Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Allman Brothers Band, John Mayer, Keith Urban, Vince Gill and more swap guitar licks for a good cause What do you get when you hand 30 or so guitarists a slew of beautiful guitars and put them on stage in front of thousands of guitar geek fans? In lesser hands you [...]

Here’s one of our favorite artists, Ryan Bingham, performing a sparse and gritty version of Tommorowland’s ” Too Deep To Fill” as part of the Guitar Center’s awesome “At: Guitar Center with Nic Harcourt” podcast series. Listen to the full session, recorded from inside the West L.A. Guitar Center Platinum Room here, and check out [...]

And the winner is: Jeff Campbell. The Philly native was chosen Saturday night at Hollywood’s Hotel Café out of a field of ten finalists as the winner of the annual Guitar Center Songwriting Contest, co-sponsored by American Songwriter magazine. Chosen by Grammy-award winning songwriter John Shanks, Campbell not only wins the distinction of being this [...]

The tones and sounds Eric Clapton has coaxed out of his guitars are legendary: from his heavy blues-based riffs in the ’60s power trio Cream to the weeping moans and wails of unrequited love on the 1970 classic Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs. And let’s not forget some fantastic acoustic fingerpicking over the years, [...]

Here’s a cool video of L.A artist Meiko performing “Stuck on You” for an At: Guitar Center with Nic Harcourt podcast. Some fun facts about Meiko: before she broke out, she worked as as a waitress at L.A.’s famed songwriter’s venue Hotel Café, and she was able to license every song on her 2008 debut [...]

From the press release: Guitar Center Singer-Songwriter 2 Search Offers Career-Launching Prize Package Including Studio Time with Grammy Award-Winning Producer John Shanks and a Performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! Guitar Center – the world’s largest retailer of musical instruments – announces the return of Guitar Center Singer-Songwriter, the nationwide search for the next great undiscovered [...]

UK-to-Nashville transplant Josh Doyle was recently named the Grand Prize Winner of the inaugural “Guitar Center Singer Songwriter” competition. In this special guest blog, the former Dum Dums frontman shares the inspiration behind his upcoming album. How “The Hunger Games” Influenced My Debut Solo Record Alicia Keys claims her new album had nothing to do [...]