Find out more about how we test. The POG line from Electro-Harmonix has become such a staple of guitar that it’s surprising that it was only launched in 2005. Providing a less error-prone octave tone ...

1,800,000 square feet of guitar, drum, synth ... The original Rockman Distortion Generator has been distilled into a small pedal by MXR and it encapsulates all the charm of the original and ...

Despite the heavy noise levels on the show floor, we could tell from the first listen that this pedal is special and perfectly encapsulates the original. The best, though, has to be the fact that what ...

The band’s sixth studio album still stands as its most compelling record, a punchy fusion of hard rock and other, softer ...

Among those who have covered Tim Buckley's "Song to the Siren" is John Frusciante, Sinead O'Connor and Bryan Ferry. But Plant ...

I played 2 electric rhythm guitars and added mellotron, piano ... I also embraced the wah pedal a bit more on this LP.” ...

Susan Alcorn, the pioneering pedal steel player who steered the instrument in experimental, improvisational directions, has died. The High Zero Foundation, an experimental music organization and ...

New bikes—more often than not—tend to come with basic, low-quality pedals that manufacturers expect you'll upgrade. For road bikes, many riders opt for clipless systems that attach your shoe ...

After 16 years, English gothic rock band The Cure has returned to the studio to record “Songs of a Lost World,” released Nov. 1, 2024. The Cure, fronted by guitarist and vocalist Robert Smith, was ...

Since the ‘90s, the bass guitar has played an ever-increasing role in hip-hop – from the rubbery grooves of Raphael Saadiq and Pino Palladino to the dirt-fisted funk of Leonard ‘Hub’ Hubbard and ...

“There’s just something about Baltimore that really grew on me,” Susan Alcorn told me in 2023. The Ohio-born pedal steel guitarist was living in Texas in 2004 when she began performing in the city.

Always capable of improvisation, his earlier band work was hardly set in stone but did tend to a written guitar structure, which he refers to as “refined jamming.” Not really one for the flash ...