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James Trussart is an incredibly innovative guitar maker who specialises in custom built steel-bodied guitars, basses and violins in an array of finishes, reminiscent of shiny chrome resonator instruments and rusty, weathered or fossilized discarded machinery.

For those of you that haven’t heard of Steel Panther then you are either in for a treat of epic proportions or you’ll simply run screaming. These guys are the ultimate comedy rock act. Think Spinal Tap on steriods.

A roundup of some of the most interesting products that caught my eye at Musikmesse this year.

30 Seconds to Mars played BBC Radio 1′s Live Lounge today and treated fans to two very different versions of ‘This is War’ and Lady GaGa’s ‘Bad Romance’.

In partnership with the mighty Gibson Guitars, Learn and master guitar have produced a kick ass iphone app that features some of the most essential tools and features that guitarists will need including a state of the art guitar tuner, metronome, chord chart and high quality guitar lessons from Learn and master guitar.

Well if you’re like us then you’re probably feeling the January blues right now with all this cold weather and dark evenings. To lighten your mood we thought we’d give away a copy of the cracking documentary ‘It Might Get Loud’ every week throughout February.

Well lets be honest Andy Copping really has to pull something out of the bag for this 30th anniversary year as 2009 was undeniably the best lineup yet with around 140 bands playing the festival.

Gibson Guitars are under invesigation for alleged use of smuggled wood. US federal agents raided a Gibson factory on Tuesday, claiming that they may have used illegal rosewood to make their guitars.