The future sound of Fender: Black Pumas, Yola, Girl In Red, Ashley McBryde and IDLES on gear, tone and songwriting By Jonathan Horsley We meet the Fender Next alumni who are building new sounds from fresh approaches
IDLES: "We always dreamed of having such huge setups… we get giddy every time we look at our guitar rigs!" By Jonny Scaramanga Mark Bowen and Lee Kiernan talk balancing simple guitar lines with tons of gear, injecting hip-hop into guitar music and how their pedalboards got quite so enormous…
From acoustic puzzles to terrifying shred: here are this week's essential guitar tracks By Michael Astley-Brown, Jackson Maxwell, Sam Roche An unapologetically eclectic set of new releases from Kaki King, IDLES, Michael Angelo Batio and many more
