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Sonic Youth are now alternate tunings icons – but the band opted for them out of necessity
The noise-rock icon is famous for his love of weird tunings, but that fixation only happened with a little help from one of the NY art-rock scene’s biggest innovators
An unsung blues great talks influences, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, and crossing over into jazz
A brilliant, inimitable guitarist, the late Joe Louis Walker merged Delta, Chicago, and West Coast blues styles with soul, gospel, and all-out aggressive rock
Pigs x7 on happy accidents, hip-hop collabs, and the riff that's so heavy they can't play it live
Death Hilarious finds Pigs x7 in full-on destroy everything mode, splitting the atom with low-end guitar. As Sam Grant and Adam Ian Sykes admit, this sonic maximalism is not without risk
Bonnie Trash’s Emmalia Bortolon-Vettor on the pursuit of new sounds with $1 ring slide and a looper
Meet the Canadian quartet twisting post-rock with gothic noise and avant-garde surrealism, whose freewheeling approach requires economical gear and a curious mind
After Deep Purple decided not to hire him after Ritchie Blackmore's departure, Clem Clempson almost formed a wild supergroup with Glenn Hughes and David Bowie
The Colosseum and Humble Pie guitarist was in with a shot at joining the band –but says Tommy Bolin got the gig for one specific reason
Is new music from John Mayer and Bob Weir on the cards?
The band had originally formed as a live act, but the project could yet live on after the residency wraps this week
Session guitar great Dann Huff recalls his first time recording with the King of Pop
The Bad sessions featured a host of high-profile personnel and musicians – including bassist extraordinaire Nathan East
How Tommy Emmanuel deals with his lack of music theory – and when it lets him down
Guitarists regularly debate whether theory is a must-have or should have, and the renowned acoustic guitarist and Berklee tutor has revealed his own experiences on the matter
