It looks like the tour season is ramping up. We have quite a few good shows coming up here in Nashville.

Artist News

Steve Lukather Interview: Ever Changing Times… – Interview with guitarist Steve Lukather (via Rich Murray)

Guitar Lessons

iPerform3D - A video lesson site with a twist: 3D graphics are used for much of the videos. Not sure I like the animation, but it’s an interesting concept (via Guitar Noize)

iVideoSongs - Continuing with the video lessons that start with an “i” theme, iVideoSongs recently launched featuring video guitar lessons

Music Business

Music 2.0 Book – Forward-thinking collection of essays by one of the authors of “The Future of Music” (via Dave Kusek)

Bands’ sales are feeling the ‘Guitar Hero’ effect – Evidence that being featured in Guitar Hero will help record sales

Guitar Community

The 50 greatest guitar tones of all time – Guitarist magazine has identified what they believe are the 50 greatest guitar tones in history, which is featured on the MusicRadar site

Musicians’ guide to rental rehearsal rooms – IG gives good advice about choosing a rehearsal space for your band

Just For Fun

Guitar Rising – A guitar game where you actually use a real guitar