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...

Noveller's Pedal Mania

Mar 22,2012
Stifled by years of formal piano lessons, Sarah Lipstate resolved to develop her own approach to guitar. The Brooklyn-based guitarist and filmmaker’s effects pedals do not define her music, but she makes no secret of her 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...

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...

Matt Stevens' Juiced Acoustic

Feb 7,2012
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...

Flying High with Steve Howe

Feb 14,2012
“Perpetual Change” is one of Yes’ hallmark songs, but the title is also emblematic of the British prog rock group’s history. Yes has seen no less than 16 members pass through its ranks since forming in 1968. Its most recent 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...

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...

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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