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“Interpret it well,” reads the script text in Raymond Pettibon’s mysteriously evocative drawing. A few thick black ink strokes describe an enigmatic landscape – the telephone poles, the railroad track and the building in the distance seem obvious enough as markers of desolation, but the swirl of lines on the horizon are more ambiguous. The steam from an approaching train? An oncoming tornado? Hope or dread, connection or destruction, all depend on interpretation.

Concerts we’re going to this month include Waxahatchee at Tarrytown Music Hall, Cate Le Bon at Colony, and Ornettiquette at Quinn’s.

Improvising on trumpet and two guitars, the avant-garde composer and his collaborators mourn the natural world while asking us to forget what we know about conventional musical hierarchies.

The catwalks of New York might seem far removed from his Doncaster roots, but Keanan Duffty has certainly found a niche in the American fashion world, with his clothes sold in the likes of Bloomingdales and Bergdorf Goodman.

Alex Skolnick shares an insightful tribute to the father of modern jazz guitar.

Legendary drummer Bill Bruford recorded numerous solo albums outside his commitments to YES and KING CRIMSON that hold a treasured place in many fa...

Guns ‘N Roses and the Psychedelic Furs – the latter also appears on the lush “English Country Garden.” The award for most surprising cameo goes to the psychedelic ballad “Euphoria,” which features ghostly guitar parts from avant jazz rocker David Torn. Bassist Simply Red, the Mothmen and Alberto Y Los Trios Paranoias and plays with Fabbri in his solo band, provides the low end throughout. Despite all the high profile names here, however, the focus remains on the band itself �...

Stefan Huth and Chris Muir on touch guitar, 12-string, various processed, filtered and textural guitars, e-bow and, of course, plain old riffing and soloing. That’s not to mention the keyboards and percussion on top of the rhythm section and Thelen’s own multi-instrumental contributions. On paper it sounds like an over-frosted three-layer cake about to topple, but in practice it’s far more elegant. Given how many elements each track contains, Thelen proves himself a master arranger as w...

Paranormal Guitar Mods That’ll Rock Your DIY World How we turned three affordable Squier, Ibanez, and Yamaha axes into custom instruments like no other. From YouTube to Instagram to myriad DIY forums, the internet is filled with modders showing off their latest projects. Name your flavor of guitar gluttony—from Gibsons to Fenders, offsets, and shred machines—and theres a virtual place you can go to both feed your craving and feel better about how much time you spend obse...