http://youtu.be/OSqfwjcS0Nw 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 [...]

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 stages [...]

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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 rebuild [...]

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 [...]

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By Damian Fanelli and Josh Hart of Guitar World . For all the audio wizardry made possible by effect pedals, nothing quite rivals the expression allowed by a great wah pedal. Originally intended to mimic the sound of a muted trumpet, it didn’t take long for guitarists like Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa to make that sweet, sweeping [...]

Tim Lambesis, lead singer of Christian metal outfit, As I Lay Dying , was arrested in Southern California on Tuesday (May 7) for allegedly hiring an undercover detective to kill his estranged wife. Lambesis, 32, was charged with Solicitation of Another to Commit Murder. Lambesis’s wife had filed papers for divorce this past September. “The information came to us late [...]

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 [...]

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.
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