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.

Australian Guitar

A B.B. King biopic is on the way – and it will chronicle the blues legend's life, legacy and Lucille

Tommy Emmanuel on his favourite emerging players in Americana and bluegrass

Jeff Beck secretly played a PRS at home and the company is trying to get it back

Western Death • Jesse Venus from ascendant WA melodic death trio Vanta talks AI, independence, death, and the group's new single Kuyang.

Melbourne Guitar Show is becoming the Sydney Guitar Show in 2026 • The big event will hit Sydney Showground in March, but don't worry Melbourne: you'll get it back in 2027.

Extra Jimmies • A new Fabulous Thunderbirds box set is bursting with powerful stuff by Jimmie Vaughan & Co. — including an entire unreleased album from 1978

The Velveteers • Demi Demitro, the guitar and voice of this must-see ax-and-drums duo, talks A Million Knives

Lukather Is the Answer • How it took three session-guitar aces to get a soft-rock classic back on the right track

Eric Steckel • Meet the Knaggs Guitars signature artist who grew an international profile by importing metal into the blues

Frankie and the Witch Fingers • Searching for just the right guitar-packed, frenetic workout soundtrack? These chaotic L.A. psych-punk rockers have got ya covered

A KISS GOODBYE • An era of extravagant rock music comes to a close with the death of Kiss co-founder Ace Frehley. We salute the otherworldly life of the Spaceman

CLASSIC ACE • Longtime rock journalist Nick Bowcott remembers the man that launched a thousand licks — and laughs

NEW YORK GROOVES • Ace Frehley's six greatest Kiss-era guitar moments

ACE'S ROCK SOLDIERS • The late Ace Frehley's five most iconic Kiss-era guitars

FREHLEY'S COMET • In his final interview for AG's sister publication Guitar World (conducted in early 2025 and not published until now), Ace Frehley looked back on the 1987 album that brought him back into the limelight

COUNTDOWN TO EXTINCTION • AS MEGADETH PREPARE FOR THEIR FINAL ALBUM RELEASE AND TOUR, DAVE MUSTAINE RECOUNTS SOME MEGA-MEMORIES, THE GHOSTS THAT STILL HAUNT HIM AND, OF COURSE, THE LEAD GUITARISTS HE PLAYED WITH ALONG THE WAY — THE GOOD, THE GREAT AND THE UNHINGED!

WARCHEST • AN ALBUM-BY-ALBUM GUIDE TO MEGADETH'S EXPLOSIVE STUDIO OUTPUT — FROM THEIR 1985 DEBUT TO THEIR 2026 FINALE

THE LAST NOTE • DAVE MUSTAINE TAKES US THROUGH THE INSPIRATIONS BEHIND MEGADETH'S FINAL ALBUM — TRACK BY TRACK — AND REVEALS HIS MOTIVATION FOR RE-RECORDING METALLICA'S “RIDE THE LIGHTNING”

OBEYING THE CALL • TEEMU MÄNTYSAARI ON THE MAKING OF MEGADETH AND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE THE BAND'S FINAL GUITARIST IN A LONG LINE OF GREATS

THE BIRTH OF ELECTRIC BLUES PERFECT STORM • As the author of the newly released Electric Blues! T-Bone Walker & The Guitar That Started It All, Tony Bacon joins us to spotlight T-Bone's personal contribution to the creation of this genre-changing style

THE REGENT RETURNS • THE BRITISH MUSIC LANDMARK THAT'S HOME TO T-BONE'S GUITAR IS HAVING A RENAISSANCE

THE BIRTH OF ELECTRIC BLUES • T-Bone Walker may have been the first true hero of modern electric blues, but he stood upon the shoulders of jazz and blues giants, as we explore in the following pages

MARY KAYE STRATOCASTER • Mary Kaye models are probably the most desirable of all 1950s Fenders, so the very first one made must be the ultimate vintage Strat

WHO WAS MARY KAYE? • A closer look at the player behind the...