Guitar World
Marty Friedman – Beast From The East
On the goosebumps-inducing Tokyo Jukebox 3, shred great Marty Friedman tackles the japanese pop charts: “it’s pretty much straight-up j-pop that I put on steroids”
9 min |
August 2021
New York magazine
Doja Cat – Catch Her If You Can
Doja Cat refuses to be dragged down to earth.
6 min |
June 21 - July 4, 2021
Guitar Player
GUILD
BT-258E Deluxe 8-string Baritone
4 min |
July 2021
Guitar Player
NEURAL DSP
Quad Cortex Floor Modeler
5 min |
July 2021
Guitar Player
TECH EDUCATION
Once an analog man, Lloyd Baggs used digital know-how to revolutionize acoustic amplification with Voiceprint Acoustic D.I.
6 min |
July 2021
Guitar Player
EARTHQUAKER DEVICES
Astral Destiny reverb
3 min |
July 2021
Guitar Player
Eventide
MICROPITCH DELAY
3 min |
July 2021
Guitar Player
Stageworthy Strategies, Pt. 2
Understanding acoustic preamps, D.I.s and digital enhancers.
3 min |
July 2021
Guitar Player
D'ANGELICO
Excel 59
4 min |
July 2021
Guitar World
As Everything Unfolds
Rising UK metallers go for glory on their stunning debut album, within each lies the other
2 min |
August 2021
Guitar World
Zach Person
How a jaw-dropping Gary Clark Jr. cover on American Idol led to to sharing a stage with buddy Guy, sharing bills with Foo Fighters — and releasing a multi-faceted debut album
3 min |
August 2021
Guitar Player
Fender Bassman – Big Bottom
Designed for bassists, the Fender Bassman became the favored tone machine of guitarists everywhere.
5 min |
July 2021
Guitar World
“Supersonic”
Oasis | Definitely Maybe, 1994 | Guitarist: Noel Gallagher
3 min |
August 2021
Guitar Player
Audiophile Axe
With its tube-powered pickup, the Ruokangas Duke Valvebucker is a high-fidelity experience.
5 min |
July 2021
Bass Player
BASS CENTRE Ashbory
Time for something a little different, suggests our Editor...
2 min |
July 2021
Bass Player
MARCUS MILLER
In every issue, we bring you a noteworthy interview from the bass vaults, from far-off times when gigs were plentiful and a virus meant no more than a day in bed. This month: Marcus Miller, interviewed in 2012
10+ min |
July 2021
Bass Player
FOUR of the BEST
It’s 50 years this year since Led Zeppelin released their immense fourth album, cementing their position in music history and inspiring the playing of a million guitar-shop visitors. The band’s Quiet One, bassist John Paul Jones, was on astounding form throughout Half a century since that high point, we revisit his bass parts and ask how it was that JPJ became the leading rock bassist of his generation...
10+ min |
July 2021
Bass Player
INSPIRED NOTES
Bassist and songwriter Lena Morris on the catalyst that sent her into the low frequencies
3 min |
July 2021
Bass Player
MXR Effects
Spice up your bass tones, says Mike Brooks
3 min |
July 2021
Bass Player
PICKING LARGE INTERVALS
Welcome! To finish off our exploration of pick playing, we’re going to look at a couple of things related to playing bigger intervals. As we’ve noted before, every technique takes on a whole new level of difficulty when we start to move it across the strings, but it can get even harder when we want to be able to control how long each note lasts.
8 min |
July 2021
Bass Player
NEW ROSE
With his new album, Two Roses, Israeli upright bassist Avishai Cohen achieves a career high. We meet the master
4 min |
July 2021
Bass Player
PUTT IT THERE
We meet the veteran jazz bassist— and occasional James Bond adversary —Putter Smith.
10 min |
July 2021
Bass Player
TURNER PORTRAIT
The Atlanta-based rock quintet Blackberry Smoke return with a new album, You Hear Georgia. Bassist Richard Turner explains the thinking behind the big tones
6 min |
July 2021
Bass Player
Benny Rietveld – Smooth Operator
Carlos Santana’s long-time bassist Benny Rietveld reflects on a career at the front line of expression
7 min |
July 2021
Newsweek
Liz Phair – Back in the Game
Indie rock legend Liz Phair reemerges with Soberish new album in over a decade
5 min |
June 18 - 25, 2021
New York magazine
Sleater-Kinney – ‘The Role of the Artist Is to Thrash Around'
Sleater-Kinney recommits.
10+ min |
May 24 - June 06, 2021
New York magazine
The Group Portrait: The Audience Is a Little Quiet
An ensemble from the New York Philharmonic plays Green-Wood Cemetery.
2 min |
May 24 - June 06, 2021
Guitar World
THIS VAN'S A-ROCKIN' ON THE NEW VAN WEEZER.
WEEZER’S RIVERS CUOMO OPENS UP A “PANDORA’S BOX OF EVIL GUITAR TOOLS” AND GOES CRAZY. BELOW, HE DISCUSSES HIS POST-EDDIE VAN HALEN SHRED INFLUENCES, EIGHTIES HAIR METAL AND WHY OZZY OSBOURNE HAD TO APPROVE ONE OF WEEZER’S NEW SONGS
10+ min |
July 2021
Guitar World
Ludic
WITH HER NEW BAND, FORMER CALPURNIA GUITARIST (AND WEEZER MUSIC VIDEO STAR) AYLA TESLER-MABE HEADS FOR UNDERSTATED, GROOVE-FORWARD WATERS
2 min |
July 2021
Guitar World
Evile
WITH LEAD GUITARIST OL DRAKE NOW MANNING THE MIC, ENGLAND’S EVILE RETURN TO UNLEASH VINTAGE THRASH METAL HELL WITH THEIR LATEST ALBUM
2 min |