Continuing the celebration of the Cult of Jazz III, this week’s Friday giveaway is a free Jazz III Refill pack of your choice for two lucky players!

  We’ve received so many great Jazz III stories from so many players on our blog and Facebook page! We’ll post more in the coming weeks—so keep ‘em coming!—but here are just a few comments from people who are long-time members or recent converts to the Cult of Jazz III….   Rob Barker I’d always heard [...]

Up-and-coming rock-and-rollers Rival Sons played a rip-roarin’ show at the Fox Theater in Oakland, California recently and invited DunlopTV to hang. They sat down with your buddy Bryan to talk about their musical inspiration and how they landed on the cool concept for their “Pressure & Time” video.

Dunlop’s international sales team recently visited the Far East for the Music China 2011 trade show in Shanghai, and toured music stores in Shanghai, Tokyo, Japan, and Seoul, South Korea.   As gear nerds, we were fascinated by the images they brought back of Dunlop (and other) gear in stores, which offer a distinctly different [...]

Dunlop’s Darryl  Anders filed this report from the front lines of Bass Player LIVE! Saturday  & Sunday October  22 & 23, 2011 in Los Angeles,  CA…     I spent two days at SIR Studios in Hollywood, California  surrounded by the thunderous sounds of bass to the Nth power. The Dunlop booth was full of [...]

  First produced in 1977, the Jazz III pick has attracted a growing cult of some of the music industry’s most talented guitar players, and legions of fans all over the world. What is behind the mystique of this little red pick? What is it about its shape that’s drawn and inspired so many players? [...]

First produced in 1977, the Jazz III pick has attracted a growing cult of some of the music industry’s most talented guitar players. What is behind the mystique of this little red pick? What is it about its shape that’s drawn and inspired so many players?

  Dunlop TV’s Bryan Kehoe sits down with Evanescence guitarist Troy McLawhorn to talk about joining Evanescence, how he got started playing guitar, and of course, the gear he uses, including the Dunlop Jimi Hendrix Cry Baby, and MXR Zakk Wylde Overdrive and Kerry King Ten Band Equalizer. Troy is particularly pleased with the MXR [...]

  Congratulations to Dunlop artists Evanescence and Five Finger Death Punch, whose new albums hit the #1 and #3 positions (respectively) on the Billboard Top 200!   Billboard’s Keith Caulfield reports…   “Rock band Evanescence returns to the Billboard 200, scoring its second No. 1 album, as its self-titled third set bows with 127,000 copies sold, according [...]

Academy Award winning singer, songwriter, activist and educator Buffy Sainte-Marie stopped by Dunlop HQ the other day. She brought along her band for a tour of the facilities. Our fearless leader Jim Dunlop led them through all the areas of production where we make strings, picks, and electronics.