Latest articles by Gregory Adams
The South Carolina guitar phenom was cooking up some barbecue when GW called to talk dream collabs, Strats vs Les Pauls, and all kinds of guitar stuff
A jilted Les Paul and a chance trip to a guitar store set Kelliher on the way to a life-long affection for the finish
Evil Island is a vampire-obsessed, POG-abusing new project from hardcore scene survivors
British metal quartet Loathe are rising just as fast as they're tuning down – and new album A Stranger to You might have you questioning just how heavy a guitar can sound
Parallel Stride is a essential listening for Guided By Voices who have been jonesing forever in the wait for Gillard to release a follow-up to 2014's Parade On
Featuring Castle Rat, Geese, the Lemon Twigs and all kinds of bands you need to hear
Brian Baker took a gamble. He used his college fund to buy a van, hit the road and pursued a life making hardcore punk, and with Can I Say, he had a different vision for its sound
The Australian virtuoso on dream collabs with John Mayer, high-BPM workouts, and what happened when he imagined “a cello player in a huge, empty concert hall playing this difficult arpeggio”
The multi-instrumentalist and indie lynchpin recalls his early gear, how BSS make sure every guitarist gets their say, and explains why Remember the Humans is deliberately difficult to work out
The prog metal virtuoso has a wild vision for what their joint single could potentially look like
A beer can in the face? That ain’t nothin’ for these punk-country-rock troubadours (who you might’ve already heard if you’ve binged on Landman)
An invite from Wolfgang Van Halen led to the recording experience of a lifetime as Alter Bridge decamped to 5150 Studios for their new “straight-ahead hard-rock record”
After finding inspiration in an old Radio Shack analog reverb, guitarist Brian McClelland’s tonal experimentation has exploded – and it’s added more bite to the band's new release, Impossible World
The guitar duo recall the surreal experience of going into the “sacred” studio – and how that impacted the DNA of their latest record
Technical wizardry plus atmospheric brutality equals explosive results according to the Vernon Reid-approved riff mathematician
Who can stop the irresistible rise of underground heavy metal’s most theatrical troupe? Pinkerton, the self-styled Rat Queen is taking no prisoners
Jamie Stillman of EarthQuaker Devices gives GW a pulse check on the trends affecting what we see on our pedalboards
In this shocking exclusive, guitarist Eddie Angel takes you behind the glitter masks of the surfin’, riffin’, fast-pickin’ instrumental combo
With a comprehensive retrospective announced via Trust Records, and the band back in session, Don Devore returns to the Ink & Dagger story and the “psychedelic hardcore” sound that made them
Burning Witches' new album finds co-founder and rhythm guitarist Romana Kalkuhl and Cox following in the great tradition of dovetailing guitars. As Kalkuhl sees it, it's a sisterhood of metal
The Detroit instrumentalist phenom's new solo EP comes straight from the heart, with wide-range dynamics and Boller's typically audacious style
Cutting loose on his Suhr electrics, Ian Thornley is officially enjoying himself on the Canadian rockers latest LP, The Rest of the Story. He discusses his intro to metal, pinch harmonics, and wrestling with producers
Saturday Night Live has presented some of pop-culture's most iconic moments in musical history. We document its legacy in guitar
With his third album (and a bit of his dad’s Frankenstein), Wolfgang Van Halen and Mammoth are taking the world of rock guitar by storm once again
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...
