Steven Wilson
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By Janelle Borg Published
Hutchings, who joined Wilson on his ‘To The Bone’ tour, was previously described by the prog maestro as “a fantastic guitar player”

By David Mead Published
When Wilson asked McStine to redefine the guitar solo for the 21st-century, David Gilmour's greatest solo was the reference. The catch? No pentatonic minor blues. It was to be comfortably new

By Janelle Borg Published
The highly-coveted plugin prides itself in emulating the full range of cheap tape sounds

By David Mead Published
Wilson's new album is unlike anything he’s done before, a very proggy space odyssey that takes the listener on a journey to the outer reaches of the universe…

By Janelle Borg Published
Alongside guitarist Randy McStine, the musical polymath took a tone-first approach to composing – and playing – solos on his new album, The Overview

By Janelle Borg Published
Wilson's eight studio album promises to be “an old-fashioned piece of conceptual rock in the tradition of The Dark Side of the Moon and Tubular Bells”

By Matt Owen Published
The Porcupine Tree maestro says “a lot of the modern generation of guitar players” aren’t paying attention to tone – and the results are “boring”

By Matt Owen, Michael Astley-Brown, Matt Parker, Jackson Maxwell Published
Tasty new guitar tracks that need to be on your radar from Johnny Marr, Yasmin Williams, Art of Anarchy, The Vaccines, Bleachers, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Chelsea Wolfe and more

By Amit Sharma Published
Porcupine Tree’s comeback album, Closure/Continuation, is a prog masterclass, but Wilson insists he is no virtuoso. He does, however, know how to to take happy chords over to the dark side...

By Sam Roche Published
“It’s almost like the equivalent of using a string pad. That guitar sound has just become part of the texture of the music,” he says, arguing that cleans can sound heavier in the right context
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