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Greg Anderson and Stephen O'Malley of Sunn O))) wear cowls as they perform live in front of banks of high-powered tube amps.

Sunn O))) on working with 130 guitar tracks and why their live shows are like jumping into a frozen lake

By Joel McIver published

Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson on the drone pioneer's Sub Pop debut, the restorative but draining power of volume and the gear behind their sound

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Chris Herin stands in front of an ornate old door with his PRS.

How this cult prog guitarist enlisted Alex Lifeson and Peter Frampton for an all-star solo album

By Jon Wiederhorn published

Tiles guitarist Chris Herin returns with Hiding in Plain Sight, a poignant, brilliant album inspired by his father's battle with dementia

Guitarists
Fatoumata Diawara with her signature Epiphone SG

Fatoumata Diawara on Hendrix’s genius, the making of her Epiphone SG – and the message she wants it to send

By Amit Sharma published

With its Malian-inspired graphic finish and expanded switching options, Diawara's signature model is one cool guitar

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Dethklok and Brendon Small

Dethklok’s Brendon Small started struggling to play, so he took a lesson with a metal virtuoso

By Clay Marshall published

Ahead of touring with Amon Amarth, Small reveals the positive side of having a dozen guitars stolen, the “perpetual motion” of his band’s shows, the best guests on Metalocalypse, and his quest for the perfect concert

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Alter Bridge's Mark Tremonti [left] and Myles Kennedy sit on flight cases as they're photographed with their PRS signature guitars.

How recording in Eddie Van Halen’s 5150 Studios inspired Alter Bridge to make their most riff-heavy statement yet

By Amit Sharma published

The latest album from Mark Tremonti and Myles Kennedy finds Alter Bridge going full-throttle in EVH’s studio

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Greg Camp

He wrote some of the defining anthems of the ’90s with Smash Mouth. Now Greg Camp is focusing on his Nashville punk-rock supergroup

By Andrew Daly published

Camp started out as a drummer before EVH made him realize the advantages of guitar. The young Carson Daly helped make his band famous. Now he’s powering forward with supergroup The Defiant’s second album

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Ashley Reeve

Ashley Reeve leads the low-end for everyone from Cher to Filter – and her right-hand tone is her most important asset

By Nick Wells published

When she’s not performing with Cher, Ashley Reeve has honed her bass playing prowess with the likes of CeeLo Green, Adam Lambert and alternative rock band Filter

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Doug Pettibone

Doug Pettibone on taking lessons from Andy Summers, touring with Jewel, and not getting fired by John Mayer

By Andrew Daly published

The first-call guitarist explains why he loved working with Lucinda Williams but had to leave, how he got the gig back, his chemistry with Marc Ford, and faking it on pedal steel until Mayer helped him make it

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Joe Perry plays his desert island guitar, a real "mongrel" that he put in the freezer and did all kinds of things to.

Joe Perry put his “desert island guitar” through hell but it’s still his number one

By Andrew Daly published

Perry’s Fender/Warmoth “Burned Strat” aka the “Rat Strat” was the main guitar on Aerosmith’s recent collab with Yungblud

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The Collect Pond’s Danny Moffat [left] and Ben Bonadies do their thing

Danny Moffat on how The Collect Pond are wearing a '90s pejorative as a badge of honor

By Joe Bosso published

A jangle-pop-inspired Boston post-punk band that shares its name with a putrid body of water in 19th-century Lower Manhattan? What’s not to love!

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