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It is officially summer and it’s another somewhat quiet week in Indie Basement as we’re nestled in between two holiday weekends. I review four new records: Beth Orton‘s The Ground Above; the debut ...

This worn guitar has some curious scratch marks around the sound hole, the result of its owner’s distinctive way of playing. She was left-handed but always played a regular right-handed guitar, ...

The author of German Jazz Guitars shares the country's proud history of archtop design – and questions whether the classic ...

Whilst Lemmy loved a host of musicians, for him, The Who bassist, John Entwistle was his favourite to ever pick up the ...

The bass guitar is the unassuming thunder that gives rock music its indispensable power and undeniable swagger. It is the hidden genius of the rhythm section, tasked with doing far more than simply ...

More than 50 years later, it still hurts. "It felt like the worst moment of my life," says Ian Horne, remembering the morning in October 1972 when, aged 25, he realised he had just lost one of the ...

Dogged detective work tracked down the instrument that had vanished more than 50 years ago, but the true story behind its theft injects a note of sadness It sometimes feels as if a week doesn’t go by ...

To be fully transparent, this was initially going to be a very different essay. I first set out to chronicle Joni Mitchell’s transformation from a folk visionary to a jazz voyager; a story of ...

This article originally appeared in Issue 7 of Crawdaddy in December, 1966. A major source of innovation in any art is external influences, influences derived from widespread, eclectic origins outside ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Guitar music is a ubiquitous feature of popular music, ...