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Epiphone Back to the Future 1955 ES-345

Epiphone Back to the Future ES-345s are being listed for up to $7,000 as scalpers strike the second-hand market

By Matt Owen published

Punters are taking advantage of the hype surrounding the release by attempting to flip the sold-out guitars at extortionate premiums

Electric Guitars
Will Paquin wears a chain mail suit and sunglasses and holds a Guild Polara in Cherry Red in front of a castle.

Meet Will Paquin, the polymath who is reluctantly stepping into the spotlight to give alt-rock and indie Brazilian flair

By Marcello De Feo published

Paquin might have introduced himself already on TikTok but his bravura debut, Hahaha, is the sound of someone ready to welcome everyone to the party

Guitarists
Ace Frehley performing live on stage, playing Gibson Les Paul Custom guitar

The guitar world pays tribute to the late Ace Frehley – the Spaceman who took Kiss into orbit

By Jonathan Horsley published

Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons lead tributes to the Kiss co-founder and larger-than-life former lead guitarist, who has died, aged 74

Guitarists
Blood Incantation's Paul Rield [left] and Morris Kolontyrsky tear it up live in this artily shot action photos

How Blood Incantation’s Paul Riedl and Morris Kolontyrsky are opening the Stargate to take death metal to a higher cosmic plane

By Amit Sharma published

On album number four, Paul Riedl and Morris Kolontyrsky are taking their “Morbid Angel meets Pink Floyd” concept to new creative heights

Guitarists
Jack Moore frets a chord on his black Les Paul Standard.

How Jack Moore is expressing his own sonic identity with Marshall amps, wah pedal extremity – and his father's signature Les Paul

By Jim Beaugez published

Jack Moore, the son of legendary player Gary Moore, steps into a musical world shaped by folk and pop, but a gift for the blues runs in the family

Guitarists
A black-and-white portrait of a shirtless Ozzy Osbourne in John Lennon sunglasses and his hand on his forehead.

The life and times of Ozzy Osbourne – metal’s godfather and Prince of Darkness

By Joel McIver published

Remembering John “Ozzy” Osbourne, the frontman who breathed life into heavy metal and found some of its greatest guitar players

Artists
Jake E. Lee photographed July 5 in Birmingham, England, with the custom Purple Burst Charvel he played at Back to the Beginning

Jake E. Lee on defying expectations, arthritis and gunshot wounds to mend his friendship with Ozzy at Back to the Beginning

By Andrew Daly published

In an interview that took place before Ozzy Osbourne's death, the Back to the Beginning standout talks Charvel guitars, next steps and the joy of achieving closure with his former boss

Guitarists
DarWin and Greg Howe: on the left, the mysterious DarWin, in a beanie and shades, playing an S-style, and on the right, we have the virtuoso Howe who gave his sound what he needed.

DarWin is keeping the mystery alive, but like Michael Jackson and Justin Timberlake before him, he has found a sparring partner in Greg Howe

By Joe Bosso published

New album Distorted Mirror introduces DarWin as one of the guitar world’s new heroes but he’s more happy to let the music – and his supergroup – do the talkin’

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Bass legends Steve DiGiorgio and Jeroen Paul Thesseling pose with their fretless basses in this promo pic for new fusion project Quadvium

Two legends of fretless bass, one whip-smart genius shredder – how a mind-blowing Testament x Pestilence fusion project came together

By Gregory Adams published

When Steve DiGiorgio and Jeroen Paul Thesseling found Boston shredder Eve, they had found their ace in the hole. And she was a fretless bass player. Three on fretless!? DiGiorgio and Thesseling explain all

Bands
Bella Rayne sits on the back of a trailer with her Les Paul Goldtop, wearing tie-dyed patterned flares and cowboy boots.

Jam band and Southern rock prodigy Bella Rayne was bereft when her Les Paul was stolen – then came an answer to her prayers

By Joe Bosso published

Rayne explains how she turned to guitar during the pandemic but found her mojo onstage – and why her fate seams intertwined with the Grateful Dead

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