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Snail Mail's Lindsey Jordan: “I’m a perfectionist – I will rip a song apart until it is done”
Jordan details the making of her sophomore full-length, Valentine, designing custom Fender models, and undergoing vocal cord surgery just days before she was due to tour in support of the record
Bradley Hall: “It's nice that people enjoy my playing as well as my comedy – my goal has always been to have a good mix of both”
One of YouTube's most prolific guitar players shares his formula for success, how he almost burned out recording a metal soundtrack to The Lord of the Rings, and why Disney's Fantasia is his biggest influence
How Gibson unearthed a 1957 Ted McCarty sketch and turned it into a new guitar shape for 2022, the Theodore
Senior Director of Product Development Mat Koehler recounts the guitar equivalent of “discovering King Tut’s tomb”, and reveals what's next for the model – as well as the “30 or 40 years’ worth of ideas” lurking in the Gibson archives
Joshua Travis on his love of rhythm guitar: “I’ve always wanted to hit you hard. Lead playing doesn’t hit me like that – it doesn’t punch you in the face”
The Emmure guitarist talks tackling the lower registers with 7-, 8- and 9-strings, and how his all-out work ethic inspired pummeling new solo EP, NO REST
The 30 heaviest guitar albums of all time
We've whittled down decades of distorted riffs, dimed tones and doom-laden arrangements to bring you the 30 weightiest guitar outings ever recorded
How Jeff Loomis channeled charred earth to design his new Jackson signature 7-string – and why he's afraid of learning theory
The Arch Enemy shredder on creating the “most metal” guitar possible, his creative relationship with co-guitarist Michael Amott and the trio of new records he's currently working on
Mélissa Laveaux talks luthiers, representation and her "Pretty Woman moment" with Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s guitar
Ahead of her upcoming release, Mama Forgot Her Name Was Miracle, the Canadian indie-roots phenom reflects on her career so far, and how Stairway to Heaven inspired her to pick up the guitar again after years apart
Sasami: “Metal may be mostly a white man's genre, but the emotions that go with the sounds of metal guitar are emotions that all humans experience”
The classically trained songwriter on undergoing a metal transformation and hiring Megadeth's drummer for her second album, Squeeze – a record that is vicious and virtuous in equal measure
The Aggros’ Parris Mayhew: “I can tell a musical story without a singer – I let the instruments tell it instead”
The former Cro-Mags guitarist on his new instrumental venture, the longevity of the band's 1986 album The Age of Quarrel, and the time he swung a guitar around in a music store during tense negotiations with an employee
The Black Tones' Eva Walker: “We would start our sets with a heavy blues instrumental. It locks people in, like, 'Oh s**t, that Black girl's actually shredding'”
The Strat-toting rocker on the four-note sequence that set her on a quest to conquer the blues and the duo's raucous new Sub Pop single, The End of Everything
