“That’ll still smoke most rigs these days too, by the way”: Aaron Marshall of Intervals says the rig he played Blink-182 and Slipknot on as a teenager could more than hold its own today
Boss distortion, Fender amp, cheap Strat? Yeah, that checks out
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“Those old players had nothing to hide behind. Just their hands, their feel and the truth coming through the speakers”: 5 modern blues guitar heroes on the impossible task of imitating the blues greats
Blues and rock is still being shaped by the British blues boom of the ’60s – and the O.G. bluesmen who influenced them. But how can today’s players nail their tone and sound? Marcus King, Samantha Fish, Zach Persons, Philip Sayce and Jared James Nichols have their say
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“I tried to talk him out of it… He was too good a writer to have that be his calling card”: The band’s guitarist felt the song was beneath its writer, but it became one of the biggest singalong guitar-pop hits of the 2000s
Though critically beloved, Fountains of Wayne are known to most only as the band behind Stacy’s Mom, the cheeky and irrepressible smash hit that remains a staple of 2000s nostalgia playlists – and that’s exactly what guitarist Chris Collingwood was afraid of