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Belkin's new magnetic guitar cable connectors are useful for on-stage spazzes and musicians who like to switch instruments often.

If there's a hotter video-game genre than rock-and-roll, I didn't get the memo. By now, almost everyone has heard of "Guitar Hero." This best-selling series lets players rock out using a guitar-shaped controller to strum along with alternative and classic rock hits. In 2007, MTV Games came along and one-upped "Guitar Hero" with "Rock Band." The game outfitted virtual garage bands with a ...

When Chris Martin became chief executive of C.F. Martin & Co. in 1986, the oldest guitar maker in the U.S. that predates historic icons Coca-Cola and Campbell Soup was in serious trouble.

Are you up to the challenge of "The Metal Edition"? July 23, 2008 - It's amazing how both Guitar Hero and Rock Band are inspiring all kinds of innovative spin-offs.

NORMAL -- For more than 30 years, Jim Bland has combined a hobby and a job at Guitar World. By early next month, however, plans for uptown Normal redevelopment will force him to move from his longtime location at 105 N. Broadway to 129 E. Beaufort.

When Chris Martin became chief executive of C.F. Martin & Co. in 1986, the oldest guitar maker in the U.S. that predates historic icons...

What once was every rocker's personal fantasy is now a huge international competition. Yes, we're talking air guitar.

By CHRIS SHULL FORT WORTH -- The opening concert of Fort Worth Guitar Guild's three-night festival was a mix of some things familiar and some things new. The familiar was tinged with exploration and adventure. Take Joaquin Rodrigo. Most know the Spanish composer from his delightful Concierto de Aranjuez often programmed by symphony orchestras (and reworked in a jazz vein on Miles Davis' ...

PURCELL — Seventeen-year-old Craig Henderson recently won a national Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock charity challenge and won a trip to California to meet the makers of the video game.

*A purple haze is about to set over the video game franchise "Guitar Hero." A rep for publisher and developer Activision and Red Octane told The Associated Press that Jimi Hendrix music will be offered for a new game in the franchise.