BBC Music Magazine
San Diego United States
Jeremy Pound enjoys the great outdoors as the sun sets to Debussy and Mahler at the southern Californian city's eye-catching new venue
3 min |
July 2023
BBC Music Magazine
Gustav Mahler
Forthright and bold as Mahler's symphonies may appear, they are also works of remarkable subtlety and ambiguity
6 min |
July 2023
Guitar World
TRANSFORMER
Sure, he made a massive imprint on David Bowie's classic early Seventies albums. But Mick Ronson also worked with Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, John Mellencamp, Elton John, Roger McGuinn, Morrissey, Ian Hunter and many others. GW profiles the post-Bowie career of rock 'n' roll's most quietly spoken guitar hero. Starring Def Leppard's Joe Elliott, Slaughter and the Dogs' Mick Rossi and the Cult's Billy Duffy
10+ min |
August 2023
Guitar World
Full Spedding Ahead
BRITISH SESSION ACE CHRIS SPEDDING ON BEING ASKED TO AUDITION FOR THE ROLLING STONES, PRODUCING THE SEX PISTOLS' EARLY DEMOS AND RECORDING HIS FINAL ALBUM WITH ROBERT GORDON
5 min |
August 2023
Guitar World
FIVE QUESTIONS: MCKINLEY JAMES
THE SOUL / BLUES / ROCK ’N’ ROLL AFICIONADO ON HOW HE FILLS OUT A DUO — AND WHY YOU’LL PROBABLY NEVER SEE HIM FEATURED IN OUR “MY PEDALBOARD” SECTION
2 min |
August 2023
Guitar World
Covet
YVETTE YOUNG MIGHT CALL IT A NEW BEGINNING, BUT HER PLAYING ON CATHARSIS IS AS BLINDING AS EVER
2 min |
August 2023
BBC Music Magazine
The fight to be heard
Exiled from their homeland by the Taliban, Afghan musicians are striving to promote a rich musical heritage
6 min |
July 2023
BBC Music Magazine
Hidden treasures
After spending two decades searching the archives for neglected operas, conductor Charles Peebles recalls the risks and challenges of bringing them to the stage
6 min |
July 2023
BBC Music Magazine
Making Tracks
Composer, and Radio 3 presenter, Hannah Peel is forging a multi-faceted career while also giving crucial breaks to fellow musicians, as she tells Tom Stewart
5 min |
July 2023
Guitar World
BETTENCOURT OF PUBLIC ΟΡΙΝΙΟΝ
BRIAN MAY, ZAKK WYLDE, STEVE VAI, TOM MORELLO AND MORE EXPLAIN WHY NUNO AIN'T YOUR TYPICAL GUITAR HERO
6 min |
August 2023
Guitar World
RISE AND SHINE
NUNO BETTENCOURT ON THE FINER POINTS OF HIS \"RISE\" GUITAR SOLO - AND THE FIRESTORM IT HAS SPARKED IN GUITAR LAND
10 min |
August 2023
Guitar World
THE RISING SON
BACK IN MARCH, EXTREME RELEASED A NEW SONG AND MUSIC VIDEO CALLED \"RISE\" (COMPLETE WITH A FREAKIN' PHENOMENAL NUNO BETTENCOURT GUITAR SOLO). THE GUITAR-PLAYING COMMUNITY HASN'T QUITE BEEN THE SAME SINCE
10+ min |
August 2023
Guitar World
Two Dog Knights
CATCHING UP WITH WINERY DOGS RICHIE KOTZEN AND BILLY SHEEHAN
4 min |
August 2023
Guitar World
DevilDriver
LIKE ITS PREDECESSOR, DEALING WITH DEMONS VOL. II IS AN ALL-OUT WAR OF GUN-TURRET TREMOLO PICKING AND DARKLY ANTHEMIC CHORUSES
2 min |
August 2023
BBC Music Magazine
A titan without ego
For many, conductor Otto Klemperer will be remembered as the steady and reliable champion of classic repertoire, but in his youth the German was a dashing advocate of the new
7 min |
July 2023
BBC Music Magazine
Once a Prom a time...
