Guitar World
Rookie
PUT ON YOUR JUMPSUITS, HOP IN THE ’79 EL CAMINO AND LET THIS CHICAGO SIX-PIECE WHISK YOU AWAY TO A LAND RULED BY BIG STAR, THE EAGLES, CHEAP TRICK AND TOM PETTY
2 min |
Holiday 2020
Guitar World
LOCAL COLOR
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE’S JOHN CIPOLLINA, A BOLD, ORIGINAL AND UNHERALDED STYLIST WHOSE PLAYING ANTICIPATED THE FUTURE OF ROCK
9 min |
Holiday 2020
Guitar World
JOHN PETRUCCI REACHES TERMINAL VELOCITY
Dream Theater’s resident lord of the strings uses the lockdown as an opportunity to record some sick instrumentals — with a little help from former bandmate Mike Portnoy
10+ min |
Holiday 2020
Guitar World
HEARTBEAT
CARS SIX-STRING INNOVATOR ELLIOT EASTON TAKES A DEEP DIVE INTO THE GEAR AND GUITAR SOLOS THAT DRIVE THE EMPTY HEARTS’ PERSONALITYPACKED SECOND ALBUM.
9 min |
Holiday 2020
Guitar World
Gettin' Deep with Steve Morse
THE DEEP PURPLE GUITARIST — NOW IN HIS 26TH YEAR WITH THE LEGENDARY U.K. BAND — TALKS SCREAMING PRODUCERS, HIS UNUSUALLY BUSY DOWNTIME AND PURPLE’S SMOKING NEW ALBUM, WHOOSH!
8 min |
Holiday 2020
Guitar World
Gain and Glory
REDSEVEN LEVIATHAN
3 min |
Holiday 2020
GOLDMINE
Mercy of Muscle Shoals
DOWN ON MUSIC ROW AND IN MUSCLE SHOALS: SONGWRITING LEGEND DAN PENN IS ‘LIVING ON MERCY. ’
9 min |
December 2020
GOLDMINE
TIME FLIES FOR A BYRD
IN HIS NEW AUTOBIOGRAPHY, CHRIS HILLMAN, BYRDS CO-FOUNDER AND ORIGINAL PILOT OF THE FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS, SHARES A TALE OF TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY.
10+ min |
December 2020
GOLDMINE
STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER … AND EVER
The year 2020 is important in Beatledom. John Lennon would have turned 80 on October 9, and December 8 is the 40th anniversary of one of the darkest days in Beatles history.
6 min |
December 2020
GOLDMINE
CHECKING BACK IN TO MORRISON HOTEL
A DELUXE ANNIVERSARY EDITION OF THE DOORS’ MORRISON HOTEL WILL HAVE FANS WANTING TO REVISIT THE HISTORY BEHIND AN ICONIC CLASSIC ROCK ALBUM. GUITARIST ROBBY KRIEGER GIVES US A PERSONAL TOUR AROUND THE MUSIC.
10+ min |
December 2020
GOLDMINE
10 ALBUMS THAT CHANGED MY LIFE
TOP MOST VINTAGE ALBUMS
4 min |
December 2020
GOLDMINE
SUPER TROUPER
JANNE SCHAFFER REMEMBERS BEING IN THE STUDIO AS THE ABBA GUITARIST.
6 min |
December 2020
GOLDMINE
CATCHING UP WITH JOHN OATES
CAROL ANNE SZEL CONTACTS ONE HALF OF THE POP DUO HALL & OATES TO FIND OUT WHAT’S HAPPENING NOW AND WHAT’S IN STORE FOR 2021.
5 min |
December 2020
GOLDMINE
CÜLTÜS REDÜX
BLUE ÖYSTER CULT RETURN WITH THEIR FIRST STUDIO ALBUM OF NEW MUSIC IN NEARLY 20 YEARS.
