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Grammy-nominated Malian changemaker Fatoumata Diawara reveals her biggest guitar hero

By Janelle Borg published 11 March 26

Diawara recently made history herself by becoming the first woman of color to collaborate with Epiphone on a signature guitar

Gibson unearths the only known Kalamazoo factory footage from the ‘Golden Era’ of guitar building

By Phil Weller published 11 March 26

The video offers a fascinating insight into how the Gibson factory operated in the 1950s

Victory says its new PowerValve 200 is a better companion for your amp modeler than any FRFR cab could ever be

By Phil Weller published 11 March 26

Victory believes this valve-powered solution offers a more authentic option for injecting actual tube-driven feel into your digital rig

Joe Satriani opens up on the hand injury that forced him to relearn how to play his songs

By Matt Owen published 11 March 26

Satch stuck it out for an entire tour before seeking help from a specialist, and it prompted him to explore new ways of playing the guitar

That time Eddie Van Halen visited the EVH workshop while they were building the Wolfgang

By Phil Weller published 11 March 26

Fender Master Builder Andy Hicks hadn’t been in the job long before he received a visit from the guitar great, who came to oversee the making of his signature

My highest-rated beginner acoustic guitar just had 15% knocked off in Amazon's Spring Sale – alongside major Squier savings on the Debut and Affinity series'

By Daryl Robertson published 11 March 26

These beginner-friendly savings are hard to beat, and include acoustics, electrics, and basses

Samantha Fish reveals the “cheat” she uses to emulate a pedal steel guitar

By Janelle Borg published 10 March 26

Despite calling it a “hot mess,” Samantha Fish says a volume pedal is her tried-and-tested approach to creating volume swells

How Adrian Belew ended up working with Nine Inch Nails – and why their plans for a tour never came to be

By Matt Owen published 10 March 26

The King Crimson legend worked on The Downward Spiral with Reznor, but a planned tour never took place

The Beatles made the Leslie speaker an iconic guitar tone. But a pioneering “all-female” rock band were one of the first to take it out on the road

By Janelle Borg published 10 March 26

June Millington, one of the co-founders of the 1970s LA-based band Fanny, heard the Let It Be demo and was set on incorporating a Leslie speaker into her rig

Fender’s John Osborne Telecaster brings the B-Bender back to its ranks for the first time in over 20 years

By Matt Owen published 10 March 26

Fender’s first-ever in-house B-Bender mechanism makes its debut on one of the firm’s most eye-popping Telecasters