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A guitar amp with a touchscreen? Mooer’s $190 F15i looks to set a new benchmark for desktop modeling amps – and promises to “redefine portable guitar practice”

Could the Positive Grid Spark have competition?

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Here are the 13 must-try guitar accessories for under $25 this Prime Day - including the Hetfield-approved Dunlop Black Fang guitar picks for only $8.25!

From picks to tuners, slides to strings, these are our choices for the best guitar-related items under $25 on sale right now at Amazon

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The secret behind Marcin, Matteo and Paco? How rest note picking can improve your tone, speed and volume

Paco Peña, Marcin Patrzałek and Matteo Mancuso all use rest strokes to play powerful single notes – here's how to make them work for you

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“My gosh, that’s a big guitar”: 10-year-old guitarist nails Are You Gonna Go May Way during America’s Got Talent – on a PRS that’s almost as tall as he is

Bay Melnick Virgolino’s PRS might make him look tiny, but the sounds he gets out of it are huge

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“I remember reading it and thinking, ‘Why did he say I left the band?’ I never left the band. I was fired”: Vivian Campbell sets the record straight on his infamous departure from Ronnie James Dio’s band

The guitar icon joined and departed Dio in the space of a few years owing to disagreements over the financial running of the band, Campbell says

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"This is the kind of guitar that encourages you to play your best, allowing you to perform faster, smoother, and more expressively than you thought possible": Gibson Marcus King ES-345 review

Marcus King delivers a royal reimagining of an ES classic – and it may take the crown as the finest signature guitar of the year

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“I stepped on the stage really hard and the guitar fell over and exploded. The headstock shattered into five pieces”: That time Ty Segall accidentally smashed his beloved ’60s Gibson

We’ve all got at least one broken gear anecdote, and if you think yours is a horror story, think again...

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“Sound like your favorite song with a single click”: This ambitious pedal uses AI to recreate the guitar tones from any song you feed it

Show the OnePedal a song and it’ll steal its tonal secrets, its developers say

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“A modern take on vintage tones”: PRS gives its celebrated NF 53 the SE treatment – tabling a bid for the best sub-$1k electric of 2025

The workhorse six-string is loaded with the firm’s innovative Narrowfield pickups and a bunch of premium specs – and it’s already received rave reviews

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“I like a standard-tuning guitar. If you can’t put your ideas across with that, you’re in trouble”: Justin Hawkins on why he’s not convinced by alternate tunings

Hawkins believes that E standard offers plenty of opportunity for expression

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“There were a lot of things I wish I had done with Greta that if I could go back in time and do differently, I would”: Jake Kiszka’s Greta Van Fleet journey so far has been an astounding success – but there are some things he’d change about it

Kiszka looks back on GVF’s early days while looking ahead to the future with his brand-new project, Mirador

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“Korn was doing their 30th anniversary show with Gojira. I was like, ‘I have to go give Christian a guitar, and I have to give Head a guitar’”: Tetrarch on the joy of handing out signature models to their heroes and designing metal’s gnarliest tones

The Ugly Side of Me is an utterly crushing exercise in 21st-century riffs and tones, and if you're wondering how they get these sounds, well, Josh Fore and Diamond Rowe take us behind the scenes and tell all

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“Rule number one: When you’re notusing a pedal, your guitar must sound like your original guitar sound”: Steve Stevens on the pedalbord the guru Dave Friedman made him, his favorite Klon klone and why he can't use chorus anymore

The effervescent Billy Idol guitarist reveals the secrets of his pedalboard

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“Well-spec'd and looking like it could do serious damage on the battlefield, this guitar is as muscular as Rammstein’s live shows”: ESP LTD RZK-III OW review

Rammstein’s riffer-in-chief Richard ZK returns with his third signature guitar, marking a departure from its predecessors with an arsenal of fun features

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“If you think PRS just makes guitars for well-heeled doctors and dentists, you might have to change your opinion”: PRS SE NF 53 review

A new month, a new PRS. This time the USA NF 53 gets the affordable SE treatment

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“I miss being at the end of the stage and turning up my amp as loud as possible”: Oasis have performed their first live shows in 16 years – and Noel Gallagher re-embracing guitar solos after all this time is set to be a highlight of the entire reunion

After largely spending years as the rhythm guitarist for his High Flying Birds project, Gallagher is finally letting loose on the fretboard once again

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“There’s apparently only two of them, so I feel very lucky to have it”: The oddball electric guitar that fast-rising soul-pop guitarist Maya Delilah favors over her Strats and Teles

The fingerstyle guitarist and genre-blending singer-songwriter recently released her debut record on the historic Blue Note Records

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“I was expecting weirdness, but Michael wasn’t that way at all. He was very interested in my pedalboard”: Session legend Tim Pierce on working with Michael Jackson – and how the King of Pop turned out to be an unexpected gear nerd

As a session pro, Pierce has worked with a who’s who of the music industry, and lent his guitar chops to some of Jackson’s most notable recordings

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“Draws on everything we’ve learned”: Gibson (sort of) revives the cult Marauder model beloved by Adam Jones and Paul Stanley – by combining it with an even more obscure build

A Marauder in all but name, the celebratory offering marks 50 years of Gibson handcrafting guitars in Nashville

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“We were doing War Pigs… Ozzy looks at me and mouths, ‘What are the words?’ I said, ‘Idon’t know.’ So he started singing Old MacDonald Had a Farm”: Jake E. Lee on his wild Ozzy Osbourne days and why Tony Iommi is harder to emulate than Randy Rhoads

Arthritis and the small matter of being shot didn't stop Jake E. Lee from honoring his old bandmate/boss Ozzy Osbourne and hero Tony Iommi at Sabbath's final show. And Tom Morello needed him bad

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“I gave up trying to be a great guitar player. I have enough to get by in the studio – I got away with murder”: Mark Knopfler on why he doesn’t consider himself a “guitar god” – and the ones in the industry who deserve that title

40 years after the release of the Dire Straits’ seminal album, Brothers in Arms, Knopfler reflects on that game-changing period and why he was always a reluctant rock star

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“You gotta quit at the right moment, and Gary did the worst thing any band member can do. I was angry, man”: Scott Gorham on how his guitar partnership with Gary Moore came to a dramatic end – and building bridges with the late guitar hero decades later

The Belfast-born virtuoso brought blues-rock fireworks to Thin Lizzy's sound and a muscular foil for Gorham who was always trying something different

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“The audience got on my side when I came out with this broken guitar… it started life as a Baby Taylor but got stepped on and snapped”: He's been called the UK's “best, most humane songwriter” but a broken acoustic is the secret to Richard Dawson's sound

Richard Dawson on balancing the mundane and profane, and the "unsteady" melodies of his staggering new album

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“A bold step forward in modern amp design”: Blackstar goes up against Boss and Positive Grid with the ID:X – a next-gen modeling amp with newly developed tech that isn’t afraid of the competition

Blackstar goes up against Boss and Positive Grid with the ID:X – a next-gen modeling amp with newly developed tech that isn’t afraid of the competition

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“Still processing it all. It might take a while”: Joe Bonamassa wraps his Rory Gallagher tribute shows and delivers a stunning cover of As The Crow Flies on Gallagher’s original 1932 National resonator

The gorgeous ancient relic was made famous by Gallagher’s take on the Tony Joe White song on his 1974 live album, Irish Tour

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