Guitarist
Role Model
IK Multimedia's Tonex tone-capturing ecosystem expands with a hardware box to take those sounds on stage
5 min |
Summer 2023
Guitarist
IN THE NAME OF LOVE
When it came to remaking 40 classic U2 tracks for Songs Of Surrender, The Edge was guided by his heart and one grand idea - \"to make intimacy the new version of punk rock\"
10+ min |
Summer 2023
Guitarist
VINTAGE ICON
David Davidson of Well Strung Guitars talks us through an experimental 1967 Semi-Hollow Fender Stratocaster Prototype from Fender's R&D department made with zebrawood
3 min |
Summer 2023
Guitarist
Under The Knife
As a last resort, Alex Bishop prepares to operate on a vintage Yamaha acoustic - but will it recover from the ordeal?
3 min |
Summer 2023
Guitarist
the Wishlist Dream gear to beg, borrow and steal for...
Fender Mod Shop Telecaster £2,179
2 min |
Summer 2023
Guitarist
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
3 min |
Summer 2023
Guitarist
Go For Gold
When is a Telecaster not a Telecaster? When it comes with a pair of mini-humbuckers, a mahogany body and ebony fingerboard like this one!
4 min |
Summer 2023
Classic Rock
Gallus
Young Scots on the up, they've already a 'best rock/alternative band' award.
2 min |
August 2023
Guitarist
Tones Behind The Tracks
The latest album from jazz guitarist and composer Ralph Towner enchants with beautiful playing on new pieces and jazz standards
7 min |
Summer 2023
Guitarist
Top Drawer Tone
Emprize combines two coveted vintage Fender voices, authentically capturing brown-panel lead tones and black-panel rhythm sounds in one amp
5 min |
Summer 2023
Guitarist
Royal Flash
A highly anticipated signature version of Vox’s unique Nutube micro head, approved by Brian May himself
2 min |
Summer 2023
Guitarist
JIMMY PAGE NON-REVERSE c.1968 GIBSON FIREBIRD III|
A 'Bird in the hand could be worth more than you think - especially if it has a colourful history involving a Led Zeppelin drinking game. We ask vintage specialist Mike Long of ATB Guitars about the provenance of this Page-owned beauty and the buoyant market for Gibson's underloved cult hero
6 min |
Summer 2023
Guitarist
HEAVY TRIP
Bare Knuckle MD Tim Mills on the breakthroughs and bumps in the road behind Rabea Massaad’s seismic new Triptych Strat single coils
4 min |
Summer 2023
Guitarist
Back In Black
While PRS has been making its mark on the bolt-on market, we finally get a new Core model, the shapeshifting modern Eagle V. But is it really new?
8 min |
Summer 2023
Guitarist
Top Notch
We talk to Dana Bourgeois about the new Touchstone range, the importance of tuning in a guitar top, and what lies in the future for the series
5 min |
Summer 2023
Classic Rock
Powder Chutes
Three of them might be still at school, but their blending of rock styles is far from just kids' stuff.
2 min |
August 2023
Classic Rock
THREE-D MERCURY
Brian May's stereo photos collated for new exhibition.
2 min |
August 2023
Classic Rock
Mick Hutson
Hanging out of helicopters, stopping the New York traffic, sweet-talking kidnappers: a celebration of Mick Hutson, music photographer.
7 min |
August 2023
Classic Rock
Along For The Ride
With more than 30 studio albums to his name, Canadian guitarist Pat Travers really should be better/more widely known. But, he says, our destiny is not something we have control over.
10+ min |
August 2023
Guitarist
DISTORTING HISTORY
These days, players can choose from hundreds of replacement pickups. But back in the early 70s Larry DiMarzio single-handedly kickstarted the entire industry with his hot-output Super Distortion humbucker. We met NYC's king of tone to find out more
10+ min |
Summer 2023
Record Collector
33% minutes with...Glen Matlock
In stark contrast with the misinformation and backstabbing aimed at Glen Matlock on his departure from the Sex Pistols in 1977, their reunion in 1996 saw the bassist reinstated and his significance in the band’s history re-evaluated. After spending the late 70s and 80s in a succession of shortlived bands, and a stint with Iggy Pop, Matlock channeled the momentum from the Pistols’ 90s revival into an ongoing solo career. On his sixth album, Consequences Coming, his Pistols-era knack for a sharp tune is paired with politically charged lyrics. “It’s a word to the wise,” he tells Record Collector.
5 min |
August 2023
Record Collector
"We wanted to sound like Sinatra with a fairlight"
As the UK synthpop scene gathered momentum at the turn of the 80s, a bunch of ambitious modernists from South Yorkshire were thinking bigger. ABC, in a very different yet not entirely unrelated post-punk way to The Human League, Soft Cell, Haircut One Hundred et al, would create a vision of shiny, post-modern pop that endures on their finest recorded hour: The Lexicon Of Love. Leader Martin Fry remembers how, for a short, surreal period, it all went so gloriously right. Alphabet superstar:
10+ min |
August 2023
Rolling Stone UK
Show and Tell
As he releases The Show, Niall Horan reveals how he "lives" for touring, his desire to connect with fans through his songs, and the challenge of going out for chips in his Irish hometown
9 min |
August/September 2023
Rolling Stone UK
Bad Bunny conquered the world. Now what?
Bad Bunny conquered the world. Now what?
10+ min |
August/September 2023
Rolling Stone UK
Janelle Monáe's Pleasure Principle
As she releases her most sumptuous album yet, the triple-threat star goes deep on everything from anxiety to Al to how to "hurry up and live"
10+ min |
August/September 2023
Rolling Stone UK
The brain behind Barbie
One of Hollywood's most brilliant directors spent the past few years in... Barbieland. Greta Gerwig goes very, very deep on the pinkest movie ever made
10+ min |
August/September 2023
Rolling Stone UK
The greatest comeback that almost wasn't
At the start of the 80's, Tina Turner was broke, on the run from Ike, and playing cheesy conventions. Here is the inside story of her miraculous second act.
10+ min |
August/September 2023
Rolling Stone UK
Written in the Stars
The first woman to win Eurovision twice makes Loreen an artist who will go down in music history. Rolling Stone UK meets the curious Libra to talk winning the world's biggest song contest and the inspirational generations of women in her family who all said "Fuck, no" to men
10+ min |
August/September 2023
Rolling Stone UK
Anything is (Im)possible
As she joins the Mission: Impossible juggernaut for its seventh instalment, Dead Reckoning Part One, leading lady Hayley Atwell reveals what it's like to learn the art of filmcraft from Tom Cruise and how she is redefining what success means to her
7 min |
August/September 2023
Rolling Stone UK
future >>>>20
Across the genre map and around the world, these are the artists who have us most excited about the future of music in 2023 and beyond
6 min |