Editions BGO

There are musicians with strong personalities who build impressive careers by taking alternative paths, lik ...

It's hard to imagine that by 1983, blues rock had all but sunk into the swamp of oblivion. In fact, a glanc ...

In my (long) career as a guitar-oriented journalist, Nuno Bettencourt is one of those who have impressed me ...

We are currently living a very interesting period for the guitar. Between a dominant trend clearly oriented ...

We can lament or rejoice, rock'n'roll remains and will remain attached to the electric guitar. It is the st ...

Among the guitar heroes who shook the Old World, David Gilmour is clearly the one who, after Hendrix, allow ...

Over the past fifteen years, we have seen more and more enthusiasts embark on the adventure of crafting and ...

Jeff Beck is certainly the greatest electric guitarist ever, and we don't rely on sports or Billboard-type ...

At Guitare Xtreme, we always made the distinction between the artists of "French rock", with all the side " ...

There are subjects that anger and divide, even in our guitaristic microcosm (yes, yes). Because the world, ...

The Yellow Vests crisis, the pandemic, the war, the climate that is going to hell, the nuclear threat of Un ...

Well, I might as well tell you from the start, we're certainly not going to let the ambient gloom dampen ou ...

If there is a word that speaks to us, to us French, it is the word revolution, so much it is anchored in us ...

"There are no hard and fast rules in music," says John Scofield in the interview in this issue. There are m ...

We would like everything to be in one piece and we often imagine that the history of bands and material is ...

As much as it would be difficult to deny it, part of the pleasure of the modern guitarist consists in spend ...

If France has always been a land of guitars and especially of luthiers, the explosion of manufacturers we a ...

We won't learn it to anyone, history is just an eternal restart and  music is no exception to that rule, at ...

Is the blues, cornerstone of Western music, the only prerogative of the country of its origin, the USA, or ...

The last guitar hero born from rock'n'roll is Saul Hudson aka Slash, the last of the mohicans, the last to ...

We did not choose the guitar and by extension rock'n'roll to then apologize for making noise. Might as well ...

The Shrapnel years, with this galaxy of super guitarists revealed by the American producer Mike Varney, fro ...

Like Van Halen I, the first try of the Stray Cats, recorded in London under the direction of Dave Edmunds, ...

In our small universe, we sometimes meet extraordinary people, who combine many talents and who seem able t ...

The world is coming out of its torpor and is slowly getting back to a semblance of normal rhythm and even i ...

Hello to you, Guitar Xtremists! The guitar odyssey is still going strong, and lately we've had a lot of mat ...

The question of the future has never been so important and, projected as we are daily into a hypothetical f ...

At parties, with friends, we all sometimes remake the world (of music) and imagine improbable and crazy col ...

The rebirth of the magazine with the 98 issue, whose cover was dedicated to Eddie Van Halen, generated a lo ...

You have been numerous to show us your friendship these last months, as well as your attachment to Guitare ...

Summer is here, and with it, aperitifs on the terrace, possible vacations and the most insidious of solicit ...

How do you become a bass player that cannot be ignored? How do you become and remain the bassist of a band ...

ore than half a century after its appearance, Magma's music never ceases to enchant the planet. The release ...

In 2022, information travels with such speed that mystery and fantasy no longer allow legends to be forged, ...

Reaching the 100-issue mark is no small feat, in a context where the paper press is not spared in any way b ...

Never before have we had so much access to knowledge, technical tips, complete transcriptions, all directly ...

In 2022, information travels with such speed that mystery and fantasy no longer allow legends to be forged, ...

Even if our instrument has its stars, it must be admitted that few bass players are known to the mainstream ...

"MORE WOMEN ON STAGE!" This slogan, written with a gaffer on Lola Frichet's Fender Mustang, is not insignif ...

What must one do to fulfill one's destiny as a musician? To constantly renew oneself or to dig the same fur ...

The consequences of the epidemic are still being felt: between the difficulties linked to the application o ...

