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Kiki Wong on her life-changing audition, and what she's learned from Billy Corgan and James Iha
By Andrew Daly published
Wong enjoyed a high-profile on social media and maybe that would have been enough. But when Billy Corgan called an open audition, she beat 9,999 others to live out her grunge dreams as guitar player for the Smashing Pumpkins

Their job titles are ‘Wrangling Hellcat’ and ‘Waste Management’ – meet the minds behind Jack White’s Third Man Hardware
By Jacob Paul Nielsen published
Dan Mancini shares the stories behind the collaborations that have helped White and Third Man Hardware to demand attention from players of all, er... ‘stripes’

Songhoy Blues’ Garba Touré created his own crossover guitar style – now he’s changing it up again
By Ellie Rogers published
From “African rock, African roll” to a new exploration of traditional instruments, techniques and tunings – the exiled artist continues to build bridges with new album Héritage

Richard Z Kruspe explains why guitars are like kisses, reverse kill-switches – and how he launched Rammstein with a riff
By Amit Sharma published
Fresh from launching his new RZK-III signature model, the German fire-raiser discusses the Custom Shop guitar that changed his thinking on collecting – and how he manages to live and let live with colleague Paul Landers

Jimmie Vaughan on his three favorite guitars – and the megabucks Fender he gave to his brother
By Mark McStea published
The Texas blues maestro takes a trip down memory lane and pulls out three desert island six-strings

Connor Kaminski and Keyan on the secrets behind one of the year’s hottest guitar collaborations
By Phil Weller published
With Jack Gardiner and Adam ‘Nolly’ Getgood joining in, the duo's Kinetic EP might just be the most head-turning guitar collab of the year

A guide to every guitarist who played with Prince
By Jenna Scaramanga published
From Dez Dickerson's timeless Little Red Corvette solo, to Wendy Melvoin's sublime work on Purple Rain, a number of guitarists made significant contributions to Prince's stage and studio output. Here's a guide to all of them

Mattresses for isolation? How Jonathan Hultén recorded an entire album in his walk-in closet
By Amit Sharma published
The former Tribulation guitarist goes full on dream pop on his sophomore release, Eyes of the Living Night
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