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Alex Lifeson his a chord and feels it on his cherry quilted maple top Les Paul Standard.

Alex Lifeson on throwing sonic curveballs with Envy of None – and why he’s all in on plugins

By David Mead published

As Alex Lifeson launches the second album from his latest prog project, Envy of None, we delve deep into the mists of its sonic landscape

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Goose’s Rick Mitarotonda [left] and Peter Anspach at NYC’s Radio City Music Hall, June 25, 2022

How Goose took flight to become the world’s hottest jam band

By Alan Paul published

Rick Mitarotonda and Peter Anspach play without fear, reading the room, letting their improv instincts guide them. But those rooms are getting mighty big. Just how did a Connecticut jam band reach Madison Square Garden?

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Eric Gales perform the National Anthem before the game between the San Antonio Spurs and Memphis Grizzlies on February 3, 2025 at FedExForum in Memphis, Tennessee

Eric Gales nearly recorded a guitar solo for Beyoncé's Cowboy Carter

By Janelle Borg published

Raphael Saadiq reveals he was close to giving Gales a ring when Beyoncé requested an extended solo on one of the Cowboy Carter tracks

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Arianna Powell performs onstage with Olivia Rodrigo during BST Hyde Park at Hyde Park on June 27, 2025 in London, England.

How Turnstile ramped up the shred in Olivia Rodrigo’s live show

By Michael Astley-Brown published

Lead guitarist Arianna Powell reveals how the hardcore outfit inspired the guitar choices on Olivia Rodrigo’s recent tour

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Yvette Young of Covet performs during Swanfest at Heart Health Park on April 23, 2022 in Sacramento, California

Yvette Young confirms that she's the guitar-wielder on the official new Superman soundtrack

By Janelle Borg published

In videos posted to social media, Young can be seen recording for Superman using a sparkly pink Ibanez equipped with P-90s, which she had previously teased “may or may not be coming out”

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Rhys John Stygal playing a Fender Stratocaster

This 16-year-old has been called the next Stevie Ray Vaughan – and he’s finally been given the keys to “the real SRV tone” after years of experimenting

By Matt Owen published

Rhys John Stygal has partnered with Pedal Pawn to put on an SRV clinic, complete with an obsessively assembled guitar rig and pointers on how to harness the blues great’s tone

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Junior Marvin plays a white Fender Stratocaster onstage at Rewind Festival, in Scotland

Junior Marvin on Bob Marley and the Wailers’ Survival – and the influence Hendrix’s guitar pedal guru had on its sound

By Andrew Daly published

After the success of Exodus and Kaya, Bob Marley took the Wailers into a more politically charged direction to deliver a slept-on classic in the Wailers’ discography

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Hank Marvin of the Shadows plays his red strat and wears and orange and black graphic shirt.

My day interviewing Hank Marvin over beans on toast and chickening out of a Paul McCartney 'audition'

By Neville Marten published

Neville Marten's first assignment for Guitarist was one for the ages, at a venue that is now sadly lost but for a time was the place for the biggest bands to rehearse

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Bay Melnick Virgolino

10-year-old guitarist nails Are You Gonna Go May Way during America’s Got Talent – on a PRS that’s almost as tall as he is

By Phil Weller published

Bay Melnick Virgolino’s PRS might make him look tiny, but the sounds he gets out of it are huge

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Northern Irish guitarist Vivian Campbell and American heavy metal singer Ronnie James Dio (1942 - 2010), of the American heavy metal band Dio, perform on stage during the 1985 Sacred Heart tour at the Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan, November 2, 1985

Vivian Campbell sets the record straight on his infamous departure from Ronnie James Dio’s band

By Matt Owen published

The guitar icon joined and departed Dio in the space of a few years owing to disagreements over the financial running of the band, Campbell says

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