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“I got to play with Layne and Chris and Lanegan. Now they’re gone. What would they be doing now? That haunts me to this...

Farewell to Seasons documents McCready’s path through the Seattle grunge explosion of the ’90s. He reflects on the singers he’s loved and lost, the guitarists who left the biggest...

Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready Discusses His Upcoming Graphic Novel and Rock Opera Inspired by Seattle’s Grunge Scene (Exclus...

In an exclusiv...

Pearl Jam Guitarist Mike McCready Reflects on Turning the Big 6-0: “I’m Grateful to Still Be Around” (Exclusive)

In an exclusive interview with American Songwrite...

Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready Says He’s Ready To Tour and Record With the Band Again: “We’ve Just Got To Find a New Drummer”...

Pearl Jam Announces First Concert Since Drummer's Departure

Guitarist Mike McCready said last month that they were still looking for a replacement. Continue reading…

“I’d put his riffs up against anyone in rock today. He’s as good as Homme or Morello”: First he got a DM from Pearl Jam,...

The Pearl Jam guitarist took British alt-rock trio Tigercub out of their comfort zone – leader Jamie Hall was dialing Marshalls to 10, down-tuning a gift from Rabea Massaad, and fi...

“Woodstock ’94 was overwhelming… I was in awe at how many famous people were in one place”: From touring with Aerosmith...

Candlebox guitarist Peter Klett owns up to having a big ego in the early days, recalls hitting the road with Rush, and the magical demo session for Far Behind

Pearl Jam Will Unveil New Drummer in September: ‘It’s Our Mystery Wrapped in an Enigma’

“There’s not enough mystery in the world,” Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard says in a new interview on SiriusXM’s Pearl Jam Radio

“I think it’s hard for blues artists to get endorsement deals… but hey, if someone at Guild is reading this, give me a c...

The blues comeback king tells his life story via the medium of three guitars that he can’t live without

Pearl Jam Sends Legendary Shout Out To South Kansas City Guitar Camp

Even more #TBT news for our fellow Gen-X grunge heads . . .  Read more at tonyskansascity.com

Watch: Al Di Meola Tests Jerry Garcia’s “Tiger” Guitar, Dickey Betts’ Fillmore Played 1958 Les Paul and Trey Anastasio’s...

Photo Credit: Screenshot via Al Di Meola on Facebook Artful six-string innovator Al Di Meola has been testing out some famous axes. In a series of posts shared on social media, the...

Dave Krusen Reveals Band Hired Replacement for Matt Cameron

Ex-Pearl Jam drummer Dave Krusen revealed that Pearl Jam have hired a new drummer in place of Matt Cameron — and it's not him. Continue reading…

“I don’t have any favorite guitarists from the ’90s. I wasn’t following those trends”: He wrote some of the defining ant...

Camp started out as a drummer before EVH made him realize the advantages of guitar. The young Carson Daly helped make his band famous. Now he’s powering forward with supergroup The...

“I didn’t know much about Rory until I went to music college. I fell in love with his style right away”: Meet Spencer Ma...

Mackenzie says he’s learning all the time to control the dynamic between sweet and acoustic and "rip-your-face-off" drive sounds – and you can hear it on new album, Empty Chairs

“That song ended up being my homage to Jimmy Page... There’s this Celtic thing that we were tapping into. Like the Bert...

“It's the season of brotherly love,” says Robinson, as the once volatile Atlanta, Georgia rock legends return – but the ’Crowes are still flying by the seat of their pants

“I’d seen pictures of Keith Richards playing it. I figured I’d try one out”: How Joe Perry found his ultimate slide guit...

And even better still, the Ampeg Dan Armstrong was see-through…

"Pimple-faced boys were giving us the finger all night. Dave Mustaine would come out, grab the mic and go, ‘I personally...

STP’s 1992 debut album, Core, was just out in stores. Sex Type Thing had traction on MTV. But Dean DeLeo recalls those Megadeth support slots as a baptism of fire

Ongoing History Daily: Pearl Jam’s shady, scary bus driver

Back in 1991, when Pearl Jam was on one of their first tours, they began to feel some weird vibes coming off the driver of their bus. In an interview, Mike McCready said,

“After his funeral, me and my buddy snuck into his house and took the guitar”: Pepper Keenan got his first guitar after...

The Down and Corrosion of Conformity guitarist has looked back at the unlikely origins of his career in rock

“Gary walked in and goes, ‘Alright, today’s the day.’ At the end, he came over, shook my hand, and goes, ‘Unbelievable j...

Medlocke rejoined Lynyrd Skynyrd as their new guitar player in the early 1990s, and one of his main responsibilities ever since has been to tackle Allen Collins’ legendary lead eff...

“It was just in my closet, and one day I pulled it out, turned it on, and thought, ‘Wow… this is a sound that I’ve been...

Turns out, the missing piece of his ideal tone was closer than he thought...

“As it was going up in the air, I thought, ‘Wow, that looks so cool.’ On the way down, I was thinking, ‘What did I do?!’...

The Aerosmith guitarist on the iconic Junior with the custom mother-of-pearl inlay, his desert island guitar – and why he reads Guitar World every month

“I didn’t have a guitar, so he let me play this Strat that he got from Jimi’s old guitar tech. It was the best-playing g...

A guy named Jimmy gave him a guitar owned by Jimi, and it was a revelatory experience

“The graphic was designed by artist John Taylor Dismukes, who did a lot of famous album-cover artwork for the Grateful D...

Mr Scary on how his heart melts for the 1990 ESP Custom Haji/Wicked Sensation from the cover of Guitar World's November 1990 issue