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Fender American Vintage II Series 2025 new models: a still from Fender's promo video pictures the '51 Tele in Prototype White, the '57 Strat in Black, P-Bass in Olympic White, the exquisite all-new '65 Stratocaster in Candy Apple Red (one of three finish options) and the '66 Jazzmaster in Sherwood Green Metallic.
Affordable retro mojo: Fender expands American Vintage II series with fresh finishes and new models Described as “a near 1:1 comparison” of the original models that inspired them, these box-fresh new electrics and bass guitars give you that old-school tone and feel without the vintage price tag
Freddie Mercury on stage in 1978
“I played lots of guitar on it, and Freddie said, ‘No, no, no!’”: How Brian May fought to be heard on a Queen classic May calls it “a massive Queen song”
Best electric guitars: PRS McCarty 594
Best electric guitars 2025: Our pick of guitars to suit all budgets Find the top electric guitar for your budget and playing style, whether you play rock, metal, blues or beyond

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Peter Hook, 2024

“I don’t think they’re New Order. They don’t sound anything like them”: Peter Hook on his estranged bandmates

By Will Simpson published

He says he gets DMs from fans complaining about the current band

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PRS Archon Classic and Mark Tremonti MT 15 v2: the newly redesigned tube amps offer a host of new features and tones, with the Alter Bridge guitarist's new lunchbox head [right] featuring the Overdrive channel from his MT 100 head, and there's a half-power switch, too.

PRS refreshes tube amp range with the reworked Mark Tremonti MT 15 head and Archon Classic

By Jonathan Horsley published

One of the best low-wattage high-gain amps around just got an upgrade while the Archon Classic offers hot-rodded vintage tone

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Jackson Pro Plus Series Misha Mansoor Juggernaut: the newly refreshed signature Superstrat is offered in Red Crystal and Blue Sparkle with a string-through-hardtail, and in Riviera Blue with an EverTune bridge. Stainless steel frets and an ebony fingerboard come as standard.

Jackson gives Misha Mansoor’s Juggernaut a new lick of paint and upgrades to stainless steel frets

By Jonathan Horsley published

Mansoor's arch-top Superstrat has never looked so good, and while it might be designed for crushing downtuned riffs but that five-way switching yields a lot of tones from the signature MM1 humbucker pairing

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Chase Bliss Brothers AM

Chase Bliss teams up with Mike Piera for Analog Man collab based on the legendary King Of Tone

By Jonathan Horsley published

Years in the making, Brothers AM applies Chase Bliss’s expansive digital controls and a cornucopia of dip-switches to an overdrive classic – and it has a Beano Boost mode

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Fender Player II Modified Series

Fender remixes its blockbuster Player II range with the Modified Series and got IDLES to demo them

By Jonathan Horsley published

The Player II Modified range is a refresh of the familiar favourites, with Noiseless pickups, locking tuners, treble bleed circuits and of course there is an HSS Strat with a Floyd Rose

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Jim Root

“For some reason, the post office shipped your guitar to Jim Root of Slipknot”: Sweetwater mailed a metal fan's Jackson guitar to a metal legend

By Will Simpson published

He received a flight case but no guitar

Guitarists
The Harley Benton DIY guitar kit challenge is judged by a panel of experts and offers Thomann vouchers for top three builds.

Harley Benton’s DIY Kit Challenge is now open and there are prizes to be won

By Jonathan Horsley published

Grab a DIY guitar kit and see what you can make out of it... A hat, a brooch, a pterodactyl? The sky's the limit – and there are Thomann vouchers to be won

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Universal Audio's Woodrow '55 plugin on a computer screen

Universal Audio releases its UAFX Woodrow '55 pedal as a plugin, putting an "American classic" in your DAW

By Matt Mullen published

Another of UA's amp modelling pedals gets the plugin treatment - and this time it's the company's take on the 1955 Fender 5E3 Tweed Deluxe

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David Gilmour

How to play guitar like David Gilmour: Bluesy diads, slides, quarter-tone blues curls and more

By Total Guitar last updated

Tackle the expressive phrasing and minor pentatonic tricks of one of rock's finest guitarists, David Gilmour

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Two Notes Audio Engineering Reload II: the new reactive load box is described as a fully featured unit that

Two Notes promises a “watershed” in tube amp control with the Torpedo Reload II reactive load box

By Jonathan Horsley published

The world's first reactive load box with a Celestion approved load response, the Torpedo Reload II is a compelling sequel that's packed with features to get the most from your tube amps

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