James Valentine

Dec 19 2012 12:00AM
WITH A VINTAGE STEINWAY IN HIS LIVING room, a view of downtown Los Angeles, a veritable Noah’s Ark of music gear in his home studio, and his band, Maroon 5, enjoying multi-platinum album sales, James Valentine is living many a 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...

Mike Molenda's February Faves

Mar 5 2013 12:00AM
Most musicians don’t know crap about business. More...

Desireé Bassett

Mar 5 2013 12:00AM
Desireé Bassett was riffing on a full-sized, ’83 Ibanez Roadstar II when she was just five years old. More...

JEFF The Brotherhood

Mar 5 2013 12:00AM
When JEFF The Brotherhood guitarist Jake Orrall steps on stage to play his raw brand of garage rock, two things matter to him: Playing loud and having cool-looking gear. More...

The Stripminers

Mar 5 2013 12:00AM
Our songs are all totally different. More...

Steady Progression, Jane Getter Scales New Heights and Finds Her Voice Amidst the Notes

Mar 5 2013 12:00AM
Jane Getter began her career as a precocious straight-ahead jazzer, rapidly securing gigs with luminaries such as saxophonist Joe Lovano and pianists Kenny Barron and Richie Beirach— but it was an extended outing with Hammond More...

Steve Hackett

Jan 29 2013 12:00AM
For prog-rock devotees, Steve Hackett’s ’70s work with Genesis is the guitar equivalent of the Sermon on the Mount. More...

Wild Card! Earl Slick's Street Rock Odyssey from Clubs to Bowie, Lennon, The NY Dolls, Solo Projects, and Beyond

Jan 29 2013 12:00AM
The hardest-working man in show biz” is a time-honored cliché, but damned if it doesn’t nail the restless, Type-A productivity of Earl Slick. More...

Hank 3’s Four Rigs for Four Sets

Jan 28 2013 12:00AM
“I’m a huge gearhead,” understates Hank 3, who tours with four different rigs for his country, hellbilly, Attention Deficit Domination (doom rock), and 3 Bar Ranch (speed metal matched with actual cattle-auction hollers) More...

Jail Guitar Doors

Jan 28 2013 12:00AM
“My name is Wayne Kramer, and I’m mostly known as a guitar player, but for a few years I was known as 00180I90 when I was in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.” More...

Garbage

Jan 28 2013 12:00AM
Not Your Kind of People [Stunvolume] may be less hard-edged than some previous Garbage albums, but it is nevertheless chockfull of cool and often aggressive guitar tones. More...

The Inaugural Guitar Player Hall of Fame Awards

Dec 19 2012 12:00AM
THROUGH ITS READERS’ POLL AND VARIOUS OTHER initiatives, Guitar Player has bestowed a bounty of awards on inspirational artists, pioneering manufacturers, and groundbreaking products for many years. More...

Joel Harrison

Dec 19 2012 12:00AM
“I’VE BEEN BLENDING GENRES IN MY works for many years, but I’ve lost the words to describe what I do, because they all sound so trite now,” says Joel Harrison. More...

Zach Meyers of Shinedown: My 5 Coolest Concerts

Dec 13 2012 12:00AM
Shinedown’s Zach Myers delivers a bunch of great guitar performances on his band’s latest, Amaryllis. More...

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