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“Someone told us that guitar was haunted – people who had it had accidents. I’m a Nirvana fan, but it was just a regular guitar to me”: Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt said the Martin museum felt like the “Holy Land,” but one guitar he played there left him cold

Åkerfeldt was decidedly more moved when handed a 19th century Martin, a guitar so pristine he was scared to play it

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“You’re playing that fast that you need to have a satin neck? Really? Wear it down yourself!” Why Johnny Marr isn’t convinced by the satin neck trend

The Smiths icon and vintage gear lover has some choice words for guitarists who prefer satin finish treatments – and anyone who artificially ages their gloss necks

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“The perfect affordable choice for guitarists who want an acoustic 12-string with classic tone”: Martin D-X2E Brazilian 12-string review

The X Series promises classic 12-string chime with a solid spruce top and onboard pickup/preamp and the look of the most sought-after tonewood of all time. But does it all add up?

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NAMM 2025: “If you think of just the word ‘guitar,’ I think of aMartinD-28:” Bluegrass virtuoso Billy Strings teams up with Martin for a pair of signature acoustic guitars based on his pre-war 1940 dreadnought

One is classically high-end Martin, the other retails at $899 – both are built for pickin' quick

MusicRadar

2026 Aston Martin Vantage Roadster: This Is it

Aston Martin revealed the new Vantage nearly a year ago. It's now expanding the lineup with the Vantage Roadster. Designed and engineered in parallel with the coupe, it allowed Aston to keep the car's weight under control without losing too much structural rigidity. The convertible weighs just 132 pounds more…

Motor1

“These are the changes Martin enthusiasts have been asking for”: Martin overhauls its Standard Series for the first time in 7 years in response to player demands

Martin’s workhorse acoustics just got their first refresh since 2018 – and there are three new models to usher in the new era

Guitar World

“Plentiful bass, well-rounded trebles, bags of toneful volume… there’s really not much more you could ask for”: Atkin Dust Bowl 0012S and 00014 review

Alister Atkin’s UK workshop pays homage to the stripped-back, no-frills instruments that were available in the USA nearly a century ago when money was tight but roots music was blooming

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“The days of flagship guitars sporting ostentatious tech are long gone”: Why today’s guitars are performing better than ever – not that you’d notice from looking at them

From Furch’s innovative bolt-on neck joints to Bare Knuckle’s revelatory pickups, we could be living through a new golden age for guitar innovation

Guitar World

“I don’t believe he had any idea how rare it was before he bought it”: Kurt Cobain's $6m MTV Unplugged Martin was a historic guitar even before its Nirvana association, but a mod inspired by one of his guitar heroes made it one of a kind

According to Nirvana guitar tech Earnie Bailey, Cobain was far from a vintage guitar fiend, and had no qualms with making his already weird D-18E even more unusual

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“I've not got a huge history with Gibson, but this one I bought to have a different tone”: From a forensic Black Strat replica to a Gibson that caught his ear and a ‘90s Zoom unit, here's everything David Gilmour used on his new solo album, Luck & Strange

Gilmour's tech, Phil Taylor, provides GW with an exhaustive list of the guitar gear used to record the prog icon's first solo album in nine years – and there are some surprising pieces of kit

Guitar World

“All of these things I do on record using a few guitars, I’ve got it all in the one”: Johnny Marr just launched a 7-string signature Martin acoustic – but it’s not what you think

Marr's latest signature model, the M-7 – also available as a regular six-string – features an extra string to provide his trademark jangle

Guitar World

“Continually surprised me with beautiful, unpredictable overtones”: Martin D-28 review

I get hands-on with arguably the most legendary acoustic guitar of all time. Will it live up to the hype?

