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David Bowie's Ben Monder and Tim Lefebvre: Just Like That Bluebird

The guitar and bass duo takes us inside the sessions for the late rock legend's prescient and profoundly moving final masterpiece.

Dave Rusan: Building Prince's Cloud Guitar

For his career-defining film Purple Rain, Prince envisioned a strange new guitar to announce his arrival. The Minneapolis luthier who was hired for the job shares the story of how it was made.

Tal Wilkenfeld: No Limits

As the dexterous bassist transitions from sideman to songwriter on her upcoming solo album, she's adamant about being true to herself, her music, and her expression.

PG Exclusive! Devin Townsend Interviews Steve Vai

More than two decades after Townsend's big break as a teenager singing for guitar "Svengali" Vai, the pair convenes to discuss the recent project that brought them full circle.


Forgotten Heroes: East Bay Ray The Dead Kennedys guitar guru talks about recording his trademark clean tones, writing classic songs, making amps sing onstage, and the DIY lessons of a career in punk.
Troy Van Leeuwen's Metaphysical Guitar A Queens of the Stone Age 6-stringer grabs his signature Jazzmaster and his "expensive pedalboard," and joins forces with Mastodon's Troy Sanders, At the Drive-In drummer Tony Hajjar, and sound designer Mike Zarin to create a stunning sonic landscape with Gone Is Gone.
Julian Lage: Surrender to the Twang After outgrowing the "child prodigy" label, the virtuoso returns to his first love, the Telecaster.
Sturgill Simpson's Laur Joamets: From the Baltic Sea to Nashville How an Estonian string slinger went country—and beyond—with a psychedelic roots visionary … and learned pedal steel in three months.

Parliament Funkadelic: A Funk Guitar Roundtable George Clinton, Blackbyrd McKnight, Michael Hampton, and Ricky Rouse discuss the storied history of 6-string within P-Funk.
J Mascis Keeps It Loud! Alt-rock guitar hero J Mascmight be soft-spoken, but when it comes to guitar, he blasts everything to 10. Get an inside look at the making of Dinosaur Jr.'s new album, Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not.
Lucinda Williams: Ghost Whisperer Bill Frisell and Greg Leisz unite with the songwriting giant to create a haunting, cosmic folk-rock guitar masterpiece built atop her own acoustic 6-string "launching pad."
The 1975: Adam Hann's Sonic Obsession A look inside the intricate studio process of the U.K. band, which uses mad guitar experimentation to build meaty, infectious pop-rock songs.