Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Getty Images If Cheap Trick’s Tom Petersson was ever taught the “traditional” way to approach bass guitar, it didn't take.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Portrait of Doug Pinnick of Kings X in a photo studio in Chicago, Illinois, September 20, 1991. . In the league of progressive ...

SUMMER NAMM 2018: Fender is filling out the gaps in its California Series of acoustic guitars with a pair of new additions: the Villager 12-string guitar and Kingman Bass. Both guitars feature a gloss ...

One of guitar playing’s simplest joys comes in ringing out a big, open chord and letting the guitar’s strings and tonewoods work their magic. Now imagine that joy, doubled. The best 12-string guitars ...

Like Fender's Parallel Universe guitars, the Squier Paranormal series explores bizarre model combinations and "what if?" oddities, but at more budget-friendly price points. The latest release includes ...

Guitar scholar John Stropes' new book is both a cultural history of Leo Kottke's landmark album and a guide to playing Kottke ...

With ringing intros written on a Rickenbacker 12-string that helped define the musical tastes of a generation, the songs of The Byrds changed the shape of contemporary music in the mid- and late 1960s ...