ARTICLES
William Tyler: 6-String Storyteller
April 25, 2019
On his latest album, Goes West, the fingerstyle guitarist seeks the larger conversation within his instrumental music.
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Geddy Lee’s Magnificent Obsession
March 5, 2019
The Rush frontman talks about his bass-collecting odyssey—the perils of instrument hunting, the book it inspired, his favorite axes and their sounds, and the people who made and played them.
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Jeff Tweedy: The Lone Troubadour
January 31, 2019
The renowned gear collector and Wilco frontman discusses making his new solo album, Warm, with a minimal setup: a ’30s Martin, a ’58 Esquire, and a Fender Princeton.
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Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats: Doomsday Melodies
January 10, 2019
Kevin Starrs reveals how his love for Neil Young sonically inspires his music and why he built his latest concept metal album on a bedrock of pop sensibilities.
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Behemoth’s Adam “Nergal” Darski: Shades of Black
December 6, 2018
The influential extreme-metal frontman on I Loved You at Your Darkest and why flouting the genre’s mores is essential to its survival.
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Cusack Resound Review
November 6, 2018
Smart switching options and soaring sounds make this veteran pedal outfit's latest reverb stand apart.
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James Williamson: Raw Power
October 11, 2018
The Stooges’ “forgotten boy” is now a patriarch of punk guitar whose passion for playing Les Pauls through dimed Vox AC30s remains undiminished after nearly a half-century.
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Album Spotlight: Anna Calvi’s 'Hunter'
October 9, 2018
A passionate British guitarist creates a supremely confident album full of feedback and fury.
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Mastro Valvola LFO Optical Tremolo Review
September 18, 2018
Optical analog tremolo and a digital brain make this Italian trem’ a grab bag of modulation tricks.
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Tsakalis AudioWorks Phonkify Review
September 15, 2018
Envelope filter and octave combine to reach realms beyond the same old jam and funk riffs.
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Electro-Harmonix Oceans 11 Review
September 10, 2018
Reverb’s depths made accessible in a small and super-economical package.
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Neko Case: Free Falling
August 23, 2018
The enigmatic songstress and masterful storyteller opens up about Hell-On—her most daring album yet—her love of tenor guitars, and how collaboration opened her creative gates.
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Johnny Marr’s Mancunian Charm
August 6, 2018
The Smiths icon and renowned collaborator and guitarist’s guitarist steps out as a confident frontman on his third studio album, Call the Comet.
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Guild Jetstar Review
July 31, 2018
Another Guild oddity rises Phoenix-like from the ashes—fit and in fighting form.
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Clairvoyant Chemistry: The Damned’s Captain Sensible and Paul Gray
June 26, 2018
The punk-rock godfathers restart their guitar and bass partnership on the Damned’s first new album in a decade, Evil Spirits. And producer Tony Visconti takes their tones to the max.
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Framus Pro Series Teambuilt Television Review
June 7, 2018
The shape of a ’60s German oddity returns in a high quality, ultra-playable, and versatile modern electric.
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club’s Peter Hayes and Robert Levon Been
May 24, 2018
On the new album Wrong Creatures, the sonic shamans blur the lines between guitar and bass with effects, open tunings, and banks of amps to create a cocoon of sound.
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Quicksand’s Walter Schreifels: Post-Hardcore Guitar Hero
May 4, 2018
On the band’s first new studio album in 22 years, Interiors, this influential New York rocker expands his sonic ethos to find a fresh musical voice in effects pedals and playing lead guitar.
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Converge: Kurt Ballou’s Second Nature
March 13, 2018
The hardcore guitar hero and producer discusses the band's new LP, The Dusk in Us—as well as his new GodCity instrument and pedal outfit.
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Chelsea Wolfe: Like a Ghost Over a Battlefield
December 26, 2017
Making the radical noise and gorgeous melodies for the supernatural sound of her new album, Hiss Spun, required Gibsons, Fenders, gnarly pedals, guest Troy Van Leeuwen, and a tip from Carl Sagan.
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