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Red Hot Blues! - Speed Up Your Blues With Flashy Fretting!

Always wanted to fly around the neck like your blues-rock heroes? Well, now you can get the ‘wow factor’ into your solos with Andy Saphir‘s 10 essential legato exercises and all-star legato speed jam.

Mixolydian Solo With Pentatonic Scales

More useful five-note scales that exist within Mixolydian with Shaun Baxter. This time creating Pentatonic scales from the 2nd note.

Show Me

’Show Me’ by Molly Hammar featuring Kim Cesarion is a gorgeous narration of a summer love story.

Matter Of Tact

Hailing from Germany and now residing in Brussels, the producer and DJ likes to dabble in a mix of urban and electronic music styles.

Elrow Town London 2019

The most weird, wonderful and magical show in underground music that is Elrow returned to the party capital of England for its 3rd edition of Elrow Town London, and they did not disappoint.

Alice Rowe Phase

‘Phase’ by Alice Rowe is the story of a girl rising up through the storm, not taking any nonsense anymore. You ain’t worth my time. Her sultry voice has a lovely mix of raspiness and sweetness. The slinky summery production allows your body to sway gently. You were just a phase, time to move on.

Rebekah

Birmingham-born musician Rebekah makes club music that combines distorted aggression with pristine sound design. Danny Turner casts an eye over the uncompromising producer’s Berlin-based studio

Extreme Effects

Effect processors are essential for all music makers, but if you’re just using them to mix or fix recording issues, you’re missing out on a vast world of sonic creativity. Let’s push those processors to the extremes and see how we can turn simple sounds into something unique. Let’s head down the rabbit hole...

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen

A haunting search for peace of mind.

Novation Summit £1,899

With its aftertouch-enabled keyboard, juicy new features and twin Peaks, the new flagship from Novation sounds like a dream. Dan ‘JD73’ Goldman scales the Summit!

Still Out Of Sight

James Brown’s backing singer for 32 years, now Martha High has a bag of her own…

Joris Voorn

Globally recognised DJ/producer Joris Voorn is at the fulcrum of the Dutch dance scene with his instantly recognisable take on techno. Danny Turner peers into his plush Amsterdam studio, home to his forthcoming album

'When Otis Sang, We Had A Sense Of Destiny' An Audience With Booker T Jones

As he prepares to publish his fascinating life story, the funky Hammond maestro and key architect of the Stax soul sound talks Otis Redding, CSNY and why he’s still never seen a cricket match

Jacques Greene

The second album from Canadian producer Philippe Aubin-Dionne filters memories of club nights through a prism of emotive synths and ‘sampled’ production techniques. Si Truss found out more…

'How High's The Water, Bob?'

Fifty years ago, BOB DYLAN and JOHNNY CASH holed up for two days in Columbia’s fabled Studio A in Nashville. The sessions, never officially released until now, caught these two titans of American music at pivotal moments in their respective careers. With the release of Travelin’ Thru, 1967 – 1969: The Bootleg Series Vol 15, the full story of this legendary summit can finally be told. Graeme Thomson examines the latest revelations from the Dylan archives, hearing tales of velvet suits, trips to the circus and nocturnal shenanigans at the Black Poodle in Printer’s Alley. “There was an incredible electricity,” says one eyewitness.

Bensley: Hard Times Ft. Emer Dineen

Genre-hopping RAM Records protégé Peter Bennett aka Bensley’s second album Muskoka is a grab-bag of different styles, from wonky breakbeat workouts to soundtrack-like synth soundscapes. Future Music caught up with the cunning Canadian at London’s Dairy Studios to find out how he created one of the album’s highlights, the jazzy, sax-laden DnB roller, Hard Times

The Who

Diamond Who-ha: rock legends’ late-life tour de force.

SPIRITED AWAY

It began with a childhood vision of heaven. After a lifetime’s exploration, it encompasses self-doubt, superlative sounds and, er, emotional yoga sessions. Gallic post-metal duo ALCEST‘s story is very much one-of-a-kind. Frontman NEIGE gets spiritual…

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY

Sixteen months on from their Best British Breakthrough triumph at the 2018 Kerrang! Awards, debut album PRIMROSE PATH marks DREAM STATE’s first bid for global success. Having survived the worst that life has to offer, they show us around streets of their native South Wales to relive their mission of escape…

IT'S STILL NOTHING PERSONAL

Ten years on from the release of their career-defining record NOTHING PERSONAL, ALL TIME LOW are getting lost in stereo all over again by re-recording the album’s 12 songs for a very special anniversary edition…

DESERT TRACKS

Point your car east, drive 150 miles or so out of Los Angeles and, soon enough, with a little help navigating the nothingness from the locals, you might just stumble across Rancho De La Luna. It is here that JOSH HOMME has assembled possibly his most ambitious, weirdest DESERT SESSIONS project ever – and reconnected with his true self…

#MeToo is symptomatic of a culture of women feeling repressed but the music INDUSTRY WAS ALWAYS SEXIST

KIM GORDON SONIC YOUTH

TV Tones

In the last two instalments of Mod Squad we’ve installed new active and plug-in passive humbuckers. In this issue, Dave Burrluck is looking for a different voice…

Gibson Super 400CES

We take a close look at a stunning collection of Super 400CES electric archtops from Gibson’s golden era and trace the evolution of these superlative guitars with jazzbox expert and author Dr Thomas A Van Hoos

Mary Spender

She’s one of the most dynamic, expressive young British singer-songwriters working today – and also just happens to have an army of fans for her YouTube musings on guitar culture. We find out how Mary crafts her sound and hear her advice on making it big online

True Blues

Blues is the first language of rock ’n’ roll. But a century on from its first golden era in the 1920s, is it still possible to play blues guitar that’s distinctive, powerful and original? We joined some of the world’s finest exponents of 21st century blues to hear their advice on how to play the music with authenticity and flair – on your own terms – on the modern stage

Sound Shaper

A new audio interface featuring a valve preamp and cab simulations specifically aimed at guitarists

The Doors: The Soft Parade

Jim Morrison was disintegrating, the studio bills were out of control and guitarist Robby Krieger hated the band’s new string-laden sound. But from the wreckage of The Soft Parade sessions came an album that lit The Doors’ fire once again…

Brave New World…

Despite a huge crossover in their fan bases, EVANESCENCE and WITHIN TEMPTATION hadn’t even met until last year. Now, though, the pair are gearing up for the epic joint WORLDS COLLIDE TOUR!

'I'm At An Age Where I Indulge My Influences And Let My Freak Flag Fly. I Don't Really Give A Damn Mark Lanegan

Mark Lanegan is not a man given to sitting around idly letting life pass him by. When Kerrang! catches up with him, his sublime new album Somebody’s Knocking is still a few weeks away from release, and yet he’s just pulled an allnighter working on another record.