Latest articles by Rob Laing
"We referenced The Cure a lot while making it": Stone Gossard reveals Pearl Jam's new album influence
"You could be the greatest guitar player in the world but a ten-year-old could learn to play that in an hour", he says of the "magic" melodic moments he loves to discover in songwriting
How Metallica changed tack and gambled with Enter The Sandman via some riff editing from Lars Ulrich
Via some riff editing from Lars Ulrich
Raye calls again for the music industry to act on its "evil" treatment of songwriters
Before she became a six-time Brit Award winner in 2024, the British singer wrote for artists including Beyoncé and Rihanna
Jason Momoa performs his first ever live show as a bassist – covering Black Sabbath, Zeppelin, Metallica and Stevie Nicks
He's formed a power trio with two old friends
The world's most Googled guitar song chords and riffs prove Elvis has not left the building in South America and Ethiopia loves Blur
There's a strong showing from British acts according to a new survey
See Pearl Jam producer and superfan Andrew Watt performing Alive back when he was a little-known solo artist
Watt produced the band's new album Dark Matter
Steve Albini on why Kurt Cobain's touring amp setup failed to impress in the studio for In Utero
Amps, mics and the pedal on Heart-Shaped Box that nearly caused a rift between Cobain and Krist Novoselic – "He really thought Kurt was trying to sabotage the song"
"The first one's not necessary": Why Peter Green dismissed his greatest blues-rock song
The late guitar great believed his superior work was Oh Well Pt. 2 – an instrumental Fleetwood Mac never played live but the Pink Floyd legend honored decades later
Want to change your guitar's humbuckers and upgrade your tone but don't know where to start? These guides prove changing pickups doesn't need to be stressful
Solder on
"I think it’s time to make a defiant rock record": Noel Gallagher says he's scrapped his planned acoustic album but he's already got the cover art and title for the next one
"Acoustic tunes tend to be quite down"
"Out of all of the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favourite": The story of Kurt Cobain's Mustangs in Nirvana
From the record-breaking Competition Stripe to the In Utero Sky-Stangs and new Orang-Stang revelations
"Don't buy any more gear today, friends…": Tom Bukovac's tip on how to improve as a guitarist is something all of us can do
The hugely respected Nashville session player is a wise man
"He had no idea how good he was": A treasure trove of Jimi Hendrix music and documents has reportedly been found and is going up for sale
It belonged to his late manager Mike Jeffery
'This excellent amp-inspired tremolo from the Danes can also be used for something else entirely' – revisiting the T-Rex Tremster
Unsung effects: A secret weapon for your pedalboard?
'Recognising rising musicians that are pushing guitar forward in music and culture': Hear the new guitarists who have been selected for the Fender Next Class of 2024
Players from South America, Mainland China, Japan, Taiwan, USA, Australia and the UK
"Epiphone’s premium recreations of some of the most popular and iconic guitar designs of all time": The 7 new Inspired By Gibson Custom Shop models are a guitar tour-de-force – including Les Paul '59 and Custom models
Four electrics and three acoustics with 'open book' headstocks and some premium features – and Taylor Swift's new favourite stage guitar is amongst them
"If the Porsche 911 is the platonic ideal of a sports car and the Submariner Rolex is the ideal of a watch, the Juno 6 is that for The Midnight – it's in its beating heart": Tyler Lyle talks essential gear, sax appeal and taking synthwave on the road
Ahead of The Midnight's first-ever UK festival headline appearance, we talk live sets, the next Midnight album and their co-founder's choice for the greatest guitar pedal ever made for lo-fi sounds
"That guitar chord Andy came up with was just mind-blowing”: How The Police taught the ultimate lesson of less-is-more on Walking On The Moon… but reportedly without the flanger pedal we all assumed
"It wasn’t really the sort of music that benefited from additional players, it was a locked unit with the brilliant interplay between the three of us"
Gibson's CEO has just revealed some guitar-shaped easter eggs: Three new Epiphone models with 'open book' headstocks are on their way
The Gibson-style headstock is currently only available on the Adam Jones and Greeny Epiphone signature Les Pauls – but that looks set to change
"Nobody's gonna tell me that a hunk of wood with strings stretched across it is sacred": Pete Townshend reveals all about why he became a guitar smasher
"I think a lot of people struggle to buy their first instruments, they build up a relationship with them but I never had that but I don't know quite why that is"
"AC/DC made 50 albums, but all their albums were the same. It wasn’t the way the Who worked. We were an ideas band": Pete Townshend admits he doesn't enjoy playing live with the band much anymore but still wants to release new music
"If I’m really honest, I’ve been touring for the money"
"I know that is a 25-year-old's spirit just burning – like a Chevy engine": The story of The Gaslight Anthem's classic song, The '59 Sound
Brian Fallon on the sound and spirit of his greatest song to date
"I like your version better than ours!": Acoustic fingerstyle guitarist covers Toto's Rosanna and wows Steve Lukather
Casper Esmann's version also features a candidate for most impressive capo slide of 2024!
