The crossroads dean brown

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

For 60 years, HERBIE HANCOCK has taken the bonnet off music, hacking its valves and gears, forging a future as yet unseen. He shaped jazz and funk and synth-rock; Miles and Joni felt the benefit. Now he's a Polar Music Prize laureate. "I've always been this geek, this nerdy guy,"

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

IT WAS WITH great sadness that I learned of the passing of Mike Peters of the Alarm this week after his decades-long struggle with cancer. I had the privilege of meeting Mike several times over the ye

Neville Marten recalls interviews with one of his musical idols, the singer-songwriter supreme and total legend, the great JT himself