Dave Kilminster

Sep 17,2010
To Pink Floyd fans, Dave Kilminster is the luckiest guitarist alive. During the last two years, he has toured with Roger Waters, performing the majority of David Gilmour’s guitar and vocal parts throughout presentations of The More...

Tosin Abasi and Javier Reyes

Sep 15,2011
Animals as Leaders on stage (left to right)— Javier Reyes, Navene Koperweis, and Tosin Abasi.WITH A TIDY, GREEN LAWN EXTENDING TO THE SIDEWALK AND pleasant looking floral drapes hanging inside the living room window, More...

Steve Hillage

Sep 1,2010
STEVE HILLAGE’S MUSICAL VISION KNOWS FEW BORDERS. The British guitarist and composer’s influence spans decades, generations, and genres—from psychedelic rock, prog-rock, and fusion with Gong and the Steve Hillage Band to More...

Guthrie Govan Takes the Reins in Prog Rock's Rowdy New Democracy

Jul 14,2011
“Guthrie Govan gives shred a good name,” says Paul Gilbert. “It’s absolutely heartwarming to hear someone play super fast and have musical depth to match. What a breath of fresh air.” Mr. Gilbert, however, is not the More...

Bill Walker In Memory of Kim Flint

Jul 13,2010
Kim Flint, the founder of the loopersdelight.com, and co-founder of Aurisis (along with designer Matthias Grob), the company that developed the highly innovative and influential Echoplex Digital Pro looping delay, was killed on More...

Under the Radar Bobby Smith

Jul 1,2010
Smith wrote in to blast GP for its Orianthi cover (yeah, join the club, boyo), and when we checked him out on MySpace, his “This Is Real” knocked us on our butts. Performed by Smith and his band, The Mighty Eighteen Wheeler, More...

Jim Marshall A Remembrance

Jul 1,2010
IN THE WORLD OF MUSIC MAGAZINE publishing, Jim Marshall was probably just as important as the musicians he photographed. In an industry where image so frequently becomes perception, Marshall’s keen eye and More...

Drew Goddard And Mark Hosking Of Karnivool

Jan 1,2011
By Damien Castaneda  Goddard (left) and Hosking wielding their workhorse PRS guitars.“I think about guitar sounds like a soft rubbery ball covered in glass, frilly bits hanging off of it and all,” says Karnivool’s Andrew More...

David Daniell

Feb 1,2011
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. Despite this More...

Tim Brady

Feb 1,2011
Canadian guitarist and composer Tim Brady has been doing his best to increase the electric guitar’s presence in classical music since 1988. “Brahms didn’t write much electric guitar music,” he quips. Brady’s own work runs the More...

Viva Evolution Dweezil Zappa39s Guitar Odyssey

Dec 1,2010
“LISTEN TO MY FATHER’S GUITAR PLAYING and how far he progressed from Freak Out to Roxy and Elsewhere,” says Dweezil Zappa. “Frank evolved in leaps and bounds in less than ten years. The amount of growth was insane.” The More...

Greg Lake

Dec 1,2010
NO EVENT IS MORE EMBLEMATIC OF THE RESURGENCE OF interest in prog-rock than Britain’s High Voltage Festival. Last July, Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP), one of the best-selling acts in the genre’s history, reunited for the first More...

Normalizer2 Project Audio Samples

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

Audio Porcupine Tree39s Steven Wilson on His Live Tone

Aug 14,2010
Porcupine Tree kicked of the band's late-summer 2010 U.S. tour with an incredible two-hour show at the Warfield Theater in San Francisco on Thursday August 12. They played music from throughout the band's long history, including More...

Steve Hackett on His New Live Album (with audio streaming)

Apr 25,2011
Steve Hackett recently released Live Rails, featuring his new touring band performing songs from throughout his solo career along with a few staples from the Genesis catalog.  In this email interview, he offers a few insights More...

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