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The new Fender Pawn Shop Series. Two Fender ’72 guitars (front and far left) and two Fender ’51 guitars (far right) flank two Mustang Special guitars. Fender is proud to continue its long tradition of innovation by introducing the new Pawn Shop Series guitars—the Fender ’51, Fender ’72 and Mustang® Special. These instruments draw inspiration from the eccentric and sometimes...

Those Grammy-winnin' kings of sensitive-and-intellectual indie-rock, Death Cab for Cutie, have themselves a a new album named Codes and Keys. It's out May 31. And, if you listen to the Death Cabbers themselves, it's not a 'guitar-centric' record at all, and, like Transatlanticism and Narrow Stairs, was assembled with an experimental, Eno-influenced approach. To go with their new record, Death...

Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax are collectively known as thrash’s Big Four – the cornerstones upon which the entire thrash movement is built, and the compass one uses to orient oneself when navigating the turbulent waters of that aggressive, precise, angry, powerful metal variant. But thrash does not begin and end with those four bands. For each one of the...

IK Multimedia introduces AmpliTube® Fender™ for iPhone®, iPod touch and iPad: full featured tone guitar rig apps with built-in recording studios offering the legendary Fender tone designed and developed in close cooperation with Fender. The AmpliTube Fender™ app, at its core, is all about pure Fender® tone. It was developed with careful guidance and critical tone testing from the tone...

By Seymour Duncan Guru Scott Miller Have you ever tried to solder to the back of a volume pot, only to watch the joint pop off like a champagne cork? Though we may not want to admit it, we’ve all had them: bad solder joints. A good solder joint should look nice and shiny. A bad solder joint will look...