Phillip Zurcher's Techniques for Averting the Repetitive Tedium of Looping

Apr 16 2013 1:57PM
SWISS GUITARIST AND composer Philipp Zürcher creates unique music that straddles contemporary classical, modal jazz, and progressive rock forms, using only an electric guitar and an Echoplex Digital Pro looper. More...

Epic Songs with Epic Meaning: Marillon's Steve Rothery Digs Deep into Complex Sounds and Themes

Apr 16 2013 1:31PM
MARILLION HAS ALWAYS HAD A FEARLESS STREAK ABOUT IT. SINCE ITS debut in 1979, the British band has reimagined progressive rock on an ongoing basis by infusing it with contemporary rock, pop, and folk influences. More...

Bill Walker and Erdem Helvacioglu

Jan 28 2013 12:00AM
Think lap-steel guitar, and cinematic ambient music likely doesn’t come to mind. More...

David Fiuczynski

Dec 19 2012 12:00AM
DAVID “FUZE” FIUCZYNSKI HAS LENT his talents to Screaming Headless Torsos, Meshell Ndegeocello, Jack DeJohnette, and others throughout a career that has seen him evolve from a whammy-inflected punk-funk practitioner to a Berklee More...

Henry Kaiser Remembers Pete Cosey

Nov 8 2012 12:00AM
ONE OF MY GREATEST GUITAR heroes passed away on May 30, 2012. More...

Noveller's Pedal Mania

Mar 22 2012 12:00AM
Stifled by years of formal piano lessons, Sarah Lipstate resolved to develop her own approach to guitar. More...

Staffan Johansson on Minimalism

Jul 6 2012 12:00AM
It kind of sounds like atmospheric rockabilly, but that doesn’t account for the strains of tango, 1920’s jazz, and “Weimar Republic cabaret” that Carver Combo bandleader Peter Murphy (not the Bauhaus lead singer) cites as his More...

Nels Cline: Wilco and Beyond

Jun 19 2012 12:00AM
“I’m never anywhere for more than two WEEKS,” says the globetrotting and preternaturally prolific Nels Cline, who was “camped out” in a New York City brownstone with his similarly prolific wife, Yuka Honda, and her roommate More...

Nels Cline’s Dirty Baby

Apr 23 2012 12:00AM
A provocative mating of art and music, Dirty Baby [Cryptogramophone] is guitarist and composer Nels Cline and poet and producer David Breskin's re-contextualization of Ed Ruscha's "Censor Strip" paintings. The lavish double-CD More...

Sergio Altamura on "Down Roma Traffic" and "Arkestra" (with Audio)

Apr 19 2012 12:00AM
Italian guitarist Sergio Altamura occupies a unique aesthetic space: one that encompasses deft use of sound-altering objects and devices, skilled looping, and ingenious playing techniques—including the masterful integration of a More...

Joseph Arthur on Making Guitars “Sacred”

Apr 16 2012 12:00AM
I’m sure you noticed our stunning cover guitar this month. More...

Guitar In Pictures

Apr 16 2012 12:00AM
Guitars have always played a role in film and television music. More...

Stian Westerhus: Pitch Black & Star Spangled

Apr 16 2012 12:00AM
Stian Westerhus certainly resembles a rock star: tight pants, boots, vintage military coat, long spiky hair waving as he attacks his instrument with punk-like fervor. More...

Oz Noy's Twisted Blues

Mar 22 2012 12:00AM
The title of Oz Noy’s new instrumental album, Twisted Blues Volume 1[Abstract Logix], might have taken a few of his fans by surprise—but one listen to any cut on this CD should be enough to convince anyone that “blues” is a More...

Russian Circles' Mike Sullivan

Feb 8 2012 12:00AM
Chicago-based instrumental trio Russian Circles takes its name from a hockey maneuver that involves skating in circles—a fitting moniker considering the band’s combination of brute muscularity and fleet dexterity, and the key More...

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