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GALLERY: NAMM 2018 Day 1

Check out the latest gear from Koll, Rickenbacker, Reverend, Chase Bliss Audio, and more!

Chase Bliss Audio Thermae

Chase Bliss Audio’s pedals are the kind of effects that are most fun to explore with a night off and a nice bottle of red. They are deep, overflowing with fine-tuning features, and an transform from subdued to beastly with the nudge of a knob. The brand new Thermae harmonizing analog delay is very much in keeping with that tradition. It's driven by four re-issue MN3005 BBD chips, but the range of control is much more in line with number crunching digital units. This is a delay that will take patience to master, but even our short session yielded scads of wild surprises. At $499 it won't exactly be cheap, but there are years worth of musical exploration here.

Over the decades with Hüsker Dü, Sugar, and solo, Bob Mould has earned a reputation for visceral performances.

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The 15th studio album from the legendary alt-rocker and former Hüsker Dü singer and 6-stringer is a rhythm-guitar record, and a play in three acts, inspired by sweaty, spilled-beer community connection.

Bob Mould wrote his last album, Blue Heart, as a protest record, ahead of the 2020 American election. As a basic rule, protest music works best when it's shared and experienced communally, where it can percolate and manifest in new, exciting disruptions. But 2020 wasn’t exactly a great year for gathering together.

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Seven previously-unheard Bruce Springsteen records will be released for the first time this summer with “Tracks II: The Lost Albums,” coming June 27.

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The guitarist-of-all-trades runs us through his formidable live rig.

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Sterling by Music Man introduces the Joe Dart Artist Series Collection, featuring the Dart I, II, and III basses.

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