Latest articles by Matt Parker
Best Christmas gifts for musicians 2025: 43 affordable festive present ideas for music-makers (which they'll genuinely love)
Shopping for a drummer, guitarist, DJ, producer or content creator? Here’s some Christmas gift inspiration for the muso in your life - including last-minute ideas
5 essential songs guitarists need to hear by Bruce Springsteen
Born to strum… and then some
A new way of doing things. Take your audio seriously with Audient’s EVO audio interface range
No matter what you’re recording you can experience stunning sound quality across the EVO range
Novation at Recording Week 2022: Made to Create
Novation’s most versatile controller range - Launchkey
The most sought-after new signature electric guitars of 2022
From Adam Jones to ZZ Top, we run down the best new artist collaborations hitting shelves this year
The electric guitars you need to play in 2022
From the year of Jaguar, to mock Mosrites and THAT John Mayer model…
The best new guitar amplifiers for 2022
Our pick of the finest tone boxes hitting the market this year
Our pick of the new basses for 2022
From entry-level active models to limited edition luxury builds
The freshest new acoustic guitars you need to play in 2022
From bargain parlours to boutique builds
The essential new stompboxes of 2022
Transform your tone with this year’s bumper crop of innovative effects pedals
Paul Gilbert’s 1987 Custom Ibanez pink ‘Ice-Stroyer’ is up for sale for $18,500
The unique combination of Destroyer and Iceman models was custom-made for the shred icon at Ibanez’s Bensalem, PA workshop
Watch John Mayer and Alexander 23 cover Tears For Fears’ Everybody Wants To Rule The World
The guitar icon joined his support act onstage at his final Sob Rock date for an appropriately 80s cover
6 money mistakes made by musicians, and how to avoid them
Trying to go pro? Watch out for these financial pitfalls
A Magnatone for the home? Meet the Starlite 5-watt combo
Produced in response to popular demand from tone enthusiasts the US amp-maker’s new Class A combo reportedly packs a lot of tone into a small box
Gibson Custom Shop unveils $9K Mike Ness 1976 Les Paul Deluxe
The Social Distortion guitarist’s modified Gibson has been recreated in painstaking detail
Martin expands Road Series with three new SC acoustic electric single-cut guitars for 2022
The SE-10E, SC-13E Special and S13-E Special Burst all offer 'heel-less' builds with Martin's Sure Align cut-away system
Fender’s Hammertone pedals range aims to cover the basics with a high-quality, entry-level effects line
Stomp! Hammertone
Taylor expands American Dream Series and Grand Theatre builds with five new for ’22 models
AD27e Flametop and GeT blacktop among the new builds
Gibson revives legendary Maestro pedals brand with five new stompboxes, including the Fuzz-Tone FZ-M
See the first five pedals, due this year – including the Invader Distortion, Ranger Overdrive, Comet Chorus and Discoverer Delay
Steven Van Zandt: "The bands that grew up as dance bands had that extra energy, like The E Street Band, like The Beatles, like the Stones"
Classic interview: Springsteen's trusted collaborator talks technique, honesty and the five crafts of guitar and rock 'n' roll
GOAT Hunt: The greatest guitarists pre-2000 revealed
GOAT Hunt: Blues icons, bandanas and big hair. Your pick of the players from the era of virtuoso guitar talent that ran 1980-1999
