Polish Club’s David Novak: “We’ve moved beyond the OG Polish Club setup” By Matt Doria On their loud and lively third album – the aptly titled Now We’re Cookin’ – the bonafide rock dogs in Polish Club take a big ol’ bite of the pop pie
Stone Temple Pilots’ Robert DeLeo: “It’s important for any musician to listen to as many kinds of music as you can” By Greg Prato 25 years on, the alt-rock heroes' third studio album Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop is getting the box set treatment. Bassist Robert DeLeo remembers the original record's creation
DZ Deathrays’ Shane Parsons and Lachlan Ewbank: “It’s almost like the record opens up as you get further and further into it” By Matt Doria After what feels like the longest two years in history, DZ Deathrays bring their Positive Rising era to an explosive peak, delivering riffs aplenty on a tight and turbulent new long-player
Indie-rock trailblazers Martin Courtney and Francis Lung wax lyrical on the gear and songwriting behind their new albums By Sam Roche The Real Estate guitarist and Manchester native sit down for an exhaustive, in-depth conversation about the guitars, recording techniques and solos that fuel Half a Human and Miracle
Dropkick Murphys’ Ken Casey: “I’m having a blast being able to connect more with the audience” By Matt Doria It kind of goes without saying that we could all use a bit of positivity right now. Enter: the trailblazing punk-rockers in Dropkick Murphys
Gojira’s Joe Duplantier: “I think humans are pretty shitty sometimes, but we’re as horrible as we are incredible” By Matt Doria The modern metal titans in Gojira take aim at the root of all evil on their convulsive new album
Rag’N’Bone Man: “It feels like we really concentrated on the songs before anything else was done” By Matt Doria Singer‑songwriter Rory Graham (a.k.a. Rag’N’Bone Man) bucks the trend of mainstream pop artificiality with the defiantly raw, powerfully authentic Life By Misadventure
Paul McCartney: “I figured out my own way of doing fingerstyle – that’s really how I learned every instrument I play” By Harold Steinblatt In this classic 2007 interview, Macca discusses his greatest acoustic songs, his unique fingerpicking style and the musical influences that shaped his playing with The Beatles and beyond
Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis on being inspired by Thin Lizzy and working with Kurt Vile By Matt Doria Never ones to rest on their laurels, the legendary Dinosaur Jr. shake things up with meteoric might on their first album in five years
Danny Elfman: “I’m not a shredder. My guitar on this album was the feedback and the messiness!” By Jonathan Horsley For his first solo album in decades, Big Mess, the composer grabs an electric guitar and takes a deep dive into his mid-pandemic psyche for a challenging ‘chamber punk’ metal sound
Liz Stringer: “I didn’t have any design for the outcome, which was very different to other records I’ve made” By Matt Doria The soul-bearing new opus from Liz Stringer is some of her strongest, and undoubtedly most poignant, work to date
Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake: “If we share the load, it should mean that we can come up with a stronger album” By Matt Doria Rejuvenated by a lineup shuffle and a spirited new creative dynamic, Scottish rockers Teenage Fanclub make album #11 another effortless hit
The Offspring’s Dexter Holland and Noodles: “Everything from Smash ’til now seems like it’s all part of the same era” By Matt Doria Almost a whole damn decade in the making, The Offspring are officially back in top form with their timely new album, Let The Bad Times Roll
Voodoo Glow Skulls' Eddie Casillas: “This record is the most ska we've ever been – we've never had clean guitar tones on any of our albums before this” By Gregory Adams Nine years after their last album – and one vocalist later – the Riverside, CA outfit take aim at a host of topical issues with new ska-heavy effort, Livin' the Apocalypse
Garbage’s Steve Marker: “It was important to keep the initial spirit that we had when we wrote these songs” By Matt Doria No Gods No Masters. That’s the title of the hotly awaited new jam-fest from the pop-rock mainstays in Garbage – but it’s also the mission statement they avowed when they gathered in the Californian desert to make it
An interview with Fender Custom Shop Master Builder Kyle McMillin By Matt Doria Australian Guitar gets down to the wire with a renowned Custom Shop artisan to learn all about his latest psychedelic work of art
Royal Blood’s Mike Kerr: “We wanted Typhoons to feel like a debut record” By Matt Doria For album #3, Royal Blood shed the limitations of a two-piece to deliver a hard-out epic of explosive punk, groove-laden soul and rip-roaring dance-rock
Wolf Alice’s Ellie Rowsell and Joff Oddie: “It almost felt like we were having the ‘difficult second record’ on the third one” By Matt Doria Following a well-earned rise to stardom, UK alt-rockers Wolf Alice leap to even grander heights with their dreamy and deep new album, Blue Weekend
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