Texan Blues star Brown dies at 81: Grammy-award winning guitarist and singer Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown has died in Texas at the age of 81.

Nicknamed "Gatemouth" for his deep voice, he cited his father, a railway worker and fiddle player, as his greatest musical influence. "If I can make my guitar sound like his fiddle, then I know I've got it right."

Yamaha introduces new guitar and bass GigMaker packages: great for beginners.

Seven effects pedals from TC Electronic: vintage tremolo, vintage delay, and vintage compression pedals as well as four different flavors of vintage overdrive and distortion for both guitar and bass.

Ozzfest Over, Sabbath Guitarist Tony Iommi Resumes Solo Career

Signed Les Paul guitar auctioned for Katrina relief: Gibson donate classic guitar for Ebay auction.

American Capital Provides Up to $52.5 Million to Gibson Guitar: Cor! What do they need that money for?

Guitar Musician News: Tuning your guitar the right way: You could have been doing it wrong all this time!

Limited Edition DSL100SL Stack from Marshall

ratemyaxe.com is relatively new to the web, but has potential as quite a nice little guitar gallery/community. Go on - register and post some pictures of your guitars. I'm certainly going to do so myself.

Is it just me that finds new product news about fuzz boxes (see two such examples below) particularly dull and unexciting? I mean, I've now got so many devices for overdriving the guitar, that there's simply too much choice, and it ends up getting in the way of the actual playing, the actual music.