Features

A new album, a collaboration with Periphery and a touring schedule that would make many artists weep are all in a day’s work for Mike Dawes, one of the world’s foremost percussive guitar specialists

As a cult hero of underground American rock, Buzz Osborne describes his band Melvins as “an avant-garde, weird thing”. And as a guitarist, he’s all about heaviness and spontaneity…

With influences ranging from Pantera and Black Sabbath to Bauhaus, an ever-changing pedal chain, and a mission statement that’s never changed, the Dandy Warhols are still – 30 years into their career – keeping it weird

Turning to spontaneity, and changing habits both gear and playing-wise, Slash's new record is a laid-back, charming tribute to an ever-lasting strain of guitar playing

Dug Pinnick’s onstage presence with King’s X is made even more compelling by his unusual 12-string bass guitar

St. Vincent’s new album, All Born Screaming, sees her teaming up with two Foo Fighters, using Prince’s favourite pedal and embarking on a prog odyssey. It also sees her return to real amps played real loud…

Eric Clapton’s Wonderful Tonight is one of the great love songs of our time. So when the guitar he wrote it on, a 1974 Martin 000-28, came up for auction in London, we didn’t need a second invitation to go and take a closer look

We meet Australia’s three-headed metal guitar hydra – are you prepared for Battlesnake?

After rejecting a series of record contracts from Sony, the Australia’s Got Talent alumnus made the move to Nashville and learned how to be a sideman

The former Kiss guitarist on that time he sold a ’59 Les Paul to fund a gambling trip, and the price-boosting power of his personal signature