Latest articles by Matt Parker
6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear in February 2019
From Japanese witch doom to Brighton rock
Gregory Alan Isakov: “Creating something with your hands is so rare. With guitar, we’re creating something out of thin air”
The Coloradan singer-songwriter discusses songwriting, travel and craft
NAMM 2019: Gretsch Electromatic range goes for gold with new G5655TG
Plus new Jet FT Single Cut finish options
NAMM 2019: Blackstar unveils JJN-20R Jared James Nichols signature head and cab
Electric bluesman has 'Star named after him
NAMM 2019: Taylor launches Grand Pacific line of round-shoulder dreadnoughts
Off-the-shoulder numbers include V-Class bracing
NAMM 2019: PRS unveils new finishes for Strat-alike Silver Sky model
Blue 'Skys ahead
David Crosby: “Dying is part of life. I’m at the end of my life, so I have to look at it”
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!”
The US indie/punk legend talks positive new album Sunshine Rock
6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear in January 2019
This month we open up Throat, Emma Ruth Rundle, Those Damn Crows, Bloxx and Death Valley Girls...
5 minutes alone - McFly's Danny Jones: “I had a lesson off one of my idols: John Mayer”
Picking the brain of the guitarist and songwriter
6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear in December
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”
The former Black Crowe turned Magpie Salute wingman ponders narc nightmares, divorcing his gear and the wisdom of Neil Young.
6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear in November
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”
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"
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”
The UK duo on their rock 'n' roll debut, All My Shades Of Blue
6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear in October
We take a stroll through Orchards, Mask Of Judas, Ink, Camp Cope, Jo Passed and Groundculture...
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"
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”
The rising alt-country songwriter discusses addiction, songwriting and his disarming debut Dying Star
The playlist: Dan Patlansky
Blues rocker Dan Patlansky shuffles through his record collection and reveals why he’s scuppered by Scuttle Buttin’
6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear in September
This month we pet Haggard Cat, Bitch Falcon, Nervus, Scottibrains, Oceans Of Slumber and Snail Mail.
Old Crow Medicine Show's Ketch Secor: “I think there are too many guitar players in the United States of America”
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”
On his 14th album, The Horizon Just Laughed, the idiosyncratic Seattle songwriter presents personal upheaval in a misleadingly laid-back package
