Electricity? Overrated… ‘Real’ guitarists know that a guitar’s genuine excitement is best earned via the more personal connection of the player plus the resonant wooden body of an acoustic. Decades ...

To borrow a song title from Radiohead’s worst album, anybody can play guitar. The world is full of virtuosic talents and genre-pushing pioneers, but they all had to start from the same place ...

Learning guitar – or any instrument, really – is a series of constant questions. How do I tune this thing? How in the world do you play a barre chord? Do I seriously have to play a song for you?

Isbell's one-man outing behind his 'Foxes in the Snow' album is up there with his band tours for sheer musical electricity. Playing a mid-tour show at Oakland’s Calvin Simmons Theatre (a juke ...

The Martin D-18E will be part of an upcoming exhibit at the Royal College of Music Museum in London. By Gil Kaufman One of Kurt Cobain‘s most iconic instruments is about to go on display for the ...

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If you’re a guitarist, chances are you’ll be after recording yourself at some point or other. Your route to at-home or on-the-go recording is, of course, the humble audio interface – an essential and ...

The best female guitarists of all time prove that the guitar isn’t just for phallic fretwork and cock-rock grandstanding. The good news about the best female guitarists is that there are too ...