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- Guitar News – 01 Jun 2026
“We wanted to rethink the entire approach to guitar care”: StewMac launches new GuitarTek range of premium guitar cleaning products
Consisting of a range of purpose-made, silicone-free polishes and cleaners for professional results and healthy guitars.
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Australian Guitar #168 is on sale now, featuring The Beatles, The Eagles, Sunn o)), Courtney Barnett and more
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Also: Celebrating the Telecaster, and scales from around the world
“Quirky and off-the-wall, it’s waiting to throw a spanner in the works of your guitar tone”: Electro-Harmonix Pico Atomic Cluster review
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EHX’s new Pico pedal is designed to deconstruct your tone to an atomic level
Steve Vai admits he was worried about being able to play King Crimson’s guitar parts at his age: “65-year-old Steve Vai taking on Robert Fripp at 25 and at the top of his game?”
“I decided to accept the challenge. I worked with Frank Zappa, and then David Lee Roth after Eddie Van Halen… I’m addicted to challenges!”
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“Get a good amp or you’re always going to sound s**tty!”: Billy Duffy on why it’s more important to have a good amp than a good guitar
The Cult guitarist counts himself firmly on the side of ‘team amp’.
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“I’m nowhere near qualified to start dabbling in the Van Halen world”: Steve Lukather says he’s not playing any guitar on the posthumous Van Halen record, and that the material Eddie Van Halen left over is “not throwaway s**t”
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Lukather confirms that he is only acting as a co-producer on the new Van Halen record, and every riff was recorded by Eddie Van Halen.
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“It’s a one-string instrument with a handle on it, and I hit it with a stick”: Les Claypool’s bonkers one-string leads the biggest (and strangest) bass releases of the month
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May saw the reissue of Fender’s best-selling bass, a custom Rickenbacker for Geddy Lee, and a supersized version of the daddy of all fuzz
EHX Pico Intelligent Harmony Machine review: impressive tracking hampered by inevitable compromise
Electro-Harmonix is undeniably a leader when it comes to pitch-shifting, but in shrinking this harmoniser down, perhaps one too many sacrifices have been made…
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“Everyone who is anyone has used one at some point in their careers”: The story of the Boss digital delay pedal that changed the world
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Despite advances in technology, elite players such as Joe Bonamassa, Tom Morello and Brad Paisley still keep a DD-2 or DD-3 on their ‘board
Best overdrive pedals for bass 2026: The ultimate in bass saturation at all price points
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My pick of the top-rated overdrive pedals for bass players from the likes of EBS, Electro-Harmonix, Origin Effects, and more
“I did four or five songs, then Ozzy said, ‘Welcome aboard’. I would have loved to have spent more time with him”: Randy Rhoads was his guitar teacher. Then he ended up in Ozzy Osbourne’s band
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Joe Holmes looks back on his time with Ozzy and David Lee Roth, and explains why his upcoming solo album, featuring former Ozzy band members, captures everything he’s learned up till now
“If anybody could play like that, they must be crazy”: How Dave Davies wrote the savage solo for the Kinks’ breakthrough hit
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Davies debunks false claims that the track featured Jimmy Page and reveals how it all came about
“He took some small songs of mine that nobody paid any attention to and turned them all into classics”: 11 cover songs that Jimi Hendrix made his own – including one that became Eric Clapton’s favorite Hendrix track
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Once Hendrix turned his Stratocaster upon a song it would never be the same again. Just ask Bob Dylan
“If you think this is a bunch of throwaway crap to suck the dollar out of poor, unsuspecting Van Halen fans, it’s not”: Eddie Van Halen’s soon-to-be-released recordings are going to blow you away, according to Steve Lukather
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The highly anticipated project could be the ultimate Eddie Van Halen honor record
Slash admits that he was getting tired of the “very predictable Marshall sound” in his music
Slash’s 2024 blues record, Orgy Of The Damned, saw him opening up and experimenting with Magnatone amp – and it’s the best decision he could have made.
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Acoustic Month is here at Guitar Center – and you could save up to 30% on your forever acoustic guitar
The sale runs until 24th June, and spans across a huge range of top brands like Epiphone, Fender, Gibson and more.
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It’s always a little disconcerting when there’s a product that seriously undercuts all others. Surely, it’s going to be no good? Well, when it comes to wireless in-ear monitor’s we have the Gear4Music WPM-200. At a little under £70, it’s worryingly affordable. But does it work? The short answer? Yes. However, there are obviously areas…
Hercules GS200B Guitar Stand Review. The Best Ultra-Portable Stand?
Hercules is a company renowned for producing top-quality stands for all areas of musicianship and the ultra-portable GS200B EZ Pack, for what is it, is no exception. Here’s our full Hercules GS200B review. It’s fair to say that guitar stands are not the most exciting accessories to talk about, but they are absolutely crucial. The…
Boss TU-3 Tuner Pedal – Is It Still The Benchmark Tuner?
The Boss TU-3 Chromatic Tuner Pedal is the standard torch-bearer when it comes to compact-size digital tuners. Since Boss introduced the first digital tuning pedals in the early 1980s, they have been seen as the benchmark for the devices, and with good reason. Anyone who has owned a Boss stomp pedal will attest that the…
Who is Rick Beato?
‘Everything Music’ is the simple tag line on both Rick Beato’s YouTube channel and website, and in terms of what he offers, it’s pretty on point. But who is Rick Beato? Who is Rick Beato? A quick google shows I’m not the first to ask the question. However, a scan of the results seems to…
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