Is the guitar solo dead in the 21st century? By Jonny Scaramanga published 24 March 21 Opinion: With guitar solos absent from the charts, Green Day championing the anti-solo and Eddie Van Halen gone, is it the end for the fret-melting guitar hero?
Scott Gorham: “I’m not this real technical guy – I never had a lesson. Thin Lizzy was my school of rock“ By Jonny Scaramanga published 16 March 21 The Black Star Riders and Thin Lizzy icon on a life spent at the sharp end of rock's greatest hits
Lonely the Brave: ”We don’t try to fill every space. Atmospherics are key to what we do as a band” By Jonny Scaramanga published 15 March 21 Guitarists Mark Trotter and Ross Smithwick talk stripping back the overdubs and maximizing the emotion on blockbuster new album The Hope List
The Struts' Adam Slack: “I’ve always listened to old records, where you can hear the skin touching the strings. I found it cooler the sloppier it is“ By Jonny Scaramanga published 21 January 21 The guitarist from Britain's fastest-rising rock band talks open tunings, Les Pauls and how Phil Collen stole his solo
Jimmy Page's 20 greatest guitar moments By Jonny Scaramanga published 11 December 20 Led Zeppelin's magic writ large, from the free-form jams of Dazed to the grandeur and majesty of Kashmir
Orianthi: “Michael Jackson taught me to do what’s best for the song. It’s not about crowding it with guitars“ By Jonny Scaramanga published 24 November 20 The former Michael Jackson and Alice Cooper guitarist shares gear, music business and songwriting knowledge
Fontaines D.C.: ”We’re not great musicians but we can play a three-chord song and give it some welly” By Jonny Scaramanga published 2 November 20 Carlos O'Connell and Conor Curley detail their unorthodox pedalboards, scuzzy tones and why they recorded A Hero’s Death twice
IDLES: "We always dreamed of having such huge setups… we get giddy every time we look at our guitar rigs!" By Jonny Scaramanga published 29 October 20 Mark Bowen and Lee Kiernan talk balancing simple guitar lines with tons of gear, injecting hip-hop into guitar music and how their pedalboards got quite so enormous…
How to play guitar like Pearl Jam By Jonny Scaramanga published 17 July 20 Discover the lead licks and arrangement secrets of Stone Gossard and Mike McCready
