Record Collector
The Collector
This month: music programmer and DJ Miche
6 min |
September 2022
Record Collector
NO LAUGHING STOCK
One of the great living Liverpudlians, Michael Head has plenty to smile about. But his has been a bumpy journey, as widely admired albums he’s made first with The Pale Fountains then Shack, under the aegis of The Strands and now The Red Elastic Band, have come either side of addiction-related potholes. Reanimating the latter project in some style at 60, fresh from another withdrawal induced by Covid lockdowns, he tells Pete Paphides how “I got my shit together, got focused” for his latest release, the Top 10 LP, Dear Scott.
10+ min |
September 2022
Record Collector
THE ENGINE ROOM
The unsung heroes who helped forge modern music
4 min |
September 2022
Guitar World
The Meter Is Running Wild
MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST FAREES AND METERS GUITAR LEGEND LEO NOCENTELLI DISCUSS THEIR DEBUT COLLABORATION, “THE MELTING”
6 min |
October 2022
Guitar World
STARDUST MEMORIES
Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust producer (and Beatles engineer) KEN SCOTT recalls the making of two of DAVID BOWIE and MARK RONSON’s most iconic albums.
7 min |
October 2022
Guitar World
Bartees Strange
THIS D.C. ARTIST’S LATEST ALBUM IS A CONVINCING REMINDER TO REMEMBER WHERE YOU CAME FROM — WHETHER IT’S THE MUSIC YOU WERE RAISED ON OR THE IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE
2 min |
October 2022
Guitar World
Lexi Rose
THIS PROLIFIC POSTER HAS AMASSED 500,000 FANS ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND CAUGHT THE ATTENTION OF SOME OF HER IDOLS. AND ALL IT TOOK WAS ONE KINGS OF LEON CONCERT
1 min |
October 2022
Guitar World
Charlie Worsham
HOW THIS SESSION SLINGER AND SINGER-SONGWRITER SWITCHES NASHVILLE’S GUITAR SCENE INTO OVERDRIVE
2 min |
October 2022
Guitar World
Lindsay Ell
THE COUNTRY-POP STAR GEEKS OUT ON ANALOG GUITAR GEAR
2 min |
October 2022
Guitar World
GWAR
PUSTULUS MAXIMUS and BALSAC THE JAWS OF DEATH discuss exactly what you’d expect super-powered outer-space al iens to talk about: old-school vs. new-school gear
8 min |
October 2022
Guitar World
PLAY BALL
Sixty years ago, a man named ERNIE BALL forever revolutionized the guitar string industry — and the rest, as they say, is history…
10+ min |
October 2022
Guitar World
The Badass Ambassador
DAVE MUSTAINE DISCUSSES HIS “BRAND AMBASSADOR” RELATIONSHIP WITH GIBSON — AND LET’S NOT FORGET HIS TWO NEW SIGNATURE FLYING V’S!
2 min |
October 2022
Guitar World
LIFE & DEATH
THE STRENGTH. THE COURAGE. THE CRUSHING NEW ALBUM. IN THIS EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW, MEGADETH MAIN MAN DAVE MUSTAINE WITH AN ASSIST FROM GUITARIST KIKO LOUREIRO TAKES YOU DEEP INSIDE THE SICK, THE DYING... AND THE DEAD!
10+ min |
October 2022
Guitar World
This Year’s Model
AFTER SERIOUSLY REINING THINGS IN ON THE LATEST OFFERING BY HIS MAIN BAND, FROST*, PROG-ROCK STALWART JOHN MITCHELL BRINGS HIS AX TO THE FORE ON THE NEW LONELY ROBOT ALBUM, A MODEL LIFE
4 min |
October 2022
Guitar World
JOHNSON AND JOHNSON
The Texas guitar great has concocted not one, but two albums bursting with new material — plus a few extras. “It feels good to clear out the vaults and to get everything out there…”
8 min |
October 2022
BBC Music Magazine
Fifteen composers at 30
What were the great composers getting up to as they reached three decades? Jeremy Pound looks at some notable examples
6 min |
September 2022
BBC Music Magazine
BACKSTAGE WITH… Cellist Guy Johnston
How did you come up with the inspiration for it?
2 min |
September 2022
BBC Music Magazine
This month: Trish Clowes
‘I respond to what band members are interested in – you develop together’
1 min |
September 2022
BBC Music Magazine
Order & Progress
Since Brazil gained independence 200 years ago, its composers have enriched both classical and jazz worldwide, as Mervyn Cooke relates
7 min |
September 2022
BBC Music Magazine
Sheku Kanneh-Mason
Music that changed me
3 min |
September 2022
BBC Music Magazine
Bodø Norway
Michael Beek joins the inaugural Aria Borealis Bodø, a biennial Early Music festival and singing competition just beyond the Arctic Circle
3 min |
September 2022
BBC Music Magazine
Benjamin Britten
His music was deeply rooted in the landscapes of Suffolk, but Britten also drew inspiration from well outside Europe
6 min |
September 2022
BBC Music Magazine
Roger and out
As a leading pioneer of the period performance movement, Roger Norrington has transformed how we hear composers from Bach to Mahler. As he retires, he shares his memories with Julian Haylock
6 min |
September 2022
BBC Music Magazine
Pentopixels
Communication between musicians and their fans was once time-consuming if more personal. Ariane Todes looks at how social media has changed everything
7 min |
September 2022
Total Guitar
Billy Howerdel – "It Was a Happy Accident"
Billy Howerdel on his ‘Frankensteined' guitar and his debut solo album
2 min |
August 2022
Total Guitar
Tash Sultana – "It's Fully Plugged in!”
Tash Sultana is an artist playing by their own rules. A new Unplugged album features plenty of acoustic guitars - but also a Strat, a Tele and a Whammy pedal
7 min |
Summer 2022
Total Guitar
The greatest guitar albums of all time - The 60s
Beatlemania inspired millions of kids to pick up guitars. And with the dawn of the rock era and the elevation of the album as an art form, a golden generation of guitar heroes emerged - Clapton, Beck, Page, Santana and Hendrix...
10+ min |
August 2022
Rock Sound
BLOOD COMMAND
NIKKI WALKS US THROUGH HER HOPES FOR THE FUTURE.
2 min |
August 2022
Rock Sound
PERFECT TEN
10 NEW RELEASES YOU NEED TO HEAR
2 min |
August 2022
Rock Sound
NO FEAR
PUT VERY VERY BLUNTLY, THE NEW ITHACA ALBUM COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY CRUSHES. DJAMILA BODEN AZZOUZ WALKS US THROUGH IT...
5 min |