Eddie Van Halen 1955-2020: a visionary virtuoso who rewrote the rules of electric guitar By Henry Yates An all-star line-up remembers the life, times and exploits of the player who raised the bar and reinvented the electric guitar
Tom Morello: “Trust me, there are plenty of new guitar sounds still to discover. I guarantee you that“ By Henry Yates Rage Against the Machine's six-string revolutionary looks back at his life and career in his own words
Larkin Poe: “Be tenacious. If you really want to learn how to write good songs, you gotta do it and do it again“ By Henry Yates, Jamie Dickson Megan and Rebecca Lovell on the roots scene, the importance of writing bad songs and rock ’n’ roll’s post-pandemic fightback
Dion DiMucci: "Blues is a tradition. But it’s a living tradition. It’s not dead. It’s a handing-down and passing-on" By Henry Yates The blues survivor talks touring with Buddy Holly, meeting Howlin' Wolf, and his star-studded new album, Blues With Friends
The story of Peter Green, one of British blues' most mythologized - and influential - players By Henry Yates We look back at Greeny's trailblazing tenures in The Bluesbreakers and the Mac, 50 years on....
Peter Frampton: "I might not be playing live in a couple of years, but I’m going to be battling on and recording... I feel positive about the future" By Henry Yates The guitar icon looks back at the triumphs and knocks of his career, into the eyes of his illness, and onto the music still to come...
Wishbone Ash's Andy Powell: "We were the second generation. You’d already had Beck, Clapton, Page, Green. It was up to us to carry the torch" By Henry Yates Wishbone Ash's Andy Powell on Jamaican weed, redeeming the Flying V, and how Peter Green became his guitar hero…
Sonny Landreth: “I once played slide with motorcycle handlebars!” By Henry Yates The South's greatest slide man tells us about the thrill of improv, his battle with tendonitis and his "three-day limit"
Inside Dweezil Zappa's mission impossible: performing his father's Hot Rats album live By Henry Yates A half-century after the album’s original release, Zappa embarked on the ultimate labour of love when his Zappa Plays Zappa project planned to tour Hot Rats
