Rock Sound
ON THE SPIN
SPECTACULAR. ENDURING. ESSENTIAL. DANCE GAVIN DANCE HAVE BEEN THROUGH MORE IN A FEW YEARS THAN MOST BANDS WOULD GO THROUGH IN THEIR ENTIRE CAREER, BUT THEY'RE NOT JUST MAKING IT THROUGH THEY'RE THRIVING. HERE, JON, WILL, TILIAN, MATT AND ANDREW WALK US THROUGH THE JOURNEY FROM 'AFTERBURNER' TO THEIR IMMENSE NEW ALBUM 'JACKPOT JUICER', TO THE PASSING OF THEIR BASSIST TIM FEERICK AND THE FUTURE OF THE BAND. IF EVER A BAND NEEDED TO WIN, IT'S THIS ONE. AND THEY'RE DOING IT.
10+ min |
July 2022
Rock Sound
PERFECT TEN 10 NEW RELEASES YOU NEED TO HEAR
VAXIS II: A WINDOW OF THE WAKING MIND'
2 min |
July 2022
Rock Sound
MINT GREEN
MEET THE PEOPLE BEHIND WHAT MIGHT JUST BE ONE OF 2022'S BREAKOUT ALBUMS.
2 min |
July 2022
Rock Sound
BUCKET LIST DANNY BEUS DUNE RATS
DANNY WALKS US THROUGH THE ACHIEVEMENTS HE'S YET TO TICK OFF HIS LIST.
2 min |
July 2022
Rock Sound
NOW, NOW, NOW
NOVA TWINS AND THEIR SPECTACULAR NEW ALBUM ARE EVERYWHERE RIGHT NOW. WE SIT DOWN WITH AMY AND GEORGIA AS THEY EXPLAIN WHY...
5 min |
July 2022
Rock Sound
ANY QUESTION ANSWERED NOAHFINNCE
NOAH WALKS US THROUGH HIS FASCINATING LIFE AND CAREER SO FAR AHEAD OF HIS NEW EP, 'MY LIFE AFTER THERAPY'.
10+ min |
July 2022
Computer Music
15 questions with...John Newman
John Newman may already be known as the charttopping singer with hits like 2012's UK number one Feel The Love (with Rudimental) and global top 10 Love Me Again, but this year he's taken his own advice - "move on before it's too late". He's now embarked on a new chapter, John Newman 2.0, which is more dance-orientated, but actually returns to his production roots where he discovered computer music via some breakfast cereals...
10 min |
July 2022
Guitar Player
TOP GUN
With fans that ranged from Pete Townshend to Eddie Van Halen and Yngwie Malmsteen, Leslie West inspired players across the genres with his singular playing style and a searing lead guitar tone that could belong to no other.
10+ min |
July 2022
Guitar Player
SHRED WHITE & BLUE JACK WHITE
HAS PUT HIS SIGNATURE STYLE ON GEAR — FROM ITS SOUND TO ITS LOOK. AS HE DROPS HIS LATEST ALBUM, FEAR OF THE DAWN, HE GIVES GUITAR PLAYER AN EXCLUSIVE LOOK AT THE GUITARS, PEDALS AND PASSION BEHIND HIS BLUE PERIOD.
10+ min |
July 2022
Guitar Player
MIAMI VICE
Nile Rodgers riffs on his famed Hitmaker Stratocaster as Fender releases a limited-edition replica.
6 min |
July 2022
Guitar Player
SQUIER
40th Anniversary Telecaster, Gold Edition
4 min |
July 2022
Guitar Player
MY CAREER IN FIVE SONGS
As The Police — Greatest Hits returns in a deluxe edition, Andy Summers reflects on five classic tracks from the band's timeless catalog.
10 min |
July 2022
Guitar Player
LINE 6
DL4 MkII Delay Modeler Pedal
5 min |
July 2022
Guitar Player
LAVA ME 3
SMART GUITARS
7 min |
July 2022
Guitar Player
How I Wrote... "Fantasy"
Aldo Nova reveals how some free studio time led to his breakthrough 1982 hit.
