Now, I must admit that I’m not that familiar with the band Muse or its guitarist, Matt Bellamy. But, as they say in the mob, “I hear good tings. Good tings.” Matt is a widely recognized guitarist, having been recognized for various things by Total Guitar, Kerang!, NME magazine, Planet Rock, and even, ahem, Cosmopolitan. [...]

Oy. It’s happened again. Guess who showed up on the back of a guitar headstock? That’s right. Jesus! Joe Lepore said he made a guitar recently and about four days after he finished, a mysterious image suddenly appeared. He said you can see Jesus. “I started looking at it and I’m like hey, there’s something [...]

Anvil! The Story of Anvil is a documentary I’ve posted about before and finally got a chance to see this weekend in New York. The documentary follows Steve “Lips” Kudlow and Robb Reiner, founders of the heavy-metal band Anvil, as they try to achieve rockstardom with a European tour and release of their 13th album. [...]

Ernie Hawkens over at acousticguitar.com has written a wonderfully detailed introductory lesson about the guitar work of the Reverend Gary Davis, a master of the so-called “Piedmont” style of fingerpicking. He’s posted plenty of printable tabs with MP3′s in addition to several videos. One of the first tunes I ever learned on the guitar was [...]

Nice long article on Slayer recording their 10th album over at rollingstone.com: Some things can be counted on at a Slayer recording session. “Can I interest you in something fast and aggressive?” asks producer Greg Fidelman. He’s sitting beside guitarist Kerry King at the Pass Studios in Los Angeles, where Slayer are working on a [...]

A Swedish court today ruled Pirate Bay founders Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, and Carl Lundstrom guilty of helping others to commit copyright infringement. Pirate Bay is a website where registered users can search a database of downloadable torrent files not hosted on the site. “BitTorrent” is a peer-to-peer file-sharing  protocol that allows [...]

Perhaps I’m a little behind-the-times, but I just discovered the website ReverbNation.com, which allows you to post music and easily share it on, oh, I don’t know, say a BLOG. I’ve posted a bunch of my tunes there, which are now accesible from the Guitarbalooga About Page, for anyone who is interested.

Lee Ranaldo is a guitar player and co-founder of the band Sonic Youth. While on tour in 1999, someone stole a Ryder truck containing all of the band’s equipment. A complete list of the stolen equipment is here. The official story appears on a write up on the band’s web site for their CD, A [...]

Friends, this is likely the most important Guitarbalooga post ever. EVH branded sneakers are now for sale on EVHGear.com! Unfortunately, they were out of stock when I tried to order. But that does not deter me. I will have these sneakers. Oh, yes. I will. Update: Apr. 15, 2009 $65 dollars later, I’m proud to [...]

Chaconne Klaverenga is a 16-year-old award-winning guitarist from Lafayette, IN who is better than you and me put together. She has been a featured soloist for several classical guitar societies and has won numerous guitar competitions including: Society of American Musicians Classical Guitar Competition, Senior Division in Chicago, IL Rantucci International Classical Guitar Competition, Youth [...]

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A rare collection of Supersound brand guitars has been found in a UK basement (yikes). Supersound guitars were made for just two years (1958 and 1959) during a collaboration between Jim Burns, who went on to form the famous Burns London, and Alan Wootton. Burns has been called the English Leo Fender and has worked [...]

UFO guitarist and long-time shredder Vinnie Moore has a new solo CD, To the Core, coming out this May 26. “The only plan I had when making this record was to do some things I have never done before,” explains Moore. “I am into many types of music and wanted to make a record where [...]

Did you know that you can buy some seriously cool guitar memorabilia at the New York Times online store? I didn’t either. My favorite is Jaco Pastorius Fingers on Bass Guitar: In this rare color photo from December 1975, an outtake from the 1976 “Jaco Pastorius” album cover photo sessions, Don Hunstein focuses on the [...]

I’ve always been interested in the punk scene that hit America in the late 70′s. One of my favorite movies of all time is Sid and Nancy, a surprisingly touching love story (mostly from hell, but you probably know what I’m driving at) about the punk scene’s most famous disaster/star The Sex Pistol’s Sid Vicious [...]