This week's essential guitar tracks: from Smashing Pumpkins' shredding metal turn to solos from the son of a session legend By Michael Astley-Brown, Jackson Maxwell, Matt Parker published 5 May 23 All the guitar-driven songs you need to hear this week
Sick Riffs: Luke Bentham teaches you the crunchy riffs and soaring leads of The Dirty Nil's Doom Boy By Sam Roche published 3 November 20 Dial the gain to 11 for this punk-meets-metal freight train
Why Canada is home to some of the world's most exciting hard-rock guitar players By Adam Kovac published 27 October 20 The Dirty Nil, Monster Truck, David Wilcox and PUP offer a guided tour of the Canadian six-string scene
