It's Strictly Whatever with Harry Manx and Kevin Breit

Oct 24,2011
“Strictly Whatever [Stony Plain] is the most accessible CD that we’ve done so far,” says Harry Manx of his third outing with fellow Canadian guitarist and vocalist Kevin Breit. “Kevin’s songs are catchy and easy to sing More...

12 Rhythm Guitar Greats

Mar 22,2012
Richard Thompson  (From top to bottom) Curtis Mayfield, Steve Cropper, Cornell Dupree, Larry Carlton, Jimmy Page, Jimmy Nolan, Grady Martin More...

Aventura's Lenny Santos

Mar 22,2012
“You guys act like I don’t know what BACHATA IS, ” was President Barack Obama’s reaction as members of Aventura started to explain their music to him. The self-proclaimed “Kings of Bachata” were taping a PBS broadcast of In More...

Elliot Easton's New Moves

Feb 8,2012
The year 1978 was a damn good one for rock guitar. Forget for a second all the amazing releases by AC/DC, the Stones, the Who, Rush, UFO, Santana, and Thin Lizzy, and just think about the debut albums from that year: the More...

St. Vincent

Feb 7,2012
Mainstream articles often refer to St. Vincent as a shredder. This is neither fair to shredders nor to St. Vincent. Annie Clark, who adopted the alias St. Vincent for her solo projects, may admit to playing in Iron Maiden More...

Brev Sullivan Re-Animates the ’80s

Feb 14,2012
MIAMI-BASED BREV SULLIVAN IS ON A COLLISION course with the 1980s. The son of legendary jazz trumpeter Ira Sullivan, he was already playing in the ’80s metal tribute band Lazy Bonez when through a fortuitous Facebook More...

Phil Brown's Imaginary World

Feb 14,2012
Shortly after Los Alamos National laboratory director Norris Bradbury helped create the atomic bomb, his music teacher wife unleashed another explosive force upon the world: Phil Brown. “Mrs. Bradbury pushed me into being the More...

"Smokin'" Joe Robinson Goes Electric

Feb 14,2012
When 16 year-old “Smokin’” Joe Robinson burned through a Chet-inflected medley of “Day Tripper” and “Lady Madonna” at the introductory round of the 2008 Australia’s Got Talent competition, the entire house—including the More...

Guitar Man George Benson

Feb 14,2012
“I was in Jack McDuff’s band years ago,” says legendary jazz guitarist George Benson, reminiscing about his stint touring with the soul-jazz organist. “One night, he took me aside and said, ‘I don’t know how to evaluate you. More...

Omar Rodriguez Lopez

Feb 13,2012
Omar Rodriguez Lopez keeps his creative throttle set to interstellar overdrive. He doesn’t bask in the achievements of his previous band, At the Drive-In, his ten-years-and-counting blockbuster the Mars Volta, his production More...

Andy Timmons Plays Sgt. Pepper

Apr 17,2012
Musical genius is often determined by how well someone Does something brave or foolish, but tackling the Beatles songbook is always a nail biter. As generations of music lovers consider the recordings of those More...

Carl Verheyen’s Cranktone Chronicles

Apr 16,2012
On a recent tour of Italy, My band was treated to a VIP tour of the Ferrari factory in Maranello. We saw the famous design center, the engine assembly, bodies being painted, ladies hand-stitching upholstery, and the More...

Brian May Still Reigns as the King of Tone

Apr 16,2012
George Martin has said that you don’t have to teach children to love the Beatles. You merely have to expose them to the Beatles and they’ll take it from there, exploring the catalog, identifying with the songs, and More...

David Cassidy’s Top Guitar Memories from the ’70s

Apr 16,2012
In the 1970s, David Cassidy was the biggest star in the world, outselling and breaking attendance records held by Elvis and the Beatles. Less known is that Cassidy has always been a total guitar freak. Here, the Partridge More...

Guitar In Pictures

Apr 16,2012
Guitars have always played a role in film and television music. From George M. Smith’s pioneering work for Paramount Studios in the ’30s and ’40s to Bob Bain’s radical riffing on Henry Mancini’s Peter Gunn theme in 1958 to More...

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