“I’m 42 years old; I’ve only just realised you can change the tuning to make it easier to play stuff!”: When Death Cab for Cutie shared their guitar rig with us
“I’m cancelling my subscription”: Suno users slam its V6 update as “muffled, generic, soulless garbage”
“There’s no replacement for picking up a guitar and feeling those strings”: Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy, Paul Gilbert, and more on how to get your fingers fretboard-ready by building your calluses the right way
“When I heard Fred’s voice for the first time, I thought, God, he’ll never be a singer. He sounds like a strangled sheep”: Roger Taylor on what he thought when he first heard Freddie Mercury
“I’ve had this guitar since I was 12 years old. My mom bought it for me off my guitar teacher”: Billie Joe Armstrong on how his first-ever guitar defined Green Day’s sound
“When I pressed ‘record’ the two of us breathed in, and then when I finished we breathed out. That’s what it felt like”: Johnny Marr recalls the intimate and magical experience of writing songs with Morrissey for The Smiths
Guitar Center launches competition to find openers for Ed Sheeran – just as all his support acts dropped out
“He told us how it would change the band’s trajectory, it could be an albatross around our necks – but we wanted a radio hit”: The Wonder Stuff tell us how they spawned an uplifting indie classic
“I lost my voice, had a nervous breakdown and disappeared for 10 years”: La Roux re-emerges from a long hibernation with a new album about a ‘long and very painful breakup’
“I always found Fenders too scratchy and Gibsons a bit too dark”: Brian May on what guitar he’d play if he never made the Red Special
“We grew up massive fans of Green Day. We knew all the lore and how Rob worked with them – we were just starstruck”: Riff Wood formed when they were 11 years old. Then they were discovered by Green Day’s producer. Stadiums are next
“Before Macklemore challenged me to match his donation, Ed called me and asked me to commit $2 million”: Robert Kraft says that Ed Sheeran has asked him to match his own donation to ‘fight this humanitarian crisis’
“One day Mike played a riff on the guitar, with an echo, and I suddenly sang, ‘She seems to have an invisible touch – yeah!’ It came into my head fully formed”: How Genesis created their biggest hit – with a writing process “like jazz”
Keith Richards, Travis Scott, PinkPantheress and more tease their inclusion on the upcoming Grand Theft Auto VI soundtrack: “My Return To Game Gotta Come With Rage”
“The most natural, studio‑grade live tone ever achieved from an acoustic guitar”: Gibson and Baggs might have just revolutionized acoustic guitar pickups
“Mike McCready played the prototype during Alive and Even Flow live with Pearl Jam. How much more R&D truth can you get?” How signature models are really made – and how they can drive innovation in guitar design
“I walked into the studio and she was sitting at the piano, playing the song we were going to cut that day. When you’re in a room with greatness like that, it’s hard not to be affected in a visceral way”: Steve Lukather hails the genius of Joni Mitchell
