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ANGUS YOUNG — AND SOME OLD-SCHOOL BLUES

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READER ART OF THE MONTH

DEFENDERS of the Faith

Amped-Up Blues • MATTHEW STUBBS OF BOSTON-BASED RETRO BLUES-WAILERS GA-20 DETAILS THE BAND’S SWAMPY INFLUENCES, IMPRESSIVE PEDIGREE AND NEW SMASH ALBUM, LONELY SOUL

ZACH BEDSAUL OF SAUL

This Wretched Underworld • THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER’S BRANDON ELLIS AND BRIAN ESCHBACH TALK TONE HUNTING, SONGCRAFT AND OPERATING ON THE ODDER END OF THE SPECTRUM

Rookie • PUT ON YOUR JUMPSUITS, HOP IN THE ’79 EL CAMINO AND LET THIS CHICAGO SIX-PIECE WHISK YOU AWAY TO A LAND RULED BY BIG STAR, THE EAGLES, CHEAP TRICK AND TOM PETTY

Havok • ON THE MULTIFACETED V, IT’S OBVIOUS THESE COLORADO THRASHERS HAVE BRUSHED UP ON MORE THAN JUST THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THE BIG FOUR

AXOLOGY

Gettin’ with Deep Steve Morse • THE DEEP PURPLE GUITARIST — NOW IN HIS 26TH YEAR WITH THE LEGENDARY U.K. BAND — TALKS SCREAMING PRODUCERS, HIS UNUSUALLY BUSY DOWNTIME AND PURPLE’S SMOKING NEW ALBUM, WHOOSH!

Surf Guitar’s Next Chapter • SURF-ROCKER MARTIN SCHMIDT TALKS GW THROUGH THE SURF GUITAR BOOK, AN IN-DEPTH LOOK AT THE TONES AND TEXTURES BEHIND THE REVERB-DRENCHED GENRE’S MOST FAMOUS RECORDINGS, GEAR AND GUITAR HEROES

INQUIRER MARK POTTER • THE ELBOW GUITARIST DISCUSSES HIS WEIRDEST GIG, A BRIAN MAY MELTDOWN AND WHY THEY’RE OFTEN PICKING A PIGNOSE

HEART BEAT • CARS SIX-STRING INNOVATOR ELLIOT EASTON TAKES A DEEP DIVE INTO THE GEAR AND GUITAR SOLOS THAT DRIVE THE EMPTY HEARTS’ PERSONALITY-PACKED SECOND ALBUM.

JOHN PETRUCCI REACHES TERMINAL VELOCITY • Dream Theater’s resident lord of the strings uses the lockdown as an opportunity to record some sick instrumentals — with a little help from former bandmate Mike Portnoy

TERMINAL VELOCITY • Track by Track

POWER PLAY • Regardless of what fate throws at ’em, you just can’t keep a great band down. In this worldwide-exclusive interview, intrepid AC/DC icon Angus Young discusses life after Malcolm and the band’s positively charged new album, POWER UP

LIKE ALL OF • us, ANGUS YOUNG has been spending a lot of time at home lately. “It’s a bit different,” the 65-year-old AC/DC guitarist admits about life in the time of quarantining and social distancing. Although in some ways, he adds, not so much. “I guess I’m used to being tucked away somewhere in a room and just putting together ideas and songs,” he says with a laugh.

ANGUS LOOKS BACK (IN BLACK)

“I REMEMBER A COVER ME AND MY BROTHER DID TOGETHER…”

40 BLUES INTROS & OUTROS • NEVER AGAIN BE SHORT OF IDEAS AND OPTIONS, COURTESY OF THIS ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO OPENING AND CLOSING A BLUES SONG WITH PANACHE, AUTHORITY AND ATTITUDE!

20 INTROS

ROLL THEM BONES • ON SKELETONS, BROTHERS OSBORNE’S BIGGEST AND LOUDEST ALBUM, AMPS RAGE AND SEETHE, HELL IS RAISED — AND THERE’S DAMN NEAR TOO MANY WALLOPING GUITAR SOLOS TO KEEP TRACK OF. BELOW, JOHN AND TJ OSBORNE LET THE SKELETONS OUT OF THE CLOSET

LOCAL COLOR • THE LIFE AND TIMES OF QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE’S JOHN CIPOLLINA, A BOLD, ORIGINAL AND UNHERALDED STYLIST WHOSE PLAYING...