Guitar World
Built to Spill
FRONTMAN DOUG MARTSCH REFLECTS ON KEEP IT LIKE A SECRET AT 20
2 min |
September 2020
Guitar World
Eight Arms to Hold You
PERENNIAL BRITISH PROG-ROCK HEROES WISHBONE ASH RETURN TO THE SOMEWHAT UNSTABLE MUSICAL LANDSCAPE OF 2020 WITH COAT OF ARMS, THEIR FIRST NEW ALBUM OF STUDIO MATERIAL IN SIX YEARS. GUITARIST ANDY POWELL GIVES GW THE LOWDOWN ON HIS BAND’S 23RD OFFERING
7 min |
September 2020
Guitar World
“A Guitar is Like a Mini Orchestra”
From Jeff Buckley to gods and monsters and beyond, Captain Beefheart Alum Gary Lucas celebrates his diverse career on an impressive new compilation.
7 min |
September 2020
GOLDMINE
DION IS STILL KING
A ROCK AND ROLL ICON, FROM THE BELMONTS TO A HIPPIE FOLK HERO, DION IS AT HOME WITH THE BLUES.
10+ min |
August 2020
GOLDMINE
LITTLE RICHARD THE Specialty YEARS
A wop bop a loo bop a wop bam boom!
10+ min |
August 2020
GOLDMINE
Life According to DeYoung
DENNIS DEYOUNG TALKS OPENLY ABOUT HIS LIFE AND CAREER, AND DIVES INTO THE DEPTH OF HIS LATEST ALBUM, 26 EAST: VOLUME 1.
10 min |
August 2020
GOLDMINE
The Choir Reunite
OMNIVORE RECORDINGS PRESENTS A LIVE REUNION OF CLEVELAND LATE-’60S PROTO-PROGRESSIVE BAND.
10+ min |
August 2020
GOLDMINE
ANOTHER LEGENDARY BRUCE
ACROSS 34 ALBUMS, BRUCE COCKBURN HAS MADE MUSIC THAT IS OFTEN DIFFICULT TO DEFINE.
10+ min |
August 2020
GOLDMINE
CHERISHED!
ORIGINAL MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION TALK ABOUT THE PAST AND THEIR FIRST ALBUM SINCE 1972.
10 min |
August 2020
GOLDMINE
Catching up with a Buckingham
AN INTERVIEW WITH CARL GIAMMARESE OF THE ’60S POP GROUP, THE BUCKINGHAMS.
10+ min |
August 2020
GOLDMINE
A LOST AMERICAN CLASSIC RETURNS
THE IRON CITY HOUSEROCKERS’ HAVE A GOOD TIME BUT...GET OUT ALIVE IS REISSUED AND REMASTERED FOR ITS 40TH ANNIVERSARY.
10 min |
August 2020
Guitar World
THUNDERBYRD
SOME GUITAR HEROES ARE ESTEEMED FOR THEIR TECHNICAL FLASH. BUT THERE ARE OTHERS WHOSE GUITAR WORK IS UPSTAGED BY THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS AS SONGWRITERS, SINGERS, TRENDSETTERS AND TASTEMAKERS — GUITARISTS WHOSE SOUND IS SO INEXTRICABLY WOVEN INTO THE FABRIC OF ROCK THAT THE WHOLE THING WOULD BE UNTHINKABLE WITHOUT THEM. THAT’S THE KIND OF GUITAR HERO ROGER McGUINN IS.
