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The Warning: Falling Into Place
Artist Features

The Warning: Falling Into Place

On the new Everything’s Falling, the Monterrey trio deliver their most ambitious effort yet. Guitarist Dany Villarreal on her signature PRS, her sisters, and the festival-sized riffs at the record’s core.

Goose: Modern Men
Artist Features

Goose: Modern Men

On their boldest album yet, Goose channel the synth-heavy bombast of MTV-era ’80s pop. Rick Mitarotonda and Peter Anspach on the new Big Modern!, the loudness of the era, and what it has to do with the present.

Mike Campbell’s Dirty Work
Artist Features

Mike Campbell’s Dirty Work

On Mission of Mercy, Campbell and the Dirty Knobs deliver their strongest album yet. The veteran guitarist on writing on the fly, trusting the take, and leading a band that thrives on spontaneity.

3rd Power’s Dylana Nova Scott: Tone, Attitude, Technique
Gear Features

3rd Power’s Dylana Nova Scott: Tone, Attitude, Technique

From a teenage cardboard-box amp stack to a signature collaboration with Joe Satriani, Scott has spent her life chasing tone that feels alive. With 3rd Power, the guitarist and builder is making amps the way she always wished they sounded.

Matteo Mancuso’s Wide-Open Road
Artist Features

Matteo Mancuso’s Wide-Open Road

The Italian fingerstyle virtuoso on instinct, improvisation, and Route 96, the sprawling new album that puts his full range on breathtaking display.

Lamb of God’s Brutal Truth
Artist Features

Lamb of God’s Brutal Truth

For their new album, Into Oblivion, the Virginia metal legends dug deep. Guitarist Mark Morton details the unsparing editing process that shaped the record—and how “stock” became the band’s most-hated word.

Three musicians perform on stage with vibrant purple lighting and a backdrop projection.
Artist Features

Blackwater Holylight’s Heavenly Heaviness

On Not Here Not Gone, Sunny Faris and Mikayla Mayhew keep the band’s “sensually murderous” stoner-doom fresh by trading instruments, experimenting with dynamics, and embracing the gloom.

Two guitarists perform on stage, illuminated by vibrant lights, with a drummer in the background.
Artist Features

Treaty Oak Revival’s Family Tree

How an uncle-nephew guitar team, a vacuum repair shop, and some Van Halen, John Mayer and Fireball Whisky grew into West Texas Degenerate, the band’s grittiest album yet.