100 shades of blue

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

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…

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

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

MAYA DELILAH WAS sitting at home when she got the email. For the sixth year in a row, Fender had named a group of artists meant to represent the future of guitar, and Delilah had just found out she wa