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Victor Wooten surprised everyone yesterday when he dropped a new Bass Extremes video with Steve Bailey. The duo is joined in this clip by Tool’s Justin Chancellor on “Just-in Time,” from the upcoming album, “S’Low Down.”

We’ve been digging what Cory Wong has been doing for a while now, especially when that involves Sonny T. Stuart Clayton shared this video of him playing along to Wong’s “News to Me,” and Sonny’s awesome bass line. Dig that ’66 Fender Jazz too!

Rebecca Johnson and her band hit the stage at The Beach Club Collaroy in Sydney, Australia, in July. She shared this video from the performance this week, with the band getting down on “Shakey Ground.”

Remco Hendriks is back with another funky fretless bass experiment. In this new video, he works out his fretless Cortex bass with slides, double stops, ghost notes, lobster claw plucking, and percussive triplets.

Leland Sklar shared a video last week, sharing his performance with Tracy Chapman on The Tonight Show in 1992. “Open Arms” is such a fantastic song made even sweeter by Lee’s tasty lines.

News from the rescheduled NAMM Show continued to roll in to July, which made for plenty of stories. Here are the top 10 reader favorite bass gear stories for the month.

This week, Brittany Frompovich checks in with Nalani for the latest episode of Wonder Women, we shared a very unique bass for Bass of the Week and shared the news on some new gear, albums, and more.

When Snarky Puppy released the first video from their upcoming album, “Empire Central,” a couple of weeks ago, I was pumped. Now they’ve given us another taste of what’s to come with another amazing performance from the record.

There’s a story behind Theo Katzman’s new album, “Songs in the Age of Live.” He just dropped another video from the recording at Brooklyn Steel, which features an incredible band, including his longtime Vulfpeck bandmate Joe Dart on bass.

Lake Street Dive dropped a special video yesterday. 10 years after they recorded a cover of “I Want You Back” on a Boston sidewalk, they returned to the scene to record a cover of “Nick of Time.”

Last night, Tedeschi Trucks Band dropped the third of the four films for “I Am The Moon.” Episode III features music from “The Fall, “with Brandon Boone’s fantastic bass work behind the equally incredible band.

Frowin Ickler got a new Schönitz 6-string fretless bass, and in celebration, he sent us his first bass duet video. Using a Schönitz fretted and the new fretless, he performs his arrangement of Tom Petty’s “Free Fallin’.”