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Reader Pedalboards 2023
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Reader Pedalboards 2023

This year’s highlights include an obsession with Lehle switchers, a literal charcuterie board repurposed into a stomp station, a pedalboard project to celebrate years of sobriety, and a guitarist who plays his wah like he’s riding a skateboard. Enjoy!

Hedvig Mollestad: 'What Makes Us Care?'
Guitarists

Hedvig Mollestad: 'What Makes Us Care?'

After seven albums with her trio, the avant-garde Norwegian guitarist branches out and collaborates with the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra on a concept album, Maternity Beat, which explores themes of empathy and parenthood, inspired by displaced persons fleeing war.

Goose’s Dripfield—To Jam or Not To Jam?
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Goose’s Dripfield—To Jam or Not To Jam?

With a rep for energetic live improvisations, the jammers explore the potential of the recording studio and lean toward their indie-rock influences on their latest album.

Snarky Puppy’s Three-Headed Guitar Beast
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Snarky Puppy’s Three-Headed Guitar Beast

This 6-string Cerberus finds it way home on Empire Central, an album honoring classic Black music and the band’s Dallas roots.

Vernon Reid and Jamaaladeen Tacuma: Dispatches from the Milky Way
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Vernon Reid and Jamaaladeen Tacuma: Dispatches from the Milky Way

Living Colour’s guitarist and the ex-Ornette Coleman bassist let their Free Form Funky Freqs flags fly on the new Hymn of the 3rd Galaxy.

Steven Wilson: “I’m Just a Nerd Who Fell in Love with the Magic of Making Records”
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Steven Wilson: “I’m Just a Nerd Who Fell in Love with the Magic of Making Records”

The songwriter and multi-instrumentalist resurrects Porcupine Tree’s spectral, desolate sound after a 12-year hiatus with Closure/Continuation, bringing listeners both long-awaited catharsis and new hope for the future.