Ellie Rogers

The Yorkshire sonic adventurers are on a quest for post-rock tonal nirvana, as they look past the guitar and towards the pedalboard in search of new sounds that defy convention

An unlikely email led the southpaw singer-songwriter to the Black Keys frontman’s Nashville studio. Here’s how they made an authentic old-school blues album – and why it featured just one guitar

Inspired by John Martyn, Echoplexes and open C tunings, the UK guitar maverick describes his playing as a “car crash of whatever suits me and whatever use I can get out of it” – but even he couldn’t have anticipated just how weird things would get…

Tallulah Sim-Savage was a country fan until she heard Hole, then everything changed. She explains how her love of modded offsets, discontinued Fender amps and many, many dirt pedals have made HotWax one of the hottest guitar bands to come out of the UK in years

Jim Shaw and Han Mee are tearing up the genre rulebook, and producing some of today's most vital guitar-led music as a result. The Manchester upstarts explain what drives their diverse DADGAD-tuned songcraft, and the advice Dave Grohl gave them when they shared a stadium bill with Foo Fighters

Featuring every kind of guitar hero – from old-school to cutting‑edge. And not one but two Van Halens…

Step inside the weird world of Tigercub, where no-name transistor amps, headphones used as microphones and abyssal drop-tuned riffs helped concoct their most recent album, The Perfume of Decay

With a bizarre new concept album, HMLTD are defying the expectations of guitar‑based music by treating the instrument like an orchestra – while embracing some “very stupid ideas”

One of the guitar world’s most hotly tipped players on her love of unusual electric shapes, the secret to making her leads sound like a conversation, and reappropriating the guitar solo for women everywhere

The UK electro-punks throw the rulebook out the window, using bass amps for guitars, and destroying everything with ring mod

The Polish wunderkind explains why Polyphia and Plini have reignited his guitar fire and how he channeled John Petrucci on his stellar new album, Remind Me

With a Reverend Billy Corgan Z-One signature in hand and a bunch of pop-culture influences in her head, Campbell has created a sound that's packed with hooks, ear-catching six-string textures, and satisfying dynamic shifts

Can Aussie rockers Voyager win Europe’s favorite song contest like Lordi and Måneskin before them? “It’s a dream,” says guitarist Simone Dow

As the electro-rock quartet return with new album A Kiss For the Whole World, guitarist Rory Clewlow and frontman/production whiz Rou Reynolds unpack the synth-like guitar tones behind the tunes

The Mexican duo’s Rodrigo Sánchez explains how the electric guitar slows him down, and why he and Gabriela Quintero are using backing tracks for the first time as they tour expansive new album In Between Thoughts... A New World

These three intrepid Midwest-by-way-of-Watford emo guitarists bend their sonic approaches around each other – and a glockenspiel – and avoid standard tuning (“the most awkward, horrible tuning imaginable”) at all costs

Periphery V: Djent Is Not a Genre finds progressive metal's most daring trailblazers rediscovering analog, rejecting perfection and producing their most ambitious album to date

In his own words, master of Strat funk Cory Wong remembers Jeff Beck and parses his genius approach to the guitar

Mics on electric guitars? Running two guitars into one amp? Solos that sound like “malfunctioning fax machines”? It can only be the work of indie-rock lifers John Dieterich and Ed Rodriguez

The Robert Johnson and Skip James enthusiast acknowledges there will be “some lovers of vintage Nationals out there who’ll be horrified”, but she thinks her heavily customized contemporary resonators “just sound better”

Remembering Jeff Beck in her own words, Joanne Shaw Taylor speaks of a player who took the guitar to the edge and beyond

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

There's something rotten in the Big Apple and it's the hot guitar sound of Daddy Long Legs, offering street-wise rhythm and blues for a new generation of big city punks

The alt-rock veterans' leader on recording in the studio that gave birth to Nirvana's In Utero, resisting the urge to over-perform and why nothing beats the G&L she learned to play on

He got his start in K-pop, and now “GuitarSlayer” has worked in just about every genre under the sun – he shares his tips on how to go pro, why he watches videos of Prince, Hendrix and SRV before he hits the stage, and how he divided up guitar parts with Sophie Lloyd in MGK's live band