Artists

Lindsey Buckingham teases reunion with Stevie Nicks following renewed interest in their pre-Fleetwood Mac album

Rush's Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee perform with new drummer Anika Nilles for the first time

Meet STONE, the Liverpool alt-rockers who quit their major label, wowed Yungblud’s fans and wrote their new album on a Gibson missing a string

Beach Boys hire new bass player from social media – after he made a video on how to sound like the Beach Boys

Ill Niño part ways with new guitarist just weeks before tour

Guitarists

"The bush can make you whacky, especially if you’re running from a few coppers who are shooting at you": William Crighton on bush psychedelia, collaborating with the late Rob Hirst, and his new LP Colonial Drift

How a new recruit turned Swedish adventure rockers Hällas into a band of gearheads

Viral duo Angine de Poitrine have become one of the most talked-about bands on the planet – with microtonal guitar

I’m a drummer. You guitarists have made me hate being in bands

The story behind Intervals virtuoso Jacob Umansky’s signature bass – and why Avenged Sevenfold changed his life

How Allen McGrier brought his Jamerson-approved Detroit swagger to a classic R&B ballad

Greg Chaisson on his gruelling Ozzy Osbourne audition

Why bassist Paul Samwell-Smith chose a short-scale Epiphone for his “rave-ups” with the Yardbirds

When a teenage Suzi Quatro laid down a marker by jamming with Jeff Beck and Cozy Powell

How bassist Eva Gardner landed the gig with Pink

Les Claypool looks back on his disastrous Metallica audition

Melissa Auf der Maur on joining Hole amidst tragedy and her “Master’s in Music” with the Smashing Pumpkins

Chicago bassist Peter Cetera reflects on opening for Jimi Hendrix and why Paul McCartney changed everything

Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival announces 2026 lineup

Slash and Gilby Clarke play together again as former Guns N’ Roses bandmates reunite for fundraiser show

Pat Metheny, Al Di Meola and more of the biggest names in jazz and fusion are playing in London this year

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Eric Clapton announces US tour – and he’s bringing another blues guitar hero on the road with him

Metallica announces Sphere residency – and they’ll be spared from the issues all other guitar bands have faced so far

What was the guitar-like instrument played during Bad Bunny's history-making 2026 Super Bowl halftime show?

Jack Osbourne sets the record straight on how much Back to the Beginning actually donated to charity

3 of today's leading virtuosos have assembled for a US tour – and it involves one of Steve Vai's favorite new guitarists

Steve Vai and Joe Satriani announce the return of the SatchVai Band with their debut U.S. tour – and tease an upcoming album

How David Bowie's longest-serving guitarist became the hero in his own story with KillerStar

Ziggy Marley on the whereabouts of Bob Marley’s iconic Les Paul Special – and why he prefers a Strat now

Mikael Åkerfeldt on nearly losing his prized PRS on the way to record a landmark Opeth album

The 10-string oddity that became one of Joe Perry’s most iconic guitars – even though he hardly played it in Aerosmith

Courtney Barnett on leftie legends, and embracing the Olympic White Stratocaster

Tributes pour in as The Dictators and Manowar guitarist Ross “The Boss” Friedman dies aged 72

“There is not another guitarist in the world who plays like him”: The life and times of Grateful Dead icon Bob Weir

Pepper Keenan recalls the moment he knew he’d failed his audition to be Metallica’s bassist

Air-guitar playing AC/DC fan Doug Rappoport on how he fell into working with Edgar Winter and Paul Gilbert

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Jimmy Page releases home demo version of Led Zep classic, Ten Years Gone

Paul Gilbert’s completely unplanned Jimi Hendrix tribute set for first-ever digital release

Paul McCartney announces new Andrew Watt-produced album inspired by an unfamiliar guitar chord

Peter Frampton announces first album in 16 years – and it features an all-star cast

Former Kiss guitarist Vinnie Vincent is charging $2 million for his new album

Mike McCready has spent 20 years making a rock opera that explores an alternate history of grunge – and it’s finally ready

Steve Vai has recorded a new solo over Van Halen’s Jump

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