Finland-based Flaxwood is taking its models to a higher level by migrating all of its guitars to Elixir® Strings.

Hey, Allen Krantz admits it. He started playing the guitar to get girls. He was a teenager, rock bands were cool and, well, the guitarist in the band was really cool.But eventually, the rock band made way for another love: classical music."I had taken piano and violin lessons when I was a kid, so cl...

Blackbird's Rider Nylon guitar is actually not made of nylon—ok its strings are—but instead it's far more highly-tech'd and its body and neck are actually carbon fiber. It may not be...

For those who grew up in the 1960s, the sound of the “jingly-jangly” 12-string electric guitar of Roger (nee Jim) McGuinn and the Byrds has always been a quintessential Southern California sound.

?Chinese Democracy? is the Titanic ship of rock albums: It?s outsize, lavish, obsessive, technologically advanced and, all too clearly, the end of an era.

Last Saturday evening at Benaroya, the Seattle Classic Guitar Society presented the second installment of their International Concert Series with a solo recital by the famed Uruguayan guitarist, Eduardo Fernández . Now in his mid-fifties, Fernández has established a reputation for being a musician’s musician, and we were eager to finally see this great musician in a live concert. With the ...

Beauty eases the passage of a bitter pill , and no medicine stings like time's slow advance.

Music for Everyone will do more than take the stage tonight: They'll make the stage.The nonprofit group will host a live Music Friday event at the Ad Lib Cafe, 51 N. Market St., that will feature performances by students from several area schools. To say the group is excited about the show would...

Gil Fuller-- Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra (2008).