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Collecting Music Is Back, Just Harder Than Ever
Evolver.fm
First we collected music objects, then we hoarded MP3s to the point that many of our computers' music collections became so huge and labyrinthine as to become almost useless.

UK rock station, Planet Rock has found that Bob Dylan's song "All along the Watchtower" covered by Jimi Hendrix Experience is the greatest rock cover song of all time.

The Guardian
Hugh Laurie: 'There's a sensual pleasure involved in making music that I just ...

Ultimate-Guitar.Com Fender Custom Shop Passes Rich Tradition To Next Generation Ultimate-Guitar.Com Ybarra came to Fender in 1956 and in 1958 began hand-winding and hand-building guitar pickups for the fledgling Southern California musical...

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Coolest Gadgets
Some of us just have this natural tendency to jam with the rest of like minded folks in a band, while others do not have the luxury of doing so.

The Guardian Google celebrates Ella Fitzgerald with doodle on 96th birthday The Guardian Ella Fitzgerald, whose great vocal range and perfect pitch won her the monikers 'the first lady of song' and 'the queen of jazz', has been commemorated in a...

Conspiracy theorists of the world believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati we skeptics owe you an apology You were right The players may be a little different but your basic premise is correct The world is...

Ultimate-Guitar.Com
Musikmesse 2013: Guitar Highlights
Ultimate-Guitar.Com
Musikmesse is Europe's premier music event, and we've been hunting out the showroom floor to bring you this gallery of new guitars and amps.

In this tutorial, we will use Photoshop and Illustrator to create words out of intertwining guitar strings.

In 1970 a country still reeling from Vietnam the Kennedy and King assassinations and the Manson murders was ready for something calm and introspective Into that void appeared James Taylor's second album Sweet Baby James one of the landmarks of the...

Miranda Lambert has a penchant for bringing home strays.

Boston Globe Little Boots follows her pop instincts Boston Globe Flash-forward two decades, past an unsuccessful audition for “Pop Idol” as a teen — “I didn't really know anything about the music industry or how things worked and where to send a...

New York Daily News
The great and powerful guitar solo returns In the past few weeks , Madison ...

Zooey Deschanel and her She & Him bandmate Matthew 'M' Ward are "like 21st century pen pals'..

WINNER OF THE WEEK Mud Oh I know I'm supposed to say Disney After all Iron Man 3 just pulled off the second-biggest domestic opening weekend ever an estimated $1753 million second only to the $2074 million premiere of last year's fellow Marvel...

Few guitars throughout history are as elegant, distinguished and iconic as the Gretsch White Falcon, a full-bodied behemoth once characterized by Guitar World’s own Alan di Perna as “the indisputable gold-trimmed Cadillac Coupe DeVille of the...

A new documentary about Amy Winehouse will feature previously unseen footage of the singer who died in 2011 of alcohol poisoning The still-untitled movie will be directed by Asif Kapadia who won a British Academy of Film award for his 2010 picture...

Jennifer Love Hewitt is rumored to be in the running to join The X Factor US judging panel.

Kat Von D reveals her and musician fiancé Deadmau5’s wedding will have an underwater theme and only 200 of their loved ones will be in attendance.

Matlock Today
Guitar virtuoso to play acoustic gig
Matlock Today
Described as a prodigy, at 14 Chantel was told by some major labels “great voice, but girls don't play guitar like that!”.

After years of work Crosby Stills Nash and Young are finally gearing up to release a live album from their 1974 reunion tour "It's going to come out August 27th" Graham Nash tells Rolling Stone "It's going to fuckin' stun people We only...

Selena Gomez was so shocked when Brad Pitt asked to meet her at the MTV Movie Awards she sought shelter under a table.