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Fender Front Row
Read the Fender Front Row blog for updates on our products, artists and events, such as the partnership between the Fender Custom Shop and Toyota to build the Tundra Hot Rod.
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Team Fender Enters the Baja 1000
Fender Custom Shop director Mike Eldred needs your backing as he gears up for the perilous Baja 1000, an off-road race that takes place on Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula Nov. 19-22.
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Q&A with Cobra Starship's Alex Suarez
Sometimes you just can’t fit all the interesting tidbits that come up in an interview into a feature story. So here's some more juicy tidbits from Cobra Starship bassist Alex Suarez.
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Plugged In: Moneen
If you already know about Canada-based rock band Moneen, here's your chance to get caught up with the them. If you don't, then it's time to plug in and given them a listen.
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Want to be Heard?
Teen bands across the country are invited to step onto the stage to compete in the first-ever SchoolJam USA.
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Fender Concert Series: Tony Houston
As part of our Fender Concert Series, we invited readers of Fender News to tell us about their first, best, worst or just overall most memorable ever concert. Check out our latest entry...
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Fender Concert Series: Dan B. from NY
As part of our Fender Concert Series, we invited readers of Fender News to tell us about their first, best, worst or just overall most memorable ever concert. Check out our latest entry...
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Les Paul, 1915-2009
It is with great sadness and respect that Fender notes the passing of a dear and longtime friend and a true giant of the electric guitar ...
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Tyler Bryant
Strat® guitar-wielding 18-year-old Texas guitar phenom is riding high these days ...
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VM and Vigor
Fender’s new Vintage Modified amps deliver classic sound and modern versatility ...
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Duff McKagan
A Q&A with the the Velvet Revolver bassist and one of Fender’s latest bass signature artists …
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Glen Matlock
The Sex Pistols bassist/songwriter on the filth, the fury, Fender and 30 years (!) of Never Mind the Bollocks ...
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Fender Employee Serves as Gin Blossoms' Roadie
In mid-November, Fender vice president of organizational development Chris Suffolk lived out the chance of a lifetime as a roadie for his longtime favorite band Gin Blossoms. Suffolk let us in on his journey with daily updates in the Fender Front Row blog. Now that the trip is in the books, here's his complete journal.
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John 5 Always Prepared
With a massive resume that lists working with Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie, Meat Loaf, David Lee Roth, K.D. Lang, Robin Zander, Rick Springfield, Filter and so forth, one can only imagine the countless unforgettable moments that guitarist John 5 has experienced in his professional career.
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Cobra Starship Takes Off
Cobra Starship bassist Alex Suarez planned to spend his life cooking up gourmet dishes at his own restaurant in Florida. Instead, he moved to New York, joined two bands and now finds himself spending most of his time on a tour bus.
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The Beatles Big Releases
Video game sensation Rock Band: The Beatles™ and the band’s long-awaited re-mastered catalog hit the shelves. Here's a quick look at both, plus a look at the Fender gear used by the world's biggest band ...
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Status Quo Doesn’t Cut it for Kramer
While recently visiting Fender headquarters in Scottsdale, Ariz., Wayne Kramer just can’t stop himself from picking up and playing an acoustic guitar that he spots perched against a nearby desk.
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Plugged In: Hey Monday
Plugged In will be an ongoing feature on Fender.com, highlighting Fender artists who we strongly recommend you "plug in" and give a listen. Hey Monday, a female-fronted pop rock sensation out of West Palm, Fla., is first up.
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New Name, New Sound for Aly & AJ
With a string of movies ahead, a new band name and a soon-to-be-released album on the horizon, sisters Aly and AJ Michalka are taking it easy at home in Calabasas, Calif., and enjoying the calm before the storm whenFender News catches up with the ultra-talented actresses/musicians.
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Hopper Writes How-To for Girls
Jessica Hopper authored The Girls Guide to Rocking, a recently published how-to book that covers how to start a band, book gigs and get rolling to rock stardom.
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The Adventures of AutoVaughn
Take a look at the debut blog for AutoVaughn, winners of our Road Worn competition. This entry is brought to you by AutoVaughn's lead singer, Darren Edwards.
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Woodstock & the Blues
Woodstock. Peace, love and ... the blues? As much as Woodstock was the sound of the modern rock being heard on FM dials and in album form, it was also a sound heavily reliant on the blues. Acts that shaped Woodstock were creating a new form of expression rooted not in psychedelia, but in black American music from Mississippi, Chicago and Texas that was decades old.
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Woodstock's Guitar Heroes
The dominant instrument at Woodstock was the guitar, both acoustic and electric. The festival gave birth to new guitar heroes (Johnny Winter, Carlos Santana), provided a stage for established heroes with new projects (Jimi Hendrix's new band, Pete Townshend and "Tommy") and caught several acts at their absolute pinnacle (Jefferson Airplane, Sly and the Family Stone). Here is a collection of snapshots of the guitar heroes who performed at Woodstock and where they were in their careers 40 years ago.
