Latest articles by Ellie Rogers
Inspired by jazz-go-pop stars like George Benson and Pat Metheny, the Pickup Music tutor and rising star has a unique guitar-meets-vocal vamping style
The fingerstyle fusion phenom talks technique, the illusion of jazz complexity – the reality of the guitar's complexity – and why everything is okay so long as you land on a good note
If you want to be a revolutionary player, you need a revolutionary attitude, and Gomm says that means looking for sounds you have never heard before
He's already given his advice on crafting better lead lines. Now, the young virtuoso has kindly revealed how you can get natural tones to match
One acoustic hero pays tribute to another, with Gomm pinpointing the pioneering approaches championed by Mitchell that make her one of the most influential acoustic players of all time
Clapton remains an ever-present force in the Rival Sons star’s own sound – here’s why Holiday views his hero as one of the most influential guitarists of all time
Inspired by Jeff Beck and session legend Paul Jackson Jr, Josette Maskin explains how MUNA balances three guitar players, how they ended up using fuzz more than distortion, and why label boss Phoebe Bridgers is underrated as a guitarist
The shred icon salutes his greatest influence – with the insight of a fellow guitar obsessive
There's already a lot of hype about the British blues maestro's new Kickstarter-funded album. Redfern checks in to share his unconventional gear pairings, and how his solos are informed by Frank Zappa's musical philosophy
The Epiphone signature artist isn't missing any targets on new album The Blowback, turning up the fury with a jerry-rigged DIY guitar sound that's set to blow
Jackson-wielding guitarists Anna Papadimitriou and Hannah Staphnill channel feminist rage into pummeling riffs on their debut face-ripper, Earth, Spit, Blood & Bones
Think shoegaze is all reverb, delay, fuzz? Well, there's another sonic path, and Hotline TNT are taking it with three guitarists. Will Anderson unpacks the approach behind their acclaimed noise-pop sound
Inspired to pick up the guitar by School of Rock, classic rock acolyte Ágústsson has been leading The Vintage Caravan since he was 12 years old. He explains what makes fans liken his playing to Alvin Lee, how he wrings his tone from a collection of extremely loud vintage Marshalls and why he hates practicing
Told she was playing guitar “wrong”, Cherry instead took it as permission to embrace the unorthodox and chase metal guitar sounds from the primal to the orchestral
He has an awe-inspiring collection of vintage guitars, all with stories to tell, and he plays in one of NYC’s most exciting indie-rock bands. But as Michael Rubin tells it, it all started with Guitar Hero…
With four distortion-strong pedalboards and Queens of the Stone Age support slots in tow, Steph Norris and Joe Perry run the gamut of dirty guitar tones – with gear that will end up getting “beat up to f**k”
Telecasters and Jazzmasters for metal? The former Cirque du Soleil shredder unpacks the heavy institution’s unconventional approach to tone
Inspired by the likes of Peter Green, Danny Kirwan and Jimi Hendrix, Joakim Nilsson and Jonatan Ramm thrive on P-90 pickups, cranked Marshall Bluesbreakers and world-class vibrato – just don’t call their high-octane rock ’n’ roll “retro”
Hand-picked by Fender to head up its Vintera II campaign, the Grammy-winning folk-rock trailblazer discusses her spellbinding collab with Prince’s guitar player, challenging the Big F’s premier offset to a game of drop-tuning limbo, and how a mutual love of JHS Pedals introduced her to John Mayer
He avoids pentatonic cliches at all costs and thinks too many solos are “a problem in the blues” – now Buffalo Nichols is taking the genre in radical new directions with the help of heavily effected resonators and his “secret tuning”
Meet the unapologetically high-volume, Laney-powered rock ’n’ roll band from Wales who got their big break via Seattle
The Texan singer-songwriter on collaborating with Gary Clark Jr., why he considers the guitar both a shield and a weapon, and how he found strength in vulnerability as he opens up on stellar debut album SEA/SONS
The son of a punk megastar, Jakob Armstrong was born to play guitar. But that doesn't mean he has to play punk. In Ultra Q, the influences span The Cure to dance. Maybe they'll do metal next...
The Darkness frontman turned YouTube personality on why Keith Richards’ playing is underrated, what makes Eddie Van Halen’s solo blueprint so spectacular, and why guitarists who “make you feel like you want to grab a guitar and do it” are more important than any virtuoso
Influential UK seven-stringers Acle Kahney and James Monteith on the secret to mastering their shape-shifting time signatures, recording their most challenging riffs and why the Quad Cortex is their new amp modeler of choice
