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Stephane Wrembel: "When you cut out string noise, you’re left without the physical aspect of what a musician does"

By Joe Bosso published 8 January 20

Stephane Wrembel’s annual The Django Experiment albums are mind-blowing odes to the music, legacy and influence of the late, great Django Reinhardt

Nirvana's Krist Novoselic: "I'm never in any bass magazines"

By Bass Player Staff published 8 January 20

Back in 2012, we met the bassist turned political activist, commentator and now recipient of his own signature instrument

Sam Kiszka: hard rock is alive with Greta Van Fleet

By Freddy Villano published 8 January 20

The fast-rising band's bassist talks influences, gear and what he thinks of those Led Zeppelin comparisons

Tim Commerford: "My tone is always a work in progress, and the stage is my laboratory"

By Jon D’Auria published 8 January 20

The Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave bassist talks Prophets of Rage, songwriting and his practice regimen

Guthrie Govan: "I don’t see how it’s possible to have too much technique or knowledge"

By Joe Bosso published 16 December 19

He of the mad, mad skills talks dinosaurs, blind alleys and the Aristocrats’ quirky-as-hell new album, You Know What...?

Laura Cox on being a leftie playing right-handed and why she'd take a high-end Epiphone over a cheap Gibson

By Jonathan Horsley published 16 December 19

The maverick French hard-rocker talks Burning Bright, chicken pickin’ and why the YouTube comments section is not as terrifying as being onstage for the first time

Jimmy Page’s guitar gear: everything you need to nail the Led Zeppelin legend's sound

By Jonathan Horsley published 13 December 19

Looking to emulate that pristine Stairway to Heaven twang? Or perhaps the pounding riff of Immigrant song? We’ve got you covered

Submit your questions for Adam 'Nergal' Darski

By Damian Fanelli published 13 December 19

Round up your best and brightest questions and send them our way, people

Stone Sour's Josh Rand on how he changed from bass to guitar by accident and what's next for the band

By Amit Sharma published 13 December 19

The hard-rock guitarist gives GW the lowdown on the group's surprise live album Hello, You Bastards: Live in Reno

Joe Bonamassa: "It’s easy to play marginally good blues. It’s very difficult to play great blues"

By Richard Bienstock published 13 December 19

The best living blues guitarist - as voted by you - shares soloing advice and the inside scoop on his next album

Periphery's Misha Mansoor, Jake Bowen, Plini and Jakub Zytecki

Misha Mansoor, Jake Bowen, Plini and Jakub Zytecki go deep on gear, technique and the future of djent

By Amit Sharma published 12 December 19

It's a tech-metal round table! The Periphery axemen are joined by two of today's leading virtuosos to wax lyrical on all things tech-metal

The 20 best guitar riffs of the decade

By Jonathan Horsley published 12 December 19

We’ve got scuzzy blues-rock, skronky indie, a whole bunch of heavy and some funk, too... But was the winner worth the wait?

Watch Andy Gillion and Paul Wardingham unleash a menagerie of other-worldly lead lines in this exclusive playthrough

By Sam Roche published 11 December 19

Hiraeth is taken from guitar virtuoso Gillion's debut album Neverafter

Gov't Mule's Warren Haynes: "When I switch to my ’59 Les Paul, there’s something magical there that you just can’t replicate"

By Mark McStea published 10 December 19

Warren Haynes dishes on how he's kept Gov't Mule together for 25 years, and offers an interesting take on the regime of self-improvement as a guitarist

Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram: “I can’t be the kid wonder forever”

By Alan Paul published 10 December 19

Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram is the future of the blues. Here, he discusses his fiery debut album

Manuel Gardner Fernandes: "I wanted to do something people might not have heard before - and I hope I’ve proved I can play everything live"

By Amit Sharma published 9 December 19

The Instagram virtuoso speaks exclusively to GW about those guitar fakery accusations, his gear secrets and how he honed his jaw-dropping technique

Meet Dabin Lee, the DJ pushing boundaries with his genre-splicing guitar playing

By Amit Sharma published 9 December 19

The revolutionary EDM producer on how incorporating guitar into his live sets brought a new dimension to his music

The Underground Thieves' Nick Perri on ignoring directives from Eddie Van Halen, and why he's more satisfied with his tone than ever before

By Jeff Kitts published 6 December 19

The former Silvertide man discusses his new band, and how he learned to stop worrying and love a simple guitar rig

The 20 best guitar solos of the decade

By Jonathan Horsley published 5 December 19

The results are in. This is the best lead playing from 2010-2019, as voted by you

10 things you didn't know about Stevie Ray Vaughan

By Damian Fanelli, Andy Aledort published 5 December 19

Think you know everything there is to know about the late, great SRV? Read on!