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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Guitarist

The Weight • With a raft of recent high-spec reissue launches, is Epiphone now the home of affordable ‘vintage’ Gibsons? On paper, yes. But what about in the flesh?

Boys Are Back In Town • The gatekeepers at Marshall have finally unlocked beast mode, releasing two brand-new Modified high-gain amps. Time to plug in!

Flying Colours • Aclam releases its third pedal inspired by vintage Vox amps and the Fab Four’s guitar sound

Greek Goddess • Crazy Tube Circuits takes on a classic valve overdrive pedal and makes it accessible and relevant for the modern ’board

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 • As Alex Lifeson’s second album from latest prog project, Envy Of None, hits the stores, we delve deep into the mists of its sonic landscape

Stars In Your Eyes • Neville Marten recalls his first Guitarist interview over beans on toast with Hank Marvin, and bottling a not-quite Paul McCartney ‘audition’…

Best In Show • Alex Bishop journeys up to Yorkshire for the inaugural String Break UK luthiers’ summit

Holy Grail Or Hoax? • Charlie Wilkins digs into the mystique of NOS valves – can they really transform your guitar tone or is it all just a myth?

THREE TO GET READY • Got NOS? Then you might need these!

Tension & Release (PART 1) • Richard Barrett experiments with suspended and altered chords to bring a sense of suspense to your compositions

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

WIZZ JONES 1939 – 2025 • The Surrey-born beatnik folk pioneer, who influenced players as significant as Keith Richards and Thurston Moore, and played alongside Bert Jansch and John Renbourn, has died at the age of 86

La Lom • This trio of Los Angeles musicians fuse the rhythms of Havana, Medellín and Lima with the sounds of 60s surf music – though their sound has more in common with Latin folk music than Dick Dale. We join them to talk about their debut album, fibreglass guitars and tropical psychedelia

BOB MOULD • With his trusty Fender Strat in hand and at a young 64, Bob Mould is an evergreen icon of alt and indie guitar – and he’s back with a new solo album

THIN LIZZY PARTNERS IN CRIME • FOR A HALF-CENTURY AND COUNTING, THE THIN LIZZY SOUND HAS BEEN FORGED AND RECAST BY SCOTT GORHAM AND THE GREATS WHO PARTNERED HIM ON DUELLING LES PAULS, INCLUDING THE LATE JOHN SYKES. GORHAM LOOKS BACK ON THE HIGHS, LOWS, JOY AND PAIN OF HIS CLASSIC PARTNERSHIPS

JET SETTING • Midge Ure, the Live Aid orchestrator and Ultravox synth-pop pioneer, looks back at his trial by fire with Thin Lizzy – and why he told Phil Lynott: “I’m not the guy you should be asking”

SOUND AS A BELL • When the Irish band were a folksy blues three-piece, it was Eric Bell who defined Thin Lizzy on their 1971 self-titled debut and early 70s follow-ups, Shades Of A Blue Orphanage and Vagabonds Of The Western World

PRE-CBS SUNBURST STRATOCASTERS • Five...