Best distortion pedals 2020: the top 10 high-gain stompboxes for guitarists By Jonathan Horsley Crunch, filth, mayhem! Dive into our expert round-up of the best distortion pedals around today
Fender unveils Billie Eilish signature ukulele By Michael Astley-Brown Model is adorned with Eilish’s ‘blohsh’ symbol and boasts Tele headstock
Joe Bonamassa, Derek Sherinian and Simon Phillips discuss the making of their cover of Buddy Miles' Them Changes By Sam Roche In this exclusive video premiere, the trio go behind the scenes of their fiery rendition, taken from Sherinian's upcoming solo album, The Phoenix
How Grey Daze's Cristin Davis and an all-star line-up honored Chester Bennington's legacy with Amends By Amit Sharma Page Hamilton, Chris Traynor and Korn's Head and Munky pitched in to help Davis finish what the Linkin Park vocalist started
Cort Little CJ Walnut OP review By Rob Laing The small guitar that goes large on value? Little CJ is a travel-sized acoustic you'll love even if you're going nowhere
6 ways to improve the performance of your pedalboard By Chris Schwarten Want to get the best from your pedals? Here are 6 pedalboard hacks every guitarist should try
Walrus Audio takes its chorus/vibrato game to the next level with the Julianna By Michael Astley-Brown Deluxe twin-footswitch pedal boasts expansive new feature set
A ‘Flying-V’ airplane exists – and it just made its maiden voyage By Michael Astley-Brown Fresh success for new airplane design inspired by the electric guitar
STL Tones releases AmpHub - an ever-growing collection of amps, pedals and cabinets By Sam Roche The subscription platform boasts 12 amps, 6 pedals and 9 cabs at launch, with new models added monthly
Tom Morello delivers perfect comeback to Twitter troll who claimed he could “play his s**t piss-drunk on my back” By Michael Astley-Brown The Rage Against the Machine icon’s social media game is on point once again
This insane electric guitar is built out of 50lbs of salt - but it sounds pretty sweet By Michael Astley-Brown Burls Art strikes again with another astonishing, fully working custom build
Harley Benton shakes up the sub-$500 acoustic market with first all-solid wood acoustic-electric By Sam Roche CLC-650SM-CE Solid Wood boasts African mahogany build, contoured arm rest and Fishman electronics
From fiery riff-rock to dancefloor-primed indie perfection: here are this week's essential guitar tracks By Michael Astley-Brown, Jackson Maxwell Plug in and check out some amazing new tunes from Deep Sea Diver, Zeal & Ardor, Orianthi, Killer Be Killed and more
Skreddy Pedals’ Super 100 preamp seeks to conjure British-style tube roar By Richard Bienstock New pedal emulates cranked Marshall tone and responsiveness with built-in optical compressor/limiter
The Great Guitar Build Off provided luthiers with a kit to create any electric they wanted - and the results are insane By Richard Bienstock Vote to determine the winner of the charity-based competition now
Solar Guitars rolls out bloody cool Canibalismo six- and seven-string Type V models By Richard Bienstock Features include a black-and-red “blood splatter” finish, EverTune bridge, Duncan Solar pickups and more
Fender launches 60th Anniversary Road Worn Jazz Bass with weathered finish and matching headstock By Richard Bienstock Model includes a pair of specially designed single coil pickups, controlled via stacked concentric volume and tone knobs
How Bill & Ted Face the Music became the most triumphant celebration of the electric guitar's past, present and future By Michael Astley-Brown Music supervisor Jonathan Leahy reveals how the movie’s bodacious soundtrack and resplendent Gibson electric guitars came to be
Joel Hoekstra teaches you the guitar solo for Whitesnake's Always and Forever By Joel Hoekstra With hybrid picking and two-finger tapping, this one'll certainly test your chops
Orange Crush Acoustic 30 review By Rob Laing Orange puts a little color in acoustic players' cheeks with a very smart amp you can take anywhere
