Total Guitar Features

Launched in 2014 and discontinued in 2019, Fender's affordable Vintage Modified Baritone Jazzmaster is now selling for upwards of $2,000 on the used market – we investigate why

These are the best practice amps for enabling you to keep the noise down when getting in some essential practice time with your electric guitar or bass

30 years ago, grunge changed the face of rock music forever. To celebrate, we chart the best guitar hooks to emerge from Seattle and beyond

The British folk-turned-alt-rock songwriter on his evolving playing, battling his Echoplex, and assembling his breathtaking new album with Aaron Dessner

Cameron Boggs details the direct death-metal brutalism of the band's groove-splattered, drop G-tuned debut, Tortured Whole

The Alabaman axeman talks amp modelers, why ambient guitar sounds are the “cherry on top of the milkshake” and writing Snowblood in a single day

“He played with so much feel and groove. I picture him doing most of his solos in one take. While jumping off a drum riser”

As the punk-rock legends drop new record Single Album, long-serving guitarist Abeyta reflects on how his six-string role has changed throughout their spirited career

Ahead of star-studded new album Homecoming, Beth Jeans Houghton discusses her love of dueling guitar solos, receiving a Custom Shop Strat from Jeff Garlin and why being a guitar geek is overrated

Opinion: With guitar solos absent from the charts, Green Day championing the anti-solo and Eddie Van Halen gone, is it the end for the fret-melting guitar hero?

Following his knockout viral cover of Led Zeppelin's Kashmir, the Polish fingerstyle wunderkind dives deep on his mesmerizing technique, melding genres and why he got bored of playing classical music

Strange smashed hardcore, hip-hop and jazz into one of 2020's boldest albums. Here, he dishes on gear collecting, breaking boundaries, and how TV on the Radio and At the Drive-In changed his life

Unwanted noise in your chain? A noise gate pedal could be the solution

The newly instated guitarist talks axes, amps, his "savior" pedal and the creation of the band's punishing new album, Violence Unimagined

The Tomahawk and Jesus Lizard guitarist on gear, why every band needs space, and bringing bossa nova flavors to a spaghetti-western-rock-metal-whatever sound

From straight-up klones to full reimaginings, here are some of the best Klon Centaur-inspired pedals on the market today

Figure out which is the best Telecaster for you - we pay homage to Fender's iconic electric guitar

Need a bass capable of going heavy? We’ve picked out the best bass guitars for metal, including models from Rickenbacker, Warwick, Schecter and Ibanez

The Black Star Riders and Thin Lizzy icon on a life spent at the sharp end of rock's greatest hits