If HAL 9000 made a guitar, it would probably look a lot like the Fusion. Freshly launched on Indiegogo, it might just be one of the smartest guitars we’ve ever encountered. Sure, there are other smart ...

Tone Center, Mike Varney's fusion-only label, is not only helping to keep the genre in good shape—it's pumping it full of steroids. Last year the label released A Guitar Supreme: Giant Steps in Fusion ...

What would happen if you took an electric guitar, made it as thick as an acoustic guitar, and stuffed the extra space not with boring old air, but with speakers and an electronic brain that works with ...

One of the best sounding travel guitars we've tried is Yamaha's Silent Guitar, which offers a choice of modeled simulated tones or piezo-sourced sounds routed to headphones or an external amp. It ...

Back in October 2015, Melbourne-based designer Dave Auld secured production funding from over 1,300 Indiegogo backers to bring his remarkable Fusion guitar project to life. We got to see and hear the ...

Electric guitars have been rocking our world since at least the ’30s, but they haven’t changed too much since then, generally requiring you to lug a mass of bulky amplifiers and pedals to get the ...

Homage records can be tricky business. How to be reverent to the subject without being so imitative as to be completely superfluous? On that level, the sheer irreverence of A Guitar Supreme means that ...

Being a guitarist requires a lot of gear, which tends to be big in size and, therefore, very hard to carry. Other than the guitar itself, there is the amp and the speakers (or a combo having both ...

The retro idea of building an amp into a guitar gets a thoroughly modern update with the addition of an iPhone dock and a 12-hour battery. Amanda Kooser Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers ...

As a hard-core rocker and roller I find that my gear has to be ready to rock and/or roll at a moment’s notice. There is no telling when I’ll have to lay out a face-melter during jury duty or blast out ...