“Loser gatekeepers want you to believe that you need 20-plus chords in a song. In reality, you need two”: Wet Leg’s Rhian Teasdale on why you only need two chords to write a “banging” song.
“There was deep weathering after decades of abuse. As for the guitar – that looked pretty good”: Eric Clapton’s long-lost Les Paul has re-emerged after 60 years – the weird trend of famous guitars going missing, and coming back
“All the people around him said, ‘Whatever you do, don’t ask him to play guitar’!” How Paul Rodgers made Jimmy Page play guitar again after John Bonham’s death
“When he sang the chorus for the first time, I just said, ‘No, you can’t do that – it sounds ridiculous!’”: The classic 2000s hit inspired by Queen and Def Leppard – with not one but two killer guitar solos
“In the ’80s, MTV buttered our bread. But after Kurt Cobain wore his grandfather’s sweater in the video for Smells Like Teen Spirit, there was no place on MTV for bands like us and Mötley Crüe”: The life and death of the thinking person’s hair metal band
“Absurd, frivolous and harassing”: Taylor Swift wins copyright lawsuit over her song lyrics after long legal battle
“I was nervous for about a minute. And then I said, ‘Forget it’” Steve Vai on replacing Eddie Van Halen as David Lee Roth’s guitar foil for ‘Eat ‘Em and Smile’
“Klang.io promises to turn audio into notated transcriptions, lead sheets and guitar tabs – but does it actually work?”: Klang.io Transcription Studio review
“I’d been using Marshall for so long that I’d never listened to anything else. I never gave anything else a shot”: Slash on what made him finally change up his sound – and why we’re living through a renaissance for blues guitar
“We were part of the Manchester punk explosion – The Sex Pistols and the Clash were exciting and glamorous, we were quite avant garde”: Steve Diggle on the Buzzcocks’ surprising legacy and why he still relies on a 50-year-old solid-state amp
“He grabbed a guitar and strummed it. I said, ‘What the hell tuning is that?’” Charlie Starr on the joys of fingerpicking in Csus2 – the open tuning that doesn’t have a bad chord anywhere
“To call Led Zeppelin heavy metal is at the very least absurd and at worst a sin. To me, Zeppelin was the equivalent of great classical music”: Kiss stars Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons on why Zep and The Beatles’ debut albums are the greatest of all time
“I never even got as far as Riverside. But I lost her. She married some other guy. We’re still friends”: How Jimmy Webb’s classic song By The Time I Get To Phoenix found the right interpreter
“I’d argue that it was the single most important thing that happened in the history of MTV, because it saved young people’s lives”: The story of Soul Asylum’s classic ’90s hit Runaway Train and its amazingly powerful video
“At this price, it is hard to find a more complete portable digital piano”: Kawai ES120 digital piano review
“We kept trying to write one for 20 years, but they’re not very good, to be honest”: A Skyfall of Stars, anyone? Rare Coldplay recordings are being auctioned, including their early attempt at a Bond theme
“I avoid Splice as that’s what everyone else uses – I prefer to dig on the internet or rip from old sample CDs”: Yung Singh on his viral Boiler Room breakout and the Punjabi-influenced sounds behind debut EP Bloom
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