ARTICLES
Hooked: Daniel Donato on Guns 'N Roses' "Paradise City"
August 4, 2020
The cosmic country picker pinpoints the moment he put down the skateboard and picked up the guitar to unleash his inner Slash.
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Hooked: Phil X on Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog"
July 28, 2020
The exuberant Bon Jovi lead guitarist goes back to the '70s when Page blew off his doors with slinky, nuanced playing and then performs a chunk of the song with bassist Daniel Spree and drummer Brian Tichy.
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Riff Rundown: Black Pumas' "Fire"
July 26, 2020
The psych-soul duo's Adrian Quesada walks through the funky, spaghetti western progression inspired by Ennio Morricone.
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Hooked: Cage the Elephant's Nick Bockrath on Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love"
July 21, 2020
The guitarist for the double Grammy winners remembers the moment he discovered "the secret society" of lead guitar.
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Rig Rundown Best-Ofs: Walls of Amps
July 17, 2020
Deafened is as deafened does—from Sleep’s Matt Pike to EJ, Bonamassa, the Edge and more.
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Summer Gear Slam 2020 Coverage!
July 14, 2020
Check out demo videos and photo galleries of brand-new axes, amps, pedals, recording gear, and more!
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Hooked: Emily Wolfe on the Eagles' "Life in the Fast Lane"
July 14, 2020
The badass Austin rocker retells how a Hotel California backdrop and washing the family car steered her to guitardom.
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Hooked: Duane Betts on the Smashing Pumpkins' "Cherub Rock"
July 7, 2020
While he proudly honors his rich guitar DNA with the Southern-fried Allman Betts Band, DB remembers the comfort that rushed over him while playing the Siamese Dream slasher.
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Hooked: Baroness' Gina Gleason on Pantera's "Domination"
June 30, 2020
The shredder fires through the Dimebag Darrell solo from Cowboys from Hell that first sunk its teeth into her guitar-playing heart.
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Rig Rundown Best-Ofs: Most Iconic Basses
June 26, 2020
Verdine, Flea, Sheehan, Josephine and six other legends show us their favorite earth-rumblers!
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Hooked: Mark Lettieri on Jimi Hendrix's "Hey Joe"
June 23, 2020
The Snarky Puppy guitarist remembers learning the power of the riff and the bliss of figuring out tab to wrangle the Experience's first single.
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Riff Rundown: Howling Giant's "Comet Rider"
June 21, 2020
Guitarist Tom Polzine uses various BPMs to walk you through the major and minor tendencies that unravel during the lead single off The Space Between Worlds.
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Hooked: Russian Circles' Mike Sullivan on Van Halen's "Panama"
June 16, 2020
Thanks to an older brother and the iconic 1984 album, the post-rock instrumentalist reminisces about his first "gig" on his parent's porch with a tee-ball stand and tennis racket.
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Riff Rundown: Sadler Vaden's "Anybody Out There?"
June 14, 2020
The axman for Jason Isbell's 400 Unit rips through the pentatonic lick that's the foundation of the title track from his 2020 album.
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Hooked: Nick Reinhart on Weezer's "Undone — The Sweater Song"
June 9, 2020
The wacky guitar wizard revisits the summer of '94 when goosebumps rushed over him while first hearing the "Blue Album"'s lead single and pinpoints falling in love with the "wrong" notes.
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Riff Rundown: Irist's "Creation"
June 7, 2020
Crushing metalheads Pablo Davila and Adam Mitchell showcase the fingertapped melodies and chunky chords that are the bedrock for the Order of the Mind track.
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Hooked: Tyler Bryant on Tom Petty's "Honey Bee"
June 2, 2020
The blues rocker fondly remembers getting out of a speeding ticket because of the swaggering Wildflowers hit and eventually sharing a bill with the Heartbreakers in Hyde Park.
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Hooked: Jared James Nichols' on Black Sabbath's "Electric Funeral"
May 26, 2020
Mr. Blues Power remembers his inner Iommi being awakened when first nailing the haunting Paranoid classic.
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Rig Rundown Best-Ofs: Most Iconic Guitars
May 22, 2020
From Angus’ SG to Tom’s “Arm the Homeless” axe—the most recognizable 6-strings from our catalog of nearly 500 Rundowns.
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Hooked: Larkin Poe on the Allman Brothers Band's "Little Martha"
May 19, 2020
The sister duo of Rebecca and Megan Lovell explains how the brother connection between Duane and Gregg Allman sparked their obsession with guitar.
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