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YouTuber Aaron Rash [left] wears grey and an Adidas beanie and checked trousers as he poses with his Veleno-clone aluminium guitar. On the right, Kurt Cobain performs in 1993 with Nirvana at their MTV Live and Loud show in Seattle.

Nirvana tone sleuth Aaron Rash solves the final part of the mystery – Kurt Cobain's In Utero guitar

By Jonathan Horsley published

Rash’s many years down the rabbit hole have been rewarded as he finally gets his hands on the exact same model Cobain used and it’s an oddball offset with “absolutely wild” pickups

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Finneas

“Such an emotive player... so cool": Finneas names his 5 favourite guitarists

By Will Simpson published

“She’s really a guitar hero of mine,” he says

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Devin Townsend performs on a brightly lit stage. He wears a black suit, an orange T-shirt, and plays a white seven-string Framus.

Devin Townsend is taking an indefinite break from touring but promises “dozens” of projects to come

By Jonathan Horsley published

Townsend’s forthcoming hiatus from the road will see him launch The Ruby Quaker YouTube series, allowing him to explore “dozens of creative ventures” he never had time for before

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The Cars

How legendary producer Mutt Lange drove the Cars half-mad

By Andrew Daly published

And the result? 'A beautiful record,' says guitarist Elliot Easton

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Joe Bonamassa plays a vintage Gibson Les Paul SG equipped with a Maestro Vibrola. He wears a gray patterned suit and sunglasses.

Joe Bonamassa announces new album, Breakthrough – listen to the title-track now

By Jonathan Horsley published

Is this a new direction for Bonamassa or an expansion of his style? Breakthrough drops on 18 July

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Clapton in 1970

"There had to be some sort of telepathy going on”: The genius of Eric Clapton's controversial masterpiece, Layla

By Neil Crossley published

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Danny Gomez of Dirty Boy pedals hangs out with Linkin Park who have just revealed that the Ball Buster, Dirty Boy's OOP legacy boost pedal, was all over their comeback LP, From Zero. Here, Mike Shinoda wears an orange long-sleeve.

Linkin Park reveal secret weapon behind their From Zero guitar tone

By Jonathan Horsley published

Do you even have a nü-metal 2.0 pedalboard if it doesn’t have a Ball Buster?

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Carlos Santana attends the "Carlos" Premiere during the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival at Beacon Theatre on June 17, 2023

Carlos Santana cancels second show “out of an abundance of caution”

By Will Simpson published

Guitar legend collapsed at soundcheck in San Antonio on Tuesday

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Cosmic death metal heroes Blood Incantation wear sunglasses and army jackets

Blood Incantation on cosmic sounds, a near studio meltdown and the making of Absolute Elsewhere

By Jonathan Horsley last updated

Paul Riedl and Morris Kolontyrsky takes us back to “the craziest summer ever“, when the cosmic expansion of their sound yielded a landmark of prog death and an air con outage near destroyed it all

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Gibson Custom Serj Tankian Les Paul Modern: The System Of A Down frontman performs with his brightly coloured new signature guitar, which features original artwork from the man himself.

Serj Tankian and Gibson team up for limited edition Foundations Les Paul Modern Sublimation

By Jonathan Horsley published

They're only making 25 of these, each of them signed, and they come with a signed LP, signed art print, a copy of Tankian's memoir, plus VIP tickets to an upcoming System Of A Down show

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