Latest articles by Janelle Borg
Raven Slaughter was a ’70s Cleveland rock icon who sawed up a Gibson into his own custom guitar – now a hospice patient, he has visited his “old friend” at the Rock Hall
Slaughter made a name for himself across the Midwest in the ’70s and ’80s, playing iconic venues like the Beachland Ballroom with his signature S-shaped guitar
Police officers in California recover $60,000 worth of stolen guitars – still with Guitar Center price tags on
The five high-value guitars were found in the suspect's car trunk
The Smashing Pumpkins reunite with Siamese Dream producer for the first time in 32 years
Butch Vig was the man behind the board for Billy Corgan and co's landmark albums, and has been on production duties for their new single
Ike Willis, long-term guitarist and vocalist with Frank Zappa, dies aged 70
Willis was part of Zappa’s bands and projects for a decade, and aside from his role as a guitarist, he voiced the protagonist in Zappa opus Joe’s Garage
The moment glam-rock icons The Sweet knew they had to part ways with their singer
Guitarist Andy Scott reveals why the satin-jumpsuit-clad four-piece was forced to transform into a three-piece – or disband altogether...
The time Jimi Hendrix was knocked off his feet by Eddie Kramer’s tonal technique
Kramer looks back on borrowing from the Beatles... and that game-changing day at the studio that forever defined Hendrix's sound
Jack Osbourne confirms Ozzy Osbourne biopic is still in the cards
The movie will reportedly feature Ozzy at the tail end of his Black Sabbath career – and will also include Randy Rhoads
Epiphone announces its first ever signature guitar for a Korean artist
Lee Seung Yoon is making history with the Epiphone LSY-200 Studio EC acoustic-electric
Veteran producer Dann Huff on the unsung art of session guitar
Huff knows a thing or two about being a session guitarist, having contributed to records by A-listers such as Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and George Benson
The Strokes guitarist Nick Valensi takes “temporary break” from the band's upcoming world tour
The band did not give a reason for the hiatus, but recruited a long-time friend of the band to take on guitar duties during Valensi's absence
EarthQuaker Devices CEO calls for musical instruments to be exempt from tariffs as industry continues to be negatively hit
Julie Robbins says money being spent on tariffs could be used to create “good jobs for Ohioans and provided our team with more resources to innovate”
When Bob Dylan invited Slash to record with him
Not only did Slash walk into a room full of legends, but Dylan also asked him to rip out a solo à la Django Reinhardt...
How Mike Campbell ended up reconnecting with a classic piece of Heartbreakers gear
Turns out, the missing piece of his ideal tone was closer than he thought...
The making of the Telecasso – the Telecaster-Picasso mashup that has driven guitarists crazy
Les Godfrey has been crafting guitars for over 30 years, and with his latest creation, he brings a Cubist take to a timeless model
Paul McCartney's guitars allegedly held up in England ahead of major Rock & Roll Hall of Fame exhibition
The seven guitars, which are part of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame's “Paul McCartney and Wings” exhibition, are central to the showcase, which opens in two days
She was a pioneering singer-songwriter – until she disappeared without a trace
One of the first true singer-songwriters Connie Converse was an ill-fit for her own time. Decades on from her mysterious disappearance, her music is being pressed on vinyl by Jack White’s Third Man Records
Grace Bowers specs out her dream SG – is this what a potential signature Gibson could look like?
The guitarist has been flying the flag for Gibson SGs since the start of her career, so a signature model could very well be on the cards
Julien Baker reveals the guitar that she got with an early paycheck, which ended up shaping her breakthrough record
The singer-songwriter and boygenius member looks back on the moment she got the Telecaster that started it all
How Jeff “Skunk” Baxter took his session guitar experience and inspired a game-changing digital guitar
Skunk was involved in designing Roland and Fender's innovative G-5 – an all-in-one guitar offering a plethora of built-in tones and models
Peter Frampton on how his health diagnosis spurred him to keep playing guitar
At 59, Frampton experienced the first symptoms of IBM, a degenerative muscle disease, which he publicly revealed in 2019
Posthumous Steve Cropper album announced, featuring some of electric guitar’s biggest names
The late Stax guitar legend has touted the star-studded affair as “the best record he’d ever made”
What happened when Brian May recorded with Black Sabbath – and played through Tony Iommi’s rig
The Black Sabbath legend weighs in on the ‘gear versus player’ debate
Blur's Graham Coxon on how Damon Albarn rejecting his songs started his solo career
With eight solo records and four film scores under his belt, Coxon has looked back on the moment that led to his first solo record, 1998’s The Sky Is Too High
