Paul Gilbert: these are the 10 guitarists who blew my mind By Jonathan Horsley "His playing to me sounded like he was battling a dragon"
Rig tour: Blood Red Shoes By Jonathan Horsley Laura-Mary Carter spikes full-blooded Marshall power with boutique Fender vibes
Epiphone Les Paul Tribute ‘Prizm’ Plus review By Jonathan Horsley £729 $849 Bright colours and brighter ideas offer this classic guitar a fresh twist
Periphery’s Jake Bowen - my top 5 tips for guitarists: “Experimentation is a really important part of developing your everything” By Jonathan Horsley The Ibanez-toting prog-metaller on why you’ve got to take a deep breath and chill to maximise your creativity and playing
David Gray: “To allow other people in is a form of strength. I’ll work in a way that most find unnerving” By Jonathan Horsley The songwriter goes prospecting for creative frontiers and is reborn anew on Gold In A Brass Age
Bring Me The Horizon's Lee Malia: “We realised that songs don’t have to have 100 parts, with every single sound you could make” By Jonathan Horsley The BMTH guitarist on gear, weird Gibsons and the band's innovative approach to metal
Derek Trucks: these are the 10 guitarists who blew my mind By Jonathan Horsley “Me and Susan named our son after Charlie Christian. He’s gotta be on the list!”
Review round-up: single-pickup electric guitars By Jonathan Horsley Four super-smart electrics from ESP LTD, EVH, Godin and Gordon Smith
The playlist: Coheed And Cambria's Claudio Sanchez By Jonathan Horsley The frontman's guitar faves, from Beatles to prog and taking the Tull road
Phil X’s top 5 tips for guitarists: “Your favourite guitarist already exists. You need to be yourself” By Jonathan Horsley Bon Jovi’s effervescent guitar player on how learning covers can transform your playing and why you must learn to play your amp, too
Tommy Thayer: these are my top 10 KISS songs By Jonathan Horsley The Spaceman names his favourite guitar tracks and deep cuts
Review round-up: affordable eight-string electric guitars By Jonathan Horsley Putting four of the best budget extended-ranges from Schecter, LTD, Jackson and SubZero to the test
Idles: “Most of what you hear is the first or the second take. We always keep mistakes in” By Jonathan Horsley The UK punks talk keeping their "urgent, automatic" guitar playing honest and weaponising joy
Dan Donegan’s top 5 tips for guitarists: “You’ve got to push yourself as a player to branch out and do things that are maybe not theoretically correct” By Jonathan Horsley Disturbed’s riffer-in-chief on why working hard and trusting your gut will get the best from your playing
Halestorm: “You have to be willing to work at something and then draft and redraft, then finish it, and then throw it away” By Jonathan Horsley Lzzy Hale and Joe Hottinger on their cathartic album, Vicious
Coheed And Cambria's Travis Stever: "There are a lot of different guitar sounds on this record… I love the whole world of experimenting" By Jonathan Horsley Prog guitarist talks the band's gargantuan new concept album The Unheavenly Creatures
Review round-up: active-pickup electric guitars By Jonathan Horsley Next-level humbucker electrics from Jackson, Schecter, Squier and Fret-King
Diamond Head's Brian Tatler - my top 5 tips for guitarists: "Listen to the subtleties of players: the vibrato, the tone, good feel. Copy from the greats and mix it all together” By Jonathan Horsley With riffs and plenty of them, the Diamond Head guitarist changed the face of metal, and he says they can change your playing, too
David Pajo’s top 5 tips for guitarists: “You don’t have to know music theory to convey an emotion” By Jonathan Horsley Trailblazing Slint and Papa M guitarist on how making your own scales and finding your own sound will change you as a player
Passenger: “Busking taught me so much, not just about about being a musician or writing songs, actually about growing up and being a human!” By Jonathan Horsley Mike Rosenberg talks about the influence of America, being a solo artist and writing pop songs in an era of distraction
Career in gear: Stone Sour's Christian Martucci shares the guitars he can't live without By Jonathan Horsley Custom one-offs, rare limited-editions, plus one irreplaceable Marshall head
Jackson Soloist SL4X review By Jonathan Horsley £519 €635 $599 This prestige shred machine glows red hot in cool blue
Jason Mraz’s top 5 tips for musicians: "If you can figure out how to lose yourself and entertain someone else at the same time then you’ve found a voice" By Jonathan Horsley Singer-songwriter shares advice on writing, performing and honing your sound
Solar A2.6 Trans Blood Red Matte review By Jonathan Horsley £615 €699 Has Ola Englund forged a new breed in metal guitars?
Electric guitar review round-up: affordable speed machines By Jonathan Horsley Hard-rocking solidbodies from Ibanez, EVH, Kramer and Squier duke it out
