Events/Festivals

This event has an impressive line up of people and gear - I would go just to hear Alan Parsons talk if it wasn't for the fact that I'll be 14,558.5 Kilometers away at the time of the event.

Ampeg are running a "Straight Up Tone Competition" with a range of great prizes including an all expenses paid trip for your band to perform at Summer NAMM 2011.

In recent years the issue of protected wood species, and their use in guitar manufacturing, has become a controversial topic.

It appears Bugera would like to offer some swag to their fans, and they want you to design a T-Shirt.

Gibson have another one of their top 50 lists out - and yet again their are some interesting differences between their list and the reader's poll.

Did Steve Vai and Berkleemusic.com get the world record for the largest ever online guitar lesson?

Yes it's been 15 years since Ernie Ball first started their Battle of the Bands, and this year it's open to bands from around the world.

If you live in the USA you could win an Ibanez RG321EBK along with select swag from Atticus & Ibanez.

If you're a regular reader here, then you'll already know about the upcoming world record attempt by Steve Vai to host the world's largest ever online guitar lesson.

Late last year we brought you news that Steve Vai had joined up with Berklee College of Music to become an online guitar teacher. In what looks like being a hugely fun publicity stunt, they will attempt to host the world's largest ever online guitar lesson.

D’Addario & Swing House Studios are looking for the hottest bands and acoustic acts

Gibson Guitar is supporting the New Music Seminar, coming to Los Angeles in February. After a sold-out event in New York

Bob Taylor, co-founder of Taylor Guitars, offers strategies for success in life and business in his book Guitar Lessons: A Life's Journey Turning Passion into Business.

Ahead of the 2011 NAMM Winter convention in Anaheim, California, Taylor Guitars has assembled an all-star artist lineup

D’Addario & Company will be at NAMM Booth #4834 with their endorsees for you to meet.

Here are the results of our annual Ugly Guitar competition. In past years we've had some strange winners, but this year the winner was in some ways stranger than usual.

Premier Guitar announces its "Twelve Days of AXE-Mas" promotion which features a total of 12 guitar giveaways (six electric guitars and six acoustic guitars)

The final list of 10 nominees is now in, and you can vote on which one you think is the ugliest guitar of 2010.

Guitar Nation Live 2010, to will be held in Olympia London over the 13th and 14th of November

Alternative Press have announced a competition where they're giving you the chance to win one of 10 custom Epiphone guitars featuring Bullet For My Valentine, Mike Posner, Black Veil Brides, and A Day To Remember.

Taylor are putting out a call to all guitar heroes, having just launched their Guitar Solo Showdown Contest.

Luna Guitars have announce their "Giant NAMM Prize Pack" giving you the chance to win a trip to NAMM in LA next January, and a Vicki Genfan Signature Guitar.

It's not too often these days that a major new music gear shop comes online, but sometime in the last few days GearNuts.com appeared - they said their official launch was last Friday.

Marshall have launched one of the more exciting band competitions of late called the "Marshall Ultimate Band Contest", co-sponsored by LickLibrary

Inspired by the axe that the legendary Guns n Roses guitarist played on the multi-platinum selling "Appetite for Destruction" album, Epiphone and Slash have teamed up to bring you the Ltd Ed Slash "Appetite" Les Paul Standard Outfit.