Latest articles by Michael Astley-Brown
This week's essential guitar tracks: alt-rock heroes return and a virtual metal band team up with a thrash legend
Unmissable new cuts from Queens of the Stone Age, Nili Brosh, Alex Skolnick, Black Stone Cherry, Tash Sultana, Asking Alexandria and… Dolly Parton?!
This week's essential guitar tracks: from Smashing Pumpkins' shredding metal turn to solos from the son of a session legend
All the guitar-driven songs you need to hear this week
Kiesel unveils the Sophie Lloyd Signature Series – signature guitars you can spec yourself
The social media virtuoso and Machine Gun Kelly guitarist has kitted her signature model out with some fun appointments – and aesthetics you can customize
Dustie Waring steps down from Between the Buried and Me tour following sexual assault allegations
The prog-metal outfit have confirmed a session guitarist will step in for Waring
Guitarists rally round Ice Nine Kills’ Dan Sugarman as medical scare forces him to pull out of Metallica support slots
Kiko Loureiro, Angel Vivaldi and Robb Flynn have expressed their support for Sugarman, who will be replaced by Bad Wolves’ Doc Coyle and Miles Dimitri Baker for the shows
Fender’s latest Tom DeLonge Starcaster features actual meteorite dust in its finish – a potential first for guitar building
A production-line version of the Blink-182 guitarist’s signature model is looking more likely than ever – minus the space dust
Keanu Reeves picks up the bass guitar again as his band Dogstar ready new music and live dates
The Hollywood star is up to his old Ma-trix
Watch Extreme’s Nuno Bettencourt play the Rise solo live for the first time
Spoiler alert: it’s scary clean
Incubus announce new bassist for 2023 tour dates
The seasoned session player will follow in the footsteps of Tal Wilkenfeld as a fill-in for longstanding Incubus bassist Ben Kenney
James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett debut new ESP and Gibson guitars at first show of M72 world tour
Papa Het has a fresh Vulture, while Hammett’s uber-rare ’59 Les Paul got its first-ever runout for the set’s surprise opener
This week’s essential guitar tracks: from lead guitar lightning to one of the most violent riffs of the year
Everything you need to hear this week, featuring Vexed, Jason Isbell, Avatar, Plush, Tommy Emmanuel, Des Rocs and oh so very many more – now with Spotify playlist!
That time Guthrie Govan covered Rage Against the Machine’s Bulls on Parade and took Tom Morello’s solo to mind-boggling new heights
Some groundbreaking lead work – including two-hand tapping with a glass slide – highlighted the virtuoso’s awe-inspiring performance
Essential guitar tracks – hear our bumper edition of the latest six-string bangers, all wrapped up in a Spotify playlist
As we recover from the NAMM melee, explore this 26-track pick of the pickers from recent weeks
Chris Cornell’s final Soundgarden recordings will finally see the light of day – but what will the material sound like?
The iconic grunge band’s surviving members and the Estate of Chris Cornell have settled their long-running lawsuit
NAMM 2023 live: all the biggest news as it happened
All the guitar gear and goings-ons you need to know about – direct from the show floor
Watch Tom DeLonge’s new Fender Starcaster make its live debut at Blink-182’s surprise Coachella set
A production-line signature model could well be on the cards
NAMM 2023 news: all the latest guitar news, rumors and predictions
Everything launched this year at the world’s biggest guitar gear show
NAMM 2023: Seagull celebrates over 40 years of its classic S6 acoustic with the affordable new S6 Collection 1982
The new S6 promises to encapsulate the best of Seagull designs, including a wealth of desirable tone woods, for less than the price of the original
NAMM 2023: Chapman reveals classy new signature guitar for Black Stone Cherry’s Chris Robertson
The former PRS signature artist has cemented his relationship with Rob Chapman and co with a white ’n’ gold semi-hollow ML3
NAMM 2023: Bare Knuckle unveils the Triptych single coil set, achieving Rabea Massaad’s vision of “the perfect Strat tone”
The new signature pickups aim to satisfy fans of John Mayer and Stevie Ray Vaughan as well as players of heavier styles
NAMM 2023: Godin gives its G-Tour nylon-string-meets-electric guitar an Arctik Blue makeover
The familiar-looking acoustic-electric gets a new look but retains the same slinky playability
NAMM 2023: Ashdown teams 30W British tube tone with Two Notes cab modeling on the remarkably fully featured MF 484 2.N
The stealthily tricked-out amp head seeks to combine the best of analog and digital worlds with a wealth of smart features – and it can even charge your phone
NAMM 2023: Did Kernom just announce the most versatile fuzz pedal ever created?
The MOHO Magmatic Fuzz Station is billed as the first augmented analog fuzz and comes with a wildcard Electricity control
