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The month’s best guitar music – a hand-picked selection of the finest fretwork on wax

Amid the mayhem of his European tour, Joe takes time out to give us a guided tour around his 2025 live gear, delivers the lowdown on some of his more storied guitars, and tells us why his mighty multi-amp rig has to run at breaking point in order to make the earth move and those riffs resonate…

HE VOLUNTEERS IT within 10 minutes of meeting me. “People either love me or fucking hate me, put every ounce of belief into me or don’t believe [in] me whatsoever,” he says, sounding more bullish than

With their 2022 debut album, Cardinal Black showed the world how the budding guitar hero in their ranks could thrive in a band environment. Here, Chris Buck explains how its follow-up has taken his playing and songwriting to the next level

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

‘If you want tough, I’ll give you tough…” Following a hiatus from Bloc Party, the platinum-selling group that made Kele Okereke an icon of British 2000s rock, the frontman began work on his first solo