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Here is a TECH TIP for our friends at Seymour Duncan showing you how to dial in your pickups: By Frank Falbo, Seymour Duncan VP of Products Most guitars have screws around the pickups for adjusting pickup height. Most guitar factories adjust the pickups to a median height, but why not find the best height for your tone? While you...

The Killers keep up with their holiday tradition of releasing a holiday tune for charity. Earlier this week, the band released their fifth annual holiday single, “Boots.” Proceeds from the song will benefit (RED) and help fight AIDS in Africa. For each view of the video below, Starbucks will contribute five cents to the Global Fund to help fight AIDS...

Here is another Tech Tip from Fender on how to keep your baby safe while flying around: A lot of guitars will be flying around—literally—this holiday season, and if you’re like most guitarists, you view the prospect of taking a guitar you care about on a commercial flight with something ranging from unnerving trepidation to outright dread. And well you...

Eric Clapton has added another nine North American dates for his 2011 tour in support of his new album, Clapton. The tour also includes a 10-night run at London’s Royal Albert Hall next May. Eric Clapton tour dates (so far): 02/14 - Singapore - Singapore Indoor Stadium 02/18 - Hong Kong, China - Hong Kong Asia World Arena 02/25...

Fender’s R&D department designed and built an extremely rare Fender Lucite Esquire that’s now being auctioned to benefit NASH2O, a charitable initiative born out of the May 2010 Nashville floods. The R&D team took a solid block of Lucite ands shaped it as a solid guitar body, then “channeled” to create hollow spaces that would hold water. Fender employees in...