Every world famous artist had to start somewhere. For Jimi Hendrix, that somewhere was Seattle where he started his six-string journey with an old ukulele. As the story goes, a teenage Hendrix was ...

When Lorne Michaels conceived of Saturday Night Live, he knew that rock music would draw audiences, but he also knew that even if a musician had an off night, giving audiences a break from nonstop ...

Danelectro’s U-Series guitars of the ’50s and Shorthorn models of the late ’50s and ’60s are textbook examples of modern minimalist guitar design. Manufactured to be sold to the masses at the lowest ...

Rock has always been based mainly around guitars, bass, and drums with some keyboards thrown in every once in a while. But some groups have employed—shall we say—unusual instruments in a rock music ...

Back in 1959, Danelectro founder Nathan Daniel introduced the Deluxe model, an innovative and low-cost electric guitar that featured a “shorthorn” double-cutaway body made of pine and hardboard, a ...

Saturday Night Live provides artists with a rare opportunity to win over an audience of millions, and Phoebe Bridgers was always going to grab it with both hands. Following the broadcast, the music ...

Jimmy Page really is the guitarist’s guitarist. Throughout his career with Led Zeppelin, he played several different models, from his ying-yang Danelectro to the famous double-necked Gibson EDS-1275S ...

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Two months after the internet freaked out over Phoebe Bridgers smashing her guitar on Saturday Night Live, the instrument has sold for $101,500 at the 2021 GLAAD Media Awards. The guitar sold last ...

Phoebe Bridgers didn’t mince words to rock elder statesman David Crosby after his social media criticism of her guitar-smashing stunt on Saturday Night Live, calling the (sometimes) lovable crotchety ...

As the guitar-smashing incident snowballed into an entire day of discourse, Bridgers revealed to Jason Isbell, “I told danelectro I was going to do it and they wished me luck and told me they’re hard ...