Guitarist
Planets Suite
Three special instruments to celebrate 20 years since Faith became a name to reckon with on the acoustic front. Designed by Patrick James Eggle with bespoke abalone inlays they really are something to behold
6 min |
February 2023
Guitarist
Master Of Reality
The latest from Laney’s flagship UK-designed and made Supergroup range offers real vintage valve tone combined with Two Notes cab emulation
5 min |
February 2023
Guitarist
The Name Game
Known for the quality of its guitars, PRS may also be destined as a go-to brand for pedals with its intriguingly monikered debut trio
5 min |
February 2023
Guitarist
Measure Up
Once dismissed as the preserve of bass players, 10and 15-inch speakers have a valid place in guitarists’ amps, says Paul Gough of Zilla Cabs
3 min |
February 2023
Guitarist
ROUT ONE
With his StewMac kit-build all up and running, Dave Burrluck looks at how to populate that large pickup rout
6 min |
February 2023
Guitarist
David Davidson's Vintage Icons
’57 Gibson EDS-1275 Double 12 Prototype
3 min |
February 2023
Guitarist
Rod Brakes Classic Gear
Gibson's supersize acoustic has always been the \"king of flat-tops\"
3 min |
February 2023
Rolling Stone UK
The year that TikTok went weird
Trends, once created and T enforced by the culture press and celebrities, have grown into an ever-evolving, unpredictable beast with the rise of TikTok.
3 min |
December 2022/January 2023
Rolling Stone UK
Eliza Rose – "I'm a raver before anything else"
Eliza Rose is a DJ, singer, producer and avid record collector who just took a UK rave tune to number one
4 min |
December 2022/January 2023
Rolling Stone UK
Groove Armada – The boys are back
The electronic duo quit touring in 2010, with Andy Cato moving into sustainable farming and Tom Findlay becoming a therapist. Now, 12 years later, they've nearly completed one final live tour, and have recorded new material for their 25-track greatest hits box set. Rolling Stone UK checked in to chat outdated technology, nipple tassels and playing Groove Armada to cows
7 min |
December 2022/January 2023
Rolling Stone UK
Breakthrough Award – Bree Runway – She's that girl
This was Bree Runway's year. She collaborated with Stormzy, added more A-listers to her growing fan base and is now regularly recognised in the streets of London, her hometown. Rolling Stone UK met Bree for her most intimate interview yet
10+ min |
December 2022/January 2023
Rolling Stone UK
Artist of the year - Yungblud - How to win fans and influence people
Love him or hate him, Yungblud exemplifies what it means to be a Gen Z rock star. Dominic Harrison harnessed an influencer model to rise to fame but in 2022 proved he's well on the way to becoming a British pop culture icon. Rolling Stone UK goes on the road with our Artist of the Year to find out how he intends to use more than his highenergy persona to be taken seriously.
10+ min |
December 2022/January 2023
Rolling Stone UK
Alex Turner
The Arctic Monkeys frontman on big rock guitars, evolving as a band, and revving up for their latest album, The Car
4 min |
December 2022/January 2023
Record Collector
Not Forgotten
Keith Levene 1957-2022 - Keith Levene was, in a literal sense, hugely instrumental in the formation of punk and post-punk. As a teenage member of The Clash, he persuaded Joy Strummer to join the band. He taught Viv Albertine of The Slits to play guitar, and alongside Jah Wobble and John Lydon, he was responsible for some of the pinnacles of the post-punk era, defining achievements such as 1979's Metal Box, a jagged, silver monument which still stands, Shardlike, casting its long shadow.
10+ min |
January 2023
Record Collector
VALUE ADDED FACTS
Ian Shirley, Editor Emeritus of the Rare Record Price Guide, answers your questions
10 min |
January 2023
Record Collector
auteur to author
Luke Haines writes the shuk out of rock'n'roll It's all about the 'tude
3 min |
January 2023
Record Collector
The Collector
This month: Jeremy Greenspan of Junior Boys
6 min |
January 2023
Record Collector
Christine McVie 1943-2022
In the soft-rock soap opera of Fleetwood Mac at the height of their global fame, Christine McVie was a calming presence. While no stranger to the relationships freefall and wild substance abuse that unwittingly became shorthand for the making of Rumours, there was something steady and reassuring about her ice-cool voice on You Make Loving Fun, Oh Daddy and possibly the finest 200 seconds of her entire career, Songbird.
5 min |
January 2023
Record Collector
david quantick likes
...to write a column for Record Collector. Yay Remake/Remodel - or re-record?
3 min |
January 2023
Record Collector
mac on black
Fan or obsessive? Ian McCann long since crossed the divide
4 min |
January 2023
Record Collector
music to visit
Bob Stanley carries pop's baggage everywhere Ark of the lost Raiders
4 min |
January 2023
Record Collector
THE WHO, WHAT, WHERE AND HOW OF 'WHY'
The song Why has a significant place in music history because it was one of the tracks the fledgling Beatles recorded with Tony Sheridan in 1961 before making a recording debut in their own right. But few people know of an earlier, 1958 recording of the song made by Sheridan, which recently surfaced on a 10\" acetate. Beatles scholar Hans Olof Gottfridsson tells the story of a song that would later attain immortality by association.
10+ min |
January 2023
Record Collector
33 1/3 minutes with...Jake Bugg
A prodigious talent, Jake Bugg burst out of Nottingham aged 18 with his self-titled debut album in 2012. Featuring timeless rock’n’roll hits Lightning Bolt and Two Fingers, it saw Bugg championed by Noel Gallagher and starting a fascinating career that has led to albums produced by Rick Rubin and The Black Keys singer Dan Auerbach. After 2021’s poppier Saturday Night Sunday Morning returned Bugg to the Top 3, his debut has recently been reissued as a deluxe set adding demos and a London Royal Albert Hall show. Bugg tells RC of rediscovering teenage demos, hanging out in Rick Rubin’s garden, and getting walloped with indie stars at football.
4 min |
January 2023
Record Collector
Diggin' For GOLD
Our regular look at the more arcane corners of record collecting. Includes Label Of Love and Sound And Vision
10+ min |
January 2023
Total Guitar
Polyphia – "Guitar is a Means to an End - the End Being Good Music"
Two virtuosos, no rules: how Polyphia are redefining the possibilities for guitar music
9 min |
December 2022
Total Guitar
Jared James Nichols – "It feels like the amp's about to explode!"
The blues rock power of Jared James Nichols, a man of many Les Pauls...
4 min |
January 2023
Guitar Player
PRS - Horsemeat Transparent Overdrive, Mary Cries Optical Compressor and Wind Through the Trees Dual Analog Flanger
AFTER INITIALLY ESTABLISHING his reputation with electric guitars, and following with acoustic guitars and amplifiers, it seemed an inevitability that Paul Reed Smith would fill the missing link in the signal chain -pedals.
4 min |
January 2023
Guitar Player
BOSS - Dual Cube LX
ROLAND LAUNCHED THE Cube in 1978, and since then, the compact amp has been offered in more than 50 different models that deliver great sound and features in durable enclosures.
4 min |
January 2023
Guitar Player
EARTHQUAKER DEVICES
Special Cranker
2 min |
January 2023
Guitar Player
RED ALERT
Salvaged old-growth redwood finds new life in Grez Guitars models like this Mendocino DC.
4 min |