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![Anton Mocock of Ditz](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/65q7S6oETR8rviWKVPv8Te-320-80.jpg)
Introducing Ditz, the UK post-punks who don’t mind fighting their equipment to achieve their vicious six-string bite
By Will Ainsley published
This guitar duo smash up hardcore, industrial and post-punk with a less-is-more approach, don’t worry about who’s taking leads – and don’t plan to return the reverb pedals they were lent
![Marty Spender postes in the studio alongside her Two Rock Classic Reverb tube amp in seafoam green tolex.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/tkefHGzLE8s5mzKnNDLxzd-320-80.jpg)
Mary Spender on the tones, tunes and heartache behind her debut breakup album
By Henry Yates published
Featuring a guest spot from Ariel Posen and some of the most gourmet tones you'll hear all year, Super.Sexy.Heartbreak. finds Spender processing a lifetime of broken hearts through fingerstyle guitar
![Mike Dawes in New York City composite image next to an airplane taking flight](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/RNS7xQHEeeyQeQZ79riijb-320-80.jpg)
The myths of flying with your guitar busted by a pro musician
By Mike Dawes published
Mike Dawes is a touring guitarist playing over 200 shows every year, spanning everywhere from Iceland to Kenya. He lends us his top tips on keeping your guitar safe while traveling
![Maddie Kerr of mercury](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/s3biAoPt6L4N3B5DzC93jj-320-80.jpg)
Meet mercury, the wall-of-sound indie-rockers teetering on the edge of chaos
By Ellie Rogers published
Tennessee alt-rock experimentalist Maddie Kerr writes on acoustic before piling up the pedals on her partscaster – but a cranked-up Marshall is the key to her “out of control” sound
![Don Musser Acoustics](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/eRcMGKBa9GPCcNtHZoTPK-320-80.jpg)
Meet Don Musser, the ‘Dumble of acoustics’ who has made guitars for Dylan, EVH and Neil Young
By Huw Price published
He’s built guitars for some of the very biggest names in the business and yet Don Musser remains a known unknown. We track him down to fill in the blanks
![Tom Shemer kneels before his Lee-la Baum as the Damn Truth perform live onstage. He wears a red shirt and plays a Les Paul while Baum plays a retro single-cut electric and screams into the mic.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/MJQGpmP9KrLTzJZ7eE5csH-320-80.jpg)
Meet the Canadian quartet bringing their raucous sound to the masses – with a little help from Bob Rock
By Glenn Kimpton published
Rooted in blues-rock but expanded by metal, folk, and country, The Damn Truth's catchy, riff-heavy tunes seem bound to conquer rock playlists, and stages, 'round the world
![Stele Lukather](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/pfPsrBBDEYiY9G8ZdtRSTX-320-80.jpg)
Steve Lukather on wielding Beck’s Strat, jams with George Harrison – and his best solo slip-up
By Andrew Daly published
Luke sets the record straight on recent fake interview about modern players, explains how he knew when Michael Jackson liked his playing, and hints at what to expect from his new Music Man signature
![Terry Kath performs onstage with Chicago](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ofET5bzFuE9snMsmMqFKw7-320-80.jpg)
Jimi Hendrix said he was a better guitar player than he was – yet this Telecaster icon often remains overlooked
By Jackson Maxwell published
Had he not died tragically at 31, there's no telling what virtuoso Chicago guitarist Terry Kath would have gone on to do with the instrument
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