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April 2026

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18 articles

April 30
- “I only feel grateful for the work that's happened.” Jack Antonoff opens up about missing Taylor Swift’s ‘The Life of a Showgirl’
- “When I do this at a show, the first people who leave are the classical people. They can’t stand it.” Jozef Van Wissem wants to make the lute the new electric guitar — with a pickup and a bottleneck slide
April 29
- “John McLaughlin scared the hell out of me.” Narada Michael Walden on his 1970s adventures with Mahavishnu, Robert Fripp and Carlos Santana
April 28
- ”I told her, ‘You don’t want an old man like me onstage. I’m gonna hire you a young-ass band.’” Tony Bruno tells how a chance gig led him to become the musical director behind Rihanna’s rise
April 27
- “I was panicking. What’s the first thing you play in front of Eddie Van Halen?” Nuno Bettencourt recalls the moment Eddie stopped him from tapping — on his own rig
- “Bye, YouTube. I’m deeply uncomfortable with the amount of old men here.” Teenage guitarist Grace Bowers pulls videos from YouTube due to “too many old-ass creeps”
April 25
- “I don’t know if there’s a better player out there.” Billy Sheehan on Steve Vai, Paul Gilbert, Steve Lukather, Richie Kotzen and Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal
April 24
- “I played ‘Season of the Witch’ for seven hours straight. I didn't know what I had.” Donovan on his psychedelic breakthrough aided by heartbreak, LSD and Jimmy Page
April 22
- “The problem was that Jim Gordon got Eric into heroin and things just bogged down.” Behind late Dave Mason’s work with Derek and the Dominos and Jimi Hendrix
April 21
- “A short guy with a big Afro walked by. I didn’t realize until later it was Jimi Hendrix.” Todd Rundgren reflects on Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and the moment he nearly jammed with Hendrix
- “It’s not every day you write a song that will have a resurgence 20 years from now.” Linda Perry still feels the power of “What’s Up?” — nearly 35 years later
April 20
- “He said, ‘You’ll never get to take that guitar solo again.’” Inside Prince’s band: fines, fear and one incredible guitar lesson
- “Next thing I know, I’ve got the Everly Brothers sitting in my hotel room.” Waddy Wachtel on his 1970s adventures with Warren Zevon — from Robert Johnson’s licks to “Werewolves of London”
April 18
- “He could hardly stand, but he said ‘I’ll f***ing do it, darling!’” Brian May on Freddie Mercury’s most defiant recording
- “The meal is fantastic—now here’s the dessert.” How Stevie Ray Vaughan won over David Bowie’s ‘Let’s Dance’ sessions — with guitar and Texas BBQ
April 15
- “Vinnie got sick, so Jeff Beck played with us. And he was freakin’ amazing.” Drummer to the stars Carmine Appice on cutting a Coke ad with Jeff Beck, hanging with Jimi Hendrix and playing with Rod Stewart and Rick Derringer
April 12
- “I can’t count her beat half the time.” Pretenders guitarist James Honeyman-Scott on Chrissie Hynde’s “weird” rhythm — and the secret he never told his bandmates
April 3
- “It felt like a sign from the universe.” Courtney Barnett on the moment when everything clicked on her new album