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

Patrick James Eggle’s take on the OM body shape is built by Faith’s facility in Indonesia and based around PJE’s Linville model from his acoustic-building days. But does it rock our world?

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