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He's a hitmaker who owned Eric Clapton's “The Fool” SG, produced Meat Loaf, and played with Ringo Starr
Todd Rundgren has just about done it all, but he does regret missing out on the chance to produce the Talking Heads and the Who...
Sue Foley has spent 25 years researching the unsung female pioneers of guitar – these are the most important players she discovered
The Grammy-nominated blues guitarist has been researching unrecognized women of the guitar world since 2001. Her latest album, One Guitar Woman, is a tribute to some of the greatest
The moment Tommy Thayer knew he would be officially joining Kiss
The band’s longest-serving Spaceman opens up on his history with the glam rock legends – and the moment he became their official guitarist
How a 3am jam with Hendrix led Andy Fairweather Low to guest on a Jimi classic
Low says he played poorly during the impromptu jam, but he evidently impressed Hendrix enough to get a studio invite
Brian James, guitarist for The Damned, The Lords of the New Church, dies at 70
During his brief time with the Damned, James authored songs like New Rose, considered one of the foundational anthems of punk
Jacob Collier’s five-string Strandberg is proving the doubters wrong – it’s outselling the six-string version
The headless five-string certainly turned a few heads when it first emerged last year, but it’s proven to be an absolute hit
When Midge Ure joined Thin Lizzy on a make-or-break US tour, he had just one day’s notice and no rehearsals
The Live Aid orchestrator and Ultravox synth-pop pioneer looks back at his trial by fire with Thin Lizzy, swapping out his Yamaha electric because it wasn’t cool enough, refusing to join the Sex Pistols, and how The Edge might have changed Band Aid’s charity single
Nita Strauss on the Swedish melodic death metal group she considers her “Beatles”
The guitar hero selected one of the band’s tracks while running through the five riffs that changed her life
Daniel Kessler on making Interpol classics, the lessons he took from Fugazi and the art of six-string minimalism
As the New Yorkers set out on the anniversary tour for their 2004’s classic second album, we catch up with Kessler to talk rejection, hollowbodies, and why you won’t catch him playing major chords
Brian May on reworking Queen’s regal debut, bad reviews, and Jimi Hendrix’s “Voodoo Magic”
As the new Queen I boxset drags once lost songs into the daylight, May tells us about poverty, parental disapproval, the Red Special’s first runout – and the perils of playing through Jimi’s Marshall stack
