Latest articles by Matt Owen
Cyber Monday guitar deals 2025: Everything you need to know ahead of this year's sale
Find out where and how to grab the biggest savings on guitar gear when Cyber Monday arrives
Black Friday guitar deals 2025: shop early savings and read our expert shopping tips for the biggest sale of the year
Get ahead of all other guitarists with the best early savings this Black Friday, from Sweetwater, Guitar Center and more
Guitar Center Black Friday deals 2025: The Pre-Black Friday Sale is here!
Guitar Center has gone early with a Pre-Black Friday sale, which sees up to 30% off from now until November 12
Bonehead and Gem Archer both get signature Epiphones – and they’re recreations of 2 classic Oasis guitars
A gift from Noel Gallagher and a legendary 1984 Riviera helped shape the Oasis sound. Now, both are back as new signatures for the band's two loyal guitarists
Sweetwater Black Friday deals 2025: the early all-access sale has begun!
The Sweetwater early All Access Black Friday sale has arrived – here are the best deals on guitar gear
Jim Irsay’s billion-dollar guitar collection is going to auction, with legendary instruments from Kurt Cobain, Eric Clapton and David Gilmour up for grabs
With a wealth of record-breaking guitars among the collection, it promises to be the biggest guitar auction event of all time
The vintage guitar Bruce Springsteen sent Jeremy Allen White so he could learn to play
White went into the project having never played guitar. He ended up learning on something rather spectacular, thanks to the Boss...
Noel Gallagher’s internet-breaking Oasis reunion Les Paul has been brought to the masses with a Standard launch
Months after the Custom Shop Murphy Lab reissue sold out, Gibson has brought back one of 2025's most talked about guitars
The mystery Gibson SG Kirk Hammett played at Ozzy Osbourne’s last show is heading to auction – along with more than 150 other guitars from his collection
The SG was used to play a Black Sabbath cover at Back to the Beginning, and it’s headed to the auction block alongside some other choice picks from Hammett's collection
Epiphone Back to the Future ES-345s are being listed for up to $7,000 as scalpers strike the second-hand market
Punters are taking advantage of the hype surrounding the release by attempting to flip the sold-out guitars at extortionate premiums
The 16 most expensive guitars of all time
Fenders owned by Eric Clapton and Bob Dylan, Martins belonging to Kurt Cobain and David Gilmour, and one independently made axe headline the list of most profitable guitars sold at auction
Guitar Center CEO reveals his favorite guitars he owns
Gabe Dalporto is a keen collector and player, as well as the CEO of the retail giant – and he’s got quite the collection
Rabea Massaad’s Sterling by Music Man Sabre has been one of the firm’s most anticipated builds – and now it’s finally here
A year and a half after the highly refined $4,000 Ernie Ball Music Man model arrived, a sub-$1k version has landed
Brent Hinds had a trove of solo material that was never released, according to his former bandmate
Duane Trucks of Fiend Without a Face has shed light on some unheard material that the Mastodon guitarist created before his tragic death
“I fought tooth and nail for it not to be on the record, but Ed was like, ’If it’s not, I’m leaving’”: Thom Yorke reflects on the viral Radiohead smash that nearly broke up the band
The song has been doing the rounds on social media ahead of Radiohead’s upcoming reunion tour – but it almost didn’t see the light of day
All the guitar gear that caught my eye this week – including two replicas of the Marty McFly ES-345
It's been quality over quantity this week, with a few blockbuster drops
Eddie Van Halen’s Kramer Ad guitar sells for $2,734,000 at auction
The eye-watering price tag makes it the sixth most expensive guitar ever sold publicly
Gibson has launched Custom and Epiphone replicas of the Back to the Future ES-345 – but its search for the long-lost original guitar goes on
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the iconic film, Gibson has launched two replicas of Marty McFly's generationally inspiring ES-345
Musician's Friend Black Friday deals 2025: Everything you need to know to save big ahead of the big day
Black Friday may be weeks away, but at Musician's Friend, you can still grab yourself a great early deal on guitar gear
All the new guitar gear that caught my eye this week, from digital oil-can echo to Fender’s new US range
We've got Fender electrics and basses hot out of Cali, a state-of-the-art "vintage" delay pedal, cheap acoustics, expensive acoustics, and maybe the headphones monitoring tech you've been waiting for...
Dweezil Zappa has Eddie Van Halen, Brian May and Yngwie Malmsteen on his ambitious instrumental project – but wants to recruit more guitar greats
Albert Lee, Steve Morse and Steve Vai have also recorded for What The Hell Was I Thinking?, which Zappa began work on back in 1989
Michael J. Fox has a theory about the fate of Back to the Future’s long-lost Gibson ES-345
Gibson is conducting a global hunt to track down the iconic ES-345 that went missing after filming wrapped on Back to the Future
Gretsch ushers in the next evolution of its affordable Jet family – which now includes a workhorse Streamliner for $189
With prices that don't go beyond $579, the new-for-2025 Jet family could be a solid contender for the best entry-level lineup on the market
