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ALTER BRIDGE
Guitar duo Myles Kennedy and Mark Tremonti discuss their new album, custom guitars, the art of crafting long songs, and why you really, really don't want tinnitus...
6 min |
January 2023
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Albums
The month's best guitar music a hand-picked selection of the finest fretwork on wax
4 min |
January 2023
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THERE'S A STORM A'COMING
Rising prices are everywhere, including on our cherished guitars. VWWe discuss the background to the ongoing price hikes with the head of PRS Europe, Gavin Mortimer
3 min |
January 2023
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MAINSTREAM ELECTRICS
Irresistible builds from both sides of the pond
2 min |
January 2023
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CHARLIE BURCHILL
He's the Glasgow guitar maverick who broke into the 80s stadium league with Simple Minds. Now, as the band return with 18th album, Direction Of The Heart, Charlie Burchill tells us about pushing the envelope, falling for the White Falcon, commandeering The Edge's rig, and why you won't catch him playing powerchords
8 min |
January 2023
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SUPER 'NAUT
If you can't make the world’s most influential acoustic guitar better, you can always make it bigger, explain Scott Sasser and Tim Teel of Martin
10+ min |
January 2023
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And Custom For All
Fender's Mod Shop offers buyers the chance to custom-build a new guitar andit’s cheaper than going the Custom Shop route. Our editors try it out
6 min |
January 2023
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AMPS
Portable power with vintage tone, modern features or both you're spoilt for choice
2 min |
January 2023
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Team Player
Chapman is the latest brand to take advantage of York-based UK Guitar Builders’ manufacturing facility to produce its new flagship model. We plug in the first batch
6 min |
January 2023
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Voice Leading
Richard Barrett shares some useful gradual transitions between chords around the fretboard
2 min |
January 2023
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GEAR YEAR OF THE
IT’S THAT TIME AGAIN WE PRESENT OUR PICK OF 2022’S MOST OUTSTANDING GEAR
1 min |
January 2023
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BLACKSTAR ST JAMES EL34 1x12 COMBO
In recent years we've seen many guitar amplification designs leveraging Class D technology to produce lots of watts from unfeasibly small packages.
1 min |
January 2023
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THE ACOUSTIC PARADOX
Are there times when a top-ofthe-range acoustic guitar is just foo good to use for the job in hand?
2 min |
January 2023
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Sound Shapers
Zilla Cabs’ Paul Gough demystifies the humble baffle, and explores how different types can affect your combo’s sound
3 min |
January 2023
Guitarist
One For Your Money
Following last year’s release of the award-winning Dept. 10 valve pedals, Blackstar’s multi-function, paperback-sized new tone machine has arrived to cover any need
6 min |
January 2023
Guitarist
the Wishlist Dream gear to beg, borrow and steal for...
PRS Robben Ford Limited Edition McCarty £4,995
3 min |
January 2023
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Gimme Five
Walrus Audio adds to its Five-State range of overdrive and distortion effects with this quintet of fuzzes in one box
2 min |
January 2023
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Fretbuzz
A monthly look at must-hear artists from all corners of the guitar world,from the roots of their sound to the tracks that matter most
2 min |
January 2023
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PRESTIGE ELECTRICS
The flawless electrics that reside at the peak of guitar design in 2022
2 min |
January 2023
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TAYLOR 724CE KOA
Taylor’s commitment to a more ecological approach regarding the use of timbers in its guitars is exemplified in its new koa-bodied 700 Series.
1 min |
January 2023
Guitarist
UNIVERSAL AUDIO UAFX RUBY '63 TOP BOOST AMPLIFIER
Universal Audio has been on a stompbox roll recently. Following a trio of effects last year, the company has condensed the sound and features of three classic amps into three stompboxes.
1 min |
January 2023
Guitarist
Clarity Redefined
Premium-quality USB audio interfaces designed for producers, engineers and artists.
1 min |
January 2023
Record Collector
Benny Andersson – "We learned from The Beatles"
And now to meet the man behind those 40 (plus one) amazing songs... Along with Björn Ulvaeus, ABBA's chief melodist, Benny Andersson, comprises what is finally - after years of being dismissed as pop lightweights - regarded as one of the great songwriting partnerships, up there with Lennon-McCartney, Jagger-Richards, Holland-Dozier-Holland and Wilson-Love. And with the Voyage album, their first for 39 years, and the ABBA Voyage concert spectacular featuring virtual avatars going on 'til well into 2023, ABBA are poised at last to be hailed as true immortals. But what was it like to make their first ABBA music since 1982? How have they managed to pick up after so lon-----g? "It was like it had been three weeks, not 40 years," Andersson tells Pete Paphides in this rare interview.
10+ min |
Christmas 2022
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ABBA – The History Book on the Shelf
For years, music fans have debated about which are the finest songs ever by the likes of The Beatles, the Stones, Bowie, Springsteen, and Kate Bush - those artists widely regarded as all-time greats. But how about ABBA? Surely, postMamma Mia! the movie and musical and decades of mainstream adoration, they have earned their place in the pantheon and their catalogue merits serious evaluation. Pete Paphides believes so and, in this ABBA Special, picks their 40 (plus one) Best Songs. Then, on page 100, RC enjoy a rare encounter with one half of the group's peerless songwriting partnership...
10+ min |
Christmas 2022
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Skid Row – The Crazy Gang
New Jersey’s Skid Row have 36 years on the clock and a clutch of platinum records on the wall, but far from resting on the laurels of their peak successes back in the early 90s, they’re now back on ebullient form with their first album in 16 years, The Gang’s All Here. With a new frontman and a bright future, the band feel they’ve got a new lease of life. “How lucky are we?” founder member Dave ‘Snake’ Sabo and vocalist Erik Grönwall ask John Tucker.
10+ min |
Christmas 2022
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All in the family
The inspiration for David Cassidy et al, The Cowsills are the pop family that stayed together: 57 years after their recorded debut, they are making some of the best music of their lives their first new album in 30 years, Rhythm Of The World, was released last month. Bill Kopp talks to Bob, Paul and Susan Cowsill about the rain, the park, the fun, the horror - including an abusive father - and other things.
10+ min |
Christmas 2022
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Johnnie Taylor – Smooth Operator
Although his biggest hit came after he left the label, Johnnie Taylor was one of the bestselling - and most consistently brilliant artists to record for the legendary Stax. He remains a sorely underrated soul artist, a "seducer-showman" suffused with polish and grit, regarded by some as the missing link between Sam Cooke and Marvin Gaye. Jack Watkins sings his praises.
10+ min |
Christmas 2022
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THE RIGHT STUFF
Clothes-swapping with Ian Curtis? Teaching songs to Bob Dylan?? Miming with David Bowie? Getting punched by Mick Jagger? There’s a lot you don’t know about the pre-fame career of Right Said Fred, contends Joel McIver of their “avant-garde” years…
10+ min |
Christmas 2022
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auteurtoauthor
Luke Haines writes the shuk out of rock’n’roll Prolific, moi?
3 min |
Christmas 2022
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Jerry Lee Lewis 1935-2022
The title of the 2006 duets project that gave Jerry Lee Lewis his biggest-selling album in a career stretching over half a century was both a reverential nod to fallen comrades, and the typically showman-like brag of a rock’n’roll bad boy nicknamed The Killer.
5 min |