Lightning Records talks with Nels Cline on his early musical influences, growing up in Southern California, and the future of guitar.

Stock car racer, Pattie Manning, talks racing obsessions, her first stock car, and being female in the racing community.

Photographer/artist Kristy Campbell talks to the legendary culture creator about cutting 3 feet off his boards, his anti-culture of surf, bold colors, sneaking into the ranch, what it used to be like before the punks, and how Dick Dale allowed him to show his ideas.  Photo: Kristy Campbell

Talking with the founding member of Detroit's proto punk heroes MC5 about the revolutionary power of the electric guitar.  Photo: Hugh Candyside

Sir Richard Bishop, founding member and guitarist of Sun City Girls and rare books dealer, challenges all guitarists to give up their pedals and forget everything to break through.  Photo Credit: Karl LB

Barreling through the 7-day La Carerra Panamericana road race in Mexico with vintage Porsche maniac Matt Hummel

With Captain Beefheart cohort Moris Tepper

Poet Ossian Foley interviews Brooklyn light sculptor Jim Clark about rehabilitating his once zoo schoolhouse in 80's Williamsburg, hiding light sculptures in Pennsyvlania ponds, and how these ideas of light synthesize and progress in his latest LA solo show.

We asked some of our resident shredders to talk the future of shred, here's what John Deiterich of Deerhoof had to say...

We asked some of our resident shredders to talk the future of Shred, here's what Ed Rodriguez of Deerhoof had to say...  Photo: Paul Costuros

We asked some of our resident shredders to talk Future of Shred with us, here's what Van Carney of Pontiak had to say...

Photographer Patrick Gookin takes a morning run with ultra marathoner Dominic Grossman.

A little after dinnertime, I called up Tom Cramer, my father and asked him about that wind in his hair.

John Melillo, musical impresario behind Algae & Tentacles, phd in sound/text theory and professor at University of Ariz, and novelist and poet Johanna Skibsrud, take a photo/text journey through the desert flat of Jean Lake,  a small endorheic dry lake 3 mi east of Jean, Nevada, home to lost earth works by artists Michael Heizer, and Jean Tinguely.

Chris Forsyth talks on the anti-shred

More amazing photos from Bill Daniel

Heli-photographer Brooke LaValley's Desert Race Aerials from the Baja 1000 and Mint 400.

Visionary American improviser Bill Frisell removes his reverb pedal from his pedal board but finds it's Visionary American improviser Bill Frisell talks speed of culture, loving hot rods, wanting to be a race car driver but ending up on the road of the unlimited potential of guitar.