NAMM 2019: Taylor launches Grand Pacific line of round-shoulder dreadnoughts By Matt Parker, Rob Laing Off-the-shoulder numbers include V-Class bracing
David Crosby: “Dying is part of life. I’m at the end of my life, so I have to look at it” By Matt Parker The folk-rock icon finds redemption in reflection in his creative, collaborative new record, Here If You Listen
Bob Mould: “I’m a very innovative rhythm guitarist. And a pretty less-than-average soloist!” By Matt Parker The US indie/punk legend talks positive new album Sunshine Rock
6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear in January 2019 By Matt Parker From death-glam to a master of dark dynamics
5 minutes alone - McFly's Danny Jones: “I had a lesson off one of my idols: John Mayer” By Matt Parker Picking the brain of the guitarist and songwriter
6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear in December By Matt Parker From moody blues to mask-wearing metallic hardcore
5 minutes alone - Rich Robinson: “All of my gear was destroyed in Hurricane Sandy in 2012. I lost 70 guitars” By Matt Parker The Magpie Salute man ponders guitars, hurricanes and riots
6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear in November By Matt Parker From voodoo riffs, to pop punk and gothic indie rock
Duane Eddy: “You use the technology and don’t let it use you. I can’t get that through to people” By Matt Parker The titan of twang on tone, tales and the story behind his signature Gretsch six-string bass guitar
5 minutes alone - Ash's Tim Wheeler: "We weren't good enough to play the music we wanted to play, so we started writing songs" By Matt Parker Splashing advances on Les Pauls, nightmare gigs and surprise hits
Ruen Brothers: “With an acoustic guitar, it sounds like what it was built to sound like. There’s a continuity” By Matt Parker The UK duo on their rock 'n' roll debut, All My Shades Of Blue
Emma Ruth Rundle: "The guitar is so wonderful because there are all these things you can do with it: it’s like developing a landscape" By Matt Parker The US songwriter on telling stories with tone, tunings and T-Birds
Ruston Kelly: “Brutish and kind of rude and beautiful - that was the kind of art that I wanted to make” By Matt Parker The rising alt-country songwriter discusses addiction, songwriting and his disarming debut Dying Star
6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear in September By Matt Parker From punk to prog and off into space drone
Old Crow Medicine Show's Ketch Secor: “I think there are too many guitar players in the United States of America” By Matt Parker The roots hero on the lessons guitarists forget
Damien Jurado: “I’m never online, so that to me is a really big influence on my writing. It keeps you in your own lane” By Matt Parker The life, lyrics and £80 acoustic that made The Horizon Just Laughed
Wild Nothing’s Jack Tatum: “I've never really understood the argument against doing something that has been done before well” By Matt Parker The Virginian indie-rocker discusses perfection, questioning originality and ripping up analogue convention
Rig tour: The Hold Steady By Matt Parker An onstage tour of guitars, amps and pedals with the Brooklynite band
Steven Van Zandt: “If you’re not comparing yourself to the best songs possible, then you’re not going to be writing very well” By Matt Parker Springsteen's trusted collaborator talks technique, honesty and the five crafts of guitar and rock 'n' roll
Neil and Liam Finn: “We needed to get to the end with the family relationship intact - music is a highly charged thing to do” By Matt Parker New Zealand’s indie-rock royals on their first collaborative record and Finn Sr's upcoming stint with Fleetwood Mac
6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear in August By Matt Parker Hardcore hits, invigorating punk rock and psych-metal masterminds
Australian guitarist plays for an incredible 125 hours in charity fundraiser By Matt Parker World Record attempt exceeds previous time by almost 10 hours
