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Working with Fender, Dirnt built a bass rig that allowed him to ditch distortion pedals and harness his distinctive sound

The viral star turned country hero discusses finding space as a picker surrounded by guys like Tom Bukovac, John Osborne, and the sideman who’s been with him since the beginning, Brandon Aksteter

We had to wait nigh-on a decade for new album Touch but it demonstrates that Douglas McCombs and his six-string lieutenant, Jeff Parker, have not lost theirs, nor for their taste in retro-audio engineering techniques

B.B. King will forever be known as the great bluesman who always played Lucille. But he had many Lucilles

Collins explains why the Britrock survivors still believe in albums and real amps moving air, and discusses their return to the formative Rockfield Studios after three decades

This 1963 Fender Stratocaster and 70s Höfner 500/1 violin bass guitar recently went under the hammer – and, as it turns out, these were Britrock unicorns for collectors

From the smallest screen in our pockets to the stage and studio, can anyone stop the French garage-blues prodigy from taking her rock sound to the to the masses?

It was a square peg amid the shred scene and almost sank Johnny Marr, but the Smiths’ majestic third album ended up as the jewel in their crown

The P-Funk veteran takes us inside his latest life stage, a much more mellow place than the frenzied funk days of his past

Weaned on the Stooges, Luke Bentham developed a taste early on for any player who could “peel paint” from the walls. Here, he walks through the high-volume approach behind the Dirty Nil's latest, which originally provoked a cease-and-desist from the Holy See...