10+ min |
August 2020
Guitar World
CROWN JEWELS
MASSIVE GUITARS, SLIDE FOR DAYS, LED ZEP SWAGGER AND SABBATH-SIZED RIFFS. GUITARIST KEVIN COMEAU TAKES YOU INSIDE CROWN LANDS’ DARK, NORTH-OF-THE-BORDER BLUES ROCK
7 min |
August 2020
Guitar World
Out of the Silent Planet
HOW RADIOHEAD GUITARIST ED O’BRIEN GATHERED THE COURAGE TO STEP OUT ON HIS OWN — VOCALS AND ALL — ON HIS AMBIENT AND ACCESSIBLE DEBUT, EARTH
4 min |
August 2020
Guitar World
THE ARTIST'S WAY
IN CELEBRATION OF THE 35TH ANNIVERSARY OF PRS GUITARS 35 PLAYERS — FROM ALEX LIFESON TO JOHN MAYER TO DAVE NAVARRO TO CARLOS SANTANA — EXPLAIN HOW PRS INSTRUMENTS LED THEM ON A PATH TO HIGHER CREATIVITY
10+ min |
August 2020
Guitar World
Refused
SWEDISH POST-HARDCORE MASTERS FIND THE FUNK, THE PUNK AND THEIR VERY ESSENCE ON THEIR LATEST RELEASE, WAR MUSIC
2 min |
August 2020
Guitar World
Life of Agony
GUITARIST JOEY ZAMPELLA TALKS MELODIC SOLOS, HIS UNUSUAL APPROACH TO RECORDING AND THE SOUND OF SCARS, THE VENERABLE ALT-METALLERS’ COMPELLING SEQUEL TO THEIR 1993 DEBUT, RIVER RUNS RED
2 min |
August 2020
Guitar World
Emmanuel's Labors
ON THE BEST OF TOMMYSONGS, ACOUSTIC WIZARD TOMMY EMMANUEL REVISITS — AND REINTERPRETS — SOME OF HIS FAVORITE COMPOSITIONS (AND THROWS IN A HANDFUL OF FUTURE CLASSICS)
7 min |
August 2020
Guitar World
5 Questions with Konvent Guitarist Sara Nørregaard
FANS AND CRITICS have called Konvent’s Puritan Masochism the doom metal highlight of 2020, an instant classic and/or pretty much everything in between.
2 min |
August 2020
Bass Player
PASS NOTES: ASHLEY REEVE
Welcome to Pass Notes, our new advice column, in which we ask a renowned bass player for tips about how to make it as a musician. This month: Cher bassist Ashley Reeve
4 min |
July 2020
Bass Player
IT WAS FORTY YEARS AGO TODAY...
...that Mark King’s flying thumb first blew our minds and, in doing so, opened up a whole new era for the bass guitar. As Level 42 celebrate their fourth decade in business, we sit down with King and take a look back—with the benefit of 2020 vision
10 min |
July 2020
Bass Player
MARLEAUX Contra
A four-string beauty from Gerald Marleaux falls into the hands of Mike Brooks
4 min |
July 2020
Bass Player
THIS GOES TO TWELVE
Idaho-resident bassist Mark Rowe owns what is thought to be the world’s largest collection of 12-string basses. We meet him for a chat about the thang behind the twang...
4 min |
July 2020
Bass Player
LOW LIFE
Nail your preparation with Tax The Heat bassist and BIMM UK Live Performance tutor Antonio Angotti
3 min |
July 2020
Bass Player
HARTKE LX8500
The new big box from the esteemed amp-makers Hartke arrives on Stuart Clayton’s desk. Cover your ears, he advises
4 min |
July 2020
Bass Player
Enter Sandbergman
Swedish bassist Victor Brandt is a veteran of Scandinavian metal—so it’s about time he got his own suitably heavyweight signature axe. We meet the metal maestro
6 min |
July 2020
Guitar World
Better Off Live
Five times a live version was better than the original studio recording
3 min |
August 2020
Bass Player
BEHIND THE WALL OF SOUND
You think you know who the late, great Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister of Motörhead was? We thought so too, until we met the singer songwriter Lynda Kay, who reveals a tender side to the great man that we never knew existed
10+ min |
July 2020
Guitar World
Dave Mustaine – "I think people do expect me to be invincible."
Fans were stunned when Dave Mustaine was diagnosed with cancer. Below, we find out how the Megadeth frontman took on his biggest battle yet – and won.
8 min |
August 2020
Bass Player
Bass of Tomorrow
We can think of a few string manufacturers who claim to make the best-sounding products in the world. Dr Jonathan Kemp doesn’t just make that claim—he can prove it, too. Hywel Davies is blinded with science...
2 min |