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'FOR 40 YEARS, fans-and especially a lot of musicians--have told me that this era of the band was a watermark,' Adrian Belew says, discussing the version of King Crimson that [...]

Luther Dickinson has made a career of taking musical left turns without ending up where he began, spiraling up toward new horizons instead of turning back onto worn paths, as [...]

IF YOU'RE A regular at Guided by Voices shows--and most of the band's rabid fans have seen the group dozens, if not hundreds, of times--you'll know what to expect when [...]

A MODERN DAY MASTER of the Telecaster, Jim Campilongo is often lumped into Americana or roots rock, but his modus operandi is just a bit more twisted and way more […]

GROUND MARK TREMONTI RECALLS the doubts that surrounded the early success of Creed, the post-grunge act he first made his mark with in the late 1990s. Seemingly overnight, the Tallahassee, […]

HERMANOS GUTIERREZ make music to get lost in. Brothers Estevan and Alejandro Gutierrez weave intricate guitar parts to create haunting and beguiling instrumentals that work on a metaphysical level. They're [...]

ONE MIGHT NOT think that Dolly Parton, Rob Zombie, k.d. lang and Nikki Sixx would share any kind of common ground, but there is something they all emphatically agree on: [...]

NEWS Q+A PHIL MANZANERA THE LEGENDARY GUITARIST IS CELEBRATING HALF A CENTURY OF SOLO RECORDINGS WITH A LAVISH 11CD BOXSET, [I.50 YEARS OF MUSIC] LOIS WILSON As Roxy Music’s lead [...]

WHEN PIXIES BASSIST Kim Deal asked her twin sister, Kelley, to join the Breeders, a side project that she had started with Tanya Donelly of Throwing Muses in 1989, Kelley [...]

It was all set up to be a great year for Blackberry Smoke, with the release of a fine new album, Be Right Here. But just a few days after [...]

Byline: Ryan Smith The Hives are rock's true Olympians. About every four years, they unveil a new album before embarking on a victory lap in the form of international tours [...]

BY THE TIME Hootie & The Blowfish released their Atlantic Records debut Cracked Rear View, on July 5,1994, the band had already been together for more than eight years. Singer [...]

FROM HIS TIME with Frank Zappa through his work with David Bowie, Talking Heads and King Crimson, Adrian Belew could be spotted onstage with a battle-scarred sunburst-finish Fender Stratocaster. Given [...]

IN THE WORLD of blues, the name Burnside attracts a lot of respect. R.L. Burnside carved out a legendary status for himself in the hill country blues genre, and his [...]

WHEN BRIAN RAY joined Paul McCartney's band in 2002, he was tasked with the responsibility of learning more than 40 songs--in one week. 'Fortunately, I listened to the Beatles nonstop [...]

KIRK HAMMETT'S wiry, wah-scorched lead tones have been a core component of Metallica's sound since the band reshaped the landscape of metal in the early '80s. Now 60 years of [...]

JOHN MCLAUGHLIN'S steel-string work in Shakti is some of the all-time most astonishing acoustic virtuosity, right alongside his hugely influential nylon-string playing with Paco de Lucia and Al Di Meola [...]

FROM HIS SOLO work to his stints with Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie and Motley Crue, John 5 has been hailed as a modern-day guitar hero. Through the years, he's also [...]

TERENCE 'SNOWY' WHITE is one of those unassuming quiet achievers whose passion for playing blues-infused guitar music has never wavered. Having started out working on sessions, he served as a [...]

TWO LANDMARK GUITAR releases, both solo debuts, came along within a few months of each other in 1968 to open my youthful ears and blow my 14-year-old mind. And yet, [...]

DURING THE COURSE of their four-decade-plus career, U2 have been a daringly stubborn, forward-thinking lot, rarely repeating a proven formula, and constantly searching for the next big idea. Indeed, their [...]

Byline: Joe Bosso Plus songwriting, production, upcoming 'psychedelic' record In 2011, MusicRadar sat down with Noel Gallagher to talk about his first solo album, Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds. As [...]

Byline: Simon Bradley A rare 2010 interview with the locking tremolo innovator Back in 2010, Guitarist magazine's Simon Bradley spoke to Floyd Rose for a rare interview about his achievements [...]

YEARS BEFORE PETER Stroud set his sights on playing the guitar for a living, his father gave him a few non-musical pointers that would prove invaluable. 'He told me, no [...]

SOME BANDS JUST have that magical, elusive 'it' factor. Take Italy's Maneskin. From the minute the Rome-based group appeared on the popular Eurovision Song Contest in 2021 and tore the [...]

CHICAGO NATIVE J.D SIMO and Memphis-bred Luther Dickinson each harbor an affinity for the blues. At 39 and 51, respectively, they've been banging around for years but had never crossed [...]

BEYOND HIS OBVIOUS six-string skills, Al Di Meola has talents in the kitchen as well, which he demonstrates in his ongoing Home Events. Initiated four years ago during the pandemic [...]

Byline: Joe Bosso The writing, recording of the iconic '70s anthem Back in 2012, MusicRadar sat down with former Eagles guitarist Don Felder to discuss his then-new album, Road To [...]

FOURTEEN YEARS AGO, a group of super-serious musicians--guitarist Guthrie Govan, bassist Bryan Beller and drummer Marco Minnemann--formed a band after an impromptu NAMM show jam. Ever since then, they've been [...]

FAST-RISING BLUES ROCK guitar star Jared James Nichols remembers one of the best tips he ever received from a fellow player --only it came in the form of an order, [...]

It was in 1980 that the teenage Conrad Lant took the name for which he'd become famous. As the bassist and vocalist in Venom, a band on a mission to [...]

'MY HOUSE, MAN, it's a music church,' Richie Sambora exclaims over Facetime from his Los Angeles home. 'I'm used to paying two thousand dollars a day to go to the [...]

As the much-travelled American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter prepares to play three British and Irish solo shows, he tells CR about his long career, which includes spells with Poison, Mr. [...]

THE MOST MERCURIAL guitarist of his generation, Jeff Beck never conformed to the conventional image of a guitar hero, except maybe when it came to looks (and to that end, [...]

Rush's February 1981 masterpiece Moving Pictures ushered in a previously uncharted era that brought prog rock closer to the heart of the masses. And now, 41 years later, this landmark [...]

CARL NICHOLS ISN'T here to save the blues,' whatever that means. Rather, on The Fatalist (Fat Possum), his second and latest album of blues-rooted music as Buffalo Nichols, he wanted [...]