Category: History
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Content note: This article discusses suicide and mental health. It does not describe suicide methods. Music has always given people a way to express feelings that can be difficult to put into ordinary conversation. Post-punk, new wave, goth and alternative music in particular have often explored isolation, despair, anxiety, alienation and the darker parts of…
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Fender has recently found itself surrounded by controversy. This follows them winning a landmark case in Germany, granting them legal protection over the Stratocaster’s body shape. They then began to go after other guitar manufacturers, such as PRS, Yamaha and Harley Benton. You might find yourself asking: aren’t they right to be doing this? Well,…