From Green Day to Eric Clapton, meet the Taylor acoustic guitar you didn't know was responsible for some of the biggest songs in the world

Rob Cavallo's Taylor was dubbed Excalibur by Billie Joe Armstrong and has been making hit songs for nearly 30 years ...
The Swarthmore Phoenix

How To Do Things You Suck At: Lesson One

Welcome to “How To Do Things You Suck At,” every Swattie’s go-to guide on how to try something new and (eventually) succeed in it. Want to learn how to ...
IEEE

A Deep Learning-Based Modeling of a 270 V-to-28 V DC-DC Converter Used in More Electric Aircrafts

Abstract: This article presents a novel approach for black-box modeling of 270 V-to-28 V dc–dc step-down converters used in more electric aircrafts. These converters normally feed constant power loads ...

Louise Wener of Sleeper: 'To write about things explicitly wasn’t the Britpop way'

After spending much of last year doing “loads” of acoustic shows, Louise Wener is looking forward to plugging in her electric ...

Ricky Byrd on charged encounters onstage with Joan Jett and how Jeff Beck turned him onto smaller amps

With his new solo album, NYC Made, out now, the former Blackheart checks in to talk first and favorite guitars – and ...
Guitar World on MSN

7 guitarists you didn't know started on an acoustic guitar

From Alex Lifeson to Peter Frampton, Mark Morton to Michael Schenker, we share the stories of famous guitarists' first ...