Are you ready for Planet Botch - the cult guitar mag?... No, neither am I, so this is only a mock-up cover, made with apologies to all wh...

In the land of Rick it's not black and sunburst - it's Jetglo and Fireglo. Everything about these beautifully-crafted, cellulose-f...

With huge success, in 1989 the long-time rock guitarist and singer Gary Moore made a dramatic decision to dump heavy metal and pitch head ...

Even the promotional giveaway audio cassettes from Total Accuracy came with a high quality chrome tape formulation. This 1993 promo feature...

The Internet is heavily driven by populist themes. So if your interests have often strayed outside the mainstream, you may have struggled ...

Recording and mixing a musical composition is often underestimated as a task, with the emphasis placed on the musicians rather than the re...

In the finest of music biz stories, there comes a point at which the hand of commerce takes over, the essence of the initial excitement go...

Any UK dwellers old enough to remember a mid 1980s alt comedy show called Who Dares Wins , may recall a clever and well played sketch in w...

Ah, that enduring slogan… How much can you remember? Was the BPI’s infamous anti-piracy campaign a ’70s thing? An ’80s thing? Was the slo...

Whilst, through history, there’s been a tendency for some musicians to look down on reggae, the style remains one of the most difficult fo...

Okay, so you’ve probably seen the title, suspected it was empty clickbait, and taken a look just to marvel at the audacity of the post. Bu...

Whether or not punk rock’s guitar style had a definite beginning is open to lively debate. And for good reason. The punk genre might have ...

Before the market for music tuition was revolutionised by free options online, it was possible for many local and decidedly average musici...

Have you ever experienced a situation in which you’ve had a “flash of inspiration”, envisioned an almost complete musical idea out of now...

The electric guitar has been one stronghold of pre-digital technology which refuses to die. Just as video killed the radio star, digital ...

Over on Twirpz , I’ve done quite a few articles about Twitter and its out-of-control ‘marketing’, and Twirpz is where I normally keep my Twi...

We all get stuck in a rut at some time or other, and let’s face it, there’s a lot of advice on how to dig yourself out. Unfortunately tho...

I wonder how many musicians reading this will have heard of a band called Eggs Over Easy? They’re not widely mentioned today, but, even thou...

Above: 1980s stuff. Some of it was quite good. What a decade it was. The period between 1980 and 1990 was full of so many great developm...

In the history of popular music, there’s never really been anything else like FM. Frequency Modulation , brought to the mass market by Ya...