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The mythology surrounding Pink Floyd has only grown over the years since the band’s demise. Floyd charted new territories in rock music during their run, pioneering certain aspects of psychedelic music and more or less inventing the progressive sound sometimes called space rock.

Fan of Conan? Dig kids? Feeling the blues? Support music education? Then you will love this eight-minute plus clip of … Continued

Name some legendary guitarists, and photographer Robert Knight has probably shot them at some point during his prolific career. Jimi Hendrix. Eric Clapton. Joe Perry. All of them have appeared in Knight’s lens. For the past year, Knight has focused much of his efforts on finding the rock stars of tomorrow with his latest project, the Brotherhood of the Guitar.

The meaning behind song titles can be obvious, but it can also be entirely cryptic, leaving listeners puzzled and intrigued. We dug through hundreds of songs looking for titles found nowhere in the lyrics and looking for the back-story on how these unsung titles came to be. There are quite a lot of them, actually, and you’ll be surprised to learn where some of the names came from.

Red Sox Hall of Famer Jim Rice holding one of the custom-designed guitar next to the two Red Sox World … Continued

Let’s Big Happy, a new scripted web series from Fox Digital Entertainment, released its sixth episode on Thursday. Watch the … Continued

Fender is saddened to learn of the passing of instrument amplification pioneer Jim Marshall, 88. Marshall, a drummer and drum … Continued

Everyone has seen the many top-guitarist lists touted by magazines, TV shows and various websites. Most people can even name several if not most of the players appearing in these often-predictable lists. For a change of pace then, we’ve compiled a list of ten cutting-edge guitarists — from up-and-comers to seasoned pros who aren’t widely known by name — whose names rarely appear on the usual top-gun lists, but whose talents nonetheless merit widespread recognition as we see (and hear) it.

Avon Lake, Ohio artist Judy Kean is currently working on a 10-foot tall Fender Stratocaster for this year’s GuitarMania project. … Continued

Let’s Big Happy, a new scripted web series from Fox Digital Entertainment, will launch March 28 on Myspace and a … Continued