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AUSTIN POWER

From chunk to chicha, Beto Martinez is the new king of Latin rock guitar.

AMERICANA REDUX

In our second installment, Ry Cooder reveals the source of his authentic guitar tones on his new album with Taj Mahal, Get On Board: The Songs of Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee.

The Many Faces of Jack White

Innovator. Visionary. Gearhead. And a guitar hero like no other. Jack White is all of these things and more...

Jack White – I'm the proudest I've been in my life of my guitar playing

As two new solo albums illustrate the breadth of his art, Jack White believes that he's reaching a new peak as a guitarist. "There are places I've never gone before," he says, "and techniques I thought I wasn't capable of doing...”

How to create a rock anthem by Def Leppard

Guitarists Phil Collen and Vivian Campbell on the art of the stadium rock banger. Rule number one: "Respect the melody..."

Russell Lissack – "I do as much with my feet as I do with my hands!"

Bloc Party's lead guitarist Russell Lissack has two of the most complex pedalboards ever amassed. So how many pedals did he have when making the band's new album? "Probably a hundred," he laughs...

We Have No Amps-and Crappy Guitars!

Inside the Lo-fi World of Alt-rockers Momma

PERFECT TEN

10 NEW RELEASES TEN YOU NEED TO HEAR

IBARAKI

A PROJECT A DECADE IN THE MAKING THAT HAS STORYTELLING, EXPERIMENTATION AND HUMANITY AT ITS HEART.

HOME SWEET HOME

SLAM DUNK FESTIVAL IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER, AND AT THE TOP OF THE BILL FOR 2022 ARE SOME NEW FACES, SOME FAMILIAR. WE SPOKE TO BEN BARLOW, DERYCK WHIBLEY, GEORGE PETTIT AND WADE MACNEIL FROM HEADLINERS NECK DEEP, SUM 41 AND THIS MONTHS' ROCK SOUND COVER STARS, ALEXISONFIRE, TO FIND OUT WHY IT MIGHT JUST BE THE BEST YEAR YET.

Band Of Brothers

ALEXISONFIRE ARE BACK, AND BIGGER, BETTER AND BOLDER THAN EVER BEFORE. HERE, ALL FIVE OF THE BAND TAKE US THROUGH THE EMOTIONS AND STEPS THAT HAVE ALLOWED THEM TO CRAFT THE FINEST ALBUM OF THEIR CAREER, AND GROW STRONGER THAN EVER.

BONNIE FRASER: STAND ATLANTIC

BON WALKS US THROUGH A FEW THINGS SHE'S YET TO TICK OFF.

ANY QUESTION ANSWERED: LZZY HALE

LZZY TELLS HER STORY ACROSS HER MOST EXTENSIVE, IN DEPTH INTERVIEW TO DATE, FROM HER FIRST EXPERIENCES OF MUSIC AND THE FORMATION OF HALESTORM RIGHT THROUGH TO THEIR AWESOME NEW ALBUM 'BACK FROM THE DEAD', AND BEYOND.

THE OTHER SIDE

PART TWO OF MAN WITH A MISSION'S BREAK AND CROSS THE WALLS' PROJECT IS ALMOST HERE! WE SAT DOWN WITH JEANKEN JOHNNY FOR A BRAND NEW INTERVIEW ABOUT IT.

THE FIRST... AARON BRUNO AWOLNATION

AARON WALKS US THROUGH A SERIES OF FIRSTS...

SALT, SWEAT, SUGAR

LIGHTS GOES DEEP ON HER NEW ALBUM, 'PEP', AND EXPLAINS HOW IN SPRINKLING A LITTLE OF EACH PART OF HERSELF INTO THE SONGS, SHE MADE HER FINEST RECORD YET.

TIME AND PLACE

FROZEN IN PURGATORY, STATE CHAMPS TOOK A STEP BACK AND DIALLED INTO EXACTLY WHAT THEY LOVE ABOUT THEIR BAND. THE RESULT IS THEIR MOST COMPLETE ALBUM YET.

GET AWAY

NOAHFINNCE STARTED THERAPY, THEN LAID HIS BRAIN OUT ACROSS THE BEST SONGS HE'S EVER WRITTEN. THIS IS THE STORY OF MY BRAIN AFTER THERAPY'.

PERFECT TEN

10 NEW RELEASES YOU NEED TO HEAR

THE FIRST...BRENT SMITH SHINEDOWN

BRENT WALKS US THROUGH HIS FIRST STEPS IN MUSIC, AND THE LESSONS HE'S LEARNED ALONG THE WAY.

IMPERIOUS

GHOST HAVE JUST RELEASED THEIR NEW ALBUM IMPERA', AND IT IS NOTHING SHORT OF SENSATIONAL. A DENSE, DRAMATIC AND DECADENT LOOK AT THE IMPERIAL EMPIRE, AND THE HEROES AND VILLAINS THAT INHABITED IT, THROUGH TOBIAS FORGE'S UNIQUE AND UNDENIABLE LENS, IT'S A COLLECTION OF SONGS THAT NOT ONLY CEMENTS GHOST AS ONE OF METAL'S MOST FASCINATING AND FANTASTICAL ASSETS, BUT ALSO AN ALBUM FOR THE AGES. ONE THAT DESERVES TO BE PLAYED LOUD, PROUD AND AS FREQUENTLY AS POSSIBLE. AHEAD OF THEIR UK TOUR, WE HAD A SIT DOWN WITH TOBIAS TO TALK ABOUT THE RECORD'S INCEPTION, WHETHER THE EVENTS OF THE MODERN-DAY HAVE AFFECTED HIS VIEW OF THE SONGS, AND WHERE THEY ULTIMATELY FIT INTO GHOST'S LIVE SHOW...

GOOD COMPANY

BRACE YOURSELVES - COLD YEARS HAVE CREATED THEIR VERY OWN, OUTSTANDING PUNK ROCK OPERA. SAY HELLO TO ONE OF THE ALBUMS OF 2022.

EASY DOES IT

BEFORE ANYONE HAS EVEN UTTERED THE WORDS COVID-19', SIMPLE PLAN HAD ALREADY DISTILLED EVERYTHING THEY ARE INTO SOME OF THEIR FINEST WORK. HERE'S HOW THEY MADE HARDER THAN IT LOOKS'.

BUCKET LIST JACOB RICE SUPER LOVE

JACOB WALKS US THROUGH HIS TO-DO LIST.

BREAKING THROUGH

EIGHT BANDS YOU NEED TO HEAR THIS MONTH

ANY QUESTION ANSWERED K.FLAY

K.FLAY WALKS US THROUGH EVERYTHING THAT GOT HER, AND HER ART ALL THE WAY TO 2022.

Sounds of the Sixties

Facing fleets of pirate radio stations and teenagers hungry to hear the latest hits, the BBC had to change its tune. David Hendy explores how the corporation attempted to reach new audiences in the 1960s

Saving the Stradivarius Sound

An entire city went quiet so the world's most iconic violin could be immortalised

New Music First: Charlotte Sands

You've already heard the voice, now meet the exceptional artist behind it...

Apocalypse Now

Motionless in White are back, and soundtracking the dystopia that we suddenly tail find ourselves in... but that doesn't mean it's all doom and gloom. Chris Motionless takes us through one of the most inspiring periods of the band's career to date