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Whether you’re after a hand in home renovating, a quick path to tinnitus or a surefire way to sour your marriage and estrange your neighbors, this Fender guitar pedal designed by My Bloody Valentine’s sonic mastermind Kevin Shields may be able to help…. Continue reading The guitar pedal that threatens to bring the house down, literally
Like Fender’s Parallel Universe guitars, the Squier Paranormal series explores bizarre model combinations and “what if?” oddities, but at more budget-friendly price points. The latest release includes a 12-string Jazzmaster, a Strat with Gibson appoint… Continue reading Fender goes oddball on a budget with Squier Paranormal guitars
Eddie Van Halen was more than just a keyboard player. He was also pretty good at guitar, and throughout his long career, he proved himself an extraordinary technical innovator. Frequently, these innovations were extremely violent. He’d attack a guitar … Continue reading Review: EVH Wolfgang Special is a catalogue of Eddie’s brilliant ideas
While the history of these things gets pretty murky, most folk seem to agree on a few things about gold foils: firstly, they hit the market around the middle of the 20th century, embedded in cheap guitars from Harmony and Teisco. Secondly, they’ve got … Continue reading Foiled again: We’ve been playing Fender’s new gold-foil Telecaster
Leo Fender might not have been a guitarist, but he was a hell of an inventor, and the guitars he designed in the early 50s have resonated through the years in ways that are hard to imagine happening in any other business. Telecaster, Stratocaster, Prec… Continue reading Review: Fender turns back the clock with American Vintage II 57 Strat
Styled similarly to the older Jazzmaster model, the favored underdog of artists like Kurt Cobain, Tom Verlaine, J Mascis and John Frusciante has now reached its 60th birthday and Fender is celebrating with two new Jaguar guitars.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading Fender celebrates offset underdog with 60th Anniversary Jaguar
Following in the creative footsteps of the Old Growth Strat, the Front Row Legend Esquire and the 80 Proof Blues Junior, Fender has now used wood reclaimed from a famed Toronto nightclub for a pair of limited edition guitars by Custom Shop Master Build… Continue reading Fender treads the boards for latest Custom Shop reclaimed wood guitars
Fender has released an ultra-versatile new guitar and bass into its Player Plus series. The Meteora HH will split opinions with its out-there, asymmetrical looks, but its all-new “Fireball” pickup system feels like an absolute classic in the making.Con… Continue reading Meteora HH review: Fender’s expressive, dynamic, versatile new guitar
Toward the beginning of 2019, Fender introduced a new take on the electro-acoustic guitar called the Acoustasonic Telecaster that was presented as an “acoustic, electric and everything in between.” Stratocaster and Jazzmaster flavors followed, and now … Continue reading Fender tempts more players to its Acoustasonic universe with Player Tele
For the last few years, Fender Custom Shop’s Principal Master Builder Yuriy Shishkov has impressed us with stunning guitar creations like the Kodak-inspired Studioliner, the Fabergé-tastic Coronation Strat, and most recently a gorgeous turntable based … Continue reading Fender launches beautiful Telecaster inspired by 300-year-old Stradivarius