“I used to think bass playing was about throwing up and cutting yourself with razor blades,” Jay Bentley told Bass Player back in 2004. Vomit and blood may be punk-rock, but it's not what you ...

By age 17, she was working as a DJ, and got the idea to bring along her bass guitar to play live along to the tracks. She says this helped further expand her musical tastes.

Bass Week: Playing bass guitar in a metal band is easy. You carefully copy whatever riff the guitarist plays, wave horn signs at the leather-clad crowd and then go home. There's little room for ...

Loudwire recently spoke to Newsted about his participation in the Bass Player Live Awards, his fondness for Geezer Butler and what drew him to the bass in the first place.

Dirac Live Bass Control is now available for select Denon and Marantz products! Masimo also overhauled their HEOS app for a better wireless/streaming audio experience. Read on ...

There are only so many YouTube bass guitar tutorials we can watch, or bassless backing tracks we can jam along with before we yearn for something more. With that in mind, here are eight tips to help ...

Renaissance Man. Those probably aren't the first words that come to mind when people see a man wearing a pig mask on-stage.[split] But this is Les Claypool, a bass playing god from his days with ...