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Soundgarden’s surviving members reunite for charity set – with the help of Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan
By Phil Weller published
Operating under the ‘Nudedragons’ name for the first time in 14 years, Matt Cameron, Kim Thayil and Ben Shepherd performed six songs for the 2024 SMooCH benefit concert
Metallica pull out all the stops for All Within My Hands charity gig – bringing out oddball Danelectros, Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament and rarities
By Phil Weller published
With the help of some special guests, Metallica played deep cuts, new covers, and a very interesting reimagining of one of their recent releases all in the name of charity
Sophie Lloyd shares her ambitions to make amp modelers “more accessible”
By Janelle Borg published
The guitarist is an avid proponent of amp modelers – and now has her sights set on a signature plugin
Isaiah Sharkey names his favorite guitar player of all time – and reveals he’s bought one of his most iconic guitars
By Matt Owen published
The revered session player has paid tribute to his favorite guitar player of all time, having recently purchased one of his personal Gibson Johnny Smith models
Billy Corgan reckons this Metallica track sounds suspiciously similar to a Smashing Pumpkins deep cut
By Phil Weller published
Corgan says Hetfield has “written some of the greatest, most amazing riffs” of all time, but one cut from 1997 sounds awfully familiar...
Mike Rutherford reveals his secret studio sessions with Eddie Van Halen – and sheds light on their unreleased songs
By Janelle Borg published
Van Halen had just come across Rutherford's second solo album when he called the Genesis co-founder to collaborate
Gavin Rossdale remembers the moment he wrote Bush’s biggest hit – and thought he’d stolen it
By Janelle Borg published
With their 1994 debut album, Sixteen Stone, British band Bush established themselves as one of the top acts of the era in the stateside-dominated grunge scene
Can Zoom beat Boss and TC Electronic at their own game and conquer the compact looper game with its latest MultiStomp pedal?
By Phil Weller published
Featuring a host of new features, effects, and intuitive controls, the MS-90LP+ wants to make the art form of looping easier than ever
Shergold’s new Telstar bass repackages one of the firm’s best electric designs of recent years into a low-end format
By Phil Weller published
It’s joined by another new low-end launch from the acclaimed UK luthier, the Libertine
When rhythm guitar hero Andy Fairweather Low was recruited by a Beatle to play slide – even though he’d never played slide before
By Matt Owen published
Harrison and Fairweather Low had a mutual love for Ry Cooder’s slide guitar playing, and the Beatle convinced the Eric Clapton rhythm guitarist to develop his own slide chops for a Japanese tour
Eddie Van Halen on the time Billy Corgan played through his rig – and why his setup shocked the Smashing Pumpkins frontman
By Jackson Maxwell published
Finding EVH's rig almost impossible to wrangle, Corgan figured, mistakenly, that there was something he could quickly disable to tame it
Marty Friedman reveals the real reason he rejected Megadeth's proposed Rust in Peace lineup reunion
By Janelle Borg published
Friedman sets the record straight on the much-rumored reunion and claims that the amount the Megadeth team offered him was “right around the first salary I got when I joined Megadeth in 1990”
Derek Trucks recalls playing with the greats from an early age
By Phil Weller published
Sharing the stage with his heroes taught Trucks a wealth of valuable lessons – and also showed him the difference between mediocre players and the greats
Josh Rand’s guitar collection is an ode to ’80s shred – but he’s putting some of his prize pieces up for sale
By Phil Weller published
Rare, vintage, and signed models make up the guitarist’s 31 new listings, and there’s plenty to get excited about
Reverb has revealed its best-selling pedals of 2024 – and it seems we have a winner in this year’s amp modeler race
By Matt Owen published
It’s been a big year for digital amp modelers and regular stompboxes alike, and as Reverb itself notes, it all makes for quite an interesting list
The emotional moment Johnny Cash was offered his one-of-a-kind signature acoustic
By Janelle Borg published
Cash was a strong proponent of Martin guitars, playing a whole host of models – but his all-black D-42 signature model is the most iconic
Pantera’s Rex Brown rejoins Spector’s artist ranks – less than a year after dropping his first Epiphone signature
By Phil Weller published
Brown relied on his Spector basses for the band’s final three albums, and took his stash on the road after Pantera reformed in 2022
Mark Tremonti on how Paul Reed Smith got him hooked on Dumbles
By Matt Owen published
The Alter Bridge guitarist looks back on how he beat his PRS peers to play the amp of his dreams – and never looked back
Meet Lambrini Girls, the noise-punks starting a riot with blunt punk and scathing social commentary
By Janelle Borg published
Fresh from supporting IDLES and Amyl and The Sniffers and making a fan out of Iggy Pop, singer/guitarist Phoebe Lunny and bassist Lilly Macieira are on the brink of releasing their highly anticipated debut, and winning fans one flamethrower track at a time