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“The first time Sonic Youth went to England, people hated us: ‘Oh, you’re playing guitar? That’s so old-fashioned’”: Alt-rock icon Kim Gordon on the secret to making great music on bad guitars and why she never saw herself as a bassist
4+ hour, 45+ min ago (2008+ words) Returning with solo album Play Me " a stinging broadside against the modern age " the alt-rock talisman remembers the bad guitars and'renegade tunings of her "80s breakout with Sonic Youth A certain trepidation is natural before an interview with Kim Gordon. Despite…...
“Other groups tell everyone they’re the ‘proper’ metal band on the bill, but they’re all using 8-string guitars”: Tailgunner are flying the flag for old-school metal (with a little help from K.K. Downing)
5+ hour, 15+ min ago (1544+ words) Tailgunner's new album, Midnight Blitz, is a love letter to the '80s, to shred, to Yngwie, Priest, all things shred, and it is produced by a bona-fide Metal God Heavy metal has evolved a great deal since four young musicians in…...
“We would roll into, say, Portland, and go to the pawn shops. You could find a ’57 Les Paul for $200!” Melissa Etheridge learned more from a grouchy old man who’d lost his fingers than she did at Berklee
15+ hour, 38+ min ago (2099+ words) The veteran hitmaker charts her evolution from acoustic to electric and back again and explains how she went digital, how she keeps her classic songs fresh, and how her family deal with her incredible guitar collection "I really appreciate Stevie…...
“It can get loud enough to annoy my partner, which is good enough for home use”: Laney Prism-Mini review
19+ hour, 25+ min ago (564+ words) Super easy to use and navigate via the built-in screen. Great amp tones and excellent effects selection. Very sharp looks and solid build quality. Lightweight and compact enough for travel use. I came across some frequencies that resulted in unpleasant…...
Yes postpone upcoming UK dates due to guitarist Steve Howe requiring “essential surgery”
19+ hour, 34+ min ago (284+ words) The shows, which intend to celebrate the band's landmark 1971 album, Fragile, will be rescheduled Yes have announced that they'll be postponing their upcoming UK Fragile tour due to Steve Howe requiring "an essential surgery." The tour, which was scheduled to…...
“The two things I remember are the cool guitar stuff… and this never-ending scream”: Billy Corgan on the first time he met Courtney Love and witnessed Hole live
22+ hour, 47+ min ago (415+ words) After meeting at a Chicago venue in 1991, the two artists and their respective bands were interlinked for decades to come Back in the "90s, Courtney Love and Billy Corgan ran in similar circles and over the years, their bands " Hole and…...
“The whole rig went completely silent – 10,000 people started booing me”: The 17-year-old guitar prodigy who flourished with Dio, but got off to a nightmare start
23+ hour, 7+ min ago (306+ words) Rowan Robertson's fairy-tale ascension sent him from pubs to arenas virtually overnight. But he was a little over-confident for the first of those mega gigs" This lifted Robertson's audiences from, as he put it to Guitar World in a 2022 interview,…...
“Get the data-driven results musicians dream of”: Chibson and Acorn Amps team up for the definitely-not-Google Drive pedal
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (404+ words) It's inspired by a well-known cloud storage service and a pun so obvious, we can't believe we had to wait this long Meme king Chibson is back with another pun-tastic pedal, and the Drive is such an obvious play on…...
“Peter had such a glorious touch thanks to his wonderful simplicity. But then he went off the rails and became a gravedigger”: How 10cc’s Rick Fenn ended up working with David Gilmour, Peter Green, Mike Oldfield, and almost all of his other heroes
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (1616+ words) The underrated guitar great looks back on the "improbable serendipities" that punctuate his 50-year career, hails the guitar he's been playing for almost all of it, and reveals the favorite solos in his catalog Some guitar greats like to live…...
“It will take time to build up the accuracy that the riff demands”: Welcome to Mike Stringer’s downpicking bootcamp
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (481+ words) In his debut GW column, the prog-metal master teaches you the punishing seven-string string-skipping techniques behind Spiritbox's Jaded Hello everyone, and welcome to my new Guitar World instructional column. In this series of lessons, I will be sharing and demonstrating…...
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