
Matt Parker
Writer at Freelance
Features Editor at GuitarWorld
Words for @GuitarWorld / @MusicRadar/ @ElectronicMagUK / @ProgMagazineUK / @TotalGuitar. Run @CreativeMoneyUK. Views own/stolen and re-worded.
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1 week ago |
guitarworld.com | Matt Owen |Matt Parker |Michael Astley-Brown
Guitar World is sad to announce the loss of Chris Bird, our friend and colleague, who passed away earlier this week, following his cancer diagnosis in 2024. A pillar of Future’s music-making titles for just shy of two decades, Chris spent the last 22 years lending his knowledge, personality, support and passion for guitar playing for his job to create lessons, tuitions, and content for Guitar World and Total Guitar.
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1 month ago |
guitarworld.com | Janelle Borg |Matt Owen |Matt Parker |Jackson Maxwell
Hello there, and a very warm welcome to Guitar World editors’ picks – our monthly guide to the guitar tracks that have captured the attentions of our editors over the past four weeks or so. With the aid of our Spotify playlist below, we’ve rounded up all our favorite new releases from the month of April, and put them under the microscope to wax lyrical on the playing, tones, and songwriting that have set our six-string senses a-tingling.
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2 months ago |
guitarworld.com | Matt Parker
Great Grandpa is a band full of surprises. They’re an indie rock group from Seattle, with a Berklee grad guitarist/producer in their midst, yet you’ll hear no ironed-out shred or impenetrable prog riffs. Their songs are full of lush left-turns, sliding transitions and melodic complexity, but their chief songwriter has had no formal training.
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2 months ago |
flipboard.com | Matt Parker
NowWhat to eat at the Boston-area James Beard finalist restaurantsSteph and Deehan here. We wanted to know what made our Boston-area James Beard finalists stand out. So we stopped by before these spots started …1 hour agoHow Contracting Work Became a Race to the BottomBen Whelan is not the kind of carpenter to wax poetic about the joys of framing a wall or redoing a roof.
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2 months ago |
guitarworld.com | Matt Parker
As one of the most-recorded bassists of all time – working across more than 2,000 sessions with the likes of George Harrison Stevie Wonder, and longtime collaborator Eric Clapton – Nathan East has a clear idea of what he needs from his gear.
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