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New VR game Unplugged lets you play guitar without an actual guitar using hand-tracking technology
By Matt Owen published
Watch the new trailer for the upcoming guitar-based game, which aims to test your air shredding skills through finger-mapping mechanics

Matt Heafy joins forces with Richard Marx for metal-heavy reimagining of pop classic Right Here Waiting
By Matt Owen published
The track's serene strings, synth pads and shakers make way for high-gain chugs, rapid-fire kick drums and a smattering of shred lines in the most surprising cross-genre collaboration of the year

Yvette Young gifts Willow Smith her signature Ibanez YY10 guitar
By Matt Owen published
Smith wastes no time in flexing her newfound picking powers with a quick-fire cover of Mac DeMarco's Goodbye Weekend on the Slime Green six-string

David Gilmour teases a sonic shift for his next album: "The electric guitar I'm currently playing is not as 'rock god' as one might expect"
By Matt Owen published
The Pink Floyd legend hopes to have the record ready "in the next year or two"

Slash, Phil Collen and Robert DeLeo join forces for a scorching cover of Jimi Hendrix’s Fire
By Matt Owen published
The trio teamed up to play at the 51st Annual Beastly Ball alongside Weezer and a slew of other famous faces, raising money for the Los Angeles Zoo

Eddie Van Halen hated how he inspired a wave of “intense uber-shredding”, says Steve Lukather
By Matt Owen published
The Toto and session legend says it "always bothered" Van Halen how he inspired a trend that "turned the guitar into more of a sport"

John Mayer sent Mary Spender his new single before anyone else got to hear it
By Matt Owen published
The British YouTube star had previously caught Mayer’s attention after she wrote her own version of Last Train Home following his quick-fire TikTok tease

Fern Guitars unveils new-and-improved prototype of its innovative modular six-string, The Phoenix
By Matt Owen published
Visionary design lets users swap pickup configurations “in seconds”, and will be available to preorder from June 15

Orange branches out into high-end electric guitars with luxuriously crafted OE-1 single-cut
By Matt Owen published
The amp company's built-to-order six-string boasts a choice of P-90 or Filter'tron pickups, two-tone Gold and Ivory colorway and decorative chessboard binding

Nita Strauss weighs in on the ‘shred stigma’ debate: "Yngwie Malmsteen’s three notes are no more or less valid than BB King’s"
By Matt Owen published
"They’re just three notes played differently, at different speeds, on different guitars, in different styles,” says the Alice Cooper guitarist
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