According to the BBC’s radio 6, contemporary guitar players are often overlooked in most of the existing polls for the world’s greatest axemen. Therefore, they have come up with a poll to determine who are the greatest guitarists of the last 30 years – from 1980 to 2010.
Click here to go to the voting page! [...]

To some of you, this might be a weekend WTF. To some others, perhaps, a start to an interesting discussion. And I think I just made a new word, as I have never heard of deconsonantation before.
Stephen Boyd, aka DJ Empirical used As Can Be, the opener to John’s debut solo album Niandra LaDes And [...]

Sorry that this is being posted a bit late, your webmaster is a hibernating tree who sleeps from 1 AM to 1 PM. Many thanks to everyone who was sending the news items while I was zzzing – will have the time to thank everyone at some point this weekend.
In a rather warm and [...]

Over the past 24 hours, two different websites owned by music insiders from the Los Angeles area have posted news items which contained small bits regarding the future of Red Hot Chili Peppers and with whom they’re recording the follow-up to Stadium Arcadium. Both sources indicate that John Frusciante is no longer in Red Hot [...]

In their compilation of Top 50 Guitar riffs of all time, based on readers’ input, MusicRadar have listed Under The Bridge’s memorable riff on the 46th spot.
This is how they described it:
Anyone who has worked in a guitar shop since its release as a single in 1992 is likely justifiably sick of Under The Bridge. [...]

This is just plain interesting. No big news or anything, just thought it could be a cool read and a great concept.
Sean Levinston of Desert Island Lists has compiled a top five of Replacement Band Members. From Ronnie Wood to Brian Johnson via RJ Dio and Phil Collen…here’s the number two on the [...]

This decide, apparently called “noughties” by some people, is nearing its end. Therefore, many polls on what were our favourite films, people, books, musicians et cetera are taking place. If you were old enough to remember it from any previous decade, you might even find it a bit annoying.
Nevertheless, there is also a poll for [...]

Two days ago, MusicRadar, the kind people who brought us the now-legendary podcast interview with John in January and got him to answer questions from one scarecrow and five humans, have published a helpful article for musicians titled “How to play guitar like John Frusciante”.
Richard Barrett, a Total Guitar contributor, provided a 2-minute instructional [...]

Ms. Toni Oswald, John’s friend and former girlfriend, one half of the music project The Diary Of Ic Explura, has released some stills from her 1992 film, Desert In Shape to public; and made an announcement via her Myspace.
After some deliberation, I have decided to put up some stills online from the film I made [...]

Andrew of Stereokill.net recently interviewed a British band called Blackbud and asked them about John and Peppers’ influence on their music. They were more than happy to recommend two albums we all love.
Stereokill: There’s a strong Red Hot Chili Peppers/John Frusciante influence in Blackbud’s sound. Does the band have a favourite Frusciante solo release?
SN: We [...]