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Leo Fender at 100
Monday, Aug. 10, 2009, marks the 100th birthday of Leo Fender (1909-1991). Here we present an essay on Fender’s founder and a legacy that, a century after his birth, is stronger than ever ...
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Woodstock: Cultural Legacy
Utopian ideals governed the three days of the Woodstock Arts and Music Festival in a manner the American public had never before witnessed.
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VonderHaar Chooses Music Over Modeling
You may have seen her work in print—as a professional photographer, she’s had her shots featured in Forbes magazine—or her face on national television as a contestant on America’s Next Top Model (Cycle 8). But now Sarah VonderHaar is bearing her soul through her music.
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Coming Full Circle
When Fender bassist Annie Clements first received a phone call and audition invite from Kristian Bush of Sugarland back in February 2006, the only song the former member of the southern blues rock band Son of Williams had for a reference point was Jennifer Nettles' “Who Says You Can’t Go Home” duet with Bon Jovi.
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Air Guitar Tips
Anyone who has ever traveled the friendly skies with a guitar should watch Dave Carroll’s four-minute and 37-second “United Breaks Guitar” lament. Posted on YouTube on July 6, the tune has received over 3 million views.
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Meet AutoVaughn
Winners of Fender’s Road Worn Competition and thus collectors of a $50,000 prize package, AutoVaughn is a Nashville based indie punk rock band consisting of four young men with Indiana and Ohio roots... Meet lead vocalist and guitarist Darren Edwards, vocalist and lead guitarist Stephen Wilson, bassist Ben Graham and drummer Andy Grooms. Better yet, get to really know them in this in-depth Fender.com exclusive feature.
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Fourth of July Tunes
With the holiday right around the corner, we thought it was a good time to offer up our Top Ten Fourth of July Tunes.
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Anthrax Anecdotes: Tour Buses
Fender signature bass player Frank Bello is back on the road with New York City-based thrash metal band Anthrax. Currently in the middle of a European tour, Anthrax returns stateside later this summer to tour with Slipknot. Throughout the summer, Bello has generously agreed to share his road journal with us in his blog, Anthrax Anecdotes. In his latest entry, Bello gripes about tour bus breakdowns.
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Anthrax Anecdotes: Issues
Fender signature bass player Frank Bello is back on the road with New York City-based thrash metal band Anthrax. Currently in the middle of a European tour, Anthrax returns stateside later this summer to tour with Slipknot. Throughout the summer, Bello has generously agreed to share his road journal with us in his blog, Anthrax Anecdotes. Enjoy his first entry!
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Iron Maiden's Flight 666 Soars to the Top
Iron Maiden might be on official hiatus right now, but the English heavy metal band is still shredding the charts as Flight 666 has soared to the number-one spot on music DVD charts in 22 countries, including the United States and the U.K. ...
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The Who’s Maximum R&B Live Deluxe Limited Edition Now Available
The Who’s 1994 Maximum R&B Live DVD served as a video timeline of the group’s career, with more than a dozen explosive performances spanning 30 years. Now, the April 2009 release of the Maximum R&B Live Deluxe Limited Edition brings the band’s “amazing journey” to life even more vividly. And loudly ...
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Nashville’s AutoVaughn Wins Fender Road Worn Competition
Tennessee alt/indie rock quartet AutoVaughn scores a major road win as the victor in the Fender Road Worn Competition—the band will soon hit the road with $50,000 in prizes, including a customized Toyota truck and trailer loaded with Fender Road Worn instruments ...
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Jeff Beck Inducted Into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Fender congratulates Jeff Beck on his April 4 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The honor comes amid a flurry of recent activity for the legendary guitarist, who is in the midst of a busy worldwide tour and who also has a just-released DVD ...
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Fender’s “Accidental” Guitar at 50
A report from the Jazzmaster® 50th anniversary party on Friday, Sept. 12, 2008, at New York's famed Knitting Factory, which featured guitar greats Tom Verlaine (pictured), Nels Cline, Thurston Moore, Lee Ranaldo, J Mascis and others ...
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Fender University Spring Session
From March 4 to 9, ten eager students and a stellar “Fender faculty” gathered in Corona, Calif., for the second Fender University educational program. What ensued was an unforgettable week ...
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Billy Corgan
Smashing Pumpkins leader Billy Corgan, one of alt-rock guitar's most articulate founding fathers, sits down with us for a detailed Q&A about his his smashing new signature Stratocaster® guitar …
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Elvis Costello Q&A
Master pop craftsman Elvis Costello talks about his new signature Fender Jazzmaster® guitar and the original it’s based on …
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Yngwie Malmsteen Tribute Series Stratocaster!
November 2008 sees the 100-instrument limited edition release of the eagerly awaited Fender Custom Shop Yngwie Malmsteen Tribute Series Stratocaster® guitar model, along with an online giveaway of one of the amazing instruments ...
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