Matthew Parker

TG reports from the world's best metal festival

This year's Download festivities kicked off properly yesterday (12 June), with sets from AC/DC, Them Crooked Vultures and Killswitch Engage.

TG is heading to Download festival this weekend, so make sure you keep an eye on the site for daily updates and reviews.

This week we've got free MP3 downloads from The Coral, The Young Veins, Young Rebel Set, The Beatsteaks and Foxx Bandits.

Renegades – the moniker that the chaps from Feeder adopted in January for their new back-to-basics live act

Have a look at this amazing custom Stratocaster-style electric guitar built by Mat Smith from Blackpool. With Lego

We got this rather attractive looking Airline Folkstar electric resonator guitar through from Eastwood the other day and we thought you might enjoy a sneak preview ahead of our review.

Well, OBVIOUSLY

High-end American amp manufacturer Mesa/Boogie has unveiled its own version of the “lunchbox” head, the TransAtlantic TA-15

Those of you looking forward to a new Foo Fighters album may be waiting some time, according to a new interview with Dave Grohl in Rhythm magazine

Legendary Scottish hard-rock band Nazareth are giving their back catalogue the re-issue treatment and we’ve got two sets of three signed albums to give away

We want your opinion on the big issues

Johnny Marr, the guitar virtuoso behind the Smiths, has had a guitar worth £30,000 returned following a London court case.

Check out this delightfully mental video for ‘Giving Up The Gun’ from everyone’s favourite Brooklyn indie pop intellectuals Vampire Weekend

Some are weird as hell, some require email sign-ups, some your first-born, but they’re all free

Hello dear readers! Total Guitar issue 199 hit news-stands around the country today and it’s crammed full of guitar-related awesomeness

Slam Dunk Festival has announced the first wave of bands confirmed for its 2010 event

We stumbled across this ’59 Gibson Les Paul ‘Burst’ up for sale on Ebay during in our morning’s ‘research’

So, last night Oasis won the Brit award for Best British Album of the last 30 years for '(What's The Story) Morning Glory?'

Janie Hendrix has said that Harmonix will release a special Jimi Hendrix edition of 'Rock Band', similar to the 2009 Beatles effort

Welsh metal-core titans Bullet For My Valentine have confirmed a 26 April release date for their new album, ‘Fever’

TG is always on the look out for the next amusingly named product that can be loosely affiliated with guitars

Zakk Wylde has chosen to reveal his plans for a new album with the Black Label Society through his Twitter page.

Download Festival has announced a host of new additions to its 2010 line-up, including Rage Against The Machine, Aerosmith, TG191 cover stars Lamb Of God

Everyone's favourite New York wide-boys The Strokes have released this jaunty little video of them having a jaunty little time during the recording sessions for their as-yet-untitled fourth album.