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In The Affirmative
New York trio get their mojo back on album five.
musictovisit
Bob Stanley carries pop’s baggage everywhere When Frankie went to Hollywood
“WE WERE DOING A LOT OF DRUGS AND A LOT OF DEEP READING”
In the 32 years since leaving The Stranglers, the group he founded in 1974, Hugh Cornwell has built an eclectic solo career, full of the melody and pin-sharp observations he displayed in his years as co-frontman of The Meninblack. Cornwell’s 10th solo studio album, Moments Of Madness, offers a raw, guitar-led sound, written and conceived during the pandemic, showcasing Cornwell’s perfect balance of optimism, vitriol, despair and passion. On the eve of its release, and forthcoming tour, Daryl Easlea finds him in sparkling form, invigorated by life, music, and film.
Lari Basilio
THE BRAZILIAN GUITAR ACE HELPS LISTENERS CUT THROUGH PANDEMIC-FUELED DEPRESSION WITH HOPEFUL TUNES AND HER CUSTOMARY KICKASS GUITAR PLAYING
THE problem CHILD
WILLIE ADLER AND MARK MORTON, LAMB OF GOD'S YIN-AND-YANG GUITAR DUO, TAKE YOU BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE BAND'S "COMBATIVE," "CONFRONTATIONAL" (AND LIVE-IN-THE-STUDIO) NEW ALBUM
Boulder United States
Jeremy Pound admires both the mountains and the plains as he explores the various delights of this year’s Colorado Music Festival
Nikolai Medtner
Admired by Rachmaninov and outstanding as a pianist, Medtner had a subtle yet hauntingly distinct compositional style, says Francis Pott
Live choice
Paul Riley picks the month’s best concert and opera highlights in the UK
Leprous
GW CATCHES UP WITH TOR ODDMUND SUHRKE, A PROVEN PROG MASTER (WHO'S ALSO A PROFESSIONAL PHYSIOTHERAPIST)
Billy Howerdel
THE A PERFECT CIRCLE GUITARIST UNVEILS HIS SOLO DEBUT, WHAT NORMAL WAS, WHICH TAKES HIS SYNTH ROCK AND SHOEGAZE INFLUENCES TO NEW LIMITS
Gore Obsessed, Old-School Death Metal
INTRIGUED? LET BLOODBATH GUITARIST TOMAS ÅKVIK FILL YOU IN
Man on a mission
In conversation with Michael Church, the pianist Evgeny Kissin speaks out about the invasion of Ukraine and how this relates to his experiences of anti-Semitism while growing up in the USSR
Findingflow
With a new Warner Classics recording contract and a year-long residency at London's Southbank Centre to his name, Abel Selaocoe's star is in the ascendant. But as the South African cellist tells Charlotte Smith, he has a higher mission - to bridge the divide between African and Western music
Sonic Reaction
LINE 6 CATALYST 100
Dark and Stormy
ESP GUITARS LTD DELUXE SN-1000HT FIRE BLAST
LOW TRANSMISSION
OUT OF THE DARKNESS, THE WONDER YEARS HAVE CRAFTED THE MOST HEARTBREAKING, HOPEFUL RECORD OF THEIR CAREER SO FAR. DAN CAMPBELL REVEALS ALL THE ELEMENTS THAT MADE IT POSSIBLE...
S.G. Goodman
THIS KENTUCKIAN'S GUITAR-LADEN NEW ALBUM HAS PLENTY OF BITE — COURTESY OF HER UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE AND VINTAGE GUILDS
A CHUNK OF change
MESHUGGAH'S MÅRTEN HAGSTRÖM TAKES YOU INSIDE THE MAKING OF THE SWEDISH DEATH METAL MASTERS' UNRELENTING NEW ALBUM, IMMUTABLE, HIS WEAKNESS FOR SIMON & GARFUNKEL AND THE RETURN OF CO-FOUNDING GUITARIST FREDRIK THORDENDAL
Still a Ball of Fire
U.K. STRAT LEGEND ROBIN TROWER TALKS NEW MUSIC, THE SECRETS TO STELLAR TONE AND WHY HE'LL ALWAYS HAVE A SOFT SPOT FOR AMERICAN FANS
Passing the test
Forget tweedy examiners behind desks, bland pieces and those dreaded aural tests. Graded exams are not what they used to be, as Clare Stevens explains
Analogueage
Over the past few years, a resurgence of interest in vinyl recordings has taken popular music by storm. Cellist Leonard Elschenbroich tells Simon Heighes why classical musicians should also take an interest
Kirk Fletcher
THE NASHVILLE-BASED BLUES MASTER ISN’T AFRAID TO ADD SOME II’S, III’S AND VI’S TO THE TRIED-AND-TRUE I-IV-V
MXR DYNA COMP
POWER TOOLS
WELCOME TO THE machine
"YOU'RE NOT COMPETING AGAINST OTHER BANDS....YOU'RE COMPETING AGAINST YOUR GUITAR-PLAYING SKILLS FROM A YEAR AGO, OR 10 YEARS AGO" -ROBB FLYNN
I spent three days doing nothing but practising breathing. And now I never run out of air
THE BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE INTERVIEW
A memorable folk trail
Rick Jones steps into Vaughan Williams’s shoes and dons his boater as he follows the composer’s folksong trail around Surrey and Sussex
ROLLING WITH the chaos
JIM ROOT AND MICK THOMSON DO A DEEP DIVE INTO THE MAKING OF THE END, SO FAR THE SETBACKS, THE DEPRESSION, THE WILD GEAR EXPERIMENTS, THE WHAMMY-BAR HIJINKS AND MORE
Changing lives
As Buskaid celebrates its 25th anniversary, Leon Bosch explains the success of the South African string training programme
Z-One 4 Rock
REVEREND BILLY CORGAN SIGNATURE Z-ONE
THE FIRST... HANNAH MEE +JIM SHAW HOT MILK
HAN AND JIM WALK US THROUGH THEIR EARLY DAYS.