Latest articles by Jonathan Horsley
The Black Keys team up with Warm Audio for a furry fuzz with switchable octave. Let's see if it will have the fOXX on the run
How well do you know this titan of the guitar industry? The names who ushered in new eras, and the products that have pushed its boundaries?
Live debuts do not get much more surreal than playing in a mega-rock band and having your heroes from Kiss in the audience
The Sea of Emotion is Satriani and Vai’s long-awaited debut album together, and although they recorded it remotely, there were a couple of notable exceptions
Ronnie Wood is on tour right now in South America but says his Stones colleague wants some time off from the road – for now
How’s this for a rig: the full Soldano SLO-100 stack and Custom Shop Strat that Clapton played at Cream’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame performance?
This was the week Epiphone upped its metal guitar game, Boss unveiled a super-powered beginner amp and Troy Van Leeuwen puts his name to something gory
Mascis wanted a guitar. He wanted a Fender. But how to choose between a Strat, a Jaguar or the Jazzmaster?
Wild Cherry were a rock band in a 1970s club scene that was changing fast. One comment changed everything
Fed up with cumbersome cables? Here's my pick of the best wireless guitar systems for every budget
![Tracy G [Left] and Ronnie James Dio.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/iugfWHaLQSmhSYrHWzXprK-840-80.jpg.webp)
Tracy Grijalva joined up with Ronnie James Dio in ’93. But by ’99 he was out when he was made an offer he couldn’t accept
How well do you know this most storied of guitar brands?
![Robin Davey and Greta Valenti of Beaux Gris Gris & The Apocalypse [left]; and Joe Bonamassa wears a ball cap and plays an ES-335 at B.B. King's Blues Summit 100.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/s6DKBqWznhGbtEAfJk3YV3-840-80.jpg.webp)
The Beaux Gris Gris & The Apocalypse guitarist is not a fan of contemporary blues and says his new album is his “vision of what the blues can be”
The much-loved Country Music Hall of Famer was behind the classics Swingin' and Seminole Wind and latterly worked with Dan Auerbach
The QOTSA guitarist's new signature Fender collab is a weird-ass Squier 12-string with Custom Shop provenance
These powerhouse metal amps from EVH, Orange, Peavey, ENGL, and more will have you primed to seek and destroy
Chuck Berry Jr. says his father had the biggest hands. Thumb-to-pinky, it was nearly an octave reach, and it made him a natural at a certain technique
![ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons [left] performs in front of some Magnatone amplifiers; a classic shot of Prince performing live, bathed in purple light.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/F9hWCsfWshAZhe8zZuykiE-840-80.jpg.webp)
The ZZ Top frontman admits he only recognized just how gifted Prince was as a player when he saw him bring the house down at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Awards
The Sea of Emotion is unmistakably the work of Messrs Satch and Vai. But this time out the amps took a backseat
John Mayer’s virtuosic playing has crossed almost every genre imaginable, and his changes in gear register on the Richter Scale. But how well do you know this titanic pop/rock figure?
The top kid’s guitars available today and everything you need to know to get your child started with the guitar
From extended-range 8-string guitars to Flying Vs, here are our expert-reviewed picks from Jackson, ESP, Ibanez, Strandberg, and more
The Black Label Society frontman says a guy stuck a pickup in a cinder block and it sounded the same, so just get on with it
