Yesterday, November 28, 2008, marked the official debut of Fender’s Yngwie Malmsteen Tribute Series Stratocaster. Like the other Tribute Series guitars that Fender has done, this is a limited edition guitar that is based on the guitar that the artist is most known for. In Yngwie’s case, this is a scalloped-neck olympic white 1971 Fender [...]

I was looking on Eric Johnson’s Web site and noticed that he released a new live DVD, titled Anaheim Live, on November 11. The DVD was recorded at the Grove in Anaheim, CA on May 3, 2006.
The set list includes some of Johnson’s biggest hits as well as songs from his latest album, Bloom. There [...]

Congratulations to John Nobles, who was randomly selected (using random.org) as the winner of Jimmy Herring’s Lifeboat CD!
Note: I’ve notified John by e-mail, but have not yet heard back from him. If I haven’t heard back from John in the next 24 hours, I’ll choose another winner.

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Just a reminder that the Jimmy Herring Lifeboat CD giveaway ends this Saturday, November 15, 2008. All you have to do the enter is send me an e-mail via the contact form using the subject “Herring.” I’ll randomly select a winner from the entries. Currently, only one person has entered the contest, so you have [...]

Griffin Technology has released a free iPod/iPhone app called iTalk that let’s you use the microphone of the iPhone to make recordings:
iTalk Recorder lets you record, pause, resume and append to existing recordings, manage the list of your recordings, and add text notes, all on the touchscreen of your iPhone or iPod.

You can then sync [...]

The internal combustion guitar:
Your touch sends signal to a small amp (6 watts or less) or processor combo
The small amp sends the conditioned signal back to the Internal [...]

Fender has launched a mini-site for the release of the NOS and Relic David Gilmour Signature Series Stratocasters. The mini-site has a lot of great features, including a timeline of the guitar, details about the guitars, the story behind the guitars, and media from Gilmour’s recent Live at Gdansk DVD.

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Fender has recently introduced the Jim Adkins JA-90 Thinline Telecaster. Adkins is the guitarist and frontman for Jimmy Eat World. I’m not all that familiar with Jimmy Eat World, but this looks like a nice guitar! The guitar features P-90s, a semi-hollow Ash body, medium jumbo frets and comes in red or black.
(via Electric Guitar [...]

Editor’s note: Please indulge me in a quick off-topic post.

Last year, my wife Tiffany decided to make a career change. She decided to move out of IT and create her own company, where she creates handcrafted jewelry and purses. She has worked extremely hard over the past year developing a wide range of jewelry [...]

Justin Ouellette, the founder of Muxtape, recently posted an update detailing his past dealings with record labels trying to keep Muxtape running, as well as the future of the site after receiving notice from the RIAA:
Over the next week I learned a little more, mainly that the RIAA moves quite autonomously from their label parents [...]