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June 2020
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- Larkin Poe: "We want to take roots American music to new places - and not treat the blues like a time capsule"
- John Mayall: "Eric Clapton was totally unique. It’s testament to his command of the blues at such an early age"
- Torche: "Playing blues-based leads makes us feel weird - we're not into that!"
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- The 9 best budget guitar amps under $500: affordable amps for beginners and home practice
- Michael Angelo Batio: "This new generation of guitarists is the best I’ve seen. They're where I was in my 20s but at the ages of 10 or even 5!"
- BRKN Love: "We strayed away from big 100-watt stacks for this album. I like the character of a blown-up amp"
- Lamb of God's Mark Morton and Willie Adler on creative kinship, staying power, and trading heavyweight riffs
- Here are the 6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear this month (June 2020)
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- The best electric guitar pickups 2021: top single coils, humbuckers and P-90s to upgrade your tone
- Meet Thomas Tull - the billionaire movie mogul, Slash collaborator and guitar aficionado
- Code Orange: "We've taken guitar headstocks to the forehead, and broken fingers and toes onstage"
- Frank Turner: “I play hard. For a long time, I found myself going through guitars – they couldn’t take a beating"
- The 7 best flanger pedals 2021: the best flange pedals from Strymon, Boss, TC Electronic and more
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- The guitar gear behind the Beatles' Let It Be sessions
- Phoebe Bridgers: “I think of the writing process as going into the studio to f**k up the thing I just wrote”
- 10 ukulele performances that showcase its surprising versatility
- The Sword on their musical evolution, gear epiphanies and secret pedalboard weapons
- June 9
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- Jared Dines: "When I was 12, the artist list on the back of Ernie Ball string packs was my primary way of discovering new music!"
- Michael Mondesir: “In 36 years of playing professionally, I haven’t really owned a high-end bass”
- Ed O'Brien: "The guitar to me is like an oscillator on a synthesizer - it’s the start of a sound rather than the sound in itself"
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- Yvette Young: "I feel like an outsider to the whole virtuoso guitar world... I would jokingly call my genre 'detail rock'!"
- Everything you need to know about seven- and eight-string guitars
- Andrew Watt: "Elton John tracked his entire piano part in under an hour on Ordinary Man - it was pretty incredible"
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- Robert Cray: "With solos, I just improvise and let it fly. It’s what you’re feeling right then and there"
- The secrets behind Ronnie Wood's crunchy tone on the Faces' Stay with Me
- Best guitar stands and guitar hangers 2020: top choices for single and multiple acoustic and electric guitars
- Joe Satriani on his greatest used guitar find, Bonamassa-inspired buyer's remorse and why he just can't play SGs