From Horrible Histories to Doctor Who, Clare Stevens takes a whistlestop tour of children's Proms through the last 30 years
5 min |
July 2023
BBC Music Magazine
Eric Whitacre
It's not really the done thing to go into fan mode during an interview
6 min |
July 2023
Record Collector
The Flaming Lips – "We like Sex Pistols and Pink Floyd"
Across four decades and countless madcap ideas, The Flaming Lips have evolved from indie noiseniks to purveyors of Disneyesque symphonia to multi-media art ensemble, each new album expanding the group's sonic world and conceptual ambitions. Accidental hits (She Don't Use Jelly; Do You Realize??) have pulled them into the mainstream on occasion, and yet the Lips have consistently refused to court commercial success and often seemed to actively shun it, with a string of extra-curricular projects, including a homemade sci-fi movie and a line in deconstructive covers albums, defying even the most hardened Lips fan to make sense of it all. Frontman Wayne Coyne tells Jason Draper why the extreme-embracing unit will always remain a "weirdo studio band".
10+ min |
July 2023
Guitar Techniques
MO' BETTER BLUES! Bonamassa & Friends
Andy Saphir offers up a blues-rock fest in the style of vintage guitar-wielding blues legend, Joe Bonamassa and his contemporary friends and musical collaborators.
2 min |
July 2023
Guitar Techniques
IMPROVE YOUR ARPEGGIOS PT 2
Following on from last month where he looked at rhythm guitar arpeggios, here Simon Barnard shows how they can improve your solos, too.
2 min |
July 2023
Guitar Techniques
TASTY SOLOING
This month Andy G Jones from London’s LCCM investigates the style of one of the great blues, rock and jazz session greats, Larry Carlton.
2 min |
July 2023
Guitar Techniques
LÉO DELIBES Pizzicato (from Sylvia)
This month Declan Zapala reduces an orchestra to just six strings with his arrangement of this quirky and chirpy pizzicato movement from Delibes’ ballet masterpiece.
3 min |
July 2023
Guitar Techniques
CHRIS REA
This month Phil Short takes a trip down memory lane exploring the slide guitar stylings of Middlesborough’s finest pop-blues crooner.
2 min |
July 2023
Guitar Techniques
JARED JAMES NICHOLS
A minute's all it takes to discover what makes a great guitarist tick. Before he jumped into his limo for the airport, we grabbed a quick chat with amodern American blues-rock tour-de-force.
7 min |
July 2023
Guitar Techniques
JARED JAMES NICHOLS Six Rock Licks
This young but very old-school rock master took time out of his busy schedule to record six, red-hot blues-rock licks for you, all in the key of A. Jon Bishop is your guide.
1 min |
July 2023
Guitar Techniques
LADY A
In this month’s acoustic column Stuart Ryan shows you how to craft parts in the style of these harmonious American country hitmakers!
2 min |
July 2023
Guitar Techniques
DAVID GRISSOM
Guitar instrumentals have supplied some of music’s most evocative moments. Jason Sidwell asks top guitarists for their take on this iconic movement. This month it's the stunning blues-rocker and tone master from Austin, Texas.
5 min |
July 2023
Guitar Techniques
JUSTIN SANDERCOE
The founder of justinguitar.com lends GT his insight as one of the world’s most successful guitar teachers
4 min |
July 2023
Guitar Techniques
MITCH DALTON
The studio guitarist’s guide to happiness and personal fulfilment, as related by our resident session ace.
3 min |
July 2023
Guitar Techniques
JEFF LOOMIS
This month Charlie Griffiths gets Nevermore heavy with five very challenging licks from the shredder from Seattle with no Arch Enemies.
2 min |