Guitar World
Golden ‘Grams - The Rise (And Shine) Of Instagram Guitarists
Regardless of how you feel about the ever-increasing (and often distracting) role social media plays in modern life, Instagram has inarguably been a massive boon to guitar culture over its near-decade in existence.
3 min |
January 2020
Guitar World
Shifting Gear
FROM AVANT-GARDE ELECTRICS TO AFFORDABLE ACOUSTICS, MINI AMPS TO MIGHTY APPS, COATED STRINGS TO BRILLIANT BRACINGS AND BEYOND, GUITAR WORLD REVISITS A DECADE OF UNBRIDLED INNOVATION.
10+ min |
January 2020
Guitar World
Sleater - Kinney
In the wake of drummer Janet Weiss’ surprise departure, guitarists Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein discuss gear, songwriting and their latest album, the St. Vincent produced The Center Won’t Hold.
7 min |
January 2020
Guitar World
Michael Schenker's Revelations
WHETHER HE’S TALKING ABOUT THE SCORPIONS, UFO, HIS NEW ALBUM OR THE “DISTORTION OF HIS IMAGE,” THE GERMAN GUITAR LEGEND IS AS CANDID AS EVER.
10+ min |
January 2020
Guitar World
Instrumental Values
Fishman Tripleplay Connect
3 min |
January 2020
Guitar World
Class Acts
A Rundown Of The Explosive Playing Styles Of Our Top-four Cover Stars — Mark Tremonti, Tosin Abasi, Gary Clark Jr. And Nita Strauss.
5 min |
January 2020
Guitar World
10'll Getcha 20: The Guitarist Of The Decade
Guitar World’s Readers And Writers Band Together To Pinpoint Guitardom’s Most Vital Players Of The Past 10 Years.
10+ min |
January 2020
Halftime Magazine
TARPS ON THE FIELD
Used in various shapes, sizes, and colors, tarps help marching groups transform the football field into their own stage.
6 min |
November/December 2019
Halftime Magazine
SPIRIT & SYNERGY
With formations of giant stick figures doing the “floss,”
8 min |
November/December 2019
Halftime Magazine
THE DRUM MAJOR LIFECYCLE
From aspiring hopeful to drum major, from student to teacher, and from motivated to motivator, a drum major grows by leaps and bounds during her time on the podium with the University of Delaware and with the George N. Parks Drum Major Academy.
4 min |
November/December 2019
Halftime Magazine
THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
The University of Southern California ( U S C )Trojan Marching Band (TMB) has many nicknames:
5 min |
November/December 2019
Halftime Magazine
REVIEWING GAME DAY SECURITY
Safety first! Both host and visiting bands must join forces with administrators and security personnel to create a positive event experience.
8 min |
November/December 2019
Bass Player
Markbass Little Mark Vintage Amp
Italy’s kings of bass amplification serve up a new recipe, incorporating a valve preamp for added low-frequency goodness. Mike ‘Gordon Ramsay’ Brooks hooks up some cabinets, and prepares his taste buds
3 min |
Holiday 2019
Bass Player
Yamaha Attitude 3
Round three for Billy Sheehan’s wondrous signature Yamaha. Stuart Clayton prepares his tapping fingers
3 min |
Holiday 2019
Bass Player
Watt Prevails
Bassist for a generation of punk rockers, symbol of perseverance against the odds, winner of Bass Player ’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and pioneer of the less-is-more ethos—just take a look at his signature bass—Mike Watt is that rare bassist: one of a kind. We take a meeting with the sometime Minuteman
9 min |
Holiday 2019
Bass Player
Low End Of Love
Joe Shooman signs off each issue by celebrating an iconic bass guitar This month: The Hagström Super Swede
2 min |
Holiday 2019
Bass Player
Life Begins...
...at 40! We visit Chris May of Overwater Basses for a look back across four decades of low (and high) frequencies
8 min |
Holiday 2019
Bass Player
High Score
Stanley Clarke is known for his work in many musical fields. We talk to him in this issue about his career as a composer for film and television… and where the bass fits in
6 min |
Holiday 2019
Bass Player
Giving It Away
Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Michael ‘Flea’ Balzary needs no introduction, thanks to his genuinely iconic status in our world—but you’ll read about another side of the great man in his new autobiography, Acid For The Children. Joel McIver goes deep with the spokesman for an entire generation of bass players
10+ min |
Holiday 2019
Bass Player
Bassist Of The Year 2019
At the London Bass Guitar Show UK back in September, we crowned the winner of this year’s Bassist Of The Year competition, in association with Orange Amplification. It was a close-run contest between our three finalists, who were chosen by Robert Trujillo, Stuart Hamm, Joe Dart, and Mark King—but in the end the victor was Leo De Santi, whose performance narrowly outdid the equally talented runners-up Marine Courtin, and Andreas Oxholm. All of them took home a much-deserved haul of Orange bass gear, but before they headed off to celebrate, we got interviews out of them!
6 min |
Holiday 2019
Bass Player
A-Mazed
Claudia McKenzie of 4th Labyrinth ended up as a bass player by accident—but it yielded results, she tells us
2 min |
Holiday 2019
Smooth Jazz Magazine
NAJEE-Center Of The Heart
It’s almost as if he needs no introduction. He’s achieved the honor and reached the status of having a name that identifies him simply using two syllables, Najee.
10+ min |
November - December 2019
Smooth Jazz Magazine
MATTHEW WHITAKER-NOW HEAR THIS
“Here’s a fun fact, on the first day of recording the music in the studio, my manager and I were thinking about it, you know, and it just came. It’s like, “’m out the box now, what can I do? I want people to hear what I wanted to musically say."
9 min |
November - December 2019
Smooth Jazz Magazine
MARCUS JOHNSON
Marcus Johnson, a resident of the District of Columbia, is an award-winning, Billboard chart-topping, NAACP Image Award-nominated jazz pianist, entrepreneur, and self-empowerment activist.
1 min |
November - December 2019
Smooth Jazz Magazine
Kenny Nightingale
Kenny Nightingale is originally from Nigeria, the west side of Africa.
2 min |
November - December 2019
Guitar World
New Voices In Guitar
On the lookout for jaw-dropping new talent? Here’s our guide to 10 guitarists to keep an eye (or two) on in the coming year
10+ min |
Holiday Special 2019
Guitar World
Jeff Beck
It’s hard to ignore. ¶ Almost every time we ask a guitarist to name his “biggest influence” or “the reason you got into guitar,” the name Jeff Beck invariably pops up — along with three or four glowing adjectives, adverbs and exclamation points. ¶ In the following interviews, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Steve Stevens, Vince Gill, Carmen Vandenberg and Tyler Bryant explain why the ever-evolving Jeff Beck is the guitar hero’s guitar hero.
10+ min |
Holiday Special 2019
Guitar World
Far Beyond Driven
LIVING LEGEND ZAKK WYLDE JOINS GUITAR WORLD FOR AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW AND LESSON TO CELEBRATE THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BREWTAL BROTHERHOOD, BLACK LABEL SOCIETY
10+ min |
Holiday Special 2019
Smooth Jazz Magazine
Gerald Albright-Very First Christmas CD In A 30 Plus Year Career! Not So Silent Night
I recently had the pleasure of having a most pleasant interview with Saxophone great Mr. Gerald Albright to chat about his latest album “A Not So Silent Night.”
4 min |
November - December 2019
Guitar World
War Machine
Celebrating 20 years of Sabaton, the mighty power-metal band from Sweden who built a thriving career singing about World War II bombing campaigns, decorated snipers, legendary battleships, the battle of Thermopylae, and just about all things war
10 min |