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Joe Bonamassa explains how “hiding” your guitar pick can make you a more expressive player: “You can start with rock and end with B.B. King”

Want to find your voice? Switch up your pick attack and put some character into your phrasing

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"The sounds here are absolutely the cream of the crop": Eventide H9 Harmonizer Gen 2 review

With world-class, studio-grade algorithms in a pedalboard-friendly chassis, Eventide's new multi-FX is built to handle any style or genre

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“After I stopped touring with Ian Brown, people would ask him, ‘Where’s that Asian Jimi Hendrix that plays with you?’” From the Stone Roses to Paul Weller, poverty to ’59 Les Pauls, Aziz Ibraham shares his remarkable story

The Manchester-born guitarist and composer landed his dream gig with The Stone Roses in 1996, then everything changed

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Headless pioneer Strandberg is developing a guitar with a headstock for a mystery player: “Their needs are beyond what any current guitar on the planet can meet”

The radical design experiment will feature modular parts and interchangeable components

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George Michael's iconic “Faith” acoustic guitar is hitting the auction block – and could fetch over $100,000

Faith, released in 1988, is known for its 1950s rockabilly-inspired sound, which springboarded Michael's post-Wham! career

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“I think the price was down to the ‘cute’ factor of being a little nine-year-old. The poor attorney took pity on me”: Hannah Wicklund on how a blues lawyer got her playing boutique guitars aged 9 – and the weapon she picked to take on Deep Purple and Yes

South Carolina’s rising blues-rocker on her expensive tastes, the “turn-off” ofgoldhardware, and why she is ready to bring out her flame-painted T-type again (despite the jibes)

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"I thought it was only for heavy riffs": I traded my ES-335 for a baritone guitar for a month and fell under its spell – here's 5 reasons why I think every traditional guitarist should try a baritone

I challenged my preconceived ideas about this long-scale, low-tuned guitar, and what I learned has me looking at the baritone differently

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IK Multimedia’s touchscreen TONEX Board is its most ambitious modeler to date – and it’s biting at the heels of its biggest rivals

The sub-$1k modeler puts the entire TONEX ecosystem into one pedal and looks like a dangerous competitor

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Steve Vai and Joe Satriani’s first joint studio album is finally coming out: “We’ve been planning this since 1973”

The Sea of Emotion will arrive before the year is out

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Green Day, Rancid and Blink-182 members celebrate the Ramones’ 50th anniversary with a set at a cemetery

Newly formed supergroup Cretin Family featured Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, Rancid’s Tim Armstrong, Blink-182’s Travis Barker, and late-era Ramones bassist C.J. Ramone – and blazed through Ramones hits and deep cuts

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If you learn one thing from Angus Young it should be this

For those about to solo, you’ll be thunderstruck with the AC/DC guitar legend’s whole lotta use of open strings

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Phil X on the time his pedals died moments before opening for Steel Panther: “Guys, we don’t have overdrive tonight”

The guitarist was going through a battery phase when a forgetful tech left him in the lurch

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Gibson recreates Billy Gibbons’ Pearly Gates Les Paul – and you’ll have to meet the ZZ Top legend in person if you want one

30 painstaking replicas are being sold exclusively through a private event at Gibson Garage Nashville

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Ibanez drops new Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and Nita Strauss signatures – and an Iceman like no other

Some metal-coded P Series models have also caught the eye in the surprise September collection

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“On a couple of gigs we had Eddie Van Halen playing with us. He said, ‘I can't play on that!’ I said, ‘Yes, you can!’” Albert Lee is the legendary British picker who found his home in country music – and made guitar heroes quake in their boots

The icon of rock and country guitar tells all: what it was like performing alongside Eric Clapton and George Harrison, how he inspired Jimmy Page and why he hates distortion

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Bluegrass hero Billy Strings swaps Martin for Charvel to shred with death metal band

At a festival he curated, Strings showed the darker side of his shredding

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“Neil Young and Stephen Stills have explored this tuning to great effect”: Drop D is not just for grunge and metal – Joe Bonamassa explains how he uses it for blues guitar

The blues guitar superstar unpacks his drop D approach and explains how you can use it in your own blues jams

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Bruce Springsteen shares the mods and mysteries of his Born to Run Fender Telecaster: “It was hanging on the wall, it cost $185. It’s a mutt”

Springsteen features in a new star-packed documentary celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Telecaster

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One of the biggest brands in acoustic guitar tone just changed its name

The identity shift marks a new era for LR Baggs

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Rush surprise themselves with new Fifty Something tour dates: “We didn't know how well we would hold up to the rigors of the road, but we're having a blast”

The updated Fifty Something tour is scheduled to end in April 2027

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“Rock ’n’ roll is an old person’s game now – there’s still loads of people 10 years older than me who are doing it. I imagine they’ve got personal trainers and better health regimes than I do”: The inimitable Robyn Hitchcock on the enigma of songwriting

The psych-folk pioneer tells us about the “sprawling mess” of his songwriting, the hell of forgotten tunings, and the Telecaster that almost broke his back

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“What we found was horrifying”: Footage of Les Paul’s destroyed home surfaces after iconic studio was quietly ripped down

The legendary laboratory was where Les Paul pioneered some of modern music’s greatest advancements

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“Undoubtedly the first popular, commercially successful guitar amp with reverb”: Is this humble Ampeg the vintage tube combo to rival golden-era Fender amps?

We trace the history and influence of two cult classic amps from Ampeg, the R-12R Reverberocket and 1965-67 GS-12R Reverberocket II

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Pete Townshend pulls out of Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival due to injury: “One day I hope I can accept Eric's invitation to appear with him”

Townshend has also quietly confirmed a reunion with The Who is in the works

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“For under $600 it does something quite special – it opens up a new sound-world”: Gretsch Electromatic CVT Baritone review

Gretsch’s Electromatic range offers plenty for under a grand including this compelling short-scale baritone

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