Fender’s CBS era is often boiled down to an equation of ‘corporate drive for profit and quantity = lowering of build ...

The American Professional Classic line includes icons like the Tele and Strat, and Fender tapped hardcore band Turnstile for the campaign.

A hemorrhaged vocal cord kept Sam Fender from taking the stage at Switzerland’s Montreux Jazz Festival for his headlining performance. But the injury proved to be beneficial for Benson Boone, who was ...

"I really hope that the people who came to see Sam today can get just five per cent out of this song," Boone told the crowd. By Tyler Jenke Benson Boone has offered up a cover of Sam Fender‘s ...

Oakley added a Hagstrom Bi-Sonic pickup to his 1972 Jazz Bass, giving him a total of three pickups and five control knobs ...

Join us on a trip through Fender's factory, Custom Shop, Master Builder department and head office, in celebration of a radically innovative instrument that continues to find new ways to move music ...

You may have seen the 2014 documentary Jaco, produced by Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo. It's an astonishing tale, which follows Jaco Pastorius from his early life through to stardom with Weather ...

Bill Esparza is a James Beard award-winning food journalist, author of LA Mexicano, and onscreen food television personality covering food in United States and Latin America. This story is part of an ...

Known by his nickname, Family Man, he was the group’s musical director, crafting the hypnotic rhythms and melodies that elevated reggae to global acclaim. By Clay Risen Aston Barrett, who as the bass ...

Editor’s Note: Since 1996, more than 320 teenage musicians have been transformed by the Vail Jazz Workshop. Many have become professional musicians, including six returning to Vail this Labor Day ...

Be it the deft melodic runs Paul McCartney played in The Beatles, the showboating funk grooves of Bootsy Collins or the liquid virtuosity of Jaco Pastorius, a good bassline is the heartbeat of a song, ...

My Chemical Romance bassist Mikey Way has collaborated with Fender on a new Signature Jazz Bass, a recreation of one he played during the band’s reunion tour. “It’s as if the bass jumped straight from ...