3 min |
July 2022
Guitar Player
ELECTRIC WARRIORS
Following a seven-year absence, Def Leppard return with the glam-inspired Diamond Star Halos. Phil Collen explains how they got it on like the old days.
9 min |
July 2022
Guitar Player
CRAZY TUBE CIRCUITS (Phi) Golden Ratio
EFFECTS PEDALS
3 min |
July 2022
Guitar Player
AUSTIN POWER
From chunk to chicha, Beto Martinez is the new king of Latin rock guitar.
7 min |
July 2022
Guitar Player
AMERICANA REDUX
In our second installment, Ry Cooder reveals the source of his authentic guitar tones on his new album with Taj Mahal, Get On Board: The Songs of Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee.
9 min |
July 2022
Total Guitar
The Many Faces of Jack White
Innovator. Visionary. Gearhead. And a guitar hero like no other. Jack White is all of these things and more...
10+ min |
June 2022
Total Guitar
Jack White – I'm the proudest I've been in my life of my guitar playing
As two new solo albums illustrate the breadth of his art, Jack White believes that he's reaching a new peak as a guitarist. "There are places I've never gone before," he says, "and techniques I thought I wasn't capable of doing...”
10+ min |
June 2022
Total Guitar
How to create a rock anthem by Def Leppard
Guitarists Phil Collen and Vivian Campbell on the art of the stadium rock banger. Rule number one: "Respect the melody..."
9 min |
June 2022
Total Guitar
Russell Lissack – "I do as much with my feet as I do with my hands!"
Bloc Party's lead guitarist Russell Lissack has two of the most complex pedalboards ever amassed. So how many pedals did he have when making the band's new album? "Probably a hundred," he laughs...
7 min |
June 2022
Total Guitar
We Have No Amps-and Crappy Guitars!
Inside the Lo-fi World of Alt-rockers Momma
2 min |
June 2022
Rock Sound
PERFECT TEN
10 NEW RELEASES TEN YOU NEED TO HEAR
2 min |
June 2022
Rock Sound
IBARAKI
A PROJECT A DECADE IN THE MAKING THAT HAS STORYTELLING, EXPERIMENTATION AND HUMANITY AT ITS HEART.
2 min |
June 2022
Rock Sound
HOME SWEET HOME
SLAM DUNK FESTIVAL IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER, AND AT THE TOP OF THE BILL FOR 2022 ARE SOME NEW FACES, SOME FAMILIAR. WE SPOKE TO BEN BARLOW, DERYCK WHIBLEY, GEORGE PETTIT AND WADE MACNEIL FROM HEADLINERS NECK DEEP, SUM 41 AND THIS MONTHS' ROCK SOUND COVER STARS, ALEXISONFIRE, TO FIND OUT WHY IT MIGHT JUST BE THE BEST YEAR YET.
6 min |
June 2022
Rock Sound
Band Of Brothers
ALEXISONFIRE ARE BACK, AND BIGGER, BETTER AND BOLDER THAN EVER BEFORE. HERE, ALL FIVE OF THE BAND TAKE US THROUGH THE EMOTIONS AND STEPS THAT HAVE ALLOWED THEM TO CRAFT THE FINEST ALBUM OF THEIR CAREER, AND GROW STRONGER THAN EVER.
10+ min |
June 2022
Rock Sound
BONNIE FRASER: STAND ATLANTIC
BON WALKS US THROUGH A FEW THINGS SHE'S YET TO TICK OFF.
2 min |
June 2022
Rock Sound
ANY QUESTION ANSWERED: LZZY HALE
LZZY TELLS HER STORY ACROSS HER MOST EXTENSIVE, IN DEPTH INTERVIEW TO DATE, FROM HER FIRST EXPERIENCES OF MUSIC AND THE FORMATION OF HALESTORM RIGHT THROUGH TO THEIR AWESOME NEW ALBUM 'BACK FROM THE DEAD', AND BEYOND.
10+ min |