Latest about interview
Tracii Guns: “Everything I played on the new L.A. Guns record was recorded direct through a HeadRush – I didn’t use a mic’d-up amp for anything”
The hair metal survivor talks L.A. Guns' hard-riffing 2021 album Checkered Past, his Kramer Gunstar Voyager signature model and why he's content playing smaller venues over arenas
Ann Wilson on enlisting Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Warren Haynes and Tom Bukovac for new solo album Fierce Bliss
Wilson talks covering Queen, Eurythmics and Robin Trower at Muscle Shoals, and recalls her fondest memories from a decades-long career with Heart
King Garbage's Zach Cooper details his tricked-out Coopercaster hybrid guitar setup: “The potential for the hybrid rig is such a deep well”
The alt-soul guitarist talks building an instrument that organically covers the frequency spectrum, and the Mike Patton-backed band's carefully crafted sophomore album, Heavy Metal Greasy Love
Zach Myers on Shinedown's new album, Planet Zero: “It's the sound of a band in a room playing rock 'n' roll – I think a lot of our fans missed that”
The guitarist talks using “milk crates” full of pedals on the Florida hard-rockers' forthcoming concept album, why they steered clear of reverb, and how a stock Kemper preset crept onto the final recording
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
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 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
Matt Pike: “I wanted this album to sound different to my previous work. But everything I play on is going to sound like me, in a weird way, shape or form”
The Sleep/High On Fire guitarist on his love of Les Pauls, and recruiting the likes of Brent Hinds, Todd Burdette and Jeff Matz for his debut solo album, Pike vs The Automaton
Wallows: “There's that fine line of ‘I want to know where the guitar can take me’ and ‘I don't know where it can take me’”
Dylan Minnette, Braeden Lemasters and Cole Preston on why the guitar is their "comfort instrument", their favorite six-strings and the tracking secrets on new album, Tell Me That It's Over
