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February 2021
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- February 25
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- Amahiru’s Saki: “It was so fun to work with Frédéric Leclercq and we both had a lot of ideas, so we decided to make Amahiru its own project”
- The 50 greatest guitar solos of all time
- Nilüfer Yanya: “I never used a pick until I recorded my first album – it needed to sound angry, and I didn't want to break my fingers!”
- February 24
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- February 22
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- Julien Baker: “Nothing about it is really haphazard – even the stuff that sounds intentionally lo-fi, or minimalist, is actually very calculated”
- Freak Juice's Tori Ruffin talks high-profile gigs with Prince and Morris Day, and backing Eddie Murphy in Coming to America
- Yusuf/Cat Stevens: “Even today, I’m shy of playing in front of someone like Paul Simon because I never learned anything properly“
- February 19
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- Lande Hekt: "With a new project, there's no pressure to sound a certain way"
- Eddie Van Halen in his own words: "I locked myself in my room, played guitar, wrote songs, and hoped to God I got somewhere"
- John Myung: “Every song, every album, every musician is a potential teacher. It’s just a matter of whether you’re open enough to see it that way“
- February 17
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- Hachiku - I'll Probably Be Asleep album review
- Cole Rolland: “EDM allows me so much more freedom to be creative and make weird guitar noises I hope people haven't heard before”
- Kirk Hammett, Adam Jones, St. Vincent, Mateus Asato, John 5 and Christone "Kingfish" Ingram discuss the state of guitar in 2021
- The definitive Kurt Cobain guitar gear guide: a deep dive into the Nirvana frontman's pawn shop prizes, turbo-charged stompboxes and blown woofers
- On the trail of the real Robert Johnson
- Cloud Nothings' Dylan Baldi: “I've always had the philosophy that going into recording or a show, you can't control everything”
- February 16
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- You Me At Six’s Max Helyer: “The best way to describe how I write a song is that I look at it as though I’m a painter”
- Why comparing yourself to other guitarists is bad news for your playing, creativity and mental health
- Nova Twins' Georgia South: “I love the sound of heavy electronic music and dubstep. I find inspiration in how the bass sits in those songs“
- February 15
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- February 12
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- In-demand session player Ari O‘Neal on how she landed some of the biggest gigs in music
- Norbert Putnam: ”Elvis was conducting us with his body language... that’s the reason those records have such a great feel”
- Marty Friedman pays tribute to Eddie Van Halen: “Eddie’s guitar sound was a mammoth. It was by far the biggest thing we’d ever heard“
- February 11
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- Tash Sultana: "I wrote an album that coincided with the realisations I was having within myself"
- Blind Melon: “We're releasing 10-12 singles instead of an album all at once – we'd rather remind people we exist every couple of months than every 2 years”
- The history of Gibson’s L-1 and L-00 acoustics, contemporaries of the legendary Robert Johnson
- February 10
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- Billie Joe Armstrong - No Fun Mondays album review
- Julien Baker: “I involve myself in different playing minutiae throughout different periods. I wanted my last album to sound like an ad for the Strymon BlueSky!”
- Rhonda Smith: “The years I spent with Prince were absolutely incredible. It changed the trajectory of my life“
- February 9
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- Steven Wilson: “One of the greatest tragedies of the 21st century is that rock music – particularly the guitar – hasn’t really managed to reinvent itself”
- Smashing guitars is nothing new, so why are people so rattled by Phoebe Bridgers' SNL performance?
- Love And Death: “Our new music feels like a step up – it’s been a six- or seven-year process of collecting riffs”
- Gene Simmons: “People remember a classic and simple bassline more than they do the actual song”
- Pale Waves: “We wanted to make a more honest record, and that meant bringing guitar to the forefront”
- February 8
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- February 4
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- Luca Brasi’s Tom Busby: “We actually made a conscious effort to put heaps less pressure on ourselves”
- Jason Momoa: ”I always knew I wanted to play bass. I wish I'd done this when I was young – but I’m making up for lost time”
- Chrissie Hynde: “I don’t think of myself as a songwriter or a guitar player. If I have to write on a form what I do I never quite know what to say!”
- February 3
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- February 1
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- Pale Waves' Heather Baron-Gracie: "This album is a journey through my emotional growth as a person across the past year"
- Yungblud: “Why, by some f***ing miracle, have I gotten this far? Because of my fanbase and my community – they know I’m telling the truth to them, and I ain’t gonna leave them behind”
- Tom Morello: “I enjoy embracing limitations. I’ve had the same guitar setup for the entirety of my career“
