Fender’s top-end Paramount acoustic range has had a refresh for 2022, with beguiling vintage-vibed looks and the arrival of a new Orchestra-sized body shape.
The Canadian guitarist on writing records over Facetime, why a Gibson hollowbody has become his favourite squeeze, and why he was very nearly a drummer instead.
Soul Mountain guitarist Jordi Mestre Lopez has won fans around the world by scaling majestic landscapes to record music inspired by his surroundings, but his latest and most difficult expedition yet was undertaken to raise awareness of a serious environmental issue caused by rising temperatures.
A whirlwind two years has catapulted Yola from obscurity to the top table of the Grammys. Now on the back of another critically acclaimed album, she’s turning to the silver screen to portray one of the most important figures in the history of electric guitar, and she’s not going to be needing any hand doubles to do it.
There’s an argument that nobody has done more to push the boundaries of what guitar is capable of in the last 40 years than Steve Vai. But despite his name being a byword for virtuosity, the guitarist refuses to rest on his laurels. We caught up with the man himself to talk surgery, embracing what is, designing insane triple-necked guitars with Ibanez, and why one of Inviolate’s solos pushed him so far out of his comfort zone he might never be able to top it.
The Rage Against The Machine legend tells us why he’s happy to embrace his pop side, how his latest album demonstrates that the creative potential of the guitar is undimmed, and why he recorded his guitar parts on a voice memo.
As the British indie-rock titans prepare to share their long-awaited fourth album, we caught up with guitarist Joe Newman to talk Acoustasonics, Custom Shop Teles, going down YouTube rabbitholes, and why it took lockdown to help him feel comfortable calling himself a guitarist.
The Fab Four tried to hide behind cranked amps and atonally strummed guitars, but machine learning allowed the Oscar-winning director to reveal the private conversations hidden for over 50 years.
With Snail Mail's second album out, we catch up with the 22-year-old guitarist to talk Jazzmasters, being a perfectionist and why she needed to be bored before she could write anything interesting.
