SINCE HIS EARLIEST days with Aerosmith, Joe Perry has been the epitome of guitar-related cool. Sure, he’s got the licks, the songs and the solos, but he’s also got a massive cache of iconic, quirky an

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

With a long-awaited studio album, Two Shades Of Blue , poised for release, the master of jazz-flavoured blues dropped by the Guitarist studios to talk about his new record and the guitars he’s used during his career, and record two exclusive videos

IT WAS ONCE written of the Wedding Present that they are a band “whose world you either buy into fully or not at all.” Founder-frontman David Gedge takes a beat to consider this, then smiles at the id

Returning with solo album Play Me – a stinging broadside against the modern age – the alt-rock talisman remembers the “shitty guitars” and renegade tunings of her 80s breakout with Sonic Youth

Grammy-nominated Malian singer and guitarist Fatoumata Diawara joins forces with Epiphone to produce a vivid-looking and wicked-sounding SG that’s a celebration of her style