
Michael Astley-Brown
Digital Editor-in-Chief at GuitarWorld
Digital Editor-in-Chief @GuitarWorld. I also make nerdy post-/math-/prog-rock as @maebe_music. New album Rebirth. Relive. Repeat. out now.
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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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3 weeks ago |
guitarworld.com | Michael Astley-Brown
There was a time when guitar pedal footswitches were simply chrome shiny things you stomped on with a big ol’ boot. But scroll through pedal posts on Instagram or Reddit, and you’ll be bombarded with a rainbow of toppers covering these simple switches. What gives? You have witnessed the rise of footswitch toppers, also known as pedal toppers, footswitch caps, pedal button toppers or footswitch covers.
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3 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Michael Astley-Brown
You don’t want to associate JD Vance in any way because bad things are guaranteed to happen. He went to Greenland and couldn’t find anyone to talk to …
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1 month ago |
guitarworld.com | Michael Astley-Brown
When Joe Satriani and Steve Vai announced they were forming a new band together, the news came hot on the heels of a G3 reunion run alongside Eric Johnson, not to mention their own Satch/Vai tour. So, naturally, we were left wondering: just how different would this new project be? As it turns out, it may end up sounding quite unlike any other performance the pair have been involved with throughout their lengthy careers, as the very first SatchVai Band rehearsal footage shows.
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1 month ago |
msn.com | Michael Astley-Brown
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Much excite about this

Today, we released our first live EP, Maebe 1.0, which marks the recorded debut of the live lineup. It felt crazy that I'd been playing with these talented cats for two years, but there was nothing to show for it in terms of releases until today. Enjoy https://t.co/RjbFuzX0EI

RT @maebe_music: "Maebe bring one of the most energetic stage performances I’ve seen from a post-rock band." Guilty as charged. Big love t…

This was beyond anything I could have imagined

.@ATGFestival... oh em gee. That has to be the best 11.35am any of us have ever had. To see the stage completely packed out at that time in the morning... It's the stuff dreams are made of, truly. Thank you 🖤 https://t.co/kMTfA5W5VX