Grant Moon

Guitar hero Steve Vai picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals why he's been listening to Harry Styles

Welshmen Scarlet Rebels have something political to say, and they also know how to write decent songs

Chris Buck's new band Cardinal Black have had iTunes hits, but promise that with their debut album "the best is yet to come"

Back in issue three of Prog we spoke to Steve Hackett about his new stdio album and his career to date

A collaboration between Cult guitarist Billy Duffy and The Alarm frontman Mike Peters, Coloursøund is a labour of love rather than a ‘supergroup’

Frost*’s Jem Godfrey explains why he wanted to work with Dec Burke on 2008's Experiments In Mass Appeal

Manics bassist Nicky Wire was so taken with A Farewell To Kings, the 1977 album Rush recorded in Wales, that he bought the desk they recorded it on

Paul Gilbert – shredder supreme, solo star, Mr Big founder and rabid Sinatra and Van Halen fan – picks 10 records that changed his life

With electric guitars largely banished from the recording sessions, Stone Temple Pilots crafted Perdida, a light-touch album that could be among their best

Fired up by the idea of making a blues-rock album in the city where many of his heroes did in the 60s, Joe Bonamassa beetled into Abbey Road to record Royal Tea with a little help from his friends

Like Hendrix a decade earlier, Eddie Van Halen revolutionised the guitar. We salute the late, great six-string icon who changed rock’n’roll forever

A song about people who love money (not loaves) that came out of an ear-bleeding jam session, Breadfan became Budgie’s anthem and a fan favourite. Metallica thought it was pretty good too