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Caroline Jones’ Polymathic Picking

Posted on April 21, 2022 By Tzvi Gluckin
On Antipodes, Jones’ sophomore release, she pulls out all the stops, including a rack full of incredible guitars, a New Zealand-made Weissenborn-style lap steel, a lineup of special guests including Joe Bonamassa, and an impressive [...] read more
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Tonstartssbandht’s Andy White—Fingerstyle Freak from Florida

Posted on February 15, 2022April 13, 2022 By Tzvi Gluckin
The psychedelic brothers duo get hi-fi on Petunia—creating a swirling universe of expressionistic sound—but 6-stringer Andy White still won’t put on a pair of shoes. “I get nervous if I have my shoes on when [...] read more
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My Morning Jacket’s Jim James and Carl Broemel Are Back in the Flow

Posted on November 25, 2021 By Tzvi Gluckin
My Morning Jacket guitarists Jim James and Carl Broemel both play amazing, beautiful, high-end guitars. But during sessions for their latest album, My Morning Jacket, they spent some time gripping a pair of unusual, less-than-fancy [...] read more
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Hiatus Kaiyote Is Doing It All for the Vibe

Posted on November 4, 2021November 7, 2021 By Tzvi Gluckin
According to Paul Bender—bassist for the trippy yet eminently soulful Melbourne-based quartet, Hiatus Kaiyote—the band’s live sets often meld into one continuous song. “I never really get a break in the set because we [...] read more
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6-String Finger Painting with Robben Ford

Posted on October 21, 2021October 26, 2021 By Tzvi Gluckin
“I consider it a real blessing having learned the guitar through the blues medium,” says Robben Ford. “I then developed a great love for jazz and, in particular, the tenor saxophone. Those guys—or the [...] read more
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More Microtonal Madness from King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

Posted on August 10, 2021August 13, 2021 By Tzvi Gluckin
The Aussie rockers revamp their axes and slither back with three new albums—following seven others since 2017—of rock ‘n’ roll weirdness. Back in early 2017, Australia’s ever-experimenting, genre-melding, envelope-pushing ensemble King Gizzard & the [...] read more
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Squid’s Poly-arm-orous Bright Green Field

Posted on July 27, 2021August 13, 2021 By Tzvi Gluckin
Brit post-punk guitarists Anton Pearson and Louis Borlase take minimalism to the max on their band’s debut album. “There’s a certain magic, or trance-like quality, that you get from pushing repetition to the extremes,” [...] read more
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How Black Midi’s Radical Relativity Infuses Cavalcade, the Band’s New Album

Posted on July 2, 2021 By Tzvi Gluckin
Black Midi is a young, progressive outfit from the U.K., and their music is abrasive and outrageous. Except when it isn’t. “I hate stuff which is purposefully ugly or difficult or too obtuse or [...] read more
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Matt Sweeney Loves “Guitar Playing That You Don’t Understand”

Posted on April 1, 2021April 5, 2021 By Tzvi Gluckin
Matt Sweeney thinks you should fingerpick. “I don’t want to sound like some sort of dick who hates guitar picks,” he says, after about 20 minutes railing against guitar picks. “But try it. It’s [...] read more
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Puscifer Makes the Case for Embracing the Awkward

Posted on February 4, 2021 By Tzvi Gluckin
In 2018, Greg Edwards stepped out of his comfort zone. For the most part, his career up till then had been focused on his own projects—like his bands Failure and Autolux—not on being a [...] read more
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