10+ min |
December 2020
GOLDMINE
'80s WEISS GUY
PHOTOGRAPHER MARK WEISS HAS MADE A SUCCESSFUL CAREER TAKING ICONIC IMAGES OF ROCK STARS SUCH AS OZZY OSBOURNE AND JON BON JOVI. HE RECENTLY COMPILED MUCH OF HIS MEMORABLE PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE 1980S INTO A HARDCOVER BOOK CALLED THE DECADE THAT ROCKED.
9 min |
December 2020
New York magazine
Elvis Costello – This Year's Model
Elvis Costello is back with his 31st (or so) studio album. But don’t look for any consolation from him.
10+ min |
October 26– November 08, 2020
Bass Player
THE DEAN GENIUS
Metal monsters Destruction return with a new live album. We meet frontman Marcel ‘Schmier’ Schirmer for a chat about the album he recorded by mistake...
2 min |
November 2020
Bass Player
PICKUPS EXPLAINED
Dan Veall closes this issue with a guide to those wiry pickup units
3 min |
November 2020
Bass Player
THE LAW OF LEE
The Texan trio Khruangbin is unlike almost any other band we know. Jamie Dickson asks bassist Laura Lee to explain...
3 min |
November 2020
Bass Player
PEARLS of WISDOM
Jeff Ament of Pearl Jam returns with a solo project, American Death Squad, and advice that applies to all of us.
10+ min |
November 2020
Bass Player
TOP OF THE LAKE
Matthew Leone of Madina Lake recalls his way into bass
2 min |
November 2020
Bass Player
PASS NOTES
Lindsay Manfredi of Cold brings us essential survival advice, for life in general as much as related to bass playing
4 min |
November 2020
Bass Player
ICONIC
Jazz maestro Christian McBride looks back at his storied career
9 min |
November 2020
Bass Player
I SPY… THREE-NOTE SEQUENCES
Hey there, bass players! Welcome back to our game of ‘I Spy’. Let’s take a moment to recall the rules. In this game, our goal is to refine the most essential tool in our musical arsenal: Our ears. By highlighting a particular theme and attempting to spy it on a record, we’re actively listening for something that lies beneath the surface of the songs that we love. Our goal is to draw attention to it, to call it by its name, and to recognize it in its natural habitat.
4 min |
November 2020
Bass Player
FAIR GAME
Dave Pegg of Fairport Convention has been a leading light of the British folk-rock movement for half a century. Sessions with troubadours such as Nick Drake, Sandy Denny, and John Martyn cemented his reputation over the years, with a 15-year stint in Jethro Tull a particular influence on a generation of American bassists. One of these is our guest writer Steve Di Giorgio, currently playing bass with thrash metal heavyweights Testament, who interviewed Pegg for us in an unlikely, but productive, collision of two very different worlds...
10+ min |
November 2020
Bass Player
BITE Roxanne
Austrian luthiers Bite have a novel approach to bass-building, driven by the customer. We test out the company’s Roxanne P-Bass...
4 min |
November 2020
Guitar World
KVELERTAK
ON THE UBER-DYNAMIC SPLID, NORWAY’S FINEST RETURN WITH THEIR THREE-GUITAR ATTACK, A NEW SINGER AND A NON-STOP ROCK ‘N’ ROLL ASSAULT. BJARTE LUND ROLLAND AND VIDAR LANDA TELL ALL!
6 min |
December 2020
Guitar World
STEVE HOWE TRACK BY TRACK
THE YES LEGEND UNCOUPLES FROM THE MOTHERSHIP TO DRIFT THROUGH EVER-SHIFTING LANDSCAPES, BOTH INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL, ON HIS FIRST SOLO ALBUM IN NINE YEARS
10 min |
December 2020
Guitar World
Right-Hand Man
FUNK RHYTHM MASTER CORY WONG GOES DEEP ON GEAR, PLAYING WITH VULFPECK AND THE FEARLESS FLYERS — AND HIS UNDYING FENDER STRAT LOVE
5 min |
December 2020
Guitar World
Swan Dive
CATCHING UP WITH DANCE GAVIN DANCE’S WILL SWAN: “I DON’T WANT TO SOUND LIKE LIAM NEESON HERE, BUT I REALLY DO HAVE A SPECIFIC SET OF SKILLS!”
7 min |