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THE WILD TIMES, FINAL DAYS and LAST RECORDINGS of ALEXI LAIHO 1979-2020
FEATURING INTERVIEWS WITH HIS BODOM AFTER MIDNIGHT BANDMATES DANIEL FREYBERG AND MITJA TOIVONEN, PLUS FORMER CHILDREN OF BODOM GUITARIST ROOPE LATVALA.
10+ min |
July 2021
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The Ides Have It
MYLES KENNEDY — THE MAN WHO ONCE AUDITIONED FOR LED ZEPPELIN — TALKS US THROUGH THE BLISTERING PENTATONICS AND VINTAGE GEAR HEARD ON HIS SECOND SOLO ALBUM, THE IDES OF MARCH
5 min |
July 2021
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INQUIRER GEORGE THOROGOOD
LONESOME GEORGE TALKS ROOTS, HIS FIRST GUITAR AND THE WONDERS OF THE ES-125
3 min |
July 2021
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Jurassic Classic
On the 50th anniversary of Electric Warrior, producer Tony Visconti discusses the genius of T. Rex guitarist Marc Bolan
10+ min |
July 2021
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Ernest Ranglin – All Hall The King Of Ska Guitar
The life and times of jamaican guitar legend ernest ranglin
10+ min |
July 2021
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Peter Frampton
The talkbox-toting guitar legend talks new covers album, modded Marshalls and being reunited with his prized Les Paul custom after 30 years
7 min |
July 2021
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Kirk Douglas
How The Roots guitarist and fallon veteran helped turn the “underrepresented” sg into a jack of all trades
3 min |
July 2021
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GRETA VAN FLEET
BATTLE READY CAN ONE OF ROCK’S MOST POLARIZING YOUNG BANDS ONCE AGAIN SILENCE CRITICS WITH THEIR CINEMATIC NEW ALBUM, THE BATTLE AT GARDEN’S GATE? GUITARIST JAKE KISZKA AIMS TO FIND OUT
10+ min |
June 2021
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GLORY ROAD
IRON MAIDEN’S ADRIAN SMITH TEAMS UP WITH RICHIE KOTZEN TO TAKE A BLUESY, HARD-ROCKING SIDE TRIP
8 min |
June 2021
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THE NEW WAVE OF CLASSIC ROCK
OUR GUIDE TO 15 “NEW WAVE OF CLASSIC ROCK” ACTS THAT ASPIRE TO THE GREAT GUITAR HEIGHTS OF THEIR FOREBEARS (OR SIMPLY, 15 KICKASS GUITAR BANDS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT!)
10+ min |
June 2021
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The J's Have It
EPIPHONE INSPIRED BY GIBSON J-45 AND J-200
3 min |
June 2021
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Mark Lettieri
THE IN-DEMAND SNARKY PUPPY/FEARLESS FLYERS GUITARIST DISCUSSES HIS NEW “DOES EVERYTHING AT 100 PERCENT” SIGNATURE GUITAR, THE PRS FIORE
2 min |
June 2021
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Spiritual Awakening
HUGHES & KETTNER SPIRIT NANO SERIES AMPS
4 min |
June 2021
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Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio
THE VINTAGE COOL OF GUITARIST JIMMY JAMES
2 min |
June 2021
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Interview – Damon Johnson
On the hard-rocking battle lessons, the former Black Star Riders/Alice Cooper/Thin Lizzy guitarist establishes himself as a force of one
4 min |
June 2021
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Born For One Thing
Joe Duplantier details the themes, tones and influences that led to Fortitude, GOJIRA’s cinematic, hard-hitting and uplifting new album (plus songcraft, Death, Whammy pedals and that fine-looking mahogany Charvel...)
10+ min |
June 2021
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Tetrarch – Addictively Unstable
Tetrarch’s Diamond rowe and Josh Fore are more than willing to take you back to the golden era of Nu-metal
7 min |
June 2021
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MIDNIGHT MADNESS
Foo Fighters’ guitar triumvirate DAVE GROHL, CHRIS SHIFLETT & PAT SMEAR unleash their inner early-Eighties David Bowie (and SRV), bust out the ABBA beats and get decidedly “weird” — just in time for their 10th album, Medicine at Midnight
10+ min |
April 2021
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Remembering Leslie West
THE BIG MAN WHOSE BIG GUITAR SOUND HELPED LAUNCH HEAVY METAL
5 min |
April 2021
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Intervals
WHY NO PEDALS OR AMPS WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF CANADIAN PROG-METALLER AARON MARSHALL’S AGGRESSIVE NEW RECORD
2 min |
April 2021
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The Commander in Chief
THIS SEDULOUS SEVEN-STRINGER PUTS A COMPLETELY NEW SPIN ON CLASSICAL-INSPIRED GUITAR MUSIC
2 min |
April 2021
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Relentless Reckless Forever
GW PAYS TRIBUTE TO ALEXI LAIHO, THE LONG-TIME CHILDREN OF BODOM GUITARIST WHO REVOLUTIONIZED DEMONIC SHRED IN THE NINETIES AND 2000S AND EMBRACED A HARD-PARTYING LIFESTYLE WORTHY OF HIS “WILDCHILD” NICKNAME
9 min |
April 2021
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LARKIN POE
Six-string sisters REBECCA and MEGAN LOVELL talk us through the tones that grace their new covers record — Kindred SpiritS — and the musical telepathy that comes with growing up together OVER THE LAST 10 or so years, sibling duo Larkin Poe have become one of the most exciting prospects in guitar music, thanks to their tasteful musicianship and heavenly harmonies. Latest release Kindred Spirits sees them return to the “covers” format that originally got them noticed, giving us their take on classic hits by Elton John, Neil Young and Elvis Presley, as well as more contemporary cuts by Lenny Kravitz and Post Malone.
10+ min |
April 2021
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Fleshgod Apocalypse
Francesco Paoli lifts the lid on the symphonic death metal masters’ most vicious and vivacious cycle of songs thus far
3 min |
April 2021
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Meet Me @ The Altar
Guitarist Téa Campbell marries her pop-punk and emo influences
2 min |
April 2021
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Jan Akkerman – “Hocus Pocus”
Focus | Moving Waves, 1971 | Guitarist: Jan Akkerman
3 min |
April 2021
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Plini – Voices in The Sky
PLINI — the guy Steve Vai once called “the future of exceptional guitar playing” — discusses the perils of “guitar fame,” the challenges of a modern prog-rocker and his breathtaking new album, Impulse Voices
9 min |
April 2021
GOLDMINE
THE GRAND POOBAH!
SINCE THEIR INCARNATION in the early 1970s, the band Poobah have recorded over a dozen albums with various lineups, while openi ng for some of rock and roll’s biggest names.
9 min |
April 2021
GOLDMINE
THE MAKING OF PEARL
JANIS JOPLIN IN 1970: A NEW B AND AND THE MAKING OF HER CLASSIC ALBUM, PEARL.
9 min |
April 2021
GOLDMINE
There Must Have Been Something in the Water
If The Beatles never happened, if the British invasion never occurred, then music fans around the world would more than likely never have been exposed to some of the finest white blues singers that the U.K. produced between 1964 and 1970.
8 min |