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Melissa Auf der Maur reveals the biggest lesson she learned from Billy Corgan and The Smashing Pumpkins
By Janelle Borg published
Auf der Maur joined the Pumpkins in October 1999 following a five-year stint with Hole

Fender secures legal ruling to protect the Stratocaster body design
By Matt Owen published
Fender says the ruling creates enforceable rights against any guitars using the Stratocaster body shape that are manufactured, sold or distributed into Germany or other countries of the European Union

Janelle Monáe’s new guitar of choice is the cheapest Epiphone Les Paul ever released
By Janelle Borg published
The multi-instrumentalist donned one of the most budget-friendly guitars Epiphone has ever released when teasing her new era

Verso looks to revolutionize the lap steel slide guitar with the Log
By Phil Weller published
The instrument is shaking off its conventional connotations to deliver a whole new world of soundscaping

Eastwood bravely recreates Mike Bloomfield’s mangled Bob Dylan Telecaster
By Phil Weller published
Bloomfield famously used the Telecaster before its brutal cutaway mod when Bob Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival – and now it’s been remade in all its grisly glory

Seattle rock guitarist on touring with Metallica and Aerosmith in the early ’90s
By Phil Weller published
The success of their debut album soon found Peter Klett on the road with two massive bands

Why Myles Kennedy felt uneasy using Jeff Buckley’s Telecaster to play Hallelujah
By Phil Weller published
Kennedy played Buckley’s iconic 'Grace' Tele for a special tribute performance of Hallelujah in 2019

Steve Vai has recorded a new solo over Van Halen’s Jump
By Phil Weller published
Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker also features on the track

8 signature guitars that deserve your attention – including models from Fatoumata Diawara, Susan Tedeschi, St. Vincent, Yvette Young, and more
By Daryl Robertson published
From unique SGs to metal monsters and updated classics, these signature guitars cover all the bases

Witch Fever’s Alisha Yarwood on superhero stompboxes, dream tours with IDLES, and why ‘That Great Gretsch Sound’ was doom-punk all along
By Janelle Borg published
Raw, feminist, fiercely unrelenting, Witch Fever have taken their sound from clubs to arenas. Here, Yarwood talks tonal epiphanies, starting on drums, and finding freedom on bigger stages
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