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“I was so into that moment, it was like being stoned… not separated from the guitar and what I was playing. It was joyful”: From unexpected ES-335 solos to jams in a barn, here is your guitar guide to David Gilmour’s breathtaking Luck and Strange

Gilmour says it’s his best since 1973. It’s a solo work but was borne of collaboration. But it might just be the guitar album of the year, and we go track-by-track to parse its brilliance

Guitar World

“It’s probably impossible to prove, but it’s likely that the Martin dreadnought is the most recorded guitar in history”: How the Martin D-18 and D-28 changed the world –and became the definitive acoustic guitars

Loved by the likes of Eric Clapton, Joni Mitchell, Mark Knopfler and more, these Martin dreadnoughts are arguably the most successful guitar designs in history. Here's everything you need to know about this steel-string icon

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“If you’re going to make instruments in 100 years, you better be growing that supply chain, not barely maintaining it”: When the guitar world’s most prized woods are endangered, how can we ensure the future of tone?

The hunt for the perfect instrument is increasingly focusing on the production process – but with 15 billion trees unsustainably deforested every year, and prized species becoming extinct, that process needs to change

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“A musical experience that transcends sound”: Martin’s 'Life is Good' LX1 has been built to “spread good vibes” – and it might be the ultimate campfire acoustic

Martin has once again partnered with Life is Good for a special-edition six-string, which gives the gold-standard travel acoustic a fitting makeover

Guitar World

“Tony Rice said, ‘This is the sound you should be going for – you just need to put it in a bigger package’”: How Dana Bourgeois led the OM-style guitar renaissance and turned Bourgeois Guitars into a guitar craftsmanship powerhouse

From earning the Bluegrass Hall of Famer's approval in his early days, to producing 500 intimately crafted guitars a year and landing an innovative partnership with Eastman, the experienced luthier is decades deep into the business – but still has an intense “infatuation with guitars”

Guitar World

“No brand-new guitar sounds quite as good as an old one in my experience”: David Gilmour reckons vintage guitars are superior – and he’s got a theory as to why

Gilmour's prized 1945 Martin D-18 has been used as evidence to showcase the tonal benefits of vintage instruments

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“We've played around with this idea, which people don't do very often”: Martin has teamed up with Reverb for a unique limited-edition Custom GP Blonde – priced at $7,999 apiece

The premium Martin guitar, available only on Reverb, offers a new twist on one of Martin's signature body shapes

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“A fretboard with a flatter radius makes it easier to enjoy a low action with buzz‑free bends”: You should never underestimate the impact of fretboard radius – it dramatically affects the way your guitar plays

Crucial to playing feel, radius applies to strings as well as fretboards – we explore the different ways it impacts the feel of your guitar

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“It's the one he took around with him – the one he went back to the hotel with after gigs”: Up close with the 1974 Martin that Eric Clapton used to write Wonderful Tonight

Eric Clapton’s Wonderful Tonight is one of the great love songs of our time. So when the guitar he wrote it on, a 1974 Martin 000-28, came up for auction in London, we didn’t need a second invitation to go and take a closer look

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“She was about to lose her house, but the money she got from me via Guitar Center ultimately saved the situation”: Joe Bonamassa’s pre-war Martin was the ultimate “museum-grade” find – now it’s reborn as his first Martin signature

Bonamassa’s astonishingly clean Martin 000-45 was handed down as a family heirloom before he bought it and took it to the firm’s Nazareth base for close inspection

Guitar World

Bob Dylan is one of the greatest songwriters of all time – and his acoustic guitar approach defined the folk sound of the 1960s and beyond

Bob Dylan changed the world with an acoustic guitar. We break down his style, giving you the tools to take your songwriting to the next level

Autosport

Why Aston Martin abandoned low-drag Miami F1 rear wing update

The Silverstone-based squad brought a new lower-drag rear wing to Miami in the hope that a better straightline speed would help it in the fight against its rivals.

Motorsport

Why Aston Martin abandoned low-drag F1 rear wing update in Miami

The Silverstone-based squad brought a new lower drag rear wing to Miami in the hope that a better straightline speed would help it in the fight against its rivals.

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