Latest articles by Ellie Rogers
Signed to Sub Pop, fearlessly DIY, with her full-length debut just announced, Hannah Jadagu is creating lo-fi indie pop with a modest single coil-driven rig and one “really wonky” pedal
The two ambient aficionados pick apart the careful, soundscape-sculpting six-string approach that helped them produce their most ambitious album to date, Love in the Void
Singer-songwriter Gabrielle Aplin composed her new album on a vintage Martin, but still has a soft spot for her junk-shop special
The former Biters guitarist discusses recording with Joe Perry's old Gibson combo and why the best gear was made in the '60s and '70s
The Les Paul wrangler extraordinaire on why he's a fingerstylist forever, how he strong-armed the gnarly blues-rock sounds on his explosive new album, and what it was like to play through one of Eddie Van Halen's Marshalls
How Belgian post-hardcore power trio Brutus found a new focus with the help of fresh tunings, a cavalcade of delays and a White Penguin
“It comes down to your hands, the way you hold the guitar, the way you strike the strings. Your touch is everything,” Nichols told Total Guitar
The My Chemical Romance and Coheed and Cambria guitarists talk their newfound chemistry, favorite Klon clones and an all-new Ernie Ball Music Man design that's still under wraps…
Mark Tremonti and Myles Kennedy on making Alter Bridge's heaviest album yet with a PRS Tele-a-like, an impossible number of guitar picks and not one but two Dumble amps
The Hoobastank guitarist on getting hold of Rage Against the Machine's first demo tape, how Dave Navarro broke his heart, and why he'd rather watch Victor Wooten than Eddie Van Halen
She's a hired gun with Kevin Morby and Squirrel Flower, and taught slide guitar for Fender, but the Chicago singer-songwriter capitalizes on her self-taught skills on new solo album Wherever You Aren’t
The Swedish Viking metal stalwarts' Olavi Mikkonen and Johan Söderberg unpack the particulars of a brutal sound that has taken a turn for the dark on their latest, death metal-inflected epic, The Great Heathen Army
“The pick is the thing that you’re interacting most with on your guitar,” the Alter Bridge man muses
The Aussie multi-instrumentalist breaks down her approach to guitar, and how she augments slide guitar with pedals and sets it to the beat of her own drum
The British indie-rock sensation's lead guitarist explains how pedals, pedals and more pedals helped build the sound for their life-affirming new album
Sam Quartin and Nick Casa dissect the band’s in-your-face, garage rock songcraft and explain why the guitar is just as important as a limb – even if it might not be the most enjoyable to play
The indie rock band's lead guitarist explains how motherhood and lockdown helped The Big Moon write Here Is Everything – their most confident album yet
A new generation of guitar heroes greets the stalwarts as we look at the decade's best albums from Slash, Ghost, The Black Keys and more – as voted by you
They don't own their own amps. They use "crappy" guitars. But together, Etta Friedman and Allegra Weingarten produce a sweet and sour sound that's audio catnip for Generation X and Z alike
The New Zealand indie-rock quartet are chasing tone gold in strange old amps and guitars that no-one else plays... and it sounds terrific
The Finnish blues-rock guitarist checks in to discuss the evolution of her style, her setup for slide, and why it pays to double up when it comes to pedalboards
The Polyphia virtuoso on going unplugged with a new nylon-string Ibanez signature, taking lessons from Tosin Abasi, and the never-ending search for new ways to augment guitar music
The Grammy-nominated songwriter and guitarist tells us “the complexity knob was turned up” for new album Revealer
Carrying the torch for San Francisco’s East Bay DIY rock lineage, Spice augment that urgent tradition with textured guitar tones inspired by post-rock’s “big noise experience”
The Australian singer-songwriter checks in to talk songwriting, influences and her musical philosophy, and insists from the get-go that she is a guitar player not a guitarist
