There are a million questions to ask Mike Molenda about his twenty-one years serving as Editor-in-Chief of the authoritative digital/print guitar bible, Guitar Player. As formative as those two decades-plus were, speaking with Mike makes clear his time at Guitar Player is just one facet of a lifelong career in music and journalism that started…

Stompbox’s new editorial director, Dan Epstein brings many perspectives to the table as a music enthusiast who’s also a lifelong guitarist, music writer, author, and baseball fan. How do those things all connect and overlap? Dan walks us through his multifaceted career here, explaining his creative process, guitar and pedal preferences, and many other interesting…

Michael Ross has been writing about music and playing in various bands from coast to coast for decades.  Stompbox caught up with him to hear about his prismatic journey through music and journalism; the one that led him to his now home in Nashville as the head of the self-proclaimed “zine for adventurous guitarists,” Guitar…

Barry Cleveland’s music spans a spectrum from avant-rock and world fusion to ambient and free improvisation. His fascination with spacey sounds was already apparent when he gave his first public performance in junior high school with the reverb control on his amp turned all the way up, and close encounters with a fuzz box and…

We caught up with Roto, our Editorial Director and man of many talents, to chat about how he started writing about music, what it was like to work with French band Air, and other fun things as he was driving up north to Canada on tour with the 2018 revival of the legendary band Humble…