“I’m afraid if I started jamming on it, people would go, ‘What is he doing? That’s wrong! Is he having a moment?’”: Don Felder says playing the Hotel California solo note-for-note is his “obligation” to Eagles fans
“I kept this under my bed. Then one day I was like, ‘What are you doing?’ I took it out… within a night or two, it fell off the stand and got a chip”: How Keith Urban found Clarence, the Telecaster that’s still his number one
“Come on, get a move on!” John McLaughlin recalls the night Ginger Baker started throwing drumsticks at Jack Bruce
“J Mascis put this guitar into my hands. He went to some store and the guy was trying to peddle this Jazzmaster, and J has so many of ’em…” Kurt Vile on meeting Neil Young, his prized vintage offset and why he prefers dead strings
“The artists that are against it, you’ve got to be careful because it’s going to come and swallow you like the boogie monster at night”: Empire Of The Sun’s Luke Steele says “of course” he uses AI
Olivia Rodrigo ticks another name off her alt-rock wishlist as she joins Smashing Pumpkins on stage at Lollapalooza to sing Thirty Three
“Once up and running, it’s a dream to use, and capable of capturing some magnificent audio”: Tascam DR-40XP field recorder review
“Your analogue sound becomes a sample – then the cycle begins again: a new sound, a new sample, a new idea”: Vermona drumDING is a hybrid drum machine designed to sample itself
“I don’t think it’s overstating it, I don’t think it’s hyperbole – you guys invented rave culture”: Moby praises Britain’s historic contribution to dance music
“It only felt right that we played it for the first time in America with the man himself”: Olivia Dean puts Sam Fender in the Lollapalooza spotlight as he joins her to sing the song that’s just broken a long-standing UK chart record
“I’ve never had to cancel a tour. Not even when I had my face totally ripped open in an early morning traffic accident in 1987”: Former Whitesnake guitarist Adrian Vandenberg cancels tour due to serious health issues
“It’s tragic the way he died. He made the blues accessible to a lot of guys like me.” Bob Dylan and Jorma Kaukonen on the 1960s guitar icon who led an electric blues revolution and died alone and unknown
“Seal said to me while we were doing the first album, ‘I’ve got this song – it’s a bit like Greensleeves.’ I was like, ‘that sounds interesting’”: Trevor Horn on the waltz-time song with the “crazy” vocal harmonies that gave Seal a ’90s US number one
The fastest rising digital amp tech has been added to another mainstream modeler – could this be a tipping point?
“It is a daunting task, but it’s totally doable. Once you get it, it’s like breathing”: Eric Johnson has a valuable lesson for players “trapped in patterns”
“In loving memory of Kieran Foster”: Illformed Glitch2 multi-effects plugin made available for free following its creators passing
