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May 2021

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29 articles

May 14
- Epica’s Mark Jansen: “I cannot stand when things stay the same for too long”
May 12
- Butcher Babies' Henry Flury: “I run all over the stage, so the last thing I want to do is dance on a pedalboard. I let my hands do the talking!”
- Nancy Wilson: “I painted myself intentionally into the corner by saying I was going to do an Eddie Van Halen tribute – because then I had to do it”
- Garcia Peoples walk us through their Tweed-powered, triple-guitar indie-rock attack
- Mike Rutherford: ”I covered a lot of ground with the double-neck and bass pedals – they gave the band an extra sound”
May 11
- NOFX’s Aaron ‘El Hefe’ Abeyta: “We’re older now, so there’s a lot more sad shit to write about”
- Jam buddies and neighbors Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen on swapping guitars, blues phrasing and the secret to successful collaboration
- Jason Isbell: ”I think the Telecaster is probably the best guitar design, ever”
- Noctule's Serena Cherry: “The leads on this album are a window into my personality – they're euphoric, but also heavy”
- The best Fender CD-60S Deals May 2021: Save money on this top-rated beginner acoustic guitar from Fender
- Paul Chambers: the double bass great's best (and worst) albums
May 10
- BRIDEAR: “The charm of this album is that it's not just heavy – it pushed us to play more melodic solos”
- Gene Simmons: “We are the hardest-working band in show business, but we do have an awful lot of fun. I have more fun than the Pope!“
May 9
- The Pretty Reckless’ Taylor Momsen: “It was very literally music that saved my life”
May 7
- The Black Crowes’ Chris and Rich Robinson unpack the story behind their timeless debut, Shake Your Money Maker
- Two-Rock Amplification: the tonal approach and philosophy behind the company's sought-after sound
May 6
- A Day To Remember’s Kevin Skaff: “We threw out the imaginary rulebook that never existed”
- Inside Black Country, New Road's freewheeling DIY guitar approach
- Taylor's acoustic guitar bracing options explained
May 5
- Reb Beach: ”When I was a kid, I took an aptitude test, and it basically said I had no aptitude for anything except music”
- Bass speaker cones explained
- Best beginner guitar amps 2021: top guitar amplifiers for beginners
May 4
- Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite: “2020 was such a crazy year that we were just trying to get through it more than anything else”
- Download and stream the audio from Total Guitar 345
- Five Finger Death Punch’s Zoltan Bathory and new recruit Andy James on new beginnings and shred in the era of Covid
- Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal: “Every time I do an acoustic version of something, I realize how beautiful the song is at its core”
May 3
- The secrets behind Jan Akkerman's guitar tone on Hocus Pocus by Focus
- Kaki King: ”All the songs with love and drama that take you to the good, sad place are super-hard to play – it’s so hard to replicate that again and again”
May 2
- Tigers Jaw’s Ben Walsh: “This band has always had a really great sense of community around it”