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Weather Man

With a musical career spanning almost 50 years, including performances and sessions with Weather Report, Phil Collins and Santana, Alphonso Johnson is a bass icon. Mike Brooks asks the questions

Those Who Can... Teach

When he’s not playing bass alongside Victor Wooten, Anthony Wellington runs the Bassology Around The World events and teaches students... a lot of students. We meet the low-frequency learning guru

Forward Thinking

Geddy Lee led the prog-rock giants Rush from 1968 to 2018. That’s 40 long years. Now that the ultimate power trio have called time, he’s made his mark as an author—but enough about the past… we want to know what his next move might be. Ellen O’Reilly puts the questions to the master

Cat Power

Forty years down the line, the Stray Cats are playing with as much attitude as ever. Silvia Bluejay slips into her polka dot dress for a chat with the great Lee Rocker

Bass Phils

Thrash metal means never having to slow down and grow up. We meet the mighty Phil Rind of Sacred Reich, whose new album Awakening is a bona fide monster

Fables Of The Deconstruction

Jeff Tweedy and Nels Cline tell how cheapo guitars, rubber bridges and sonic obliteration helped them find happiness on ode to joy.

Dancing With Destiny

Robbie Robertson tells the history behind the bronze Fender Stratocaster that became the guitar star of the last waltz.

The Conjurer

COAXING NEW SOUNDS FROM OLD EFFECTS, ROBBIE ROBERTSON RAISES THE GHOSTS OF HIS YOUTH ON SINEMATIC.

Koto-Graphic

How to mimic the exotic, melancholy sound of the Japanese koto

Larger Than Life

ADRIAN BELEW PUSHES THE LIMITS OF SONG AND SOUND ON POP SIDED, HIS NEW ALBUM OF ANYTHING-BUT-CONVENTIONAL POP MUSIC.

End Of The Line

STREAMING MADE ALBUMS IRRELEVANT. SO SHERYL CROW DECIDED TO MAKE THIS ONE HER LAST.

Bouzouki Joe

“My number one rule on this record was ‘no guitars.’ I still wanted it to be a crazy rock album, but the rock couldn’t come from guitars. To me, it was an interesting challenge: Could we still rock as hard as ever without guitars?” TY SEGALL talks bouzoukis, kotos, Omnichords and First Taste.

New Voices In Guitar

On the lookout for jaw-dropping new talent? Here’s our guide to 10 guitarists to keep an eye (or two) on in the coming year.

Hotel Oklahoma

Country music star VINCE GILL discusses his new album, Okie, and what it’s like to soar with JOE WALSH, DON HENLEY and TIMOTHY B. SCHMIT in the EAGLES

Double Feature

FELIX MARTIN — A LEFT-HANDED TAPPING VIRTUOSO WHO PLAYS TWO EXTENDED-RANGE FRETBOARDS AT THE SAME TIME — TRULY GOES TO TOWN ON CARACAS

Imagine Dragons

From magical mirrors to mythical dragons, it was a very special Fender Telecaster that dominated JIMMY PAGE’s look and sound in the Yardbirds and early Led Zeppelin. In the following interview, Page revisits some legendary “happenings 50 years time ago.”

World War Zee

Zoe Zeeman of the Marotta Brothers Band keeps it in the family.

Sharpe Talk

Jazz bassist Avery Sharpe returns with an album that digs deep into a side of history that many of us would rather not remember—which makes it all the more valuable.

Maverick Muse

Ed Friedland is a bassist and author who has seen it all, done it all and survived to tell the tale. We meet the master.

Planet Bass

Michael J Bolton returns with a new album of bass wizardry, Earthrise.

Fearless

Tool, the thinking bassist’s prog band, haven’t released an album in 13 years. Fortunately their new one, Fear Inoculum, is set to be the rock album of the year—and it’s loaded with brain-melting virtuoso bass, courtesy of the great Justin Chancellor. “I’m ashamed to say it, but I watch YouTube videos of our live shows” he confesses to Joel McIver

Bass Of Tomorrow

For close to 50 years, the great Roger Sadowsky has crafted instrument after wonderful instrument—and his hunger to create is still far from satiated. Hywel Davies catches up with the master.

People Over Product

With her commitment to solving problems and forming connections, two-year Phantom Regiment head conductor wins the 2019 Jim Jones Leadership Award.

DCI Champions 2019

Portraying ghosts and The Beatles with journeys to the cultural underground and under the sea, the 2019 Drum Corps International winners took fans on a wild ride of evolution, transformation, and the pursuit of happiness.

Core Connections

Strengthen the legs, spine, and abs to lighten the load of carrying heavy instruments.

Small But Mighty

Marching bands in rural locations make the most of limited resources to participate just as fully in the activity.

Paul Mills - A Multi-Award-Winning Composer

Paul Mills is a multi-award-winning composer who has scored music for 15 feature films including the critically acclaimed Woodlawn and the #1-rated inspirational film, War Room, for which he won an ASCAP Screen Music Award.

Reba McEntire's Wedding Is Off!

Skeeter dumps country queen

Art Neville Memorial

Grief is not an emotion that invites comparisons. it is an overwhelming, supernatural sense of loss that is an essential part of human consciousness, the realization that a part of all of us has passed along with the loved one who is now gone from our immediate lives.

Tyler Childers Stays True To His Roots

Tyler Childers stays true to his roots