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Funk legend Bootsy Collins unveils his 23rd studio album, Album of the Year #1 Funkateer, due out October 25th

Live studio sessions from 1974 newly mixed and available for the first time

This is the second installment of the series of posthumous releases

“He’s not just a bass player…. He’s Basquiat and skittles” – Eddie Murphy

Legends Glenn Hughes, Joe Bonamassa, Jason Bonham, and Derek Sherinian Triumph With Their Finest Work Yet

Set for release in Autumn 2024 via Agonia Records, this will be their debut instrumental album

The uncovered footage was filmed live at the West End Marketplace in Dallas, TX on December 4, 1991, just six months after For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge was released

Watch Their Debut Single & Music Video “Paradise”

The new single is driven by her deep bass grooves and soulful vocals

The veteran L.A. session bassist looks back at his career in a three-part series that spans a wide range of musical styles

Billy Sheehan and Mr. Big’s tenth studio album features eleven new original tracks and pays tribute to late drummer Pat Torpey

Beginning June 13th Metallica: Fuel. Fire. Fury. Playable Concert June 22 & 23

The all-time greats will take over new markets in North America this fall with an additional 23 performances

With an expansive live show, Mt. Joy bassist Michael Byrnes shares his experiences with the joyful, high-energy band

Originally released in 2004, Ashes of the Wake is viewed as a cornerstone of modern metal

“You’re So Impatient”/”Que Sera, Sera” are the first new singles after the departure of Paz Lenchantin

We sat down with the bass maestro to discuss his recent projects and the Markbass gear that drives his sound

Dunlop brought together two bass legends to talk about how they came to be who they are as musicians

The Transatlantic “super group” led by keyboardist Jakob Magnusson features jazz fusion titans Peter Erskine (Weather Report, Steps Ahead) and Matthew Garrison & Renowned Icelandic Musicians

STP Will Be Performing The Album In Full During Summer Tour, Starting August 16th

Bassist Marc Stranger-Najjar and his Chicago outfit release their latest doom metal masterpiece

Vik began her career as a bassist in several different bands before embarking on a successful solo career internationally

n celebration of the new album, Deep Purple will perform more than 60 concerts worldwide this year during their ‘=1MORE TIME’ tour

On September 6th, 2024, the band will rock the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, New Jersey

This year Cruel World featured Duran Duran, Dreamcar, Ministry, Interpol, & more, and Bass Magazine was there for all of the low end

Bass Magazine readers will receive a 15% discount on the camp

Michael Shuman and QOTSA are heading out to complete their epic year of touring

Nearly a decade in the making, the album’s origins began in 2016 during a performance at The Harlem Stage Gatehouse

The tour is celebrating his double live record, Tenderness: Live in Los Angeles

Join Mike Dirnt of Green Day, Dave Keuning of The Killers, and Stephen Perkins of Jane’s Addiction October 17-20

In support of the release of The Healer, SUMAC will be touring throughout North America

Containing 55 previously unreleased tracks, new liner notes and interviews, rare archive memorabilia and unseen photographs

The second offering from their highly anticipated upcoming album Wild God, out August 30th

500,000 Fans Attend Historic 2024 New Orleans Jazz Fest and Bass Magazine Was There to Capture It

JPM discusses why he chose to record this song and feels like it is a modern-day version of Teen Town

Bassist Eric Avery, Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro, and Stephen Perkins have reunited for the first time in 14 years

The Vision 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award will be given at Roulette Intermedium, on June 18, 2024

His first live shows in eight years in Los Angeles and New York in support of his new album Luck and Strange, out on September 6

Driven by the rhythm section of founding members Eric Wilson and Bud Gaug this song spans generations

The first single from his upcoming album ‘Quilted Stereo’ out on July 26th

The mid-career retrospective featuring a supergroup is out June 14th

Palle Danielsson, the great Swedish bassist, has died, aged 77

The innovative bassist/sonic explorer/DJ discusses his life of touring with Disco Biscuits, the current tour with the new album “Revolution in Motion, and more!

STYX will join up with FOREIGNER and special guest John Waite for the “Renegades & Juke Box Heroes” co-headlining trek with their new bassist

The Mudvayne bassist and his pro-rock trio return with a new EP

A selection of instruments collected on his travels are going up for auction at Julien’s Auctions in its upcoming Music Icons sale

The new brand builds on the core values of the Oakland Coffee brand, established a decade ago, to provide carefully curated organic, Fair Trade Certified coffee

A rollicking and strikingly heartfelt memoir from a heavy metal pioneer

Their debut album will consist of 8 tracks, and sounds somewhere between Radiohead, The Mars Volta and Medeski Martin and Wood

The album features 16 tracks that celebrate and reimagine five of Nascimento’s beloved classics and newly written originals by Spalding