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March 25, 2015 Liam Mathews

Reddit user abadmon31 spotted a poster parodying the famous “Dan Smith Will Teach You Guitar” ads and shared a snap on Tuesday. “Dan Smith Will Give You His Guitar,” the poster reads, with the caption, “I’m fucking done, dude.” Reached for comment, a weary-sounding but friendly Dan Smith asked, “Is it the one where I […]

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March 9, 2015 Aymann Ismail

“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. Guitar virtuoso Ryley Walker is celebrating the release of his second album, Primrose […]

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February 5, 2014 Andy Cush

The brilliant acoustic guitarist Kaki King is taking to Kickstarter to fund her next project, an audiovisual performance that will turn her guitar into a canvas for vibrant projections. A technique called projection mapping — which displays images on a particularly shaped surface, and only that surface — turns King’s guitar into a luminous, reactive […]

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October 11, 2013 Andy Cush

Aspiring noise-rock shredders would do well to head to Other Music on October 28, when former Sonic Youth guitarist and current solo artist Lee Ranaldo will be giving a free clinic on the instrument. He is a very good guitar player. I’m thinking about going. The ads for the clinic excellently parody local guitar hero […]

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August 23, 2013 Andy Cush

Here’s a sublime little video of a musician named Julian Corrie playing his guitar and singing in an empty swimming pool. That guitar, however, is controlling an old floppy disk drive via MIDI, and there’s a keyboard and drum machine connected to a SEGA Mega Drive, Commodore 64, and a few hard drives as well. […]

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April 5, 2013 Andy Cush

Because why not squeeze a little good old-fashioned shredding into even the day’s most mundane activities, David Neevel developed a way to use his guitar to write out an email. Using a Roland snyth guitar pickup, Neevel sends MIDI data into an optoisolator circuit, an Arduino, a relay board, and finally into the “brains” of […]

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