Latest articles by Michael Astley-Brown
This week’s essential guitar tracks: thrash wigouts that sound like Tool on acid and the best MTV video pastiche you’ll see all month
Unmissable new jams from King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Gov't Mule, Nita Strauss, Towa Bird, Empire State Bastard, My Ugly Clementine and LOADS MORE
Godin just unveiled its best-appointed Session guitar yet – and it could give Fender and Ibanez a run for their money
With a Canadian build and choice Seymour Duncan pickups, the Superstrat-styled Session T-Pro has serious potential
Zakk Wylde’s latest Pantera guitar is a tribute to Dimebag Darrell’s Dean From Hell – is a new guitar line in the works?
The lightning bolt-finished Wylde Audio Warhammer pays homage to Dime’s iconic Dean ML design – and could point towards a new range of guitars inspired by the late guitar hero
Nuno Bettencourt explains what’s underrated about Tom Morello’s guitar playing – and why it “pisses me off a little bit”
The Extreme virtuoso voiced his thoughts on his Rage Against the Machine guitar buddy in a recent joint press conference
Can’t wait for Dave Grohl’s DG-335? Emily Wolfe just dropped the best-looking Epiphone semi-hollow of the year
The blues-rocker’s new “White Wolfe” Sheraton is a stone-cold stunner
MXR might have just made the most versatile Fuzz Face ever – and it only has two controls
The Hybrid Fuzz combines germanium and silicon transistors for one era-spanning fuzz pedal
We don’t know anything about Sleep Token, but at least we have some idea of what guitar gear they’re using
Jackson Guitars has gone behind the scenes with metal’s most mysterious band to uncover the rig that powers IV’s crushing live tones
No, this isn’t Photoshopped. Some dude actually turned his pedalboard into a diorama of a raging outdoor show using $3k worth of figurines
The “Homieboard” has gone viral after being listed for sale on Facebook Marketplace
Watch Tom Morello and Nuno Bettencourt trade solos as they cover Audioslave’s Cochise with Gary Cherone
The two Extreme members joined Morello for a version of the Chris Cornell-fronted classic – complete with an extended guitar solo section
Wait, Polyphia are using Marshall amps now?
Digital modeling enthusiasts Tim Henson and Scott LePage have been spotted with JCM800s – but is everything as it seems?
This week's essential guitar tracks: from the biggest rock band on Earth to Nuno Bettencourt's favorite solo
Songs you gotta hear from Rockin’1000 ft. Chris Robertson, Extreme, Elegant Weapons, Foo Fighters, Code Orange, ONI feat. Jared Dines and oh so many more
Fender debuts limited-run Sakuraburst MIJ Hybrid II Stratocaster – and this one’s actually available outside of Japan
Previously a Japan-only exclusive, could the arrival of this fresh ’burst herald a change in tack from Fender?
This week's essential guitar tracks: two of YouTube's biggest shred heroes team up and a slide titan pays tribute to a Southern rock guitar legend
This week has played host to some of 2023's most exciting tracks so far from Sophie Lloyd and Cole Rolland, Royal Blood, Starbenders, Evile, Mutoid Man, Duane Betts ft. Derek Trucks, Buck Meek and a whole lot more
TC Electronic debuts the Infinite Mini Sample Sustainer, shrinking John Mayer’s favorite infinite sustain pedal
The new design delivers the same organic infinitely looped layers but in a pedalboard real estate-saving enclosure
Tom Morello’s guitar rig is now a Neural DSP plugin – watch the Rage Against the Machine firebrand demo his signature software… with a wrench
Archetype: Tom Morello crams the iconic pedalboard and long-serving Marshall JCM amp into your computer – but does it nail those trademark Whammy tones?
This week's essential guitar tracks: alt-rock heroes return and a virtual metal band team up with a thrash legend
Unmissable new cuts from Queens of the Stone Age, Nili Brosh, Alex Skolnick, Black Stone Cherry, Tash Sultana, Asking Alexandria and… Dolly Parton?!
This week's essential guitar tracks: from Smashing Pumpkins' shredding metal turn to solos from the son of a session legend
All the guitar-driven songs you need to hear this week
Kiesel unveils the Sophie Lloyd Signature Series – signature guitars you can spec yourself
The social media virtuoso and Machine Gun Kelly guitarist has kitted her signature model out with some fun appointments – and aesthetics you can customize
Dustie Waring steps down from Between the Buried and Me tour following sexual assault allegations
The prog-metal outfit have confirmed a session guitarist will step in for Waring
Guitarists rally round Ice Nine Kills’ Dan Sugarman as medical scare forces him to pull out of Metallica support slots
Kiko Loureiro, Angel Vivaldi and Robb Flynn have expressed their support for Sugarman, who will be replaced by Bad Wolves’ Doc Coyle and Miles Dimitri Baker for the shows
Fender’s latest Tom DeLonge Starcaster features actual meteorite dust in its finish – a potential first for guitar building
A production-line version of the Blink-182 guitarist’s signature model is looking more likely than ever – minus the space dust
Keanu Reeves picks up the bass guitar again as his band Dogstar ready new music and live dates
The Hollywood star is up to his old Ma-trix
Watch Extreme’s Nuno Bettencourt play the Rise solo live for the first time
Spoiler alert: it’s scary clean
