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

Forget the shiny synths, shinier suits and luxuriant mullets – this super-deluxe reissue of Rush’s divisive 10th album makes a case for it as one of their best. But at what price?

Simon Neil leads a back on top Biffy ...

Wiry monochrome intensity from indie veterans fully focused on the present

Big Big Train cofounder Gregory Spawton on the records, artists and gigs that are of lasting significance to him.

He’s lived it live and dangerous as part of the classic line up of Thin Lizzy, lived it loud in Motörhead, ridden his own band Wild Horses, has an impressive list of credits as both session musician and producer… There’s much more to Robbo than you probably think.