Every January, NAMM (the National Association of Music Merchants) converges on Anaheim, drawing more than 75,000 attendees to ...

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Pipe Sweat's lead vocalist and frontman Jeff Scherer, 62, a former Times Union graphic artist, leans into "I Can't Explain" ...

The guitarist didn’t have the gear but he had the chops, and that was all that really mattered ...

I like those end-of-year list columns. This year it occurred to me: “Hey, Markus, YOU have a column! How about you make one of those lists?” Okay. Here’s my three favorite history books I read this ...

On a recent afternoon in Pioneer Square, Emerald City Guitars owner Trevor Boone showed off a 1959 Gibson Les Paul — a model considered by many to be the Holy Grail of electric guitars. When it rolled ...

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In 2007, Jayson Dobney, an Iowan with a master’s degree in the history of musical instruments, from the University of South Dakota, moved to New York to be a curator in the department of musical ...

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Jeff Beck’s guitars made music history throughout his nearly 60-year career—and now one of his axes has done the same thing on the auction block. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer’s 1954 “Oxblood” Gibson ...