Music News from Around the World

Turtle Bay Resort will now be offering C.F. Martin products at their newly renovated facility in Oahu, Hawaii.

Julien's Auctions kicked off their Music Icons 2013 auctions with a rare Vox Guitar played by both John Lennon and George Harrison.

Ray Manzarek, along with Jim Morrison, Robby Krieger, and John Densmore was a founding member of The Doors. He has passed away at the age of 74.

New College Nottingham (NCN) is under attack by education campaigners for offering a two-year heavy metal degree.

Here is a quick video tour of Fender's Acoustic Custom Shop facility in New Hartford Connecticut.

Fender honors Eric Clapton’s 21st studio album "Old Sock" by giving away the ultimate Clapton fan prize package.

Orange is giving away two Dark Terror Amplifiers to lucky fans, and throws in a Micro Terror amp as an extra prize.

Luke Tarrant is awarded by the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance as the 2013 Higher Diploma Guitar Scholarship winner.

Schecter Guitar research goes back into producing custom wound pickups for 6-string, 7-string and 8-string guitars.

Fender launches the Jimi Hendrix exhibit, a special section of the Fender Visitor Center that features Hendrix memorabilia.

Help Eastwood Guitars find and recreate the World's Ugliest Guitar, from among some odd looking vintage instruments.

Gibson intervenes on a guitar travel mishap, where a vintage gutiar was broken by Delta Airlines' baggage handlers.

Fender decided to suspend the manufacturing of instruments under the popular Hamer guitar brand, indefinitely.

Fender opened their first Custom Shop showroom in Mexico City on December 4, 2012, in partnership with Holocausto.

The Orange Signature #4 Jim Root Terror Head is awarded the Total Guitar: Amplifier of The Year Award at the recently held MIA Awards.

Eric Clapton announced a major U.S. tour culminating into the fourth Crossroads Guitar Festival, where iconic guitar players will play and jam.

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Jaguar guitar, Fender shares the history of the guitar in detail.

Get a chance to win a complete guitar or bass rig by joining the Dunlop Rocktober 2012 Giveaway.

Godin Guitars team up with Arcade Fire band and fellow Montrealers to continue their charity work for the country of Haiti.

Great news if you want to build your own guitar, Guitarfetish recently bought a warehouse worth of abandoned guitar parts that they are now selling for cheap.

Velocity Books brings us Randy Rhoads, a book that shows the life story of this phenomenal guitar player in vivid detail.

Guitarion is a mechanical string "picker" that allows hemiplegics, people with unilateral (one side of the body) paralysis, to play the guitar with just one unaffected hand.

Dunlop gives you a chance to win one of the two Kala Solid Acacia Ukuleles that are hand painted by Dirty Donny Gillies.

Gibson entered into a criminal enforcement agreement with the US Department of Justice, effectively admitting their Lacey Act violations.

After two months of testing, a La Trobe University researcher finds that electric guitar sound is unaffected by the body of the instrument.