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The acoustic guitar is a classic but old instrument, and these three artists made it cool in the era of electric guitar rock music.
Standing alone in the desert heat, the McPhaul Suspension Bridge is a haunting reminder of a forgotten route. Once an essential crossing, it's now bypassed and slowly reclaimed by the landscape. This ...
Aspiring guitar builder Jukka Sollasvaara and one of his friends have built what might just be the world’s heaviest acoustic ...
Use our acoustic guitar chord charts - from basic open chords to the daddy of altered tunings and many points between - to build your musical vocabulary and hone your own voice on the acoustic guitar.
Electricity? Overrated… ‘Real’ guitarists know that a guitar’s genuine excitement is best earned via the more personal connection of the player plus the resonant wooden body of an acoustic. Decades ...
In addition to his signature guitars, Eric also personally endorses Clapton's Choice Signature Strings—his go-to acoustic strings for both stage and studio. Designed to resist corrosion and ...
Dennis Greaves and Mark Feltham of Nine Below Zero will embark on an intimate acoustic duo tour across the UK to promote the release of ‘DENMARK – The Definitive Nine Below Zero Acoustic ...
“We put a lot of heart into this one…” Watch Electric Callboy’s stripped-back rendition of Linkin Park’s classic Hybrid Theory single Crawling. Over the weekend the band uploaded their ...
after he and his friend made what is possibly the heaviest acoustic guitar ever made. In true legendary behaviour, they “thought the idea was really funny” - which to be fair, we can’t argue with.
The Ostrava Concert Hall, designed by Steven Holl Architects, has just broken ground in the Czech Republic. Commemorating the start of construction, the concert hall “promises to be an inspiring ...
Acoustic guitars aren’t very metal. That is, until you hear the intro of Metallica’s Fade to Black, or till Black Sabbath’s Planet Caravan sparks a compulsion to turn the overdrive down and jam the ...