Simon Neil leads a back on top Biffy ...

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

Following Richey Edwards’ disappearance and the “commercial disaster” of The Holy Bible , the MANIC STREET PREACHERS were told that this is the end. Instead, they roared back with an unassailable anthem heralding one of the biggest British albums of the ’90s. Sam Richards celebrates 30 years of Everything Must Go : “It was the most spectacular feeling,” says Nicky Wire. “That period when you go over the top...”

After decades of feuding and fall outs, Chris and Rich Robinson, aka The Black Crowes , have found a groove of brotherly love and rock bravado.

By the time I’m 16, I am starting to develop a certain aesthetic revolving around beat literature and beat poetry. I’m starting to like Baudelaire, Rimbaud, so there’s a certain whiff of decadence in

The brothers Robinson recall the highs, lows and sibling spats of a 36-year recording career