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Si Delaney

Don Broco's Si Delaney on heavy riffs inspiring angry lyrics and why he wants to be buried with a Marshall JCM800

By Ellie Rogers

The English rock outfit's new album, Amazing Things, uses their typically high-energy approach, and as Delaney explains, it's built on Marshall crunch

Samantha Fish

Samantha Fish: ”I’m finding modern tones to incorporate with the blues and rock ’n’ roll”

By Ellie Rogers

Pushing the boundaries of blues-rock with new album Faster, the Kansas City six-stringer is bringing her pop influences to the fore, and finding tone magic in a small combo driven hard

Jake Bugg

Jake Bugg on resisting the urge for a guitar adventure – and why his number one acoustic is made from a kitchen table

By Ellie Rogers

The English singer-songwriter talks vintage guitars, songwriting and the importance of enjoying your work

Dead and Company

How John Mayer came to join Dead & Company

By Ellie Rogers

Mayer's journey as a Deadhead was like many who got into the band after the fact – except he soon found himself onstage beside Bob Weir and a custodian of the Grateful Dead's legacy

Cedric Burnside

Cedric Burnside: “Hill country blues hardly ever uses the I-IV-V. It’s off the beaten path, it’s unorthodox, it’s unpredictable“

By Ellie Rogers

Burnside on being born into the blues and the fingerstyle authenticity behind his bare-bones approach to guitar

The 50 greatest guitar riffs of all time

The 50 greatest guitar riffs of all time

By Amit Sharma, Jonny Scaramanga, Ellie Rogers, Grant Moon, Jonathan Horsley, Sian Llewellyn, Henry Yates, Matt Frost, Joel McIver

From metal to rock, punk to grunge, these are the best guitar riffs ever recorded, as voted for by you

Jamie Hall

Tigercub's Jamie Hall: "The lower the tuning, the bigger the riff!"

By Ellie Rogers

The Brighton alt-rocker details his love of drop tunings, mercurial time signatures and big riffs

Emily Wolfe

Emily Wolfe: “I love to just go off live, but on the record it's going to be out there forever, so I need to make sure every note matters”

By Ellie Rogers

Armed with a signature guitar and monster pedalboard, Wolfe ventures beyond blues on her experimental second album, Outlier

Toby Lee

Toby Lee: “My amp always has the reverb on 10, and if it could go any further it would!“

By Ellie Rogers

Meet the teenage blues-rock sensation whose debut album, Aquarius, is juiced by boutique Klon crunch and a Gibson Custom Shop ES-335

Joanna Connor

How Joanna Connor built a guitar rig that keeps her blues sound raw and real

By Ellie Rogers

The Chicago blues phenom sits down to talk guitars, Nerdville, and why her slamming rhythms ask a lot of an amp