Modern Guitars Magazine
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Modern Guitars Magazine is a free online publication of Modern Music Publications providing news and information about everything related to guitars, from technical information to guitar-related lifestyle stories. New stories and information are published on a daily basis and are permanently archived. There are over 11,000 pages of free content.
Modern Guitars Magazine was recently ranked the #1 most popular on-line guitar magazine by Alexa, a subsidiary internet tracking company of Amazon.com.
Contents |
[edit] Staff
[edit] Editors
Tom Watson (news) and Rick Landers (feature stories).
[edit] Contributors
- Steven Rosen (Veteran Rock Journalist)
- Lynne Margolis (Veteran music/rock journalist)
- Neal Barbosa (Kinetic Art Rock artist)
- Tish Ciravolo (President, Daisy Rock Guitars), CRASH (Illustrator of Eric Clapton guitars and 50 Special Edition Fender Guitars), *Mike Davis, John Foxworthy (Co-founder of Garage Radio)
- Tom Guerra (Mambo Sons guitarist)
- Steve Herberman (Jazz guitarist
- Joerg Kliewe (German-based photo-journalist)
- Tom Hess (HolyHell guitarist)
- Brian D. Holland (Journalist - covering all aspects of guitar related interviews and reviews)
- Vince Lewis (Jazz guitarist)
- Rick Messock, Billy Morrison (The Cult; Camp Freddy; Doheny), Mark Mosley (Jazz guitarist), Paul Olsen (Illustrator Robin Trower albums), Brent Peters,
- Joe Rosen (Award winning NYC photographer)
- Saiichi Sugiyama (U.K. blues artist/Vintage Guitar expert/Clapton Crossroads Auction contributor)
- Pamelina H (Celebrity illustrator of Fender guitars)
- Scott VanderWall (Guitar Tech/VWall Guitars)
- Peter Wolf (Head, Marketing, PRS Guitars)
- Matt Baamonde (Berklee College of Music guitar/recording/production student)
- John Page (Co-founder Fender Custom Shop; retired VP Fender)
- Walter Tore.
[edit] MG Magazine Columns
- Tech Talk by Scott VanderWall;
- Berklee X by Matt Baamonde;
- Functional Art by John Page;
- Guitarology by Tom Hess;
- Industry Views by Peter Wolf;
- Jazz Reviews by Vince Lewis;
- Women Rock! by Tish Ciravolo;
- Sunset & Vine by Billy Morrison;
- Jazz Scope by Steve Herberman;
- Hash by John Foxworthy; and
- Reviews by Brian D. Holland
Unlike many guitar sites, Modern Guitars is completely free and contains all content from past issues in easily accessed archives. Also, unlike many online and print magazines, content is added on a daily basis, and is not saved for monthly release.