2020 Digital Issue 04 April
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Premier Guitar April 2020: Editors’ Picks from Winter NAMM. Interviews with Bumblefoot and Billy Sheehan, Nili Brosh, Drive By Truckers, and Alcest. 12 guitar and bass reviews: Strymon, G&L, Danelectro, EHX, G-K, J. Rockett, Ernie Ball, Fender, Wampler, Vertex, Victory, and Breedlove.
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2017 Digital Issue 03 March
$0.99This year’s annual Pro Pedalboards issue features up-close-and-personal picks of the stomp stations used by Chris Robinson and Neal Casal, Prophets of Rage and RATM bassist Tim Commerford, Band of Skulls’ Emma Richardson and Russell Marsden, Teppei Teranishi and Dustin Kensrue of Thrice, Modest Mouse’s Jim Fairchild, Brad Whitford, Bloc Party’s Russell Lissack and Justin Harris, and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea and Josh Klinghoffer. (We also spotlight a handful of sweet-looking reader boards!) At the other end of the signal chain, we’ve got an insightful feature on the far-reaching history of the plectrum. Meanwhile, our artist interviews section this month includes chats with Kristin Hersh (of Throwing Muses and 50FootWave), Dean Ween, Harvey Mandel, Luke Temple, AZIZA’s Dave Holland and Lionel Loueke, and Oozing Wound’s Zack Weil and Kevin Cribbin. Our gear-review section includes in-depth looks at IK Multimedia’s Fender Collection 2, Rock Stock’s Skyline Reverb, the BAE Hot Fuzz, Amptweaker’s Bass TightMetal Jr., the Paul Reed Smith Sonzera 50 combo, Supro’s Westbury, G&L’s Kiloton 4-string, the DigiTech Whammy Ricochet, Bullhead Amplification’s Matador half-stack, Joe Gore’s Gross, the Epifani Piccolo 999, Daredevil Pedals’ Red Light District, and D’Angelico’s Premier SS.
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2017 Digital Issue 02 February
$0.99In our cover story this month we talk to Animals as Leaders mastermind Tosin Abasi and his 8-string cohort Javier Reyes about their new album, The Madness of Many. Our other artist interviews include chats with Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders, Warpaint’s Emily Kokal and Theresa Wayman, Stick Men’s Tony Levin and Markus Reuter, Meshuggah’s Mårten Hagström, Lynyrd Skynyrd cofounder Gary Rossington, and “Godfather of Fusion” Larry Coryell. We’ve also got a bonus lesson on learning to play outside the conventional chord-scale mindset. As for gear coverage, this month we dive deep into the world of bucket-brigade effects of yesterday and today, as well as review Foxpedal’s Defector, the Spector Timbre acoustic 4-string, TC Electronic’s Tailspin, Free the Tone’s Ambi Space, the Eastwood Senn, Sandberg’s Forty Eight bass, the Milkman Pint, MXR’s Echoplex Delay, Collings OM2H T, Dunlop’s CBM105Q Mini Bass Cry Baby, Fender ’57 Custom Pro , Wren and Cuff’s Sonder, Lollar’s P-90 Staple, and the Ernie Ball Ambient Delay.
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2017 Digital Issue 05 May
$0.99Fender’s Jaguar and Jazzmaster are experiencing something of a resurgence of late, but many players still consider them wonky and difficult to work with. Our cover story this month demystifies the process of setting up these stellar instruments’ unique hardware and physiognomy so that you can get yours performing the way Leo intended. Other features this month include a how-to on refinishing your guitar at home, interviews with killer players—including Morrissey sideman Boz Boorer, Valerie June, Once Human’s Logan Mader and Max Karon, and Norman Blake—and a Forgotten Heroes piece on the mighty hill-country legend R.L. Burnside. We also talk to 26 guitar and bass notables—including Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine and David Ellefson, Together Pangea’s William Keegan, Jennifer Batten, and Donna Grantis—on the most life-changing album in their collection. Our 13 guitar and bass reviews this month include looks at Taylor’s Academy 10e, the Marshall 2525C Mini Jubilee, Gibson’s EB 4, the TC Electronic Rusty Fuzz, the Universal Audio Apollo Twin MkII, the Rivolta Combinata, Reverend’s Mike Watt Wattplower, and more.