“I was in a position where I could maybe put a deposit on a house or I could do this crazy experiment. I chose to go all in on the music”: Meet the singer-songwriter who’s playing a gig every day in 2026 in an effort to make it
“He was divorced, drinking, and involved with drugs a little too much – and yet he was this beautiful soul who we got to know”: How Rhinestone Cowboy became an everyman anthem for the ages
“I guess some of you probably know there’s a new man in town”: ZZ Top get back on the road just days after drummer Frank Beard’s death
“I’m really jealous of people like The Stones or Paul McCartney who are going well into their 80s. I wanted to do that. But it looks like I can’t”: Ex AC/DC drummer Chris Slade reluctantly announces his retirement
Dr Dre has words for those who oppose the use of AI in music: “You sound like the person that would have been against the drum machine when it came out. Or synthesizers”
“Who’s that girl playing the resonator guitars?” Billy Gibbons called Norman’s Rare Guitars looking for a young musician he’d seen online in the shop’s videos
“I reached for an acoustic guitar to idly play. Jeff’s like, ‘That’s the most expensive guitar in this building… Just so you know’”: Cut Worms’ Max Clarke on recording with Jeff Tweedy – and the indie icon’s epic gear collection
“If I had a perfect Strat, I’d take off a volume and a tone knob – because I’m a dreadful man – just to make it like a Tele”: Graham Coxon on the perfection of the Telecaster (and why you shouldn’t lend him your Strat)
Hotone’s do-it-all Pulze Jr. is set to be the most fully-featured practice amp for under $300 – and offers serious competition for Positive Grid and JBL
“There’s nothing more threatening than a girl with a guitar”: The classic ’80s hit that topped the US chart for seven weeks and turned Joan Jett into a rock icon
“There isn’t one thing about the gear that we’re using now that we don’t understand”: Autechre on their diligent tech-learning ethos and very first workflow
Did John Lennon and Paul McCartney last meet in 1978 over a pizza in New York City? “I recall Paul asking John, ‘Are you making any music these days?’”
“Snake Sabo is the master of the riff. I’ll never forget when he played me 18 and Life for the first time… We had no formula”: Skid Row’s Rachel Bolan on going solo, his ’70s inspirations, and the band’s continuing search for a new singer
“He said, ‘The thing was made wrong in the first place!’ I joked, ‘Let me see you build a vibrato contraption that works!’” How Merle Travis pushed Paul Bigsby to one-up Gibson with his iconic vibrato
“He fired the whole band at the end of that tour, and I managed to survive”: Albert Lee on his time as Eric Clapton’s sideman
“I saw this big security-guard-looking dude staring at me. When I put the bass down, he grabbed me and said, ‘Come with me’”: When Robert ‘Bubby’ Lewis mistook Andrew Gouché for a security guard – and ended up landing the gig with Snoop Dogg
How Positive Grid reinvented the digital guitar amp: “People began to see that amp as a companion when the rest of the music scene shut down”
“If James Burton recorded that song one more time, it would not have sounded the same. They caught lightning in a bottle”: An all-star guitar panel choose their Telecaster Mount Rushmore – its greatest players, their greatest tracks
“In ’70s post-Vietnam America there was no album that better captured the fall from Eden, the long slow afterburn of the ’60s”: Singer-songwriter Jackson Browne’s golden years – by Bruce Springsteen and Browne himself
How did The Last Dinner Party become one of the UK’s biggest bands? Bassist Georgia Davies reflects on their sudden success and whirlwind tours: “Suddenly we were getting emails from managers, labels… and, weirdly, lawyers”
