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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Latest Flame • This new model in the James Valentine line-up seduces us with its chambered ash body, cool Bigsby vibrato and a range of inspiring tones

One More Time… • Blackstar’s third iteration of the HT Venue range features updated styling and powerful modern features, such CabRig speaker emulation and a brand-new digital reverb

Red Devil • Epiphone’s collaboration with blues maestro Joe Bonamassa continues unabated, with this sexy take on one of JoBo’s own favourite axes. But is a grand and a half just too grand?

Digital Vintage • A special edition of the popular load box celebrates 15 years of Two Notes digital innovation

Rack ’Em Up • A new delay pedal from MXR is a rare event, but this fully featured soundscape generator is worth the wait

Double Dose • Beetronics’ latest will expand your pedalboard dirt options with drive and fuzz in one small pedal

Vintage V52 ProShop Unique Black Icon with Bigsby £1,199 • 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 • Tonemeister Ariel Posen stops by the Guitarist studios for a chat about his latest album and the long list of guitars he used to make it happen

A Country Boy At Heart? • You know when you’re prepared for one event, then another is sprung on you? Neville Marten recalls two such moments, involving country stars…

Pain In The Neck • This month Alex Bishop takes apart a 40-year-old acoustic guitar. But the question is: can he put it back together again?

Change Your Tune • Are you condemned to sound out of tune if you can’t intonate every string? Or can the compromises be overcome? Huw Price finds out

Finding Triads • Richard Barrett guides you from theory to musicality by choosing a chord and journeying around the fretboard

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

KEVIN ‘GEORDIE’ WALKER 1958 – 2023 • Lost to a stroke in November, Killing Joke’s late guitarist was a seminal sonic maverick whose playing could brutalise and beguile

GRETA VAN FLEET • With red-raw third album, Starcatcher, rated as the old-soul Michigan rockers’ best, Jake Kiszka reflects on banning stacks from the studio, shaking off those Zeppelin comparisons, and the “warfare” with his sibling bandmates back in the family garage

PETE TOWNSHEND • In an all-new interview, The Who’s chief architect recalls the band’s high-water mark, the album that never was, the album that almost wasn’t but remains the band’s calling card – and his enduring love for the guitar

GET LUCKY • Few guitarists have such an eclectic and knowing eye for guitars as Mark Knopfler. This January, the Dire Straits legend is putting many of his most famous instruments up for sale in the name of charity. We take a look at some of the most storied, rare and collectible guitars going under the hammer

Joe Pass • Consummate soloist, impeccable accompanist, tireless educator, fearless improvisor and bona-fide jazz legend, Joe Pass was a man that...