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Fretboard JournalGuitarsKen Pomeroy – “The Philadelphia Contributor” Ken Pomeroy and her band – Dakota McDaniel and Ramsey Thornton – perform the as-yet-unreleased song “The Philadelphia Contributor” for our cameras. Follow Ken here .

11.13

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Fretboard JournalGuitarsPodcast 571: Ken Pomeroy The incredible Ken Pomeroy joins us this week. This young singer-songwriter is a rising star in the world of Americana music (check out her 2025 album, Cruel Joke ), an actor on FX’s The Lowdown, and…

11.13

Fretboard JournalGuitarsWintergrass Sessions: Väsen Swedish folk group Väsen performs “Byriln,” “Tändkulan” and “Kvarnbo kvarn” at Wintergrass 2026. A companion video on our YouTube channel showcases the stories behind the duo’s fascinating…

11.10

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Fretboard JournalGuitarsPodcast 570: Lance Allen This week’s show is a mini master class in the life of a working recording artist in 2026. Lance Allen (aka “the Guitarlancer”) is a jack of all guitar trades: He teaches guitar to students around…

11.07

Fretboard JournalGuitarsListen: “I Won’t Ever Give Up on You” by Chris Eldridge and Kristin Andreassen After fifteen years as life partners, guitarist Chris “Critter” Eldridge and singer-songwriter Kristin Andreassen have finally released their first song as a musical duo.

11.03

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Fretboard JournalGuitarsPodcast 569: Fake Names’ Michael Hampton and Brian Baker Today, we take a deep dive into hardcore history with guitarists Michael Hampton (The Extorts, The Faith, Embrace, One Last Wish) and Brian Baker (Bad Religion, Dag Nasty, Minor Threat).

10.30

Fretboard JournalGuitarsWintergrass Sessions: The Fretless The Fretless is a Canadian folk ensemble redefining what it means to be a string quartet. Though this is the Fretboard Journal, we couldn’t resist asking these amazing, fret-free players to perform…

10.30

Fretboard JournalGuitarsLuthier on Luthier: Mike Doolin Mike Doolin is a guitarmaker whose curiosity and willingness to challenge convention have led him down some fascinating paths in guitar design.

10.30

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Fretboard JournalGuitarsPodcast 568: Joe Heiland (Boveda) PSA: As winter approaches, it’s time to protect your cherished instruments from drying out and damage.

10.28

Fretboard JournalGuitarsThe Truth About Vintage Amps, Ep. 172 It’s the 172nd episode of the Truth About Vintage Amps Podcast, the call-in show where amp tech Skip Simmons fields your questions about tube amplification…and life.

10.26

Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

More than three hundred sources, in sixteen languages: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.