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Having delivered a career highlight with 2023’s Voices, The Cold Stares are
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
The month’s best guitar music – a hand-picked selection of the finest fretwork on wax
With 28 albums’ worth of songs to choose from, “hopefully there will be some surprises”.
Former 36 Crazyfists frontman finds his second wind
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…
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