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Did Hendrix Play This Rare 1968 SG Custom?
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Catalinbread StarCrash Fuzz Review
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Catalinbread StarCrash Fuzz Review

Although inspired by the classic Fuzz Face, this stomp brings more to the hair-growth game with wide-ranging bias and low-cut controls.

Andy Summers: The Premier Guitar Interview
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Andy Summers: The Premier Guitar Interview

With the release of his latest solo EP, Vertiginous Canyons, the former Police guitarist shares in-depth on his personal journey from Romani caravan to becoming a peer of Eric Clapton’s to shaping a modern dialect of jazz-rock innovation.

Mdou Moctar’s Furious New Record Is an Elegy for Justice
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Mdou Moctar’s Furious New Record Is an Elegy for Justice

On the Tuareg band’s Funeral for Justice, they light a fiery, mournful pyre of razor-sharp desert-blues riffs and political calls to arms.

Slash’s New Blues Album: Orgy of the Damned
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Slash's Orgy of the Damned

The guitar icon revisits his roots with a feral 6-string rager featuring guests Billy Gibbons, Gary Clark Jr., Chris Stapleton, Brian Johnson, Steven Tyler, Beth Hart, Demi Lovato, and others. His guests onstage for the accompanying S.E.R.P.E.N.T. Festival tour will be a rotating cast of the Warren Haynes Band, Keb’ Mo’, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Robert Randolph, Larkin Poe, Eric Gales, ZZ Ward, Samantha Fish, and Jackie Venson.

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Supercharge Your DAW with These 14 Amp Plugins

Nashville producer James Cody examines plugins from IK Multimedia, Native Instruments, Line 6, Waves, Neural DSP, STL Tones, Positive Grid, and Universal Audio that can help you take your guitar-recording to pro levels.

The Last Black Guitarist
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The Last Black Guitarist

Columnist Anthony Tidd considers how the guitar has fallen out of favor with young Black musicians.