When Leo Fender and his colleagues launched the first Fender solid-body electric guitar in 1950, almost everyone who saw it thought he’d gone mad. Fender’s early amplifiers were good, but a solid-body ...

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When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Jon Pareles THE BIRTH OF LOUD Leo Fender, Les Paul, and the Guitar-Pioneering Rivalry That Shaped ...

It’s rare today to find a guitar with totally unique functionality and design, especially one that isn’t a cheesy novelty. Fender is really offering something special with their new Acoustasonic, a ...

ELECTRIC GUITAR WEEK: The Fender Esquire represents a historic turning point in guitar evolution. Essentially a single pickup variant of the Telecaster (although some very rare, early dual-pickup ...

Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month this April with a look at five of the most exciting electric guitars at the National Museum of American History. Megan Salocks April is an important month for the ...

The company that makes the guitars that have graced some of the biggest stars of rock and pop -- including The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton -- has filed for a public stock offering worth ...

It is the wood that the rock greats have sworn by—swamp ash, in the form of their Fender Telecaster and Stratocaster guitars—for more than 70 years. If you have ever listened to rock, you have ...