Matt Parker
Matt is a freelance journalist who has spent the last decade interviewing musicians for the likes of Total Guitar, Guitarist, Guitar World, MusicRadar, NME.com, DJ Mag and Electronic Sound. In 2020, he launched CreativeMoney.co.uk, which aims to share the ideas that make creative lifestyles more sustainable. He plays guitar, but should not be allowed near your delay pedals.
Latest articles by Matt Parker

Gregory Alan Isakov: “Creating something with your hands is so rare. With guitar, we’re creating something out of thin air”
By Matt Parker published
The Coloradan singer-songwriter discusses songwriting, travel and craft

NAMM 2019: Gretsch Electromatic range goes for gold with new G5655TG
By Matt Parker published
Plus new Jet FT Single Cut finish options

NAMM 2019: Blackstar unveils JJN-20R Jared James Nichols signature head and cab
By Matt Parker published
Electric bluesman has 'Star named after him

NAMM 2019: Taylor launches Grand Pacific line of round-shoulder dreadnoughts
By Matt Parker, Rob Laing published
Off-the-shoulder numbers include V-Class bracing

NAMM 2019: PRS unveils new finishes for Strat-alike Silver Sky model
By Matt Parker published
Blue 'Skys ahead

David Crosby: “Dying is part of life. I’m at the end of my life, so I have to look at it”
By Matt Parker published
The folk-rock icon finds redemption in reflection in his creative, collaborative new record, Here If You Listen

Bob Mould: “I’m a very innovative rhythm guitarist. And a pretty less-than-average soloist!”
By Matt Parker published
The US indie/punk legend talks positive new album Sunshine Rock

6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear in January 2019
By Matt Parker published
This month we open up Throat, Emma Ruth Rundle, Those Damn Crows, Bloxx and Death Valley Girls...

5 minutes alone - McFly's Danny Jones: “I had a lesson off one of my idols: John Mayer”
By Matt Parker published
Picking the brain of the guitarist and songwriter

6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear in December
By Matt Parker published
From moody blues to mask-wearing metallic hardcore

5 minutes alone - Rich Robinson: “All of my gear was destroyed in Hurricane Sandy in 2012. I lost 70 guitars”
By Matt Parker published
The former Black Crowe turned Magpie Salute wingman ponders narc nightmares, divorcing his gear and the wisdom of Neil Young.

6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear in November
By Matt Parker published
From voodoo riffs, to pop punk and gothic indie rock

Duane Eddy: “You use the technology and don’t let it use you. I can’t get that through to people”
By Matt Parker published
The titan of twang on tone, tales and the story behind his signature Gretsch six-string bass guitar

5 minutes alone - Ash's Tim Wheeler: "We weren't good enough to play the music we wanted to play, so we started writing songs"
By Matt Parker published
Splashing advances on Les Pauls, nightmare gigs and surprise hits

Ruen Brothers: “With an acoustic guitar, it sounds like what it was built to sound like. There’s a continuity”
By Matt Parker published
The UK duo on their rock 'n' roll debut, All My Shades Of Blue

6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear in October
By Matt Parker published
We take a stroll through Orchards, Mask Of Judas, Ink, Camp Cope, Jo Passed and Groundculture...

Emma Ruth Rundle: "The guitar is so wonderful because there are all these things you can do with it: it’s like developing a landscape"
By Matt Parker published
The US songwriter on telling stories with tone, tunings and T-Birds

Ruston Kelly: “Brutish and kind of rude and beautiful - that was the kind of art that I wanted to make”
By Matt Parker published
The rising alt-country songwriter discusses addiction, songwriting and his disarming debut Dying Star

The playlist: Dan Patlansky
By Matt Parker published
Blues rocker Dan Patlansky shuffles through his record collection and reveals why he’s scuppered by Scuttle Buttin’

6 fresh guitar artists you need to hear in September
By Matt Parker published
This month we pet Haggard Cat, Bitch Falcon, Nervus, Scottibrains, Oceans Of Slumber and Snail Mail.

Old Crow Medicine Show's Ketch Secor: “I think there are too many guitar players in the United States of America”
By Matt Parker published
The roots hero on the lessons guitarists forget

Damien Jurado: “I’m never online, so that to me is a really big influence on my writing. It keeps you in your own lane”
By Matt Parker published
On his 14th album, The Horizon Just Laughed, the idiosyncratic Seattle songwriter presents personal upheaval in a misleadingly laid-back package

Wild Nothing’s Jack Tatum: “I've never really understood the argument against doing something that has been done before well”
By Matt Parker published
The Virginian indie-rocker discusses perfection, questioning originality and ripping up analogue convention
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