Gail Ann Dorsey: “It was so much fun to work with David Bowie – he was always open to exploration of his material”
David Bowie, Lenny Kravitz, Gang of Four: the great Gail Ann Dorsey has earned Bass Player’s Lifetime Achievement award many times over
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Ernie Ball Music Man x Darkglass Electronics is the bass gear collaboration we’ve all been waiting for, and it is spectacular
Read more » Halestorm announce new album, Back From The Dead, premiere defiantly heavy new single, The Steeple
The hard-rock quartet’s fifth studio album is due for release in May
Read more » Wallows: “There's that fine line of ‘I want to know where the guitar can take me’ and ‘I don't know where it can take me’”
Dylan Minnette, Braeden Lemasters and Cole Preston on why the guitar is their “comfort instrument”, their favorite six-strings and the tracking secrets on new album, Tell Me That It’s Over
Read more » Thurston Moore announces Screen Time, a concept album of guitar instrumentals recorded during the 2020 lockdown
The Sonic Youth and experimental rock icon has a 10-track collection of instrumentals arriving this month – hear the first two tracks now
Read more » Harley Benton releases downsized, 1×12” G112A-FR active FRFR cabinet
The super-streamlined unit sports just three knobs for Volume, Presence and Resonance, and aims to treat your digital guitar tones to “one final polish”
Read more » Hear Dave Navarro, Taylor Hawkins and Chris Chaney cover Pink Floyd’s Fearless on their new NHC EP
The surprise Intakes and Outtakes release contains four tracks, including covers of the ‘Floyd and Level 42
Read more » Best amps for metal 2022: our top picks for high-gain heroes
These powerhouse metal amps from EVH, Peavey, Orange, Hughes & Kettner and more will have you primed to seek and destroy straight from the word go
Read more » Cory Wong and Mark Lettieri announce the return of the Fearless Flyers
A new six-track album is on the way, and you can hear the effort’s funk-de-force lead single, Patrol Acrobatique, now
Read more » Rolo Tomassi's Chris Cayford: “If something sounds good, don’t worry about how many notes there are or what time signature it’s in. Just keep playing and experimenting”
The progressive math-metaller on his love of Stevie Ray Vaughan, how he landed his first guitar – a Gibson SG Classic – for £100, and why playing “complete nonsense” laid the groundwork for new album, Where Myth Becomes Memory
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