Appearing on the 2006 album Stadium Arcadium, Snow (Hey Oh) features John Frusciante’s driving rhythm guitar, chordal riffing and arpeggiated riffs, as well as some multi-layered harmony parts. The song begins with the main guitar hook – a satisfying

Many of the fuzz, distortion and overdrive pedals released these days are variations on circuitry that has been around for yonks, and the Danelectro Nichols 1966 follows that trend. The big difference, though, is that the particular circuitry here ha

The thought of repetitive exercise doesn’t fill us with joy, but that’s about to change here. It’s obvious that finger strength and dexterity is vital for guitarists. Everything you play depends on those dancing digits doing exactly as they’re told.

New album Orgy Of The Damned is very much not business as usual for the Guns N’ Roses icon! Take one look at the Killing Floor music video and you’ll immediately notice The Cat In The Hat eschewing his usual Les Pauls and donning a Bigsbyloaded 1963

Annie Clark – aka St. Vincent – is finished, for now at least, with digital guitar tones. “I’ve done enough direct guitar sounds,” she declares. “I wanted to move some air again.” The result helps St. Vincent’s latest album, All Born Screaming, sound

You don’t need us to tell you that everything seems more expensive than it did a couple of years back. Guitars are no different. A USA-made Core level PRS guitar, for example, will now cost north of £4k. Even PRS’s second tier USA S2 models now start

A quick glance at recent signature releases might lead you to believe it’s Kirk Hammett’s world and we’re just living in it. There was the purple sparkle edition of his KH95X Cry Baby back in 2022, and then a lot of excitement over replicas of his pr

Blackstar’s relentless R&D program means there’s a practically endless flow of new products coming off the production line; most recently it was the turn of their affordable ID:Core programmable amps to get an upgrade, so let’s take a fresh look at t

When Feeder released Polythene back in 1997, their debut album which produced five singles that remain fan-favourites to this day, the Welsh group were hailed as the UK’s answer to The Smashing Pumpkins. In similar ways to Billy Corgan and co., it wa

We love a good pop tune here at TG, and Olivia Rodrigo’s Good 4 U, from her 2021 debut, Sour, definitely counts! The album was conceived as a multi-styled tapestry of songs, taking in mainstream pop, rock, punk, folk and more – and, though Olivia doe

F or many of us, pedals supply the constant fix to our perennial case of G.A.S. leakage. Each one offers its own shade for our tonal palette, they don’t take up lots of space, and, unlike buying a new amp or guitar, they don’t have to cost a fortune.

Any conversations concerning the future of blues will usually include a mention of 25-year-old Mississippi sensation Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram. So it should come as little surprise that he’s met and jammed with nearly all of the acts appearing on S

Samantha Fish’s take on contemporary blues is multi-faceted, with elements of bluegrass and country thrown into the mix. Having grown up with Appetite For Destruction on repeat in her car stereo, the invitation to perform on Slash’s S.E.R.P.E.N.T. fe

Kerry King’s no-nonsense approach to creating razor-sharp, life-affirming heavy metal has made him one of the world’s most influential players. His work in Slayer with co-guitarist the late Jeff Hanneman set the benchmark for a new kind of murderous

BATTLESNAKE ARE PUTTING THREE CLASSIC GUITAR RIGS INTO ONE CRAZY HEAVY METAL MELTING POT D escribed by guitarist Ben Frank as “the genetically engineered cyborg super child of Queen, King Gizzard and Judas Priest,” Australia’s Battlesnake are a colo

Not many people can say they’ve had a front row seat to Slash’s creative process in the same way producer Mike Clink has. He was the man at the helm for Guns N’ Roses’ legendary 1987 debut album Appetite For Destruction and the band’s subsequent rele

Formed by two schoolmates from a picturesque but lifeless town in Devon, HAAL came to life in Bristol while the pair studied at university, and they blame the city for accentuating their weirdness. Guitarist/vocalist Alfie Hay’s dad has since called

Buzz Osborne holds nothing back – not musically or anywhere else in his life. He never has, and probably never will. One listen to Melvins’ latest record Tarantula Heart will tell you as much. This time – as per usual – Osborne and company are out fo

Blues guitar is a high-risk endeavour. Don’t be fooled into thinking it’s easy or safe just because there are fewer notes in the scale. If you want a safer pursuit, take up whitewater rafting, spelunking or snake milking. An easier way to pass your p

When Heart kick off their 2024 UK tour at London’s O2 Arena on July 1, it will be not only their first UK appearance in nearly a decade, but their largest ever headline show on these shores. It’s a sign the band’s stock is as high again as it was in

Despite being hailed as modern day shoegaze luminaries, New York-based band DIIV never felt that they became fully immersed in that scene until they wrote and recorded their 2019 album Deceiver. The creation of its follow up, meanwhile, saw the band

When Steve Vai was a 12-year-old student of Joe Satriani, neither of the two budding greats could have predicted the incredible heights their careers would reach. 50 years on, now shred royalty, the pair finally unite for their first official collabo

Dave Grohl needs very little introduction. From having a hand (or both hands) in changing the course of rock as the drummer in Nirvana to steadily growing Foo Fighters from a collection of self-recorded songs into a stadium-filling band, he’s become

Over the last few years, Gretsch’s Streamliner range has experienced a meteoric rise in popularity thanks to their wallet-friendly pricing, superb build quality, and the ability to replicate the classic twang of their flashier siblings. Speeding into

With over five million tickets sold for performances all across the globe, The Australian Pink Floyd Show are undisputed champions when it comes to recreating the music of the world’s most celebrated prog rock band. And they even come with an officia

There are many bands out there who refer to themselves as family, but in the case of British country rockers Morganway, there’s an even deeper sense of meaning behind it all. The group was started by twin brothers Keiran and Callum Morgan – the forme

Christoph Kemper’s amp profiling concept certainly caused a few ripples in the digital modelling continuum following its NAMM 2011 debut, and, ever since, the ability to effectively create your own amp models has been the Profiler’s biggest selling p