“I want to make instrumental rock fun again.” Meet the journalist and guitar innovator who’s out to leave a lasting sonic impression

Guitar World editor-in-chief Mike Astley-Brown has swapped interviewing rock stars for making music himself, fronting the instrumental alt.rock project Maebe. Music journalists turned performers are not new — think Chrissie Hynde or Neil Tennant — but Astley-Brown says stardom was never his aim; rat