CME Session - Colter Wall's American Epic: "Wild Bill Hickok"

All the way from Saskatchewan by way of the Old West, singer-songwriter Colter Wall seems to have fallen out of a stagecoach somewhere between Nash...

CME Session - Amanda Shires Live at Chicago Music Exchange

Amanda Shires joins us in our Lincoln Ave. studio to show us why her new album, To The Sunset, is not an ending or a beginning, but rather the next...

CME Plugged In #2 - Western Automatic - Staring at the Sun

Chicago Music Exchange General Manager, Alex "100 Riffs" Chadwick, brings his band Western Automatic to the CME Warehouse to perform a Plugged In S...

CME Custom Relicing

At Chicago Music Exchange, we LOVE vintage gear. Nothing feels quite like a guitar that has been played for decades – it's a lot like a perfectly w...

Vintage Vibes: 1963 Gibson Everly Brothers Acoustic

Nathaniel says “Bye Bye Love” to this rare 1963 Natural Gibson Everly Brothers acoustic, but not before having a little fun.

Electrolytic Capacitors Amp Sound

Like all things, instruments age with time. With age comes the need for certain upkeep in order for your instrument to perform to its utmost. In a ...

Vintage Vibes: 1958 Blonde Fender Stratocaster

It’s Nathaniel’s lucky day. He pairs our Blonde ‘58 Stratocaster with a ‘57 Princeton Tweed and the rest, they say, is history as he takes us on a ...

The Showroom

From the stunning wall of Les Pauls, to our Fender Custom Shop section, various amp displays, the gorgeous acoustic room, to our new Bass Shop on t...

Inside: Meris Pedals

Meris makes effects that encourage users to craft personal relationships with their products, offering a multi-layered effects experience that fun...

The Truth About True Bypass

One of the first questions that we hear when discussing a pedal is almost always: Is it True Bypass? But a better question may be: does the type of...

Inside: Gibson Custom Shop

We loaded up the van and headed down to Nashville this past June for Summer NAMM, and while we were there we dropped in on the Gibson Custom Shop t...

Inside: PRS Guitars Q&A with Paul Reed Smith

We asked Paul Reed Smith about his journey from after school repairman to industry leader. What we got was characteristically deep insight on the i...