Gear
January 17, 2012
There are great looking guitars and then there are handbuilt Teye guitars. After devoting 25 years of his life to Flamenco, playing with the Joe Ely band, using Zemaitis electrics and Manuel Reyes acoustic instruments Teye has taken his pursuit
Culture
January 11, 2012
Shine a light Bill Clinton introduces Keith’s band and a member of the crowd gives it the cigar treatment. The whole shebang smacks of big-business and self congratulatory, big time schmooze – but 45 odd years in any game will
Gear, Lessons: Learn how to
January 04, 2012
Cliffs of Dover After the success of the album Tones, Eric Johnson returned in 1991 with the album “Ah Via Musicom” and the Grammy Award Winning instrumental “Cliffs of Dover”: an absolutely stellar piece of guitar work that blends incandescent
Culture, Videos
January 02, 2012
One Man (and his 30 Watt Pram) versus the World Fresh from spending years busking the hard streets of London, let iconoclastic bluesman, and genuine, original, one man band Lewis Floyd Henry take you on a rickety old rollercosater ride.
Culture
January 01, 2012
Guitar Shop British (Invasion) Guitarist Jeff Beck talks through his hotrods and car collection for Car Crazy. Jeff built most of his American hot-rods with is own bare hands -just take a look at the album cover for his epic
Culture
December 27, 2011
Lifted from Vogue magazine’s Spanish issue these shots of model Anja Rubik go some distance to prove that if you live fast, die young and make a good looking corpse your style legacy is almost guaranteed. If you happen to
Music reviews
November 22, 2011
Oasis Explode Sooner or later Oasis were going to explode for the final time. The good news is that both Liam and Noel Gallagher have put together their respective projects: Beady Eye and Noel’s High Flying Birds. With a massive
Videos
November 21, 2011
Vibrato, Reverb, Tone Bill Frisell is well known for being a leading jazz guitarist but his music is infinitely wider in scope and touches on an eclectic range of genres from noise through to progressive Americana, folk and country. Whilst
Videos
October 29, 2011
David Bowie, King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Talking Heads Adrian Belew is well known for his inimitable, off-limits and unusual approach to guitar playing – primarily with progressive supergroup King Crimson and with his own Power Trio featuring Julie and Eric
