Pick of the Week — Freaky Urban Troopers
The chosen Pick of the Week this week was made for the band Freaky Urban Troopers. 
They are a funk-rock/progressive-rock band from Vienna/Austria founded in 2011 who are currently starting out, playing (and winning;) several band-contests with national and international gigs and recording their first album in summer 2012. Here is a bio taken from their official site at http://www.freakyurbantroopers.com/:
Groovy beats, funky rock-guitars, freaky rhythms, fantastic melodies and a voice which enlightens your soul with pure desire and deliciousness. We come to rock your house, whatever you are up to. You [...]
Pick of the Week — Tudor Adrian Negru/Ronin/Anomaly
This week’s Pick of the Week was ordered by Clayton customer Tudor Adrian Negru. Tudor is a “previous guitar player in Romanian heavy-metal bands Refractara, Ronin and currently lead-guitar in a newly established band called Anomaly (http://www.facebook.com/anomalybandcluj). With the main influences of the band straying more into the hard-core/metal areas but with a taint of nu-metal and hard-rock, Anomaly tries to bring something unique to the musical scene in Cluj-Napoca and Romania. The band is currently working on writing material for their first demo album which should be finished by July 2012 and have already had several live performances along [...]
Vigilante
Ivan Muñoz aka Vigilante is one of the most important industrial music artists in South America. By mixing electronic and metal, Muñoz has conquered audiences from Chile and all over the world. 
Currently he has released three albums “The Heroes Code” (2005), “War of Ideas” (2007), and “The New Resistance” (2011), one EP “Juicio Final” (2006) and one DVD + CD “Life is a Battlefield” in countries as diverse as Germany, Russia, Argentina and Japan; his records are distributed both [...]
Pick of the Week — Jeff Strahan
This week’s Pick of the Week was made for blues artist Jeff Strahan. Jeff usually plays with 
a three piece band made up of himself (guitar), bass and drums. He also plays piano and B-3. Here are a couple reviews of Jeff:
“Strahan is a fiery Texas spirit, a killer guitar player & piano pounder and singer, as wild as the high plains from which he hails, and as cool as the hill country where he lives. He’s as real & strong as lightning, I swear, and I love being around him, [...]
Jim Ledford
We are pleased to announce that we have just endorsed Jim Ledford! Haling from a small town in the Hudson Valley, NY. area Jim Ledford has been a professional guitar player and performing musician
for over two decades. During his early stage of his career(1980s) was labeled as a very season guitarist. Radio spots were an enjoyable gig for him in the late 80’s and 90’s. During the 1990’s Jim had the pleasure of working with, and recording projects for the audio [...]
Win some custom picks & more at GuitarTrump.com
We have teamed up with GuitarTrump.com again for their International Guitar Month giveaway that is going on now through April 17th. We have thrown in 100 custom guitar picks for the winner, plus 
you can win more prizes from Cannoy Guitars, Keith Moody, Hedras Ramos, Two Circles Music Co., Jonas Tamas, GearPipe.com, Jamz Guitar Straps, AND RJL Guitars. Please visit GuitarTrump.com for full contest details and prizes :-).
La Fleur Fatale
We have been working with the Swedish label Killer Cobra Records and wanted to share one of their bands’ teaser trailer for the forthcoming tour and documentary they are doing in California! Check the video out below (it includes some background about the band): 
http://youtu.be/zxy_Q2wl7-Q?hd=1
For more on the band you can also visit their websites at:
www.lafleurfatale.com
www.facebook.com/lafleurfatale
www.twitter.com/lafleurfatales
www.killercobrarecords.com
Guitarings – Clayton Picks at NAMM
Check out KG and Kones speaking with Steve Clayton in their new video below:
Guitarings – Clayton Picks at NAMM
