Fender Japan makes some of the iconic guitar firm’s most exciting products, but we know very little about how it operates… ...

Despite his influence, the publicity-averse Yamazaki Hirokazu remains mysterious about his 30 years of being in bands – and doesn’t think of himself as a guitarist ...

X Japan will make the trip to the U.S. later this week to play Coachella, but when they take the stage, they may be missing one of their members. Speaking with Oricon News, the band revealed that ...

Japanese guitarist Hiroya Tsukamoto takes the stage at Hey Nonny at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, May 3. The Arlington Heights music venue and bistro is hosting the world-renowned artist for a one-night ...

When Hiroya Tsukamoto was 13 years old, his dad brought a thrift store find to his home in Kyoto, Japan. It was a used five-string banjo.

Marty Friedman is an anomaly within the musical world. He started off in the 1980s as a guitar-centric recording artist for Shrapnel Records, which had ...

British rock star Ginger is to auction off his prized guitar to raise money for Japan's tsunami fund.

Buck Owens and Don Rich played a harmony line on guitars related to what's called a "Japanese pentatonic scale." (And a note to all you guitar virtuosos out there - PLEASE do not send me a long ...

Rock and bluies guitarist Bryan Lee will be at the Crystal Bay Casino's Red Room on Friday, May 18 in a free show at 10 p.m.Born in Two Rivers, ...

How did one man go from shredding guitar for a platinum-selling thrash metal band to playing alongside Japan's fluffiest pop bands? It wasn't a mistake.