Articles by Jonathan Horsley

Rig tour: Derek Trucks

By Jonathan Horsley

The slide titan on his Allman Brothers SG-fuelled guitar setup

Sting's My Songs track-by-track with Martin Kierszenbaum: "The songs are dynamic. They are living and breathing"

By Jonathan Horsley

Producer/manager dissects same-but-different best-of

Review round-up: ES-335-style electric guitars

By Jonathan Horsley

Four semi-hollow beauts from Epiphone, Gretsch, Ibanez and Vintage

Rig tour: Corrosion Of Conformity

By Jonathan Horsley

The New Orleans groove lords talk us through the tough toll they take on their part-time doublecuts

Pelican’s Trevor de Brauw: the 10 guitar albums that blew my mind

By Jonathan Horsley

The creator of instrumentalist soundscapes on the music that shaped his world

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