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How Sophie Lloyd got over her performance anxiety – thanks to an arena show with mgk
By Phil Weller published
The British shredder enjoyed a meteoric rise as she went from YouTuber to mgk’s guitarist – and it helped her tackle her anxiety

Meet Eric Steckel, the high-gain firebrand painting a new shade of blues guitar
By Amit Sharma published
The Knaggs signature artist has grown an international profile by importing heavy distortion into the blues and bending it to his will

Car Bomb’s Greg Kubacki is exploring new heavy frontiers – with help from Gojira’s Joe Duplantier
By Gregory Adams published
Technical wizardry plus atmospheric brutality equals explosive results according to the Vernon Reid-approved riff mathematician

How Stevie Ray Vaughan surprised the son of blues royalty at his 16th birthday
By Phil Weller published
Allison thought he’d lost the chance to jam with his hero, then he noticed a tour bus passing the venue

Joe Bonamassa test drives Gary Moore’s iconic Soldano amp
By Phil Weller published
Bonamassa bought the historic amp head at auction last year

Top players and a gun-wielding Phil Spector: the wild story of John Lennon's rock 'n' roll covers album
By Jackson Maxwell published
Recorded under threat of a lawsuit, while in the midst of his infamous “Lost Weekend”, Rock 'n' Roll was the craziest ride of the Beatle's career – featuring top players and a gun-wielding Phil Spector

“Dave helped us understand how to make a good Megadeth album”: Teemu Mäntysaari on the making of Megadeth’s final album
By Andrew Daly published
Mäntysaari says Dave Mustaine's last hurrah was a very modern collaboration built upon the established principles of Megadeth's sound

How Zakk Wylde wrote his tribute song to Ozzy Osbourne
By Janelle Borg published
Wylde explains how no one expected Ozzy to pass away two weeks after Back to the Beginning, saying that, “Keith Richards, Lemmy, Ozzy... they're like the air you breathe, and you think they're going to be around forever”

The guitar that changed Billy Corgan’s life
By Michael Astley-Brown published
It soundtracked two of the biggest alt-rock albums of all time, but as the Smashing Pumpkins leader remembers, the guitar itself was far from expensive
![Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy [on the white Telecaster] perform on Late Night with Seth Myers.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/eX6S7nn9FNajPVn3zcPXdM-320-80.jpg)
How a Chicago alt-rock stalwart and Hollywood A-lister put together a supergroup to celebrate their favorite records
By Jon Wiederhorn published
You might know Jason Narducy from playing bass with Bob Mould. You might recognize Michael Shannon, too. He’s in the movies. But they are also in band, and are celebrating R.E.M.’s Lifes Rich Pageant in concert. Narducy tells GW how it all went down
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