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Crown Lands' Kevin Comeau performs live with a white Yamaha SG

How Crown Lands went from Rush’s spiritual successors to playing Led Zeppelin with their heroes

By Ryan Reed Published

Are Crown Lands heirs to the Rush crown as Canada’s foremost prog act? Kevin Comeau is just happy to be living the prog dream, falling down the rabbit-hole of double-necks and 19-minute tracks

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D12

D12 are back with red-hot flows, real guitar riffs and Eminem’s right-hand guitar man

By Henry Yates Published

Jeff Bass is the Grammy-winning guitarist behind Eminem’s Lose Yourself. He explains how he ditched samples for genuine performances, and how his son Jake is continuing the tradition on new album D12 Forever

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Mick Thomson of Slipknot performs on stage during day 2 of Download festival 2019 at La Caja Magica on June 29, 2019 in Madrid, Spain

Mick Thomson reflects on Slipknot's Wait and Bleed, label pressures – and sticking to their own guns

By Janelle Borg Published

In a 2014 GW interview, Thomson revealed his disdain for melodic choruses, and how he fought hard for the band to maintain their artistic integrity post-Wait and Bleed

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Main Image–Cody Nilsen of GA-20 performs during the 55th Annual New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival New Orleans, Louisiana; Secondary Image–TSA pre-flight check

Blues band film TSA agent ruining $380 guitar case during pre-flight inspection

By Janelle Borg Published

Boston band GA-20’s clip of the incident has since gone viral, reigniting the debate about the aviation industry’s apparent disregard for musicians’ property

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Canada's experimental rock band "Angine de Poitrine" guitarist Khn de Poitrine performs during a concert part of the Nuits Botanique music festival in Brussels on May 28, 2026

Angine De Poitrine just upgraded their main guitar-bass hybrid – could a Godin signature model be on the way?

By Janelle Borg Published

The viral math-rock duo has been lugging around a double-neck built by luthier Raphaël Le Breton. Now, guitarist Khn has been spotted with another version, crafted by one of Canada's foremost guitar builders...

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Dead Pioneers on stage

Dead Pioneers on how indigenous politics and pedal-builds have powered them to punk glory

By Jason T. Mays Published

An extensive and expansive gear list helps the Pearl Jam-approved band express their hopes for global improvement – as heard on their explosive new album, Wagon Burner

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(from left) Mark Gallagher, Rob "Wacko" Hunter, and John Gallagher, of the English heavy metal band Raven, pose for a group portrait at The Kabuki Theater in San Francisco, California on June 7, 1984

The thrash metal bands who deserved to make it – but didn’t

By David Konow Published

For every success story like Metallica from the ‘80s metal movement, there are countless bands who didn’t make it. Some of them never gave up

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Rush's Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee pose with their Gibson ES-355 and Fender Jazz Bass

Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson on the inside story behind the Rush reunion

By Joe Bosso Published

How Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee found drummer Anika Nilles and put together the biggest reunion tour in prog rock history

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Krist Novoselic and Kurt Cobain performing live onstage

The recording of Nirvana's Bleach – and the band's “ultimate grunge song”

By Janelle Borg Published

Recorded in four sessions in December 1988 for just $606.17, Bleach would signal the primal quality and rawness that came to define the grunge movement

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Guitarist Steve Stevens (L) and singer Billy Idol perform at the 2016 iHeartRadio Music Festival at T-Mobile Arena on September 23, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Billy Idol and Steve Stevens inducted into Guitar Center’s Hollywood Rockwalk

By Phil Weller Published

They’ll be be among some prestigious players on Sunset Boulevard

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