Mayer worked closely with the Fender Custom Shop to design and build his “main guitar”, but it took a bit of tweaking before it reached its playing potential ...

Last year, during his Las Vegas Sphere residency with Dead & Co., Mayer — with a little help from Joe Bonamassa — took Jeff Beck’s all-white Custom Shop Strat for a spin. Those Las Vegas shows also ...

Musician Ethan Carl will perform at Fast Eddie’s Bon Air, located 1530 E. Fourth St. in Alton, at 6 p.m. on Sunday, March 16. Ethan Carl is a singer/songwriter born and raised outside of St. Louis.

TORONTO — Alessia Cara says fear and resentment of the music industry nearly kept her from writing her latest album.

She released the album’s lead single “Dead Man” last July, and in October, the follow-up single “(Isn’t It) Obvious” arrived complete with a John Mayer ... t playing guitar; I wasn ...

Many albums from 1980 forever changed rock guitar. Here’s a look at three differing styles that helped inspire the legends that followed them.

When Nashville singer-songwriter Stephen Day began crafting his third studio record "Gold Mine," he didn't realize just how close he was to striking gold himself.

Melbourne blues / soul troubadour Shaun Kirk is returning to Aotearoa New Zealand for an absolute whopper of a nationwide tour, embarking on an adventure taking him from Auckland to Invercargill and a ...

Phillips will play the first set ... As a musician at University of California Santa Cruz, John Craigie leaned more toward then-up-and-coming singer-songwriters like John Mayer and Jack Johnson, as ...

Chuck Leavell is one of the greatest rock pianists of all time, and you might have no clue who he is. But you definitely should.

In the row behind me, a couple of seats to my right, Geraldine couldn’t believe that I’d never seen Dead & Company before.

with bassist Was playing along with other Motor City musicians Vincent Chandler, trombone; John Douglas, trumpet; Jeff Canaday, drums; Mahindi Masai, percussion; Wayne Gerard, guitar; Steffanie ...