Summer is already in full swing as we wrap up this new issue. The resumption of gigs has put smiles on ever ...

We miss the concerts and it is, it is necessary to admit it, mainly to play in public that we broke our pig ...

Sometimes it doesn't take much to shake the building, and if someone had ever predicted what 2020 would be ...

We sometimes wonder why we have this tendency to look back to the past? There's nostalgia, of course, all t ...

You never really know what your future holds, you bet on one horse and the other comes out on top. That's w ...

Cultivating difference is the key to success. It's easy to agree with this cliché. If you blend in with the ...

Time passes, the spleen remains... No matter how much we are made to understand that the latest advances in ...

We were drawn with the myth of the genius, who created everything, all alone, ex nihilo. This figure of the ...

Playing solo is a delicate undertaking: it requires a real introspection, a dialogue with an inner listener ...

Along with concerts, travel has been perhaps the most missed during this period of pandemic, due to travel ...

These are strange times. The main event of 2020 will have been so huge that all other information has faded ...

Depending on the perspective we choose, reality appears different. It is good, especially in these times wh ...

Yes, times are changing and yet, we would find it hard to imagine our world without certain tutelary figure ...

These are strange times. The main event of 2020 will have been so huge that all other information has faded ...

A few months ago, we celebrated our 200th publication in style with a special issue compiling 200 tips from ...

For some years now, we've been hearing that a musician can no longer make a living from his or her instrume ...

50 candles for "The Dark Side of The Moon" by Pink Floyd. The occasion was too good not to celebrate this m ...

Keeping up with time is one of the major challenges of our time. We know that among young people (and not s ...

Ringo Starr has long been mocked by audiences and musicians alike. Described as an "average" drummer, Starr ...

200 NUMBERS! REALLY? I remember the very moment I had the very first issue of Batterie Magazine in my hand ...

In the age of social networks, where careers are made in one day and shattered the next, personalities from ...

Fifteen seconds is the duration of Clyde Stubblefield's solo on James Brown's "Funky Drummer" (1970), a bea ...

If intensity, sensitivity and musicality are the keys to being a great drummer, then it's no wonder that St ...

All the media, even the most generalist ones, talked about it. On September 3rd, after having applauded a b ...

There was a time when the web was a serious career booster for many musicians. In 2022, drowned in the mass ...

Who would have imagined that one day we would publish a cover stamped with the mythical language of the Rol ...

Nowadays, it's no surprise to see a live drummer perched on a rotating platform. Tommy Lee, Joey Jordison, ...

In 18 years of existence, the "Batterie Magazine" adventure has allowed us to establish privileged links wi ...

When we are exposed to music all year long, we sometimes forget the symbol of its primary substance, with t ...

In 1992 (30 years already), the world of drums lost one of its most brilliant representatives: Jeff Porcaro ...

Interviewing within a few days Nic Collins, youngest son of Phil Collins (and current Genesis drummer) and ...

First of all, the entire editorial staff of Batterie Magazine and BGO Editions wishes you a year 2022 full ...

2021 will soon be a distant memory. Apart from the health context, this year has gone by like a flash, with ...

A false start? Many feel that the musical landscape has regained its colors. Clubs are reopening, albums a ...

The End of an Era Two drum icons have left us in the space of a month, and not the least. Joey Jordison on ...

The summer took place in a strange schizophrenic climate, with the return to (almost) "normal" life, social ...

Summer 2021: new horizons for music The almost sudden reopening of cultural venues has caught many in the m ...

A light at the end of the tunnel? As we close this issue, the French have just learned of the imminent reop ...

Considered by many of his peers to be the most illustrious drummer of all time, Dave Weckl has stepped asid ...

Times are changing... There was a time when playing a musical instrument was an excuse to form a band of fr ...

The return of Batterie Magazine in newsstands and in digital, at the end of January, was a relief for our t ...

Dear Readers, First of all, the most important thing: we hope from the bottom of our hearts that you and yo ...