Blues pills

With 28 albums’ worth of songs to choose from, “hopefully there will be some surprises”.

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…

The song that rebuilt the band for the 21st century

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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