CATEGORIES

IN COMPLETE CONFIDENCE

Confidence Man's Janet Planet and Sugar Bones go bigger and wilder than ever before on 3AM (LA LA LA), an album made about partying, while partying, and perfect for partying to

Collective consciousness

Ezra Collective return with Dance, No One's Watching, the roaring follow-up album to last year's boundary-moving Mercury Prize win

A BUNCH OF (PRI)MATES

From the story of 'Gary', the title track of Stockport band Blossoms' fifth album inspired by a fibreglass gorilla, to breaking new ground with their own record label and staying friends after 10 years, the tightknit band tell Rolling Stone UK all about it

Bright Sparks - Undertakers, band managers and museum workers by day, pop-charged rockers by night, The Hot Damn! are a gang you'd want to join.

Gill Montgomery has come straight from the mortuary. Her mortuary, to be precise. Some rockers wait tables, others teach music or pick up temp work. The Hot Damn! frontwoman looks after dead people.“It’s interesting,” she muses, of her day job running a funeral home in South East London. “It’s very hands-on. I think you’re either for it or you’re not.”

BRITISH BLUES BOOM

With the death of John Mayall in July, we lost one of the architects of the 60s blues boom that not only transformed Britain's music scene but restored America's blues guitar pioneers to their rightful place on the world's great stages. Here we trace the story of the grass-roots movement that gave birth to rock itself

Jerry Cantrell

The Alice In Chains guitarist on his forthcoming album and its guests, songwriting, AT, algorithm bots, AIC’s legacy...

CARLOS ALOMAR

Playing professionally since his teens, Carlos Alomar was part of the DAM Trio rhythm section that backed David Bowie from the mid-70s and now, he says, it's time to commemorate that legendary collective

MADE FRIENDS.INFLUENCED PEOPLE

In the 90s they were high flyers, then the fall hit them hard. Having picked themselves up, Terrorvision are back with their first new album in more than a decade, and it’s full of top tunes.

Steve Hackett

The former Genesis guitarist’s latest themed’ tour enables him to visit the best of both worlds”.

Acid Test

When the guitarist for acid jazz/funk band Jamiroquai gets together with top luthier Patrick James Eggle, is it Virtual Insanity or will the results Blow Your Mind?

Motörhead

“Once we'd cracked the formula of how to work together on Overkill,\" said Eddie Clarke, that's when we really started to take off.” And it was all thanks to Phil Taylor's new drum kit.

Reach For The Star

Earlier this year Guild reorganised its 70s-era Polara range. We spent some time with this mid-range 2024 model: a modern pawn-shop prize or a copy too far?

DIFFERENT WINDS

While there's no end to repros of all the classic pickup styles, more and more pickup makers are mixing things up to move forward - Cream T is a good example

Long termers

A few months' gigging, recording and everything that goes with it - welcome to Guitarist's longterm test report

the Wishlist

Dream gear to beg, borrow and steal for...

ELECTRIC STRINGS

Your tone starts with your strings - strike a balance between sound, tuning and durability with six of our favourites

Platinum Blonde

PRS has updated its Texas-voiced David Grissom signature amp with more features, lower wattage and a more approachable price tag

THROUGH THICK AND THIN

In 1976, Thin Lizzy were touring Jailbreak in the US and were breaking big. Then disaster struck. Band manager Chris O'Donnell details the roller-coaster year in which they were cruelly robbed of their American dream.

Sonic Shaper

Electro-Harmonix revisits the effect that launched the company with the LPB-3 Linear Power Booster and EQ

TAN LINES

Many of us regard straps as a bit of an afterthought, but to find one that matches the quality of a custom or vintage guitar, Rod Boyes of Pinegrove Leather can help

Top Guns

Chapman's new factory move coincides with a bit of a rethink. We track down the key players all around the world

"I JUST WANTED TO BE RESPECTED FOR BEING IN A KICKASS BAND."

1976 was a pivotal year for Thin Lizzy. Guitarist Scott Gorham, one half of the band's classic twin-guitar sound, takes a trip down memory lane to the year that was...

GOLDEN AGE GRETSCH DUO JETS

As solid-bodied models began taking the guitar world by storm in the early 50s, Gretsch joined the party with the revolutionary single-cut 6128 Duo Jet and its twangsome DeArmond 'Dynasonic' single coils

DON'T FENCE US IN

Embracing their roots on record for the first time, Don't call us southern” band The Cold Stares’ seventh album is both a love letter to Kentucky and a Call for unity in volatile times.

Monster Magnet

“It's all-energy. It's rock excitement, psychedelic glory and space-rock hooks.” Sounds good to us!

JOE SATRIANI

As Sammy Hagar's The Best Of All Worlds Tour scales the globe, Joe Satriani joins us to explain how he set about honouring the magic of Eddie Van Halen's style, what gear he's bringing along for the ride, and how the experience has shaped his own playing

HIGH FLYER

Adrian Thorpe of ThorpyFX remembers the flight path - and turbulence behind Chris Buck's Electric Lightning overdrive/boost, named after a fighter jet and packing a bona fide valve

LET'S DANCE

Dialling back on the aggressive approach that has helped bring Idles this far, and putting swing to the stomp, their new album is intended to make you shake a leg rather than a fist

Spellbinding

Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Jo Beth Young is back with a third album, which she describes as art-pop or experimental folk. Prog catches up with Young to learn more about the inspiration and process behind the thought-provoking Broken Spells.

SIMONE SIMONS

Epica's vocalist on working with Arjen Lucassen on her solo debut and exploring the symbolism of the colour red.