Australian Guitar

With a strong focus on the Australian music scene, Australian Guitar is a rich source of information on playing techniques, styles, the wide range of instruments available and all the technology that guitarists have to consider in the 21st Century.

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Australian Guitar

Stench of Darkness • AMYL AND THE SNIFFERS’ GUITARIST DECLAN MARTENS AIMS TO SOUND LIKE ANGUS AND MALCOLM YOUNG TOGETHER. HE DISCUSSES HIS LOVE OF CHUNKY STRINGS, HOW TO MAKE GUITAR SOLOS PUNK, AND USING DAVE GROHL’S GUITARS WHILE RECORDING IN THE FOO FIGHTERS’ STUDIO

Angus and Malcolm Young's childhood home destroyed • THE BURWOOD HOUSE WAS DEMOLISHED TO MAKE WAY FOR A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT, DESPITE BEING ON THE NATIONAL TRUST REGISTER OF HISTORIC HOUSES

MY PEDALBOARD STEVE HACKETT • WHAT THE PROG-ROCK ICON SEES WHEN HE LOOKS DOWN

LOST CLASSICS: X • BILLY ZOOM RECOUNTS THE MAKING OF THE ICONIC L.A. PUNKS’ 1982 MAJOR-LABEL DEBUT, UNDER THE BIG BLACK SUN

LOST CLASSICS Cacophony • IN A TRULY ONE-OF-A-KIND INTERVIEW, CACOPHONY’S JASON BECKER AND MARTY FRIEDMAN LOOK BACK ON THE MAKING OF 1988’S GO OFF! — ONE OF THE EIGHTIES’ MOST IN-YOUR-FACE GUITAR EXTRAVAGANZAS

Lizzard • FIVE ALBUMS IN, THE EUROPEAN ART-ROCK TRIO ARE STILL SEARCHING FOR NEW WAYS TO EXPAND THEIR SOUND

The Ultimate Guitar Shop • Christie’s Jeff Beck Auction offered a revealing look at numerous iconic instruments from the legendary guitarist’s entire career — from the Yardbirds to Johnny Depp

Blown Away • Jeff Beck’s landmark Blow by Blow dramatically transformed the future for instrumental electric guitar music. Fifty years later, it still remains an inspirational force

Orianthi • The former guitarist for Michael Jackson and Alice Cooper has survived the trials and tribulations of the pop industry, emerging with a new energy and sound that honours her true inspirations and talents

DREAM ON • Forty years into their career, Dream Theater have received a vital transfusion via the return of original drummer Mike Portnoy. John Petrucci takes you inside the reunion — and the band’s new album

HIGH TIME • The new MC5 album took more than 50 years to arrive. The band members have all passed on, but the celebration is just beginning.

BOOK 'EM, DANNO • The life and times of Detroit’s unruly firebrands are entered for the record in a new and definitive biography.

PLAY LIKE… The Rolling Stones • In the wake of their chart-topping album, Hackney Diamonds, Andy Saphir celebrates the styles of this great band’s guitarists: Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Mick Taylor, and Ronnie Wood.

THE KILLERS • Martin Cooper gets to grips with the enduring Las Vegas quartet that has gone on to conquer the world’s arenas and pop charts.

ANTHRAX • Jamie Hunt gets under the skin of this legendary metal band’s guitarist, with two fantastic riffy rhythm ideas based on the style of Scott Ian.

HOT GEAR

POWER STATION • Founded by Jimi Hendrix mere months before his death, Electric Lady Studios was a mind-expanding creative mothership where his guitar playing reached new heights. As a new documentary explores this lost chapter, long-standing Hendrix engineer Eddie Kramer and filmmaker John McDermott tell us about Jimi’s final brainwave

KRK Rokit 5 G5 • KRK’s excellent Rokit monitors have been updated. We get talking about the new generation.

Fender Tone Master '59 Bassman • Fender attempts the incredible feat of replicating the historic Bassman with a silicon heart in its latest addition to the Tone Master series.

Godin Radium • Along with making guitars for Alex Lifeson, Godin’s standard electric range has plenty to offer. We take this pared-down roots-rocker for a long overdue spin.

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