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KEEPIN' IT COPACETIC

Veruca Salt’s Louise Post and Local H’s Scott Lucas — veterans of the Nineties alternative-rock signing spree — discuss life after major labels

Mythical Creatures

MEET INTRONAUT GUITARIST SACHA DUNABLE, THE MAN BEHIND DUNABLE GUITARS, MAKERS OF THE YETI, THE CYCLOPS AND OTHER OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD AXES

LORDS OF CREATION

TESTAMENT bring the metal to the masses with Titans of Creation, the 13th chapter in their canon of symphonic savagery. Guitar World checks in with guitarists ERIC PETERSON and ALEX SKOLNICK and gets a glimpse inside the making of the legendary group’s latest thrashterpiece.

The Dirt on Dirty Shirley

GEORGE LYNCH DISCUSSES THE FATE OF HIS CLASSIC-ERA GUITARS, HIS NEVER-ENDING LED ZEP LOVE AND DIRTY SHIRLEY, HIS NEW ALBUM (AND PROJECT) WITH CROATIAN-BORN SINGER DINO JELUSIC

GUNS N' ROSES

WHY HAVEN'T THE SPAGHETTI INCIDENT? AND LIVE ERA ‘87 - ‘93 CONNECTED WITH GN'R FANS LIKE APPETITE? GW CHECKS IN WITH GUITARIST GILBY CLARKE, VOCALIST ROBERTA FREEMAN, ENGINEER JIM MITCHELL, HANOI ROCKS' MICHAEL MONROE AND THE DAMNED'S BRIAN JAMES.

5 Questions with Death Valley High's Reyka Osburn

SAN FRANCISCO’S DEATH Valley High recently unleashed “Raise Hell,” the first of a planned series of singles to drop throughout 2020. Describing their music as “aggressive, skronk-disco light fantastic, like Saturday Night Fever on Thorazine,” singer/ guitarist Reyka Osburn isn’t really doing justice to the fact that, basically, DVH are a great rock ’n’ roll band.

Built to Spill

FRONTMAN DOUG MARTSCH REFLECTS ON KEEP IT LIKE A SECRET AT 20

Eight Arms to Hold You

PERENNIAL BRITISH PROG-ROCK HEROES WISHBONE ASH RETURN TO THE SOMEWHAT UNSTABLE MUSICAL LANDSCAPE OF 2020 WITH COAT OF ARMS, THEIR FIRST NEW ALBUM OF STUDIO MATERIAL IN SIX YEARS. GUITARIST ANDY POWELL GIVES GW THE LOWDOWN ON HIS BAND’S 23RD OFFERING

“A Guitar is Like a Mini Orchestra”

From Jeff Buckley to gods and monsters and beyond, Captain Beefheart Alum Gary Lucas celebrates his diverse career on an impressive new compilation.

DION IS STILL KING

A ROCK AND ROLL ICON, FROM THE BELMONTS TO A HIPPIE FOLK HERO, DION IS AT HOME WITH THE BLUES.

LITTLE RICHARD THE Specialty YEARS

A wop bop a loo bop a wop bam boom!

Life According to DeYoung

DENNIS DEYOUNG TALKS OPENLY ABOUT HIS LIFE AND CAREER, AND DIVES INTO THE DEPTH OF HIS LATEST ALBUM, 26 EAST: VOLUME 1.

The Choir Reunite

OMNIVORE RECORDINGS PRESENTS A LIVE REUNION OF CLEVELAND LATE-’60S PROTO-PROGRESSIVE BAND.

ANOTHER LEGENDARY BRUCE

ACROSS 34 ALBUMS, BRUCE COCKBURN HAS MADE MUSIC THAT IS OFTEN DIFFICULT TO DEFINE.

CHERISHED!

ORIGINAL MEMBERS OF THE ASSOCIATION TALK ABOUT THE PAST AND THEIR FIRST ALBUM SINCE 1972.

