Guitarist

Guitarist is the longest established UK guitar magazine. You'll find authoritative gear reviews, artist interviews, technique lessons and advice. Plus, Guitarist's digital edition now includes all of the same audio and video content as the print edition; available to download from a special area of the Guitarist website!

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Back To The Source • Marshall adds another amp to its popular Studio collection, alongside compact recreations of classic designs such as the 25/50 Silver Jubilee, JCM800 and 1959SLP

Road Runner • Originally designed by Trev Wilkinson, the Eclat single-cut gets a makeover for 2023 and a signature tie-up with Brit virtuoso Paul Rose

Modern Icon • EVH adds a compact newcomer to the affordable Iconic series with this 15-watt 1x10 combo

Slap Happy • Electro-Harmonix resurrects a rare pedal from 1978 and puts it into a modern, ’board-friendly format

Track Mate • It’s not a pedal, but the latest from Walrus Audio can still help change the sound of your guitar

the Wishlist • Dream gear to beg, borrow and steal for...

Gas Supply • Our pick of the month’s most delectable and wallet-bothering new gear

Fretbuzz • A monthly look at must-hear artists from all corners of the guitar world, from the roots of their sound to the tracks that matter most

Albums • The month’s best guitar music – a hand-picked selection of the finest fretwork on wax

Tones Behind The Tracks • From playing shock-rock with Alice Cooper to landing an explosive second solo album, Nita Strauss talks us through her shred-heavy sound

Tinker, Taylor • Neville Marten recalls getting his first Taylor guitar, and how the recent surprise gift of another marked a special moment in his musical life

Hammer It Home • Alex Bishop tries to curb an unhealthy tool-buying addiction and inadvertently connects with a distant ancestor along the way…

Skinted Or Minted? • Pro guitarist Stuart Ryan owns both a cheap 90s Epiphone and a high-end Gibson ‘Murphy Lab’ ES-335. ‘But which is better?’ asks Jamie Dickson

THREE TO GET READY • Reasonably priced, capable semis

Superimposed Arpeggios • Richard Barrett introduces the concept of polychords, where two triads collide to open up interesting harmonic and melodic ideas

Feedback • Your letters to the Guitarist editor. Drop us a line at guitarist@futurenet.com

MATTEO MANCUSO • Steve Vai has called him ‘the evolution of the guitar’ while Al Di Meola said his playing was ‘light years ahead’. Is it something they put in the water in Sicily, we ask, as we meet the young guitarist redefining virtuosity

SOUND OF THE SOUL • John McLaughlin said of Debashish Bhattacharya that “he has no equal” on slide guitar. High praise indeed but fully justified by his 28-album career of serenely virtuosic guitar. We meet the master himself to talk about the hard road he took to pioneer Indian classical music on guitar, the deep spiritual connections between American blues and the ra-gas, and his sublime new album, The Sound Of The Soul

1958 GIBSON FLYING V • Gibson only made 98 Flying Vs during the 1950s, so when Wiltshire auctioneers Gardiner Houlgate told us it had a 1958 example, we dashed straight over

150 Years Of EPIPHONE • Luxury archtop maker, budget brand, rock icon. Epiphone has been so many things to so many people over the years that discovering its true soul as a guitar maker is a difficult task. That’s why, as Epiphone celebrates a century-and-a-half in business, we’ve enlisted the help of vintage-guitar experts, leading artists and Gibson’s own archivists to tell its harlequin history. For, when you look beneath the patinated...