Latest articles by Joel McIver
From Smells Like Teen Spirit to About a Girl, here are Krist Novoselic’s five greatest basslines
From the Archive: Melissa Auf Der Maur on gear, grunge and the fine art of going solo
The world’s last great hard-rock band with an advanced sense of humor are back with new album Motorheart. Bassist Poullain brings the pick and the thumb...
From metal to rock, punk to grunge, these are the best guitar riffs ever recorded, as voted for by you
Slipknot’s Alex ‘V-Man’ Venturella reveals how he got the (literally) hottest gig in metal
Primus’ bass wizard tells us all about his Pachyderm bass and exactly what naugahyde is
Trujillo remembers bass guitar’s ultimate metal maverick, Cliff Burton
At the 1992 MTV Awards, Nirvana bassman Krist Novoselic threw his Gibson 25 feet in the air, forgetting it would come down again shortly afterwards
The Cult’s bassist Charlie Jones gives us the first look at his plastic P-Bass, a Custom Shop one-off made by Fender Master Builder Scott Buehl
Bassist to one of the world’s biggest pop stars, Jonny Goood on coming from nothing and making it big: "I didn't have sh*t!"
“He had a Stratocaster pickup hidden under the bridge of his Rickenbacker”
Anthrax bassist Frank Bello on Geezer Butler, Steve Harris, Paul McCartney and more
A living legend of the bass guitar, Lee Sklar makes a strong case for his non-functioning toggle switch
Yup: TWO-string. French sensation Yves Carbonne demonstrates the mastery of multi-string basses that's wowed the likes of Marcus Miller and Michael Manring
The golden-voiced 12-string bass master discusses unlikely brass influences, his eternal search for tone and how ADD impacted his bass playing
Mexico’s Kello Gonzalez reveals his “Holy Trinity” of bass players and how to get his monstrous tone
We talk to MonoNeon, touted by Flea as the ‘greatest f**king electric bass player’, about his funk roots, playing with Prince and his new Fender 5-string Jazz Bass
McKagan reveals how a trip to Guitar Center and the search for a sound to complement Izzy and Slash helped him find his Appetite for Destruction bass tone
The OM and Sleep bassist on gathering his solo singles into a collection, Sinai Dub Box, flow states and the universal groove, and which bass is so heavy he needs pain relief to play it...
The unashamedly extrovert K-Bass continues its purple reign
Loaded with DiMarzio pickups and tone-shaping power, the new five-string from Charvel is a hot-rodded bass ace with a strong '80s vibe
Dave Roe on how a lie got him the gig with Johnny Cash, plus the genius of Marshall Grant and John Paul Jones
Oh, OK. Scott Reeder, of Kyuss, Goatsnake and Fireball Ministry, on auditioning for Tool and playing with Metallica
