CANDY

Positioning themselves as the heavier, more chaotic sibling of Pittsburgh metallers Code Orange - which is, indeed, a feat in and of itself - Richmond, Virginia upstarts Candy have made ripples in the underground hardcore and metal scenes since their debut three-track demo in 2017.

VICTORY V1 SERIES

VICTORY AND THORPYFX TEAM-UP FOR A QUINTET OF OVERDRIVE VOICES

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“WHEN YOU DETUNE IT FEELS MORE SUBVERSIVE!

Tash Sultana – "It's Fully Plugged in!”

Tash Sultana is an artist playing by their own rules. A new Unplugged album features plenty of acoustic guitars - but also a Strat, a Tele and a Whammy pedal

"Playing on one string can almost emulate the human voice"

As the Tedeschi Trucks Band deliver a quadruple album bonanza, slide guitar maestro Derek Trucks reveals the source of his gargantuan tones and emotive power...

Matt Bellamy – "It's a new dimension for this band"

The Matt Bellamy interview. How the explosive new Muse album was created - with a mountain of gear and inspiration from Iron Maiden and Slipknot...

"He's Pushing the Boundaries of Music and Instruments"

Matt Bellamy's vision for Manson guitars: the inside story

Marcus King – "I want my guitar to sound like a jazz singer"

Marcus King on raiding Dan Auerbach's pedal collection and wanting his new record to sound like “a tattoo gun”

SOPHIE MAY

During the 2020 lockdown, singer/ songwriter Sophie May was really churning out the content for her newly minted TikTok channel (200k followers, 3.8m likes, both rising fast).

GUILD SURFLINER £395

Old, new, borrowed and, er, orange. Let's introduce the Surfliner!

"It's the way the riffs are picked that makes them exciting"

MEGADETH LEADER DAVE MUSTAINE SHAPED THE SOUND OF THRASH METAL WITH HIS FAST RIGHT HAND. AND NOW, HAVING SURVIVED CANCER, HE'S IN NO MOOD TO SLOW DOWN...

PERFECT TEN

The guitar heroics of Matt Bellamy in the top 10 Muse songs - as voted by TG readers

SOUNDLAD LIVERPOOL SCRAN £99

Brit-rock in a box?

FENDER GEORGE HARRISON ROCKY STRATOCASTER

FENDER PAYS TRIBUTE TO GEORGE HARRISON'S ICONIC STRATOCASTER WITH A PRODUCTION MODEL REPLICA

The greatest guitar albums of all time - The 60s

Beatlemania inspired millions of kids to pick up guitars. And with the dawn of the rock era and the elevation of the album as an art form, a golden generation of guitar heroes emerged - Clapton, Beck, Page, Santana and Hendrix...

Billy Strings – "I'm Flying by the Seat of My Pants!"

Billy Strings is the new star of American roots music - with a radical, groundbreaking approach to playing bluegrass

Billy Howerdel – "It Was a Happy Accident"

Billy Howerdel on his ‘Frankensteined' guitar and his debut solo album

THE BETHS

Hailing from Auckland, New Zealand, The Beths are an indie-pop quartet whose knack for creating upbeat, earworms distortion-drenched has propelled them onto an international stage.

PRS SE STANDARD 24-08

PRS's SE start-up gets a makeover

BLACKSTAR ST. JAMES EL34 COMBO AND 6L6 HEAD

TG checks out a pair of lightweight valve amps from Blackstar...

"I LOVE A RESONANT GUITAR!"

Polyphia virtuoso Tim Henson goes unplugged - with a new nylon string signature

New Adventures In Prog!

Haken guitarist and TG writer Charlie Griffiths talks about his extraordinary new solo album and profiles four of modern prog's rising stars...

"I LOVE THE IDEA OF PLAYING JUST ONE NOTE AND BREAKING SOMEONE'S HEART"

Porcupine Tree's comeback album is a progressive rock masterclass, but leader Steven Wilson is no virtuoso on guitar. “Less," he says, "is more..."

MADISON CUNNINGHAM

As Madison Cunningham prepares for the September release of her second full length album Revealer, it seems as though the Southern Californian virtuoso has located a whole extra chapter in the instructional manual for singer-songwriters.

UNIVERSAL AUDIO PEDALS

UA UNVEIL A TRIO OF AMP-REPLACEMENT PEDALS

"THAT SWINGIN' LITTLE GUITAR MAN!"

As a new biopic celebrates the life of the King of Rock 'N' Roll, TG presents 10 key tracks in which Elvis Presley and his killer guitarists rocked the world...

THE GREATEST GUITAR ALBUMS OF ALL TIME - THE 90S

Throughout the 90s, heavy music was redefined by Rage Against The Machine, Pantera, Soundgarden and more. But incredibly, four of the decade's greatest guitar albums were released within a six-week period in 1991.

SHEERAN BY LOWDEN EQUALS EDITION

Ed's secret weapon!

THE GREATEST GUITAR ALBUMS OF ALL TIME - THE 80S

Stevie Ray Vaughan reignited the blues. AC/DC delivered the biggest selling rock album of all time. New guitar heroes rose up - Slash and Joe Satriani among them. But if one guitarist owned the 80s, it was Eddie Van Halen...

"THE BEST STUFF IS WHEN IT'S ON THE VERGE OF COLLAPSE!"

Creating magic out of chaos, Black Midi are at the cutting edge of modern rock music. So why is guitarist Geordie Greep hailing AC/DC as an influence?