Joe stump

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…

Richard Barrett is on a mission to make you a better blues player – with full audio examples and backing tracks

In the second part of this lesson, Richard Barrett asks you to lend your ears to the sounds of the silver screen for real-life context

For something versatile or offbeat, reimagining a classic could be the way to go

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

The genre-agnostic mastermind behind Zeal & Ardor gives us a tour of his quirky record collection