10 Top Tips: Charlie Starr – Blackberry Smoke
10 Top Tips: Charlie Starr – Blackberry Smoke
The guitarist and frontman in Southern-rock kings Blackberry Smoke shares his songwriting advice.
Interview | Gary Walker
1. Write...
PRS Reveals Exotic Top SE Range
PRS Reveals Exotic Top SE Range
PRS flamed maple tops are renowned the world over, but every now and again we are able to find...
Private Collection: Malcolm Lindsay – Screen Dream
Private Collection: Malcolm Lindsay – Screen Dream
Malcolm Lindsay’s TV and film career has been a creative journey. However, as G&B finds out, the project...
Become An Elixir Strings Test Pilot With G&B
Become An Elixir Strings Test Pilot With G&B
We’ve partnered with Elixir Strings to give away 20 sets of their brand new lightweight and natural-feeling...
Vintage Bench Test: 1956 Les Paul TV Special
Vintage Bench Test: 1956 Les Paul TV Special
Huw Price finds that this played-in and wonderfully maintained Les Paul Special challenges some of the conventional...
In Pictures: Gardiner Houlgate Guitar Auction, March 2017
In Pictures: Gardiner Houlgate Guitar Auction, March 2017
The Gardiner Houlgate guitar auction returns this month at the Bath Auction Rooms in Corsham.The post In...
Ernie Ball celebrates 30 years of the Stingray
Ernie Ball celebrates 30 years of the Stingray
Ernie Ball Music Man is celebrating 30 years since the launch of its Stingray bass with the...
The 20 Best FX Pedals In The World Today
The 20 Best FX Pedals In The World Today
Walrus Audio Jupiter Multi-Clip Fuzz
An articulate and supremely versatile fuzzbox with a range of switchable clipping...
The Money Shot: 1966 Fender Telecaster
The Money Shot: 1966 Fender Telecaster
Last month, the subject of The Money Shot was a gorgeous 1962 Fender Jazzmaster up for grabs at December’s...
Oldamps Filmosound Review
Oldamps Filmosound Review
With one foot in the 1940s and the other in the now, this repurposed cine-projector amplifier features vintage valves and transformers alongside...
The Guitar Show 2017: Gallery
The Guitar Show 2017: Gallery
We recently paid a visit to The Guitar Show at New Bingley Hall in Birmingham. Running over the 25th and...
10 Top Tips: Tommy Emmanuel
10 Top Tips: Tommy Emmanuel
Virtuoso fingerstyle guitarist Tommy Emmanuel has been playing professionally since the age of six and is one of only five...
Strymon Announce Sunset Dual Overdrive
Strymon Announce Sunset Dual Overdrive
Strymon have announced Sunset; a brand new two channel overdrive pedal. It includes six different circuit types which are found...
MUSIKMESSE 2017: Hutchins Guitars to launch two new guitar and bass ranges
MUSIKMESSE 2017: Hutchins Guitars to launch two new guitar and bass ranges
Guitar maker launches two new...
Changes at the top for Fender
Changes at the top for Fender
Fender’s CEO Andy Mooney has announced a new ‘executive structure’ within the product division for two of the company’s...
The new issue of Guitar & Bass is out now!
The new issue of Guitar & Bass is out now!
The April 2017 issue of Guitar & Bass is on sale now!
Buy your copy The...
WATCH: Orange amps ambassador Brian 'Head' Welch from Korn on the Rockerverb 100 MKIII
WATCH: Orange amps ambassador Brian 'Head' Welch from Korn on the Rockerverb 100 MKIII
The Korn guitarist...
PDP offers travel-friendly kit
PDP offers travel-friendly kit
Designed in conjunction with drummer Daru Jones (Jack White) the Daru Jones New Yorker (DJNY) kit from Pacific Drums & Percussion...
Win! Empress effects reverb pedal worth £459!
Win! Empress effects reverb pedal worth £459!
Enter our competition for the chance to win a brilliant Empress Effects Reverb stomp box!
This month, G&B is...
North East Guitar Show returns for 2017
North East Guitar Show returns for 2017
For 2017, THE NORTH EAST GUITAR SHOW returns to the superb, purpose-built event complex at Rainton Meadows Arena,...
Interview: Hiss Golden Messenger
Interview: Hiss Golden Messenger
Hailed widely as one of the best albums of 2016, Heart Like A Levee saw Hiss Golden Messenger receive the critical...
Empress Reverb, Strymon BigSky & Eventide Space Shootout
Empress Reverb, Strymon BigSky & Eventide Space Shootout
In search of the ultimate digital reverb pedal? Gary Walker pits two established heavyweights against a new...
Novo Guitars Serus J Review
Novo Guitars Serus J Review
Pennsylvania’s answer to Midas goes for gold again. Chris Vinnicombe gives Dennis Fano’s latest creation a spin…
Regular G&B readers will...
Strymon Riverside Multistage Drive Review
Strymon Riverside Multistage Drive Review
If overdrive is the final frontier for digital effects, then Strymon is the Starship Enterprise. Beam us up, Richard Purvis…
We’re...
Ernie Ball’s Cradle to crave
Ernie Ball’s Cradle to crave
Ernie Ball has introduced CradleTune, billed as ‘a workbench in your gigbag’.
CradleTune utilises a tuner and tripod to provide an...