St. Vincent

Feb 7 2012 12:00AM
Mainstream articles often refer to St. Vincent as a shredder. More...

Kevin Kastning and Mark Wingfield on Improvising an Album

Sep 20 2011 12:00AM
KEVIN KASTNING AND MARK Wingfield strive to transcend the traditional limitations of their instruments—albeit in very different ways. 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...

Matt Stevens' Juiced Acoustic

Feb 7 2012 12:00AM
London-based Matt Stevens has been creating a buzz for the past year or so, both for his daredevil solo live-looping shows and his self-produced discs Ghost (2010) and Relic (2011), downloads of which he sells online for More...

Video: Jazz Guitarist Mark Wingfield on Playing Synths and Samples with Guitar, Alternate Chord Voicings & More

Sep 6 2011 12:00AM
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Normalizer2 Project Audio Samples

Aug 25 2011 12:00AM
Here are the audio examples from my September 2011 GP story The Normalizer2 Project: More...

Marc Ribot Makes Silent Movies

May 1 2011 1:00AM
Marc Ribot's enigmatic playing has earned him live and studio gigs with numerous major artists ranging from Elvis Costello and Marianne Faithfull to McCoy Tyner and Jack McDuff to Tom Waits to Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. More...

David Daniell

Feb 1 2011 1:00AM
Using non-vintage guitars, overthe- counter pedals, and miles of imagination, David Daniell combines folk picking, washes of ambient looping—and the occasional insect—to create a musical world where anything goes. More...

Extreme Guitar Elliott Sharp Killick Marco Cappelli And Paolo Angeli

Oct 1 2010 1:00AM
WE GUITARISTS ARE A RESTLESS LOT. More...

Video: Simon Angell Demonstrates Extended Guitar Techniques

Aug 12 2009 11:45AM
The Patrick Watson & the Wooden Arms and Thus Owls guitarist plays “Da Funk” and “Baie Deception.” More...

Video: Tim Motzer and Base3 Live

Jul 22 2009 5:25PM
The Philidelphia-based improvisational trio in concert More...

Vampire Weekend: African Electric-Guitar Pop

Apr 1 2009 7:15AM
WHEN EZRA KOENIG AND THREE CLASSMATES AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY got together to form a band in 2006, they were determined that it not sound like “a generic, alternative rock band.” Children of the ’90s, reared on grunge power chords More...

Mick Murphy: My Ruin

Apr 1 2009 6:30AM
“WE’RE AN UNDERGROUND BAND,” says My Ruin guitarist Mick Murphy. “You really have to seek us out. We’re not part of any scene, and we’re committed to doing our own thing on our own terms. We’re not plugged into the big machine More...

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