Catching up with a Buckingham

AN INTERVIEW WITH CARL GIAMMARESE OF THE ’60S POP GROUP, THE BUCKINGHAMS.

A LOST AMERICAN CLASSIC RETURNS

THE IRON CITY HOUSEROCKERS’ HAVE A GOOD TIME BUT...GET OUT ALIVE IS REISSUED AND REMASTERED FOR ITS 40TH ANNIVERSARY.

THUNDERBYRD

SOME GUITAR HEROES ARE ESTEEMED FOR THEIR TECHNICAL FLASH. BUT THERE ARE OTHERS WHOSE GUITAR WORK IS UPSTAGED BY THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS AS SONGWRITERS, SINGERS, TRENDSETTERS AND TASTEMAKERS — GUITARISTS WHOSE SOUND IS SO INEXTRICABLY WOVEN INTO THE FABRIC OF ROCK THAT THE WHOLE THING WOULD BE UNTHINKABLE WITHOUT THEM. THAT’S THE KIND OF GUITAR HERO ROGER McGUINN IS.

CROWN JEWELS

MASSIVE GUITARS, SLIDE FOR DAYS, LED ZEP SWAGGER AND SABBATH-SIZED RIFFS. GUITARIST KEVIN COMEAU TAKES YOU INSIDE CROWN LANDS’ DARK, NORTH-OF-THE-BORDER BLUES ROCK

Out of the Silent Planet

HOW RADIOHEAD GUITARIST ED O’BRIEN GATHERED THE COURAGE TO STEP OUT ON HIS OWN — VOCALS AND ALL — ON HIS AMBIENT AND ACCESSIBLE DEBUT, EARTH

THE ARTIST'S WAY

IN CELEBRATION OF THE 35TH ANNIVERSARY OF PRS GUITARS 35 PLAYERS — FROM ALEX LIFESON TO JOHN MAYER TO DAVE NAVARRO TO CARLOS SANTANA — EXPLAIN HOW PRS INSTRUMENTS LED THEM ON A PATH TO HIGHER CREATIVITY

Refused

SWEDISH POST-HARDCORE MASTERS FIND THE FUNK, THE PUNK AND THEIR VERY ESSENCE ON THEIR LATEST RELEASE, WAR MUSIC

Life of Agony

GUITARIST JOEY ZAMPELLA TALKS MELODIC SOLOS, HIS UNUSUAL APPROACH TO RECORDING AND THE SOUND OF SCARS, THE VENERABLE ALT-METALLERS’ COMPELLING SEQUEL TO THEIR 1993 DEBUT, RIVER RUNS RED

Emmanuel's Labors

ON THE BEST OF TOMMYSONGS, ACOUSTIC WIZARD TOMMY EMMANUEL REVISITS — AND REINTERPRETS — SOME OF HIS FAVORITE COMPOSITIONS (AND THROWS IN A HANDFUL OF FUTURE CLASSICS)

5 Questions with Konvent Guitarist Sara Nørregaard

FANS AND CRITICS have called Konvent’s Puritan Masochism the doom metal highlight of 2020, an instant classic and/or pretty much everything in between.

PASS NOTES: ASHLEY REEVE

Welcome to Pass Notes, our new advice column, in which we ask a renowned bass player for tips about how to make it as a musician. This month: Cher bassist Ashley Reeve

IT WAS FORTY YEARS AGO TODAY...

...that Mark King’s flying thumb first blew our minds and, in doing so, opened up a whole new era for the bass guitar. As Level 42 celebrate their fourth decade in business, we sit down with King and take a look back—with the benefit of 2020 vision

MARLEAUX Contra

A four-string beauty from Gerald Marleaux falls into the hands of Mike Brooks

THIS GOES TO TWELVE

Idaho-resident bassist Mark Rowe owns what is thought to be the world’s largest collection of 12-string basses. We meet him for a chat about the thang behind the twang...

LOW LIFE

Nail your preparation with Tax The Heat bassist and BIMM UK Live Performance tutor Antonio Angotti