Jonathan Horsley

Or how one lesson with a folk singer from the northeast of England (and a bunch of lost picks) changed the history of electric guitar

Flickering Resonance is the first Pelican album since the return of Schroeder-Lebec, and it finds the Chicago post-metal institution's sound on an evolutionary path to destinations unknown

Collecting three different flavours of Mike Fortin's TS-inspired drive circuits, presenting them across two identical channels, this is one high-functioning stompbox

With gold hardware, black finish, this is one ratiugnikufesin – especially at this price

The Sonic Youth Official Reverb Store is officially open and as Lee Ranaldo explains, it is 100% stocked with Kool Things

The country virtuoso explains why compression is not an always-on effect for him – and neither is reverb for that matter

With Charvel Surfcaster bodies and Strat headstocks, Mansoor's Frankenstein Jacksons are the coolest metal guitars you'll see, and the tuning they've inspired is crazy even by baritone standards

I Wanna Play My Guitar is a love-letter to the instrument from two maestros on top of their game

EVH Gear just made your hardware choices a lot more interesting with the new Wolfgang Special TOM, available in Oxblood, Husk White and Gloss Black

Pure Metal or no metal at all, wimps and posers leave the hall...

If you're like Danish Pete and looking for a compact single-channel head for '60s British-style cleans and overdriven '70s rock tones, you'll find all that and more inside this lunchbox

Unleash some flower power upon your 'board with the all-new fuzz from ThorpyFX

Turra has been accusations of using other guitar player's arrangements and passing them off as his own. Beato remains unconvinced of Turra's playing – and his apology

There's no denying the inspiration behind this budget-friendly four-string but the classics never go out of style

This limited edition Tele resurrects a unicorn finish and applies it to a top-tier vintage build featuring Seymour Duncan pickups and Glaser G Bender

And it turns out it is the same affordable plugin Finneas used on Billie Eilish’s Barbie track, What Was I Made For?

Megabucks tube amp tones beloved by the likes of Joe Bonamassa, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Carlos Santana in a stompbox you assemble yourself? No wonder the first batch sold out within a day

Dawes makes this sort of thing look easy but on the scale of difficulty his version of Euclid is up there with impossible

Wake is a chorus with a blendable clean sub-octave effect that can help you dream a little bigger and make one guitar sound huge

Low turn pickups, coil split, top-shelf hardware and sweet finishes make this rare bolt-on a serious high-end option for all occasions

Gibson USA pickups, rosewood 'boards, Vintage Gloss finishes, 3D scanned neck profiles – the Les Pauls, Firebirds, ES-335 and SG of the Inspired By Gibson Custom range might be Epiphone's best yet

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