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See Jimmy Page’s “rare” and “previously unseen” gear in new book The Anthology
The Anthology features rare instruments, costumes and more from the Led Zeppelin guitarist's archives.Eddie Van Halen memorial planned in late guitarist’s home city of Pasadena, California
Fans have been leaving tributes at the musician’s childhood home.Guitar Center is preparing to potentially file for bankruptcy
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Chris Fantana’s Gibson EH-185 clone build progresses to the chassis.“I love seeing the instruments being played for the first time by the customer”: Luthier Rosie Heydenrych of Turnstone Guitars
Rosie Heydenrych left behind a career in the charity sector to set up her small workshop in Surrey, which now specialises in English-grown timber and is building a customer base that includes Tom Quail and Martin Simpson.Meet Wicketkeeper, the laid-back London trio channelling the best of 90s US indie-rock
Guitarists Simon Morley and Ryan Oxley on how the instrument-swapping friends turned a fun hang into one of the year’s most enjoyable debut records.“It was more is more, is more, is more!”: how Idles refused to restrain themselves on new album Ultra Mono
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The current Volbeat and former Anthrax guitarist’s signature axe is an offset, but not as you know it.The Genius Of… Different Class by Pulp
After two decades on the indie fringes, Pulp struck gold in 1995 with a No.1 album that’s a vital collection of songs about love, class and leaving an important part of your brain somewhere in a field in Hampshire. Their charismatic misfit frontman wasn’t a bad guitar player either.Review: Lateral Phonics Marrakesh Preamp Console
1970s studio preamp tones in an eye-catching stompbox.
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