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All Axcess Pass • RUSH LEGEND ALEX LIFESON DISCUSSES HIS NEW EPIPHONE AXCESS LES PAUL, A PAIR OF NEW TUNES, NEW COLLABORATIONS AND THE LIKELIHOOD OF TEAMING UP WITH GEDDY LEE
Buffalo Nichols • FOLK-BLUES ARTIST DIGS DEEP ON HIS FAT POSSUM DEBUT
Star One • THE PROG-METALLERS’ NEW ALBUM, REVEL IN TIME, FINDS ARJEN LUCASSEN — AND A HOST OF GUITAR HEROES — GOING ABSOLUTELY SUPERNOVA
Beach Goons • GUITARIST PABLO CERVANTEZ ON STIRRING UP HYSTERIA — AND LO-FI MASTERPIECES — WITH HIS SAN DIEGO-BASED SURF PUNK TRIO
The Darkness • GUITARISTS DAN AND JUSTIN HAWKINS TALK MOTORHEART, A RIFF-ROCKING NEW RECORD THAT’S DEDICATED TO HAVING FUN — AND, OF COURSE, SEX ROBOTS
AXOLOGY
Emily Wolfe • THIS POP-LOVING AUSTIN ROCKER FORTIFIES HER EARWORM MELODIES WITH CHUNKY, MID-RANGE TONES — COURTESY OF HER SIGNATURE EPIPHONE
Turnstile • THE BUZZED-ABOUT HARDCORE BAND EMBRACES THE GROOVE ON GLOW ON
Requiem for a Monkee • REMEMBERING MICHAEL NESMITH (1942-2021)
Clapton Goes Unplugged Again • ... AND OTHER NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK • And now, everything a guitarist needs TO HEADBANG ON A BUDGET, including five metal-friendly axes for under $500
HOWLIN’ MULE • Believe it or not, GOV’T MULE’S latest album, Heavy Load Blues, is WARREN HAYNES’ first foray into full-on blues (and it all happened while they were recording another album entirely)
WHEN FRANK ZAPPA SHUT UP ’N STOPPED PLAYING GUITAR • Zappa’s on-again, off-again love affair with his guitar
SLEUTHING THE STRAT • JIMI HENDRIX’S FENDER STRATOCASTER AND ITS JOURNEY TO FRANK AND, FINALLY, DWEEZIL ZAPPA
SHUT UP ’N PLAY YER GUITAR • After two serious surgeries that affected his ability to play guitar,STEVE VAI could have simply packed it in. Instead, he gave himself some familiar-sounding advice and emerged with his most dazzling new album in years. (And yes, we asked him about that triple-neck guitar!)
COBRA KAI : SETTLING THE SCORE • HOW LEO BIRENBERG AND ZACH ROBINSON — COMPOSERS ON NETFLIX’S BLOCKBUSTER SERIES, COBRA KAI — CRAFT THE PERFECT (NOT TO MENTION BADASS!) EIGHTIES-STYLE SCORE
SERIOUS CHOPS • Billy Zabka — akaJohnny Lawrence, Cobra Kai’s resident badass sensei — has been playing guitar since he was a hair-metal-lovin’ kid (BTW, he’s still a hair-metal-lovin’ kid!)
True Value • SQUIER CONTEMPORARY STRATOCASTER SPECIAL HT AND PARANORMAL TORONADO
CHEAT SHEET
Gravel and Grail • ELECTRO-HARMONIX DIRT ROAD SPECIAL
CHEAT SHEET
Synth City • BOSS SY-200 SYNTHESIZER
CHEAT SHEET
LD Systems Maui 5 Go 100
DREAM WEAVER • Soloing over the Allman Brothers’ “Dreams,” part 3
LES TALK • The 10 sounds of a Les Paul
THE DOWN LOW • Exploring the low-string melodies in “Take Me with You”
WHERE EAGLES DARE • 16th note displacement, and how to play “Blood Eagle”
Performance Notes • HOW TO PLAY THIS MONTH’S SONGS
“DEAD INSIDE” Nita Strauss • As heard on DEAD INSIDE
“SOUL TO SQUEEZE” • Red Hot Chili...