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Why Kim Gordon has stopped playing the bass – despite being an icon of the instrument
By Matt Owen published
Gordon's work with Sonic Youth cemented her reputation as a modern pioneer of the bass guitar – but she hasn't picked one up in over 10 years

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

All the new guitar gear that has caught my eye this week – including the angriest fuzz pedal you will ever come across
By Matt Owen published
Plenty of new pedals, amps and more from the likes of Epiphone, IK Multimedia, Fender, Laney, Mesa/Boogie and beyond...

Her manager didn’t like him. But Doug Pettibone grinded to land his dream gig with Lucinda Williams
By Matt Owen published
Pettibone cut his teeth playing with Jewel and Tracy Chapman – but when he heard Williams was looking for a new guitarist, he knew he had to get the spot

Laney unveils the Prism-Mini, a feature-packed modeling amp and Bluetooth speaker that looks to steal the Spark Mini's crown
By Phil Weller published
Packing 100 presets, 17 amps, and able to run six effects at once, the British amp firm heats up an increasingly competitive market

IK Multimedia models two vintage – and VERY expensive – Dumble amps for the $249 TONEX One Double Special
By Phil Weller published
The limited edition amp mini pedal offers tones modeled from two holy grail Dumble combos with a range of cabinets and classic pedals to boot
![Rick Fenn of 10cc plays a Strat onstage [left]; Peter Green plays his Les Paul in the studio back in his Fleetwood Mac days.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/gipBZrkR4mS5DdS2MEf8E6-320-80.jpg)
Rick Fenn on the time he tried to help bring Peter Green back into the limelight
By Jonathan Horsley published
The late Fleetwood Mac guitarist was a hero of Fenn's, so when the call came in to help Green out, there was only one answer. But whatever happened to the music?

Blind guitarist couldn’t tune his guitar without help – now a vibrating tuner pedal has changed his life
By Jonathan Horsley published
Anthony Ferraro asked his Instagram followers if anyone could help, and some genius came through with a tuner modded with haptics
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