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Photographer Lisa Johnson has had plenty of opportunity to meet rock stars in her work. But to her, the real stars are their guitars. Over the past 17 years, Johnson has taken shots of Bruce Spring… ...
After spending decades trying to emulate the guitar, it might have been easier just to pick one up and learn how to play ...
There are strings on the newly-unveiled Power Gig guitar, which is coming, with a brand-new music game to video game systems this fall. But you won't have to be Jimi Hendrix to play it.
A little more than a month after Activision killed its Guitar Hero franchise, Ubisoft says it will enter the breach with Rocksmith, a video game played with a real electric guitar rather than a ...
The guitar looks and feels like a beginner instrument, but that's the point: to take rhythm gamers and turn them into a market that is now interested in buying and playing real guitars.
I never got the whole Guitar Hero, Rock Band and their fake guitars playing thingie, which require so much practice to master that you may as well use a real guitar to become as good as Satriani ...
With this game, you simply plug your electric guitar or an acoustic guitar with a pickup into your console.
Announced at the start of the annual Game Developers Conference, Power Gig: Rise of the SixString is at least a novel approach to the well-trod music game genre. Instead of using plastic ...
On a recent visit to Real Guitars in San Francisco, shopkeeper Ben Levin told me sellers usually lower the tuning on 12-strings when putting them out for display.
Finnish startup Ovelin is back for another fun take on learning to play the guitar, with the official launch of Guitarbots.
Acoustic guitars to learn with and solid wood stunners to grow old with - including what I think is the best-value acoustic guitar anywhere right now ...
Seven45 Studios thinks it is time to put real guitars in the hands of people living out rock star fantasies with music videogames.