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

Here's The Thing • NOW LA-BASED, COURTNEY BARNETT HAS SPENT THE LAST FEW YEARS WRITING HER FIFTH YET-TO-BE-TITLED LP, BUT SHE'S LATELY EMERGED WITH A NEIL YOUNG COVER AND A NEW LIVE VIDEO. SHE SAT DOWN WITH AUSTRALIAN GUITAR TO DISCUSS JAGUARS, THE GODFATHER OF GRUNGE, STRAYING OUTSIDE YOUR COMFORT ZONE, AND THE BUSY AFTERLIFE OF SONGS.

EVENT REPORT MELBOURNE GUITAR SHOW 2025 • THE BIG EVENT RETURNED IN MARCH WITH A NEW VENUE, NEW VIBES AND A LOT OF NEW GEAR.

MY LIFE IN THREE GUITARS: ORIANTHI • THE TRIO OF AXES THAT HAVE MEANT THE MOST TO THE FORMER ALICE COOPER GUITARIST

Tracking Down Tremonti • WHETHER HE’S PLOTTING WITH CREED, ALTER BRIDGE OR HIS EPONYMOUS SOLO PROJECT, MARK TREMONTI IS ALWAYS UP TO SOMETHING INTERESTING. TODAY IT’S ALL ABOUT GEAR, HIS IN-THE-WORKS PEDAL COMPANY AND LATEST ALBUM, THE END WILL SHOW US HOW

LOST CLASSICS: SONIC YOUTH • NYC NOISE-ROCK PIONEER THURSTON MOORE RECALLS THE MAKING OF 1987’S SISTER AND HIS LATEST ALBUM, 2024’S FLOW CRITICAL LUCIDITY

Robin Nolan • HOW A GYPSY JAZZ BUSKER BECAME A FRIEND, INTERPRETER AND COLLABORATOR OF GEORGE HARRISON

MY PEDALBOARD KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD • WHAT THE MODERN BLUES-ROCK ICON SEES WHEN HE LOOKS DOWN

Black to the Future • The death of AC/DC frontman Bon Scott in February 1980 looked like it might’ve also dealt a fatal blow to the band. But then they got a new singer and made a career-rejuvenating record that became the biggest-selling rock album of all time — Back in Black

How the "Bells" Tolled • A quick guide to Angus Young’s Back in Black-era gear, as heard on “Hells Bells”

Dead Forever (and Then Some) • Two years after their Final Tour, Dead & Company are rolling back to Sphere in Las Vegas for another mind-blowing residency. In this interview, Bob Weir and John Mayer break down the Sphere experience, latest gear adjustments and their ever-evolving musical partnership

The Grateful Dead by Jim Marshall • A new book of photos by the iconic photographer captures his unique relationship with San Francisco’s favorite jam band

MADE IN JAPAN • We dig into the Japanese guitar industry of the 1960s and 70s and find notable brands, mischievous copies, diligent makers and original designs that led to the electric guitar’s renaissance in the 1980s and beyond

CLONE WARS • The 60s might have given birth to the Japanese guitar industry, but things got really interesting in the 80s when ever-more accurate and high-quality copies of classic US electrics emerged and even received official sanction from some US guitar brands. Keith Anderson of Japanese specialist Gas Station Guitars picks up the story

« BLUEPRINT » JANGLE UNCHAINED • Since he rose to glory in the mid-80s with The Smiths, Johnny Marr has been the king of crystalline chime. Now, he reveals how his new M-7 Martin signature – complete with octave G string – puts that shimmering voice at your fingertips

A SMASHING PUMPKIN • Kiki Wong on her life, gear and technique before and since teaming up with Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan and James Iha in the spring of ’24

RADIOHEAD • Martin Cooper checks out the sound of an era-defining band from Oxford, and guitarists Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and Ed O’Brien.

METALLICA STYLE • This month Jamie Hunt brings you a brace of thrash metal riffs inspired by the ferocious palm-muted down picking of rhythm guitarist James Hetfield.

SPECIAL FEATURE Country-Blues-Rock! • This issue Andy Saphir shows how mixing...