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- September 30
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- D'Addario XS strings review: bring tone, longevity and a smooth feel to the electric/acoustic coated string world
- Lzzy Hale: “When you get your first Gibson, it feels almost like it could play itself because there’s some kind of intangible magic”
- 5 classic YouTube guitar videos that will make you nostalgic
- Guthrie Govan: “You need to learn to enjoy the sound of a scale before you have any hope of using it effectively, in the same way you have to learn to like whiskey”
- How the Gretsch 6128 Duo Jet took flight and became the go-to electric for the likes of George Harrison, Cliff Gallup and Bo Diddley
- The Beths: “We’re really nervous about letting our experimentation become self-indulgent”
- September 29
- September 28
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- Dave Davidson on the “sexiness” of the Jackson Warrior, and why he doesn't know which amp sounds were used on Revocation's new album, Netherheaven
- The greatest guitar albums of the 2010s
- Joela Bassista: “The best advice I’ve ever gotten about bass was to stay in the pocket. Groove and feel are so important to every song”
- 15 reclusive guitar greats who went off the grid
- Nick Zinner on the return of Yeah Yeah Yeahs: ditching amps, embracing EBow and his early love of Eddie Van Halen
- Isabella Manfredi: “This record is an extension of what I was trying to achieve with The Preatures, but couldn’t quite capture”
- September 27
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- Hear Cliff Burton blend sweeping, Eddie Van Halen-esque hammer-ons with Hendrixian distorted runs in his final show with Metallica
- Dead Kennedys' East Bay Ray: “Tape delay used to be like a galloping horse you were trying to hold onto. Now, all the horses are very well trained and in a box”
- How does a guitar pickup work?
- Marcus King on raiding Dan Auerbach’s fuzz museum, soul singer solos, and chicken pickin’ hoedowns with Brent Hinds and Matt Pike
- September 26
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- Matt Bellamy on Yngwie Malmsteen-inspired solos, recording with Jeff Buckley's Telecaster and his secret to beaming blues riffs into Muse’s space-age guitar sound
- The Go-Go’s Kathy Valentine: “When I was asked if I could play the bass, I didn’t even hesitate. I thought, ‘How hard can it be?’”
- Andy Timmons opens up on mental health: “The guitar and music have always been catharsis for me. I can't imagine life without them”
- September 23
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- Watch Johnny Marr play Rory Gallagher’s iconic 1961 Fender Stratocaster
- Watch a 16-year-old Jason Becker blow the roof off his high school talent show with a flawless cover of Yngwie Malmsteen's Black Star
- Clutch on keeping their chops up, employing "loose cannon" pedals and writing songs about the Boss Metal Zone Covid-19 conspiracy
- Spotlight: Tom Elliott and Joel Martorana of Peace Ritual
- Dave Mustaine breaks down every track on Megadeth's The Sick, The Dying… and the Dead!
- Obscura's Jeroen Paul Thesseling on his 5 best bass albums
- Flea played bass on the Mars Volta’s best album – but you probably never noticed
- Kirk Fletcher reveals the three pedals he couldn't live without
- September 22
- September 21
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- Don Felder: "The Eagles never played three Les Pauls. It just turns into a big train wreck"
- Gary Lee Conner on the Screaming Trees reunion that nearly was, trading guitars with Chris Cornell and making peace with Mark Lanegan before his passing
- Julia Jacklin: “I’m always trying to write songs that sound like they’d play over the end credits in a film”
- Watch Jaco Pastorius go from funk to fuzz in one of his most groundbreaking bass solos
- GWAR on “doing drugs and collecting Marshalls”, becoming “a full-fledged rock juggernaut”, and enjoying wah nearly as much as Kirk Hammett
- Why so many all-time bass greats flocked to the Ampeg B-15 Portaflex
- Introducing Momma, the '90s-inspired guitar duo behind one of 2022's best alt-rock albums
- September 20
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- Nuno Bettencourt: "Kurt Cobain had more vibe, feel and atmosphere than half of the guitar players who were shredding"
- How The Beths made their latest record with the help of some seriously weird amps – and a strict "more distortion" mantra
- Why the Maestro Echoplex EP-3 remains one of the most iconic guitar effects of all time
- September 19
- September 17
- September 16
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- Australian Guitar’s Fresh Frets: Vol. 11
- John Mayer channeled every era of his playing into this solo – and it became one of his greatest guest spots ever
- 60 years of Ernie Ball: the history of a family business that changed the world of guitar and bass as we know it
- Erja Lyytinen: “I didn’t want to restrict myself to making radio hits. If the song required a longer guitar solo, I let it happen!”
- Captain Beefheart guitarist Jeff Cotton talks jamming with Frank Zappa and "the eight months of emotional trauma" that went into making Trout Mask Replica
- September 15
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- How session ace Charlie Worsham is sending the Nashville guitar scene into overdrive
- The Eagles’ Timothy B. Schmit: “I call myself a ‘meat and potatoes’ bass player, but that’s exactly what is called for with anything I might be doing”
- Leo Nocentelli and Farees on the far-reaching influence of Jimi Hendrix and recording with $50 amps
- September 14
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- 20 explosive guitar moments from Ozzy Osbourne's solo career
- Download and stream the audio from Guitar Techniques 340
- How an unreleased Dimebag Darrell guitar solo ended up on Nickelback’s best-selling album
- Lonely Robot: “I was listening to a lot of David Gilmour and Joe Bonamassa. I got really into that big vibrato – vibrato that you can drive a bus through”
- Eliza & The Delusionals: “This album was such a cathartic outlet – and realistically, the only one we had”
- September 13
- September 12
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- Behind the scenes of Blizzard of Ozz, the album that launched Ozzy Osbourne's solo career and made Randy Rhoads a guitar god
- 16 ways to improve your acoustic guitar shows
- Reb Beach guides you through his latest pedalboard
- Live Review: Beabadoobee, Brisbane 11/09/22
- How Cliff Burton shaped Metallica's expansive thrash assault – and changed the sound of metal bass guitar forever
- Vance Joy: “When you write a great song you’re just like, ‘How did I do that?’ You get chills or the hair stands up your neck. That’s what keeps everyone going”
- Horsegirl: “If you want to be rebellious, there’s still nothing better than picking up a guitar”
- September 9
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- September 6
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- Tom Morello’s greatest guitar solo wasn’t on any studio album – and it crammed all his tricks into one epic lead
- Megadeth's Dave Mustaine and Kiko Loureiro go deep on the tragedy and triumph that fueled The Sick, the Dying… and the Dead!
- Lindsay Ell on returning to analog pedalboard treasure to make the most guitar-forward music of her career
- September 5
- September 2
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- Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl: "Through Kurt, I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down. That's more powerful"
- Spotlight: Lachlan Simpson of Dear Seattle
- Nick Johnston: “The first few Yngwie Malmsteen albums still make me smile. The ferociousness of that playing is still unequaled”
- John Petrucci talks buying and selling guitars: “I’m completely illiterate in the world of vintage guitars and Les Pauls and Strats and all that stuff”
- September 1
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- Slash bassist Todd Kerns: “Guns N’ Roses’ music was in my DNA, so when I met Slash, it was like, ‘What are we doing? Nightrain? Okay!’ I just knew the songs”
- Eric Johnson reveals his at-home pedalboard
- Al Di Meola on how a legendary live session with Paco de Lucía and John McLaughlin came to light after 40 years
