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From cowboy licks to all-star speaker-smashing remixes: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
By Matt Owen, Michael Astley-Brown, Jackson Maxwell, Matt Parker published
Treat your ears to some scintillating six-string action courtesy of Robert Smith's take on Noel Gallagher, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Eric Bibb, Svalbard, Thunderpussy, The Lathums, Cafuné, Skating Polly, Rose City Band and more

Nirvana, Nile Rodgers and Heart's Ann and Nancy Wilson honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards at the Grammys
By Sam Roche published
The Lifetime Achievement Award is given to those who have made “creative contributions of outstanding artistic significance to the field of recording”
![[L-R] St. Vincent and Nile Rodgers](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/HCj65vLzsi55JsCazMnXW8.jpg)
St. Vincent and Nile Rodgers are working together in the studio
By Sam Roche published
Calling St. Vincent the “real deal”, the funk guitar legend says he's “trying not to lose his mind” at the thought of working with her

Nirvana, Nile Rodgers and Heart’s Nancy and Ann Wilson all honored with 2023 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards
By Matt Parker published
The Recording Academy has announced the list of honorees for this year, and it’s studded with iconic guitar talent

Guitars signed by Dave Grohl, Nile Rodgers, Brian Johnson, John Paul Jones, Krist Novoselic and more to be auctioned in honor of Taylor Hawkins
By Jackson Maxwell published
Proceeds from the sale of the guitars, which were signed at the recent Hawkins tribute concerts, will go to the late drummer's two favorite charities – Music Support and MusiCares

Devin Townsend: “I don’t love playing guitar solos, but I think I’m good at them”
By Gregory Adams published
The Canadian supernova of creativity checks in to discuss the twists and turns in his predictably unpredictable 21st solo album, Lightwork – and a Nile Rodgers collaboration that may yet see the light of day

Slash once joined Nile Rodgers and Chic for a marathon Le Freak solo spot – but the show ended in tragedy
By Michael Astley-Brown last updated
Watch the 1996 performance the Guns N’ Roses guitarist called “the biggest privilege of my life” – at the concert that would prove to be bass legend Bernard Edwards’ last

From two-hand-tapped math-pop to arena-primed blues-rock: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
By Michael Astley-Brown published
On tap this week are exciting and vital new tunes from Standards, Larkin Poe, Thrice, Malevolence, Foals, Horsegirl, Coheed and Cambria, Everything Everything and more

Watch Nile Rodgers shred up a storm on Steve Vai's Ibanez JEM in recently unearthed studio footage from Halo 2 score sessions
By Jackson Maxwell published
Posted online by Halo series composer Martin O'Donnell, the footage shows Rodgers and Vai taking the game's iconic theme in a more guitar-heavy direction
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