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"For garage, punk, and rock styles, it’s got the tonal firepower on offer": Gretsch Electromatic CVT Double-Cut review

A revived classic returns to the Gretsch line-up as an affordable, two-humbucker rock machine

MusicRadar · Sep 26, 2025

“And I’m selling this why?!” Brian Setzer is re-opening his Reverb store – and it’s filled with stage-played vintage gems

Guitars from the late 1950s and 1960s feature as the rockabilly legend looks to find a new home for some of his gear

Guitar World · Sep 19, 2025

“I have long harbored a slight obsession with this hugely underrated guitar. The new finish doesn’t help with that one bit”: All the new guitar gear that has caught my eye this week – including... an urn that fits inside an acoustic?

A whole load of new Jacksons, Charvels, Yamahas and Gibsons headline the last seven days of guitar gear drops

Guitar World · Sep 13, 2025

“Proof that semi-hollows can rock as hard as the clichés, even if they are bedecked with gold”: Gretsch Professional Broadkaster LX review

The Broadkaster is back on the air, this time with a number of modernized features to make this a contemporary, high-performance semi-hollow rocker

Guitar World · Sep 6, 2025

“Randy Bachman called me up and said, ‘I found my guitar. I can tell you how I did it’”: 60 years after he sold it, Neil Young has been reunited with his Squires Gretsch 6120 – thanks to a little help from Randy Bachman

Young tracked down his beloved Gretsch online, and has since been playing it live on tour

Guitar World · Aug 20, 2025

“The Japan team is free to create guitars with a fresh perspective”: Fender Japan remains a mystery to the western world. I went behind the scenes and found out why its guitars are so radically different – and what’s stopping them reaching the US

Fender Japan makes some of the iconic guitar firm’s most exciting products, but we know very little about how it operates… until now

Guitar World · Aug 20, 2025

“One of my favorite signature guitars of all time just got a standard run release, and Gretsch has not disappointed”: All the new guitar gear that caught my eye this week – including a pedal that will solve all your Mk.gee tone troubles

Mk.gee's tone in a box? Noel Gallagher's mystery Oasis reunion Les Paul? Fender's answer to its boutique rivals? All that and more dropped this week...

Guitar World · Aug 16, 2025

“A retro-refined take on a classic Gretsch design”: Like the Jack Antonoff signature Gretsch? Then you are going to love the CVT Electromatic

Gretsch goes for the alt-metal, grunge and post-rock market with a hefty dual-humbucker doublecut that is built for “gut-punching” riffs – and there's a bass version, too

MusicRadar · Aug 13, 2025

“A retro-refined take on a classic”: Gretsch reboots the Corvette as the all-new CVT – a sub-$500 build based on the oddball vintage gem beloved by Rory Gallagher and Jimi Hendrix

The CVT Double-Cut formally arrives after a run of signature models teased the Corvette's return

Guitar World · Aug 13, 2025

“Page must be mental giving away such a terrific guitar as this”: 50 years ago, Jimmy Page gave a guitar away for free in a magazine competition – now it's expected to fetch over $67,000 at auction

The 1957 Gretsch Chet Atkins 6120 was originally bought by Page in Nashville, back in 1972

Guitar World · Jul 25, 2025