The Perfect Shade of Lipstick Pickups
Back in the late 1950s, if you walked into Sears and asked where you could pick up some lipstick, chances
Read moreThe Sunday Papers is a weekly offering by Riff City Guitar. Our single goal with this feature is to provide a good morning read over coffee, each and every Sunday. What you won’t find in The Sunday Papers is a sales pitch or product recommendations. We’ve asked Andy Perrin—one of the industry’s best writers on guitar gear and culture—to pen short weekly editorials that tell the tales of how we got to where are in the music industry and the players and builders that helped us along the way. In short, The Sunday Papers are about conversations, stories, histories, and experiences with the guitar.
Back in the late 1950s, if you walked into Sears and asked where you could pick up some lipstick, chances
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Read moreP-A-F, three little letters that signify what is arguably one of the furthest reaching guitar innovations of modern gear. So
Read moreWith Christmas behind and New Year’s ahead, radio stations are slowly swapping out carols and holiday tunes for countdown tracks
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Read moreIt’s a guitar! It’s a keyboard! Wait, it’s a keytar! Well, actually, this hybrid hero is the Roland Axis, but
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