Sadler Vaden: "Some downplay their influences, but I wear them right on my sleeve" By Joe Bosso The deliciously melodic guitarist busts out the Roger McGuinn/Mike Campbell vibes for his new solo record, Anybody Out There?
Michael Angelo Batio: "This new generation of guitarists is the best I’ve seen. They're where I was in my 20s but at the ages of 10 or even 5!" By Amit Sharma The thousand-notes-a-minute shred hero talks competing with younger players, effects pedal minimalism and his face-melting new album, More Machine Than Man
BRKN Love: "We strayed away from big 100-watt stacks for this album. I like the character of a blown-up amp" By Adam Kovac Frontman Justin Benlolo talks recording every guitar part on the band's self-titled debut, and the group's forthcoming Netflix biopic
Meet Thomas Tull - the billionaire movie mogul, Slash collaborator and guitar aficionado By Alan Paul "I’m well aware that I’m one of the luckiest people walking the planet," says the businessman and Ghost Hounds guitarist
Code Orange: "We've taken guitar headstocks to the forehead, and broken fingers and toes onstage" By Jon Wiederhorn Guitarists Reba Meyers and Dominic Landolina on their uncompromising approach to performance and the creation of their digitally influenced masterpiece Underneath
Joe Satriani: "Every day there’s something new to learn about the guitar. I don’t know if we’re ever going to figure the thing out!" By Joe Bosso The shred icon goes deep on the creation of Shapeshifting, his latest gear inspirations, and the solo that needed 170 takes to get right
How Entombed and Sunlight Studios gave birth to death-metal guitar tone By Joe Matera Studio founder Tomas Skogsberg discusses the gear and production behind Entombed's genre-defining debut, Left Hand Path, and what came next
Nahko Bear: “The journey with the guitar is never-ending - I'm always learning something new” By Jonathan Horsley The Nahko and Medicine For The People frontman on becoming a guitarist, the power of storytelling and how one new chord can change everything
James Taylor: "American Standard is a guitar album - I’ve had some of these arrangements since I started playing" By Neville Marten We get the lowdown on the arrangement, composition and recording of the original singer-songwriter's new covers album American Standard, including a full track breakdown
The guitar gear behind the Beatles' Let It Be sessions By Damian Fanelli The instruments beloved of John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison
Phoebe Bridgers: “I think of the writing process as going into the studio to f**k up the thing I just wrote” By Matt Parker The US indie-folk star talks gigging in pajamas, her love of baritones and how a flower-related injury made her rethink the way she plays guitar
The Sword on their musical evolution, gear epiphanies and secret pedalboard weapons By Jonathan Horsley Ahead of the unsheathing of a triple-disc anthology, J.D. Cronise and Kyle Shutt take an epic voyage down memory lane…
Jared Dines: "When I was 12, the artist list on the back of Ernie Ball string packs was my primary way of discovering new music!" By Adam Kovac The YouTube titan goes deep on the future of his channel, his partial move to Twitch, and why his signature guitar was always going to be an Ernie Ball Music Man
Ed O'Brien: "The guitar to me is like an oscillator on a synthesizer - it’s the start of a sound rather than the sound in itself" By Amit Sharma Total Guitar joins the six-stringer to discuss his plethora of effects pedals, the future of Radiohead and his debut solo album as EOB, Earth
Cory Wong: "When I play a Stratocaster, it draws out my voice in an easy and effortless way" By David Mead The funk rhythm master goes deep on gear, playing with Vulfpeck and The Fearless Flyers and his unending love for the Fender Strat
Stone Temple Pilots' Dean and Robert DeLeo reveal how and why they made their first-ever acoustic record, Perdida By Richard Bienstock The brothers go deep on the album's diverse instrumentation, and why writing always begins emotionally rather than musically
Yvette Young: "I feel like an outsider to the whole virtuoso guitar world... I would jokingly call my genre 'detail rock'!" By Amit Sharma The Covet leader and math-rock innovator goes deep on her Ibanez signature model, latest single Parachute, and how the guitar saved her life
Andrew Watt: "Elton John tracked his entire piano part in under an hour on Ordinary Man - it was pretty incredible" By Richard Bienstock The producer and Ozzy Osbourne himself reveal the story behind Elton's contribution to Ordinary Man
9 actors who are also skilled guitar players By Jacob Uitti Even A-listers get down with the six-string on occasion...
Robert Cray: "With solos, I just improvise and let it fly. It’s what you’re feeling right then and there" By James Wood Dear Guitar Hero: The longstanding bluesman answers your questions on everything from songwriting to playing with Eric Clapton
