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Eva Gardner on returning to the Mars Volta, bass as a family business and rocking with Cher and Pink
Eva Gardner has played with Cher, Moby, Pink, Veruca Salt... the list goes on. Here she reveals how it all started with a bass from Andy Johns, how it's going with the Mars Volta – and what comes next
From the Tiger to the Wolf, meet the guitar maker who bought Jerry Garcia’s designs to life
This is the story of Tom Lieber, the aspiring guitar builder who wouldn’t take no for an answer and ended up making prized instruments for the Grateful Dead
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Shiv Mehra and Kerry McCoy on stompbox thrill-seeking and Deafheaven's return to super-heavy guitars
Lonely People with Power takes Deafheaven back to the frontiers of black metal and shoegaze, and once more torching the rulebook of genre orthodoxy in search of sonic enlightenment
Alex Lifeson on Envy of None’s evolution, moving on post-Rush, and jams and coffee with Geddy Lee
Stygian Wavz, the new album from Envy of None, finds Lifeson showcasing his prodigious chops again. Here he talks about the gear behind it, where he is as a player, and that huge Rush box set
From Pearl Jam to the Stones, the stars have aligned for Andrew Watt – but he says he owes it to Ozzy
The producer and guitarist explains how ’Sabbath and Ozzy were there for the beginning of his journey – and why he’ll to be there for the end of theirs
Al Jardine on the genius of Brian Wilson, working with the Wrecking Crew and touring with Jeff Beck
In this 2015 interview, Beach Boys guitarist Al Jardine recounts some of the pivotal moments as a key member of one of America’s greatest musical treasures
The history of the Guild Starfire: “the ultimate blues guitar”
By the late '50s, rock ’n’ roll was in full swing – and so for Guild, a ‘jazz guitar’ maker, it was time to catch up. Enter the Starfire electrics…
H.E.A.T’s Dave Dalone on taking rock back to the future, learning from Gary Moore, and why he's a Kramer man through and through
They may have titled their latest album Welcome To The Future, but make no mistake, Swedish rockers H.E.A.T are paying homage to the past, with Dalone's scorching riffs and solos leading the way
