Guitar fans — especially Gen-Z ones — need no introduction to 31-year-old virtuoso Tim Henson, who has been reinventing the instrument for more than a decade with his wildly experimental future-prog quartet Polyphia, who play fractured, trippy instrumentals that often seem more influenced by hip-hop, electronic music, and even video-game …
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“A lot of artists, when they’re 62 years old, they’re winding things down,” Metallica‘s Kirk Hammett says in the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. “I feel like I’m still fucking climbing the summit, bro.” Hammett has a new coffee-table book out, The Collection: Kirk Hammett, with …
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Metallica‘s members are all in their 60s, and their music is way more physically demanding than anything their classic-rock forebears have had to tackle onstage — but lead guitarist Kirk Hammett tells our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast that he doesn’t see retirement on the horizon. “As long as we …
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Kirk Hammett is hard at work on his first-ever full length solo album, and unlike his debut solo EP, 2022’s Portals, it will likely feature guest vocalists, he reveals in the new episode of our Rolling Stone Music Now podcast. He also has a massive collection of brand-new riffs for …
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Metallica’s Kirk Hammett will share some of the stories behind the instruments he’s used throughout his career in a new coffee table book, The Collection: Kirk Hammett. The 400-page book (available to order now via Gibson Publishing) delves into Hammett’s life and music via his massive collection of guitars. The …
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