“I don’t want to say it was a dirty little secret. Insiders knew, but I wasn’t really allowed to talk about it”: Why Anthrax’s riff-writing isn’t like other bands’
“That energy popped back like we had been playing all the time. Nobody was rusty, man. Everybody was on – like we’d just got off the J.B.’s bus!” How Bootsy Collins and his James Brown alumni brought the J.B.’s back to life for the Superbad soundtrack
“There’s the Stanley Brothers, Flatt and Scruggs, and Bill Monroe, the father of bluegrass. But there’s no mother of bluegrass”: How Lindsay Lou, Molly Tuttle and an all-star cast united to uncover the women behind bluegrass’ biggest songs
“When I’ve played the guitars of people I’ve looked up to, it always feels like there’s DNA on them – like you’re getting a visit from your heroes”: Marcus King on his new signature Epiphone acoustic, playing Tiger, and his brotherhood with Brent Hinds
“We tell our guitar techs we’re sorry profusely. I feel horrible for making their lives miserable”: Mark Holcomb on how Periphery harnesses super-heavy guitars for a super-heavy album that takes djent to a dark place
“Gibbons has used his frequently on ZZ Top albums – he often plays through two at once”: Meet the world’s first ‘pedal’ – a steampunk wonderland you need Windex to use
“The first thing he said to me was, ‘You’re in the band, but you gotta get a new guitar. You can’t play that SG’”: Neil Giraldo on how a push from Rick Derringer led him to the B.C. Rich Eagle
“I’m not trying to toot horns, but Joe Bonamassa said there are only a few guitar players that can do the Albert King bends correctly, and he said my name”: From teenage rigs to stage disasters – the life and times of Eddie 9V
Pink Floyd has a Dark Side of the Moon guitar pick made from gold – and it’s one of the most expensive guitar picks ever made
“I don’t think most people realise the song was aimed at parents who drank and told their kids not to do drugs”: How Grace Slick and Jefferson Airplane went down the rabbit hole and created a psychedelic classic
“That fine line between a trainwreck and a stroke of genius is exactly what Ted McCarty tapped into”: The Gibson Flying V – how a misunderstood design conquered the guitar world
“It was not about making a copy of somebody else’s guitar. It was about improving the guitar in general”: Petr Furch on 45 years of acoustic guitar innovation – and the challenge to make his guitars better
My pick of the best guitar gear launched this week: a new era of Gibson beckons, Joe Bonamassa’s pawn shop SG eternalized, and Squier makes history with a 12-string
“Paul might have been miffed, but I think he was more upset about not singing on the choruses – John did his own backing vocals”: How The Beatles managed to come together one final time and create one of their funkiest grooves
Acon Digital’s machine learning-powered Acoustica 8 audio editor is the company’s “most ambitious release to date”
“It was low-effort TikTok posts that were used to boost the algorithm”: Geese had their own doubts about how ‘real’ their fans actually were
“I said to Ozzy, ‘I don’t think we should do it. We should just let the other bands play our stuff, and us come out at the end and say thank you’”: Tony Iommi says that Black Sabbath’s final show almost didn’t happen
Guitar Center is inviting players to test its new in-house guitar brand – but you’ll need to sign an NDA
“Money, it’s a gas…” Pink Floyd collaborates with the UK’s Royal Mint to release $6,400 18-carat gold guitar pick
“Everyone was as baffled as I was. I remember the president of my record label doing a toast, saying that he had no idea why it worked but he was happy it did”: Beck admits that he was as surprised as anyone by his ‘90s breakthrough
“The next generation of the Gibson humbucker”: Gibson ushers in a new era of its humbuckers with the ELEV8
“It’s the first time a Chinese guitar brand has brought a world-class master guitar builder onboard”: Ex-Fender Master Builder John Cruz and Farida unveil his first guitar (yup, it’s an S-style)
