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  In 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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  Premier Guitar February 2018: Our cover story this month tackles the gargantuan task of highlighting the guitars, amps, and effects—and associated players—that epitomize the movements in rock ’n’ roll during each decade, going back to its birth in the 1950s. New artist interviews include chats with Joe Satriani, Dhani Harrison, Chelsea Wolfe, Bruce Cockburn, Victor Wooten, and Pat Martino. We also take a look at what everyday guitarists and bassists can do to be more mindful of the environment in their day-to-day habits as players. Gear reviews this issue include the Epiphone Les Paul SL, MXR’s Booster Mini, Epigaze Audio’s Civic Crown, the SoundBrut DrVa, Vox’s Adio Air BS, the Catalinbread Belle Epoch Deluxe, Warwick’s RockBass Corvette Basic 8, EarthQuaker Devices’ Data Corrupter, Martin’s 2017 D-28, the Boss MD-500, G&L’s Doheny, the API TranZformer LX, and ValveTrain’s Thunder/Train. We’ve also got three song tabs (print edition only): Maren Morris & Vince Gill’s “Dear Hate,” Mahavishnu Orchestra’s “Birds of Fire,” and Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition.”

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  This month we recap the 23 instruments, amps, stomps, and accessories that twisted our heads around at Summer NAMM in Nashville—the biggest gear show of the season. We’ve also got insightful interviews with influential artists like bassist Peter Hook (New Order, Joy Division) and Juliana Hatfield, as well as Addi Tryggvason from Icelandic post-metal quartet Sólstafir, and Sandra Petrova and Dafne Macías from Mexican avant-garde outfit Descartes a Kant. On the gear front, we’ve got an exhaustive reference piece detailing everything you need to know about electric-guitar pickups, and reviews of the Line 6 Variax Shuriken, Rocket Surgeon Labs’ Seratone bass fuzz, the Elektron Analog Drive, MXL’s DX-2 dual-capsule mic, the BSM Supreme, BYOC’s Crown Jewel, the Victory V40 Deluxe, Tanglewood’s Java TWJP parlor guitar, J. Rockett Audio’s I.Q. Compressor, David Norschow Amplification’s DNA-800 bass head, the Friedman Dirty Shirley, Italia’s Maranello Cavo bass, and the Fuzzrocious Blast Furnace. Tablature transcriptions this month (print magazine only) are Radiohead’s “2+2=5,” John Mayer’s “Neon,” and Steely Dan’s “Josie.”