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How Greta Van Fleet ended up in the new Bruce Springsteen biopic
By Janelle Borg published
You may spot two Kiszka brothers alongside Jeremy Allen White in Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere

When Anthony Jackson came up with the idea for a six-string bass, he struggled to find anyone to build it
By Chris Jisi published
Along with Leo Fender, the late Anthony Jackson became one of the most important figures in the history of the electric bass

Nicolas Meier was hand-picked by Jeff Beck. Now he’s honoring the late guitar icon with a sound that seeks new horizons
By Amit Sharma published
Meier on what he learned from Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucía, and how in Jeff Beck he found a kindred spirit for guitar sounds with no limits

Why Three Days Grace’s Barry Stock is embracing the Ibanez Iceman – and picking his trusty Quad Cortex over a 7-string
By Gregory Adams published
Alienation finds Three Days Grace reinvented as a quintet, and exploring the destructive power of super-low tunings. Onstage, meanwhile, Stock has been having fun with a Porsche GT Silver-themed Ibanez...

A salute to Freddie Salem, the guitar ace who delivered licks for Barbra Streisand, and Southern rock fire and brimstone with the Outlaws
By Rich Davenport published
The late guitarist went from hard-rock hijinks to a well-respected session career, and had skills and stories – a smoke with Johnny Depp in full Jack Sparrow dress, a 9 a.m. whiskey with Keith Richards – aplenty, but always remained humble and easy-going

“I fought tooth and nail for it not to be on the record, but Ed was like, ’If it’s not, I’m leaving’”: Thom Yorke reflects on the viral Radiohead smash that nearly broke up the band
By Matt Owen published
The song has been doing the rounds on social media ahead of Radiohead’s upcoming reunion tour – but it almost didn’t see the light of day

Limp Bizkit remain one of the biggest nu-metal bands ever – but they wouldn't have taken those giant strides without bassist Sam Rivers
By Joel McIver published
Limp Bizkit may be known for their planet-sized guitar riffs, but behind every monster moshpit there's a talented bassist

We chart 25 game-changing Ibanez guitarists
By Amit Sharma published
While it’s easy to think of Ibanez as a company that’s solely at the cutting edge of metal machines for the modern age, they’ve also innovated much further afield, producing timeless acoustics, semi-hollows, and hollowbodies

Dave Davies shows you the proper way to slash an amp to achieve his Kinks tone
By Phil Weller published
The guitarist gives a firsthand showing of how to achieve the band’s landmark distortion without the use of pedals

Lindsay Ell on feel, failure and finding her voice – and what jams with Keith Urban and Buddy Guy taught her
By Pauline France published
Shania Twain's touring guitar ace opens up about her Buddy Guy baptism by fire and the raw questions that shaped her new EP, fence sitter. And she tells us that John Mayer is reassuringly human
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