Latest articles by Amit Sharma
Jared James Nichols was gifted a Klon Centaur by Joe Bonamassa – here’s how he kept it safe on the road
Nichols went from nearly having his borrowed Klon stolen to being given one of his own by the blues guitar icon
Wolfgang Van Halen on what sets his favorite contemporary metal guitar hero apart from his peers
Wolfgang has praised this player's ability to bridge the generational and genre divide
Made famous by David Gilmour, the Binson Echorec is a secret-recipe tool that helped define rock guitar tone
If you have even the most passing familiarity with Pink Floyd, you've heard an ethereal soundscape generated by the Binson Echorec. This is what it is, the unit's fascinating inner workings, and why it still matters
Guitar heroes are hailing him as shred’s next big thing – but Spiro is already planning a blues left-turn
Touted as the guitar world's next big disruptor by Tim Henson, Misha Mansoor and Tosin Abasi, Spiro Dussias reveals his next project and why he hopes to record a blues album before he turns 30
Eric Gales on his all-star blues tribute to his brother, the man who started him on guitar
With a stirring tribute to his older brother Manuel, who performed as Little Jimmy King, the master southpaw returns with one of the finest albums of his career
Nicolas Meier was hand-picked by Jeff Beck. Now he’s honoring the late guitar icon with a sound that seeks new horizons
Meier on what he learned from Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucía, and how in Jeff Beck he found a kindred spirit for guitar sounds with no limits
We chart 25 game-changing Ibanez guitarists
While it’s easy to think of Ibanez as a company that’s solely at the cutting edge of metal machines for the modern age, they’ve also innovated much further afield, producing timeless acoustics, semi-hollows, and hollowbodies
One of the main guitars on Biffy Clyro’s new album was a tiny Fender with a built-in speaker – which is also beloved by Tom Bukovac
The forgotten ’90s oddball was employed for some “cheap-sounding warmth” and sludgy goodness
Biffy Clyro's Simon Neil is a Strat player through and through – but here's why he couldn't say no to Gibson's ‘Greeny’ reissue
Buying such a pricey guitar wasn’t an easy decision, but he’s been making the most of his purchase
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How Blood Incantation’s Paul Riedl and Morris Kolontyrsky are opening the Stargate to take death metal to a higher cosmic plane
On album number four, Paul Riedl and Morris Kolontyrsky are taking their “Morbid Angel meets Pink Floyd” concept to new creative heights
The botched luthier job that convinced John Suhr to get into guitar building
The celebrated luthier may have had a different career if it weren’t for someone else’s careless craftsmanship
Named after a Måneskin track, inspired by Queen and Arctic Monkeys, here’s how Baby Said became the UK’s hottest rock duo
Fresh from a triumphant run of festival dates, Veronica Pal checks in to give us the guitar story behind this sister act's stellar debut, BS! – and that's no b.s.
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University’s Zak Bowker on why your biggest inspiration should be yourself and his mission to entertain Xbox zombie slayers
University might be inspired by the Oasis ethos and the harmonies of the Beatles, but Bowker explains why they're going their own way
Jazz guitar phenom Pete Roth on the making of a trio that lives on the outer limits of improv
Fans of Joe Pass, Larry Carlton and John Scofield would do well to check out the Pete Roth Trio with Bill Bruford the next time they’re in town
From Billy Corgan to Big Thief, how Momma became one of alt-rock’s most addictive bands
On album number four, Etta Friedman and Allegra Weingarten find themselves at their most autobiographical, searching deep to channel the music – and employing pedals with secret powers
How Arve Isdal carved his own extreme metal path with Enslaved – and became Norway’s answer to Slash
The blues-schooled shredder shows off some unlikely examples in his guitar collection, explains why he quit an Iron Maiden icon’s band and shares the fate of his supergroup with Dani Filth, Rob Caggiano and John Tempesta
Carlos Santana on soul singer phrasing, the spiritual essence of playing and “visitations” from B.B. King, Miles Davis and SRV
Single-cuts are like merlot, solos are like grapefruit… the inimitable, peerless Carlos Santana shares stories from his legendary career and insights from the cosmos
1959 Gibson 'Burst Les Pauls – what makes them so darn valuable?
Widely considered to be the Holy Grail for guitar enthusiasts and collectors, 'Bursts feature on many of the most important rock albums ever made. So what exactly went into the secret sauce?
“Though this 15W combo is technically advertised as a practice amp, it can churn out some serious sonic damage”: EVH 5150 Iconic Series 15-watt 1x10 Combo review
This may be the smallest amp in the Iconic series, but it sure packs plenty of firepower
Gojira’s Joe Duplantier on the origins of the pick scrape, playing Ozzy Osbourne’s final show – and what he’s got cooking with ESP
As the frontman looks back at 20 years of Gojira’s groundbreaking From Mars to Sirius, he explains why switching guitar brands is not like having an affair, and how he learned about Ozzy Osbourne’s death as the band were midway through a show
Remembering Mick Ralphs, the highly innovative founding guitarist of Mott The Hoople and Bad Company
The trailblazing English guitarist passed away on June 23 and left a formidable legacy, influencing the likes of Joe Bonamassa and countless others
How Iron Maiden icon Janick Gers’ son Dylan went from late-starting guitarist to epic collabs with Thom Yorke’s son Noah
Dylan Gers compares the three six-stringers in his dad’s band, explains why his music harks back to the rock guitar hero era, and celebrates the fluke that tied him in with Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke’s son Noah
What's the secret behind the tone of Jimmy Page's legendary “Number One” Les Paul? Bare Knuckle founder Tim Mills had the chance to examine it and found out
Mills had the opportunity to analyze the highly-coveted guitar after Page sent the guitar to his workshop just before the 2007 Led Zeppelin reunion
