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Rolo Tomassi's Chris Cayford: “If something sounds good, don’t worry about how many notes there are or what time signature it’s in. Just keep playing and experimenting”
The progressive math-metaller on his love of Stevie Ray Vaughan, how he landed his first guitar – a Gibson SG Classic – for £100, and why playing “complete nonsense” laid the groundwork for new album, Where Myth Becomes Memory
Los Bitchos’ Serra Petale: “Eddie Van Halen could make me feel just by playing the guitar. That's what we go for”
The guitarist explains her love for ‘80s chorus and retro Italia guitars, and how the Cumbia quartet roped Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos into production duties for their debut album, Let the Festivities Begin!
Meet Kayla Kent, the YouTuber channeling the spirit of Dimebag Darrell with her eerily accurate Pantera covers
Armed with a Kramer JK8000, Kent has tackled Dime's most complex Pantera solos with eye-watering accuracy, and even taken a dive into some of the band's deeper cuts
Seattle production legend Jack Endino on his new solo album, recording Nirvana and Soundgarden, and his endless search for riffs he's never heard before
The prolific producer on finding the time and the guitar tones for the epic Set Myself on Fire, and how he found his aesthetic by dismantling Led Zeppelin records
Fender's Justin Norvell: “There's been a big rediscovery of what a guitar can be. More people understand how it can become an extension of one's self”
The Big F's EVP on guitar trends in 2022, what gear to expect from the brand this year, and why there's never been a better time to pick up the instrument
How Failure built ambitious new album Wild Type Droid from 36 hours of jam session recordings
Ken Andrews and Greg Edwards share the gear and tone secrets behind the influential alt-rock outfit's latest full-length, which finds them indulging their love of baritones, Axe-Fx and even Gibson Explorers
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Mastodon: “We write our guitar parts separately then show them to each other. We’re not a jam band – we’re more like choreographed acrobatics”
Stylistically divergent – yet undoubtedly compatible – Mastodon guitarists Brent Hinds and Bill Kelliher unravel Hushed and Grim, the band’s first double album
Robin Guthrie: “I’m not playing a guitar – I'm playing the sound, I'm playing the pedals, I'm playing the reverb”
With a few stolen pedals and a drum machine, the former Cocteau Twins man helped reinvent guitar music. Now he’s back with a flurry of new releases…
Kiss's Tommy Thayer: “My legacy will be a guy who came in, worked hard, and was the glue that kept the band together”
The rock icons' longest-serving lead guitarist on their massive End of the Road Tour, what the future holds, and his recent guest appearance on Carmine Appice’s Guitar Zeus 25th Anniversary Box Set
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Taylor Momsen: “While grieving, I was depriving myself of what I loved most. When I picked up a guitar and started writing, the floodgates opened up”
The Pretty Reckless leader and guitarist Ben Phillips discuss how a series of tragedies left the band's future hanging in the balance, before they channeled their heartache to create their most powerful album to date, Death by Rock and Roll
