EARTHQUAKER DEVICES

Astral Destiny reverb

Eventide

MICROPITCH DELAY

Stageworthy Strategies, Pt. 2

Understanding acoustic preamps, D.I.s and digital enhancers.

D'ANGELICO

Excel 59

As Everything Unfolds

Rising UK metallers go for glory on their stunning debut album, within each lies the other

Zach Person

How a jaw-dropping Gary Clark Jr. cover on American Idol led to to sharing a stage with buddy Guy, sharing bills with Foo Fighters — and releasing a multi-faceted debut album

Fender Bassman – Big Bottom

Designed for bassists, the Fender Bassman became the favored tone machine of guitarists everywhere.

“Supersonic”

Oasis | Definitely Maybe, 1994 | Guitarist: Noel Gallagher

Audiophile Axe

With its tube-powered pickup, the Ruokangas Duke Valvebucker is a high-fidelity experience.

BASS CENTRE Ashbory

Time for something a little different, suggests our Editor...

MARCUS MILLER

In every issue, we bring you a noteworthy interview from the bass vaults, from far-off times when gigs were plentiful and a virus meant no more than a day in bed. This month: Marcus Miller, interviewed in 2012

FOUR of the BEST

It’s 50 years this year since Led Zeppelin released their immense fourth album, cementing their position in music history and inspiring the playing of a million guitar-shop visitors. The band’s Quiet One, bassist John Paul Jones, was on astounding form throughout Half a century since that high point, we revisit his bass parts and ask how it was that JPJ became the leading rock bassist of his generation...

INSPIRED NOTES

Bassist and songwriter Lena Morris on the catalyst that sent her into the low frequencies

MXR Effects

Spice up your bass tones, says Mike Brooks

PICKING LARGE INTERVALS

Welcome! To finish off our exploration of pick playing, we’re going to look at a couple of things related to playing bigger intervals. As we’ve noted before, every technique takes on a whole new level of difficulty when we start to move it across the strings, but it can get even harder when we want to be able to control how long each note lasts.

NEW ROSE

With his new album, Two Roses, Israeli upright bassist Avishai Cohen achieves a career high. We meet the master

PUTT IT THERE

We meet the veteran jazz bassist— and occasional James Bond adversary —Putter Smith.

TURNER PORTRAIT

The Atlanta-based rock quintet Blackberry Smoke return with a new album, You Hear Georgia. Bassist Richard Turner explains the thinking behind the big tones

Benny Rietveld – Smooth Operator

Carlos Santana’s long-time bassist Benny Rietveld reflects on a career at the front line of expression

Liz Phair – Back in the Game

Indie rock legend Liz Phair reemerges with Soberish new album in over a decade

Sleater-Kinney – ‘The Role of the Artist Is to Thrash Around'

Sleater-Kinney recommits.

The Group Portrait: The Audience Is a Little Quiet

An ensemble from the New York Philharmonic plays Green-Wood Cemetery.

THIS VAN'S A-ROCKIN' ON THE NEW VAN WEEZER.

WEEZER’S RIVERS CUOMO OPENS UP A “PANDORA’S BOX OF EVIL GUITAR TOOLS” AND GOES CRAZY. BELOW, HE DISCUSSES HIS POST-EDDIE VAN HALEN SHRED INFLUENCES, EIGHTIES HAIR METAL AND WHY OZZY OSBOURNE HAD TO APPROVE ONE OF WEEZER’S NEW SONGS

Ludic

WITH HER NEW BAND, FORMER CALPURNIA GUITARIST (AND WEEZER MUSIC VIDEO STAR) AYLA TESLER-MABE HEADS FOR UNDERSTATED, GROOVE-FORWARD WATERS

Evile

WITH LEAD GUITARIST OL DRAKE NOW MANNING THE MIC, ENGLAND’S EVILE RETURN TO UNLEASH VINTAGE THRASH METAL HELL WITH THEIR LATEST ALBUM

THE WILD TIMES, FINAL DAYS and LAST RECORDINGS of ALEXI LAIHO 1979-2020

FEATURING INTERVIEWS WITH HIS BODOM AFTER MIDNIGHT BANDMATES DANIEL FREYBERG AND MITJA TOIVONEN, PLUS FORMER CHILDREN OF BODOM GUITARIST ROOPE LATVALA.

The Ides Have It

MYLES KENNEDY — THE MAN WHO ONCE AUDITIONED FOR LED ZEPPELIN — TALKS US THROUGH THE BLISTERING PENTATONICS AND VINTAGE GEAR HEARD ON HIS SECOND SOLO ALBUM, THE IDES OF MARCH

INQUIRER GEORGE THOROGOOD

LONESOME GEORGE TALKS ROOTS, HIS FIRST GUITAR AND THE WONDERS OF THE ES-125

Jurassic Classic

On the 50th anniversary of Electric Warrior, producer Tony Visconti discusses the genius of T. Rex guitarist Marc Bolan

Ernest Ranglin – All Hall The King Of Ska Guitar

The life and times of jamaican guitar legend ernest ranglin