ALBUM REVIEW: Stew – A Will Away
A stew is a hearty wintertime meal. It’s filled to the brim with warmth, conjuring up reminders of home when home seems far away. But to be in a stew…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Ascent From The Mundane – Near Death Condition
Following an eight-year hiatus, the self-described ‘bleak death metal’ band NEAR DEATH CONDITION have returned with their new collection of grating slabs of misanthropy, titled Ascent From The Mundane. It’s…
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Watch session ace Rob Gueringer wield a one-of-a-kind chrome PRS Silver Sky guitar at the Super Bowl
The PRS artist took to the stage alongside Eminem, Mary J. Blige, Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar and Snoop Dogg with an eye-catching version of John Mayer’s signature
Read more » Paul Davids removes Jimi Hendrix Monterey Strat video until a panel of “independent industry experts” can verify the guitar's authenticity
The YouTuber published a video in December in which he claimed to play Jimi Hendrix’s black Monterey Fender Stratocaster, but some viewers weren’t buying it
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ALBUM REVIEW: Melodoria – Black Map
BLACK MAP return for their latest record, Melodoria. With the weight of a pandemic behind them, this record is a bold turn into new territories for the trio, with influences…
Read more » The Black Tones' Eva Walker: “We would start our sets with a heavy blues instrumental. It locks people in, like, 'Oh s**t, that Black girl's actually shredding'”
The Strat-toting rocker on the four-note sequence that set her on a quest to conquer the blues and the duo’s raucous new Sub Pop single, The End of Everything
Read more » Fender Acoustasonic Player Telecaster review
Has Fender hit the sweet spot on price as well as tone with its latest hybrid guitar?
Read more » Biffy Clyro's Simon Neil: “I swear to God I cannot get rid of the Boss Metal Zone. It’s the one thing that brings the Stratocaster into that real heavy world”
The Biffy frontman shares his fat Strat strategies, demystifies weird time signatures and tells us why the Scottish rockers’ latest album is all joy and togetherness
Read more » Gibson celebrates the release of Slash’s latest record with Album Edition Les Paul Standard
The commemorative six-string – of which only 250 have been made – is emblazoned with the album’s logo and flashes a Translucent Cherry finish
Read more » Matt Pike: “I wanted this album to sound different to my previous work. But everything I play on is going to sound like me, in a weird way, shape or form”
The Sleep/High On Fire guitarist on his love of Les Pauls, and recruiting the likes of Brent Hinds, Todd Burdette and Jeff Matz for his debut solo album, Pike vs The Automaton
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