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Avenged Sevenfold’s Zachary Baker on cooking up a country album with a modeler and an Epiphone acoustic
He built his name shredding stages with one of metal's biggest bands. Now, Zacky Vengeance talks us through the making of his debut album and why he relied on digital modelers over amps
A blues guitar hero showed me how he held his pick – and it changed the way I played guitar
Some sage advice has shaped my entire playing journey – and anyone can give it a go for immediate results
The unsung 1986 album that inspired the ’90s Britpop boom
The big-name fans. The studio where the Smiths tracked The Queen Is Dead. The bird that got caught in the control room. This is the story of the Chameleons’ Stranger Times
Jimmie Vaughan on the Fabulous Thunderbirds’ Top 40 hit that got Al Bundy – and Hollywood’s – seal of approval
The year was 1986, London was calling for Jimmie Vaughan, where album sessions alongside Dave Edmunds led to a classic LP, and this is how it all went down
Bobby Rush salutes his old friend B.B. King
In his own words, Rush reflects on the brilliance of B.B. and what he learned from the King of the Blues
Alt-rock icon Kim Gordon on the secret to making great music on bad guitars and why she never saw herself as a bassist
Returning with solo album Play Me – a stinging broadside against the modern age – the alt-rock talisman remembers the bad guitars and renegade tunings of her ’80s breakout with Sonic Youth
Tailgunner are flying the flag for old-school metal (with a little help from K.K. Downing)
Tailgunner’s new album, Midnight Blitz, is a love letter to the '80s, Yngwie, Priest, and all things shred – and it's produced by a bona-fide Metal God
Melissa Etheridge learned more from a grouchy old man who’d lost his fingers than she did at Berklee
The veteran hitmaker charts her evolution from acoustic to electric and back again and explains how she went digital, how she keeps her classic songs fresh, and how her family deal with her incredible guitar collection
The 17-year-old guitar prodigy who flourished with Dio, but got off to a nightmare start
Rowan Robertson's fairy-tale ascension sent him from pubs to arenas virtually overnight. But he was a little over-confident for the first of those mega gigs…
How 10cc’s Rick Fenn ended up working with David Gilmour, Peter Green, Mike Oldfield, and almost all of his other heroes
The underrated guitar great looks back on the “improbable serendipities” that punctuate his 50-year career, hails the guitar he’s been playing for almost all of it, and reveals the favorite solos in his catalog
