Latest articles by Mike Brooks
The Lowlist "Like a chainsaw going through chocolate pudding”: Mr Big's Lean Into It caught an unstoppable rock band at the top of their game…
Jagger produced them but that sound was all theirs. Inside Living Colour's late 80s classic debut
In praise of Dookie, the 1994 album that put Green Day on the pop-punk throne
George Michael could play bass – but it was Deon Estus who gave his songs groove, especially on 1987's Faith album...
The Lowlist Ziggy Stardust was recorded in just one day. It made David Bowie a star. But bass players could only hear Trevor Bolder...
Glass-like fretless tone. Thumb-thumping passages. Tributes to Jaco: 1993's The Sun Don't Lie served notice that Marcus MIller was more than a sideman
It's 1981 and the bass players of the UK are looking at their thumbs and wondering if they can keep up…
And yep, most of us can’t play those basslines standing up and completely sober
The Lowlist The Lowlist – celebrating longplayers with low-end – doffs its cap to Chris Squire
The godfather of slap bass says “I actually love playing a 5-string for other artists, but not for live shows”
Slick, smoldering and able to fuse rock, pop, funk and dance rhythms, Kick was peak INXS
The rhythm section was "was totally out of whack". The producer was "like Adolf Hitler". But out of it all came an all-time classic.
Real bass, sampled bass: how Hysteria redefined a genre's production standards.
We doff our caps to the uplifting grooves and funkalicious basslines of Chic's second album
Unfairly maligned as an album "fixed in the studio", a new version of Live And Dangerous proves Lynott and co didn't need overdubs
An appreciation of the album that introduced the young Stuart Zender
One of the great names in bass amps rolls out a portable, affordable range of Class D combos... It's time for lift-off
The bass-specific version of the hugely popular Katana guitar amp range has finally arrived – we put its flexible feature set to the test
A custom five-string from Japan that places plenty of tone options at your fingertips
There are no weedy bass tones with this customized four-string
The B5 is like a beefed-up five-string greatest hits of Cort's Artisan series, with a generous spec at a very attractive price
A super-compact, transient-taming compressor from the storied bass amp brand
Tired of back-breaking basses? Try the new lightweight Spector Euro
