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Oteil Burbridge and LaMP Announce Make-A-Wish Benefit Tour
Oteil Burbridge will join LaMP for four benefit concerts supporting Make-A-Wish, with stops in New York, Vermont, and Massachusetts this October.
EarthQuaker Devices Expands the Easy Listening with Stereo Routing and XLR Outputs
EarthQuaker Devices expands its Easy Listening amp simulator with new stereo routing, a headphone output, active EQ, an auxiliary input, and XLR outputs.
Spector Demos Rex Brown’s New Euro 4 Signature Bass
Spector GM Wil DeYoung demos Rex Brown’s new Euro 4 Signature bass through a Darkglass combo, with the gritty overdrive coming straight from the amp itself
Christian McBride & Ursa Major Announce Debut Album, “Points of Light”
Christian McBride and Ursa Major announce their debut album, Points of Light, and share a spacious new cover of George Duke’s classic “No Rhyme, No Reason.”
Keep It Groovy: How Bass and Drums Lock In on Albert King’s “Born Under a Bad Sign”
Learn how Duck Dunn’s bass line locks with the drums on Albert King’s “Born Under a Bad Sign,” including its pickup, feel, form, and key rhythmic cues.
Vulfpeck Drops Video for “The Beachcomber,” the First Taste of Upcoming Album Decay of the Aura
Vulfpeck returns with “The Beachcomber,” the first single from Decay of the Aura, featuring Joe Dart locking in on his knobless Sterling bass.
Emma Dayhuff Explores the Places That Shape Us on “Mountains”
Bassist and composer Emma Dayhuff draws inspiration from Montana mountain ranges and New York City skylines on her second solo album, “Mountains.”
IK Multimedia Unveils the TONEX Board All-in-One Modeling Platform
IK Multimedia’s TONEX Board combines four simultaneous Tone Models, 76 effects, flexible routing, and more than 50 ready-to-play bass presets in one unit.
Toy Factory Project Blows “24 Hours at a Time” Wide Open in a 19-Minute Jam
Oteil Burbridge and Toy Factory Project take “24 Hours at a Time” way out, stretching the Marshall Tucker Band classic into a heady jam.
New Lineup, New Album: Al Cisneros and Sleep Return with “Hempispheres”
Sleep returns with a revamped lineup and "Hempispheres," a five-song album packed with extended jams, massive riffs, and Al Cisneros’s thunderous bass.
Holcomb Guitars’ Nadacaster Bass Features a Pickup You Can Move While You Play
Holcomb Guitars’ Nadacaster Bass features a custom humbucker on a sliding platform that lets players change its position and tone while performing.
Watch Brady Watt Build Iniko’s Songs Live with Bass and Loops
Brady Watt builds the arrangements live on his Modulus bass as Iniko performs three songs in this intimate episode of the Bass & Bars series.