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Editor’s Highlights

Guitarist

It’s A Frame-Up • This cutting-edge electro from LR Baggs has a plywood body frame, torrefied spruce top, rosewood back and studio-quality electrics – and we can’t wait to plug it in!

Slight Return • Marshall’s cult classic from the 90s makes a comeback, joining the brand’s Studio range as a low-watt combo

Mighty Morpher • Beetronics’ latest offers a pair of different phaser/vibrato settings with footswitchable morphing between the two

Electric Blue • The latest pedal in J Rockett’s Blue Note Series brings together features from previous versions for versatile low-gain drive

Vintage Voxes • With a legacy of distinction, Vox revisits its past with modern recreations of its first two wah pedals

the Wishlist • Dream gear to beg, borrow and steal for...

Gas Supply • Our pick of the month’s most delectable and wallet-bothering new gear

Fretbuzz • A monthly look at must-hear artists from all corners of the guitar world, from the roots of their sound to the tracks that matter most

Albums • The month’s best guitar music – a hand-picked selection of the finest fretwork on wax

Tones Behind The Tracks • As Andy Summers’ and Robert Fripp’s avant-garde albums of the 80s are reissued, we hear all about how the side-project came to be

This Old Thing? • Neville Marten ponders whether relicing, the phenomenon he loved in its early days, has gone too far

For Old Times’ Sake • This month Alex Bishop gives a much-loved guitar a well-earned makeover to mark its 100th birthday

Dishing The Dirt • Metal guitarist, producer and tone expert Adam ‘Nolly’ Getgood joins Jamie Dickson to bust some myths about getting great high-gain tone

THREE TO GET READY • Electrics With High-Gain Mojo

Lo-fi Jazz Chords • This month Richard Barrett gets experimental with chord progressions to loop over modern beats

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Toby Lee • At only 20 years of age, Toby Lee has a CV that would make any player twice his age proud. He’s shared the stage with a host of top names, including Buddy Guy, Billy Gibbons and Joe Bonamassa, and is tipped to become the UK’s next blues-rock superstar

SMASHING PUMPKINS • The band’s latest album, Aghori Mhori Mei, sees Billy Corgan and co finding a fresh perspective in revisiting gear and writing approaches from the past, and – “for a change!” says Corgan – fans and media alike are loving it

LAST OF THE INDEPENDENTS • Fierce, tender and defiantly independent, The Pretenders are rock’s rebels without a clause in the contract. Four decades and dozens of huge hits into their career, they still do exactly – and only – what they want. Chrissie Hynde ’s high-wattage charisma and breathtaking voice are part of the equation. But so are a fistful of effortless, irresistible guitar hooks that make you reach for rewind every time a Pretenders track plays to the fade. With a stripped-down, rock ’n’ roll live album, Kick ’Em Where It Hurts , set for release in the coming weeks, we join Chrissie and guitarist James Walbourne to find out why ‘holding the fort for bands’ remains their mission

STEVEN WILSON • One thing you can be sure of, when Steven Wilson releases a new album, it will be different from anything he’s done before. His latest, The Overview, is a very proggy space odyssey that...