp, developed with King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard's Stu Mackenzie.
Aug 30, 2026
CFG's SonikSphere NEO Moves Its Wireless System to the 5.8GHz Band
The second-generation Cable Free Guitar system claims sub-2.5ms latency and 10-plus hours of battery, at an introductory $139.99.
Aug 30, 2026
Gibson Revives Its Baritone Line With the 28-Inch-Scale Victory Baritone
Gibson returns to extended-scale territory for the first time since the early 2010s, pairing a B-to-B baritone with a new set of ELEV8 humbuckers.
Aug 30, 2026
Frank Beard, ZZ Top's drummer for more than five decades, dies at 77
Beard died on 17 August at his Texas ranch; Billy Gibbons says ZZ Top will keep performing, and the band played its first show without him five days later.
Aug 29, 2026
Newly surfaced Woodstock footage shows Jimi Hendrix's set filmed from the stage
'Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock - A Second Look' premiered on 18 August, built around half-inch videotape a 22-year-old drama student shot about 15 feet from Hendrix in 1969.
Aug 29, 2026
Gretsch wraps a limited-edition Penguin in Light Blue Pearl with a String-Thru Bigsby
The G6134T-58 Limited Edition Penguin pairs a chambered mahogany body and TV Jones Ray Butts Ful-Fidelity Filter'Tron pickups with a rarely seen string-through Bigsby, listing at $3,799.99.
Aug 29, 2026
Walrus Audio's Canvas Expression pedal drops the pot for a contactless magnetic sensor
The $299 expression pedal reads its position with a magnetic sensor instead of a potentiometer or gears, and carries Expression, MIDI, USB-C and CV outputs plus a web editor for tapers and assignments.
Aug 29, 2026
Ibanez gives Wes Hauch a Custom Shop Iceman 7-string, and a $9,999 price tag
The ICWH727 is billed as Ibanez's first commercially available Custom Shop 7-string and the first Japan-built Iceman in more than 30 years, which is the company's explanation for preorders opening near ten grand.
Aug 29, 2026
Charvel adds four Pro-Mod Plus Dinky DK24 models aimed squarely at metal players
Three new humbucker-loaded configurations and one HSS join the Pro-Mod Plus DK24 line, with Floyd Rose or hardtail bridges, Seymour Duncan pickups and finishes running from satin black to a green ombre called zombie face.
Aug 29, 2026
Fender's second wave of 75th Anniversary Teles brings back the baritone and the Nocaster
A Player II Baritone Telecaster returns a 27-inch-scale Tele to the standard catalog, joined by an American Vintage II 1951 Nocaster and new Player II Telecaster and Precision Bass colorways.
Aug 29, 2026
Polyphia Announce 'Be Not Afraid,' Push North American Tour Into 2027
The instrumental band's new album lands October 23 on Rise Records, led by the single Power in the Blood and its Rio-shot video.
Aug 29, 2026
Paul Reed Smith Joins the Guitar Center RockWalk, With John Mayer Presenting
The PRS founder's handprint ceremony is set for September 26 at the Crossroads Guitar Festival in Austin.
Aug 29, 2026