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
Pigtronix launches Bob Weir's Real Deal - an acoustic volume boost without the feedback By Matt Parker Organic mega volume for acoustic players from the Grateful Dead man
The Performaxe leg rest promises to improve your posture and provide more comfortable practice positions By Matt Parker Save your legs and back while woodshedding
Megan Davies: “There are constantly people who are better technically than you… learn to start collaborating with them” By Matt Parker In conversation with the YouTube star and songwriter
G-Suit protects your guitar's neck and strings when you’re not playing By Matt Parker Avoid the hassle of encasing your beloved
Ted Hutt’s 7 tips for producers: “My favourite records weren’t always huge hits. But they were huge to me” By Matt Parker The ’59 Sound producer on The Gaslight Anthem, personality and the importance of honesty
Foo Fighters fans! Chris Shiflett is selling 20 guitars on Reverb this week By Matt Parker Time to smash the piggy bank
Want to buy Tom Petty's 1965 Gibson SG? That'll be $300,000 By Matt Parker Guitars and memorabilia to be auctioned this weekend
6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear in July By Matt Parker Rock, psych and shoegaze-y noises to get you through the month
6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear in June By Matt Parker From blues to post punk, Americana to shred metal
Ash’s Tim Wheeler: “When it wasn’t cool to have flash solos, I was still doing them. I love it. I’m all about it” By Matt Parker The frontman on smashing six-strings and the importance of “dashes of flash”
