Dream Theater’s John Petrucci Carries the Torch of Prog-Shred guitar Into the New Millennium

The music scene was changing in 1992. Spandex-sporting, fretboard-tapping, whammy-bar-flailing metal Gods who had topped the charts and ruled the MTV airwaves just a few years earlier suddenly found themselves out of favor—and nearly out of work—as they were cast aside by the flannel-flying, low-tech touting grunge armada. Even underground <More>

 
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The Dear Hunter Video and Review : When the Dear Hunter came to San Francisco recently, they took some time before their show at Slim's to talk to GP about the making of their latest record. You can hear what they had to say about a couple of tunes and then ,11/17/2009 1:55:00 PM

RAZL, Rotonova : RAZL IS A SPANISH FUSIONISTA with keen chops and an equally keen sense of groove.  ,11/2/2009 1:25:00 PM

Audio: Nation Sack : When I heard that my favorite 6-string sociopath Greg Koch had a new band called Nation Sack, I understandably thought the name was a scrotacular play on words. Silly me. The blues historian Dr. Koch informs that it is actually a ,11/1/2009 1:20:00 AM

Print: Martin Guitars A History and Martin Guitars A Technical Reference : By Richard Johnson and Dick Boak ,11/1/2009 1:20:00 AM

Audio: Bert Jansch: L.A. Turnaround (reissue) : LEGENDARY SCOTTISH folksinger and fingerstylist Bert Jansch recorded three LPs for Tony Stratton Smith’s The Famous Charisma Label during the 1970s that have long been out of print and never previously released on CD. ,11/1/2009 1:15:00 AM

   
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OHM's Chris Poland on His Record Circus of Sound : “IT’S A CLICHÉ BUT IT’S TRUE,” SAYS OHM guitarist Chris Poland. “If you keep doing what you love, eventually people will notice.” But it’s not as if no one ever noticed before. Scores of metalheads thrilled to Poland’s ,11/20/2009 5:35:00 PM

Video: Excerpt from Bill Frisell's Solos: The Jazz Sessions DVD : BILL FRISELL PERFORMING "Poem For Eva." ,11/6/2009 4:30:00 PM

Video: Nels Cline and Glenn Kotche of Wilco at the Cafe Du Nord, San Francisco, February 26, 2007. : JIMMY LESLIE CAPTURED this snippet of Nels Cline and Glenn Kotche of Wilco improvising live at the Cafe Du Nord in San Francisco on February 26, 2007. ,11/5/2009 5:20:00 PM

Green Power: Billie Joe Armstrong: Drives Green Day in New Directions on 21st Century Breakdown : GREEN DAY’S ASCENDENCY FROM THE PUNK SCENE at Berkeley, California’s, small but notorious 924 Gilman Street Project to becoming the mega-selling rock act they are today, somehow implies that the three members— drummer Tré ,11/1/2009 6:35:00 AM

Black Water Rising : THE GUYS IN BLACK WATER RISING KNOW HOW to party. As the recipients of a 2009 High Times Doobie Award for Best Rock Alternative Artist, they’re one of the most promising exponents in the current killer crop of heavy bands. ,11/1/2009 5:25:00 AM

   
 





 










 
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