Guitar Player
INTO THE GROOVE
Nylon-string maestro Jesse Cook finds release in electronic beats on Libre, his latest fret-burning effort.
9 min |
March 2022
Guitar Player
FOREVER '50s
Rockabilly’s top cat talks about beating tinnitus, resurrecting Dick Dale, why you’ll never catch him with a Strat, and why rockers can’t play the ’billy.
9 min |
March 2022
Guitar Player
Beat the Odds
Luther Dickinson reveals his technique for fingerpicking with groups of five and seven.
3 min |
March 2022
Guitar Player
Soul Captain
Luther Dickinson gives a tour of the North Mississippi Allstars’ existential party cruise on Set Sail.
9 min |
March 2022
Guitar Player
Sterner Stuff
Five years after a misstep on a New York City street left him with broken bones and nerve damage in his right hand, Mike Stern perseveres one gig at a time.
10+ min |
March 2022
Guitar Player
Sweet Little Rock & Rollers
The sound of rock and roll began in the hands of Charles Edward Anderson Berry. Here are some of the guitars that helped him make history.
5 min |
March 2022
Guitar Player
Catch Me if You Can
Chuck Berry brought poetry to pop and broke race barriers to become rock and roll's first guitar-playing frontman. As he recalled, it all began with some "hillbilly stuff' he revved into a rocker: "Maybellene."
10+ min |
March 2022
Guitar Player
My Career in Five Songs
Alt-rock pioneer Bob Mould selects the key cuts from his 40-year career with Hüsker Dü and Sugar and as a solo artist.
8 min |
March 2022
Guitar Player
California Dreamin'
The new Matchless Laurel Canyon and Coldwater Canyon amps capture classic West Coast splendor.
7 min |
March 2022
Stereophile
Revinylization
Round Trip: Ornette Coleman’s Blue Note sides
4 min |
March 2022
Newsweek
Back From the Brink
Overcoming their personal and creative obstacles of the last several years, Tears for Fears reemerge with a new album The Tipping Point
10 min |
February 11, 2022
Global Traveler
Music in the Air
"Nashville hums with cool tunes and hip hot spots."
2 min |
January/February 2022
Guitar World
Gravel and Grail
ELECTRO-HARMONIX DIRT ROAD SPECIAL
3 min |
March 2022
Guitar World
IN DEEP
DREAM WEAVER
2 min |
March 2022
Guitar World
Performance Notes
HOW TO PLAY THIS MONTH’S SONGS
5 min |
March 2022
Guitar World
HOWLIN' MULE
Believe it or not, GOV’T MULE’S latest album, Heavy Load Blues, is WARREN HAYNES’ first foray into full-on blues (and it all happened while they were recording another album entirely)
10+ min |
March 2022
Guitar World
FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK
And now, everything a guitarist needs TO HEADBANG ON A BUDGET, including five metal-friendly axes for under $500
4 min |
March 2022
Guitar World
Buzz Bin - LD Systems
Maui 5 Go 100
2 min |
March 2022
Guitar World
Synth City
Boss SY-200 Synthesizer
3 min |
March 2022
Guitar World
True Value
Squier contemporary Stratocaster Special HT and Paranormal Toronado
4 min |
March 2022
Guitar World
When Frank Zappa Shut Up 'n Stopped Playing Guitar
Zappa’s on-again, off-again love affair with his guitar
10+ min |
March 2022
Guitar World
“The Thrill Is Gone”
B.B. King | Live in cook county jail, 1971 | Guitarist: B.B. King
3 min |
March 2022
Guitar World
Cobra Kai: Settling the Score
How Leo Birenberg and Zach Robinson — composers on Netflix’s blockbuster series, Cobra Kai — craft the perfect (not to mention badass!) eighties-style score
10+ min |
March 2022
Guitar World
Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar
After two serious surgeries that affected his ability to play guitar, Steve Vai could have simply packed it in. Instead, he gave himself some familiar-sounding advice and emerged with his most dazzling new album in years. (And yes, we asked him about that triple-neck guitar!)
10+ min |
March 2022
Stereophile
“Music Was Mine to Experience.”
For all its ghastliness and heartbreak, the COVID-19 pandemic has been good to Keb’ Mo’. When the virus hit the US, it forced the cancelation of a string of his concerts. “I was getting a little burned out on touring,” he confesses.
10+ min |
February 2022
Guitar Player
NEW ADVENTURES IN HI-FI
Armed with a Rickenbacker and a Fender Twin, Peter Buck helped R.E.M. put alternative rock on the map. Producer Mitch Easter reveals the genius behind the jangle pop.
10+ min |
February 2022
Guitar Player
THESE THINGS TAKE TIME
Rejecting traditional rock guitar stylings, Johnny Marr created a new ethos that defined alternative rock and placed it at the forefront of the U.K.’s 1980s music scene.
10+ min |
February 2022
Guitar Player
EARTHQUAKER DEVICES
Hizumitas Fuzz Sustainer
2 min |
February 2022
Guitar Player
Alternative Notion
"AVA puts an elegant spin on carbon-fiber luthiery with its One First Edition electric guitars."
6 min |
February 2022
Guitar Player
John Frusciante
He saved the red hot chili peppers. But first he had to save himself.
6 min |