The Acoustic Guitar editors are preparing a special feature on readers’ experiences during COVID-19. We’d love to hear about how you’ve been dealing with the pandemic from a musical perspective. Select responses will appear in the November/December 2020 issue (and online), and we’d love for you to be part of the feature.…

The MI industry, like almost all business during this time of self-quarantine and enforced stay-at-home orders, is in virtual shutdown mode, at least from a production standpoint. There are, however, numerous companies whose factories continue to operate—and it’s not because the production of instruments, strings, straps, and other gear and…

Adam Perlmutter, long-time contributor to Acoustic Guitar magazine, has been named Editor, succeeding the magazine’s founder, David Lusterman, effective immediately. Adam has been a regular contributor to Acoustic Guitar since 2008 and became the magazine’s full-time Music Editor in 2014; he has written more than 260 articles, reviews, and song…

The Acoustic Guitar editors are preparing our annual “Gear of the Year” coverage and we need your help! We’d like to hear from you about what you’ve purchased, what you’re using, and what you’d like to see from us in the future. Our Top Gear of 2019 report will appear…

In April 2019, we surveyed Acoustic Guitar audience members to find out which songs to publish in Acoustic Guitar magazine. More than 2,000 guitarists responded and not surprisingly, suggested more than 1,600 different songs! We winnowed that list down to a more manageable number based on the frequency of mentions.…

The other day, Adam Levy told a roomful of students that they ought to buy some drum kits and learn to play them. Taken out of context, this would hardly seem like unusual advice, but Levy, a contributing AG writer and ace guitarist, singer-songwriter, sideman, and educator, was in fact…

The Acoustic Guitar team is planning a special feature for the May 2018 issue called “25 Must-Hear Acoustic Guitar Recordings of the 21st Century,” and we want to know what you think. Please take a moment to respond to this survey about your favorite acoustic-guitar related albums of the past 17…

By Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers; Photo by Sandy Roe/Juan Junco The woman behind me caught the Beatles at Shea Stadium back in ’65. The teenager down the row wearing the black Bieber shirt certainly did not, nor did the two young women who handed us “Na-Na” signs to wave during “Hey…