Matt Parker

Sam Beam, AKA Iron & Wine, returns to his acoustic roots, tapping into his animal self in the process on his sixth record, Beast Epic

It's that time of year again when we deck the halls with cobwebs and irresponsibly send our nation's youth off to threaten pensioners for confectionary. Yes, Halloween 2014 is upon us...

The colossal guitar tones and white noise of Wolfe's dark world

“If there was ever a time for bands to reach out and have an effect on people, I think it’s now,” says Tina Maynard, one of Soeur’s two frontwomen/guitarists.

George Harris of The Raven Age had his guitar switch flipped when he was fortunate enough to catch Killswitch Engage at Ozzfest in the US, aged 14.

We speak to the London-based singer-songwriter

Heavenly-endorsed pop hits with added kitchen sink

Described as a love letter to Nashville, Dan Auerbach’s second solo album Waiting On A Song is also, he tells us, a tribute to the magic of writing and recording...

Mod guru Robert Keeley has unveiled a new limited edition tweak on his much-loved Super Phat Mod pedal (itself based on the classic Boss BD-2 circuit), featuring a Tungsram AC125 germanium transistor

Shergold, the electric guitar home of British luthier Patrick James Eggle, has announced a new model for its Masquerader range, the SM04SD

G&L, the firm set-up by Leo Fender in the late 70s, has announced the launch of a new series of Doheny J-type offset guitars

Mike Matthews continues to expand minds/reduce wallets

Philadelphia’s Alex Giannascoli has more ideas in each song than most writers do in their lifetimes

The devil has all the best tunes

By now we think we know what a National song sounds like. However, the band’s seventh studio effort Sleep Well Beast, four years in production, has seen them purposefully twist their template

When he was just three years old, Quinn Sullivan was obsessed with The Beatles and picked up the guitar

If the true art of guitar playing is transmitting your soul through six-strings and an amp then New Jersey-raised multi-instrumentalist Delicate Steve is a master

We strongly suspect that The Amazons will be the fastest rising indie band of this year

Duncan Lloyd is one of those musicians cast in the Neil Young mould – compelled to keep creating on daily basis, in numerous guises and forms

British blues hero-in-the-making drops his debut

Since 2008, Arkansas’ Pallbearer have steadily built a reputation for thoughtful, timeless doom metal

You know the feeling of joy induced by the Pixies-esque combo of distortion and weird pop hook? London’s The Big Moon are masters of that craft.

When you’ve made a name in extreme metal, it’s typically a one-way street

The industry is rife with beige and vanilla,” says Mark Holley, frontman of Exeter’s Black Foxxes.

Belgium’s Brutus are the product of a broad but heavy back catalogue of influences, combining blustering punk, black metal beats and reverb-clad post-rock tones