When it comes to launching a new business these days, publishing an independent music magazine is about as contra- indicated as becoming a travel agent or owning a video store. From Punk Planet to ...

Last year, in an interview with Fretboard Journal, the singer and songwriter Margaret Glaspy revealed something at once sensible and surprising. “I’ve really tried to make songwriting a study or like ...

Grass Valley luthier Michael Lewis is featured in issue No. 50 of “Fretboard Journal,” an internationally renowned quarterly publication devoted to the makers and players of high-end musical ...

Sofia Wolfson is a musician and writer born and raised in Los Angeles. Her fiction has been published in Superstition Review, Open Ceilings, and Westwind, and she is a contributor to the Fretboard ...

“Word on the street was that if you got a Dumble second hand, third hand, you had to make sure it was kosher with him,” Ben Harper tells Fretboard Journal of fabled amp maker Howard Dumble. “There was ...

Jackson Browne recently shared a stripped-down version of “Something Fine,” taped live at his Santa Monica studio in February 2011. The newly released performance was originally captured by Fretboard ...