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Ax Vault Store Featuring Manuel Rodriguez Guitars Up To 40% Off For Limited Time
May 20, 2013
Ax Vault has teamed up with Rodriguez Guitars to bring you exquisite instruments at absurdly low prices. We currently have access to a portion of the renowned luthier’s “B Stock,” a collection of acoustic and acoustic/electric guitars that, because of minor cosmetic flaws, we are able to sell for a fraction of their normal cost. These [...]
Face Melter Friday 05/17/2013 | AxVault Original Media
May 17, 2013
Welcome to Face Melter Friday! Send a link to your one minute guitar (or bass) solo to axvault@gmail.com for your chance to have it featured in this weekly contest. A winner will be announced every Friday. Their solo will be featured on the site, and they will receive complementary strings of their choice. Good luck!
Ax Vault Set to Cover Summer Camp Music Festival
May 17, 2013
The Ax Vault team is gearing up for a summer of music festival coverage and our first stop is Summer Camp in Chillicothe, Illinois! The Summer Camp Music Festival is an annual event that will be returning this Memorial Day weekend to Three Sisters Park. The festival will host more than 100 bands on 7 [...]
Fender Brings the Gift to New York Children
May 10, 2013
Representatives of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, KMCMusicorp and New York music retailer Sam Ash, presented 20 student-size Fender, Applause and Jasmine brand classical-style acoustic guitars, gig bags and electronic guitar tuners to the music program at the P.S. 317Q Waterside Children’s Studio School in Queens, New York. The school suffered significant losses due to Hurricane Sandy and funds are not currently available to completely [...]
Gibson Guitar Becomes Largest Shareholder of TEAC
May 10, 2013
TOKYO & NASHVILLE, Tenn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Gibson Guitar Corp., (“Gibson”), the world’s premier musical instrument manufacturer, today announced the successful completion of a tender offer through a special purpose company for 54.6% of the issued and outstanding shares of Japan’s TEAC CORPORATION (“TEAC”) (TSE:6803), a recognized trailblazer in the audio visual industry. TEAC is one of [...]
PRS Guitars Partners with Reforestation Program in Brazil
May 7, 2013
Paul Reed Smith Guitars is partnering with the Monte Pascoal Pau Brasil Ecological Corridor project (MPPB-EC). Through reforestation and restoration of native ecosystems, the MPPB-EC initiative aims to establish a biodiversity corridor that will join two large sections of Atlantic Forest in Brazil – an important global biodiversity site. It is planned that more than [...]
Let the Good Times Grohl: Dave Grohl Talks ‘Sound City: Real to Reel’
May 6, 2013
Dave Grohl discusses his star-studded multimedia celebration of rock’s former glory with Guitar World. Check out the article here and watch the trailer for Sound City below.
Slayer Guitarist Jeff Hanneman Dead at 49
May 3, 2013
Just over two years after contracting a rare skin tissue disease, Slayer guitarist and songwriter Jeff Hanneman died on Thursday from liver failure at Hemet Valley Medical Center, near his home in Southern California’s Inland Empire area. Slayer made the news public on Thursday afternoon, announcing that the band “is devastated” and calling Hanneman, who [...]
Rare and Vintage Big Name Guitars Gross $1.13+ Million at Auction
May 1, 2013
Heritage Auction’s Musical Instruments Signature® Auction was held in conjunction with the Dallas International Guitar Festival on April 20 in Texas. Among numerous lots of acoustic and electric guitars was a rare 1960 Gibson Les Paul Standard Sunburst Solid Body Electric Guitar that sold for $134,500. “We work hard to offer exemplary instruments to passionate [...]
AxVault Back from MusikMesse- The German NAMM- We have great interview lots of cool guitars-PRS,Gibsons Head Luthier, Whitesnake Erik Johnson and more
April 16, 2013
AxVault is just back from MusikMesse, German NAMM, in Frankfurt Germany: Great place. The Hall is huge and Germans really friendly and great people. We have around 40 video interview and product demos with our new host Rebecca. Erik Johnson, Gibson’s Head Luthier and Guitarist for Alice Cooper [...]
Bob Zildjian And The End Of An Era
March 28, 2013
In Memoriam – Robert Zildjian Robert “Bob” Zildjian, founder of the Sabian Cymbal Company and a prominent figure in the global percussion industry for six decades, died on March 27 at his home in Brunswick, Maine after a brief battle with cancer. He was 89 years old. Endowed with a sharp intellect and a [...]
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