Digital Back Issues

Premier Guitar December 2018: Heralding the end of another killer year in gear, this month we recap the 78 guitar and bass products that blew our minds in 2018—from instruments and amps to stompboxes, rack gear, pickups, accessories, and more. We’ve also got feature interviews with heavyweights like former Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello, garage-rock icons Mark Arm and Steve Turner from Mudhoney, Sleep and High on Fire frontman Matt Pike, and Reeves Gabrels talking about the late great David Bowie’s request for Gabrels to re-record the 1987 Bowie album, Never Let Me Down. We also talk to bass virtuoso MonoNeon about the string of sessions fueling his rising star—including his work with Prince before the legendary bandleader’s untimely 2016 death. New guitar and bass gear reviews this month include a look at the 2019 Gibson Les Paul Standard, the Fractal Audio Systems Axe-Fx III, Vox’s Mini Superbeetle, Acoustic’s B100C bass combo, the Chase Bliss Audio Thermae, the Paradox Effects Terran, Fano’s JM4 Standard bass, Cusack Music’s Resound Reverb, the Fishman Matrix Infinity Blend, Mackie’s FreePlay Live, the String Theory EFX KE/64, and more. In the print edition (only), we’ve also got tablature transcriptions of Avenged Sevenfold’s “Roman Sky,” Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right,” and Buddy Guy’s “Damn Right, I’ve Got the Blues.”

Premier Guitar September 2018: Our cover story this month is a chat with influential former Smiths guitarist (and now rather prolific solo artist and sideman) Johnny Marr, who talks to us about his latest album, Call the Comet, as well as his favorite gear—including his signature Fender Jaguars. We also talk to T.J. and John from blazing country/rock duo Brothers Osborne, drone-doom guitarist Dylan Carlson of Earth, experimental shredder Emil Werstler, and avant-garde guitar andworld explorer Henry Kaiser. On the gear front, we’ve got a best-of wrap of our 25 favorite pieces of new gear from the annual Summer NAMM show in Nashville, as well as a primer on what to look for in acoustic DI boxes. Meanwhile, our reviews section has 13 guitar and bass deep-dives on EarthQuaker Devices’ Westwood, the Guild Jetstar, Friedman’s BE-50, the Line 6 Powercab 112 Plus, Ibanez’s TCB1006 ALM Stephen “Thundercat” Bruner signature bass, the Origin Effects RevivalDRIVE, Fender’s Player Series Jaguar, the TC Electronic SpectraDrive, Wren and Cuff’s Two-Five, Nunomo’s the Grain, JAM Pedals’ Ripply Fall, the Crazy Tube Circuits Locomotive, and more. In our print edition (only), we’ve also got three full tablature transcriptions of Megadeth’s “Guns, Drugs, & Money,” John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers’ “Steppin’ Out,” and Ben Harper’s “The Woman in You.”

Premier Guitar June 2018: For our cover story this month, we tapped U.K. studio guru and vintage-gear dealer Tony Miln to scour the outlands of outboard gear to examine 20 unusual spring reverbs that promise ultimate ambient power. In our artist-interview section, we talk to Blur’s Britpop legend Graham Coxon, slide master Ry Cooder, Stone Temple Pilots’ Dean and Robert DeLeo, Kittie’s Morgan Lander and Tara McLeod, and Nashville twanger Guthrie Trapp. We also serve up a Forgotten Heroes piece on krautrock icons CAN. In gear reviews, we’ve got a roundup of short-scale basses—Fender’s JMJ Road Worn Mustang, Spector’s Bantam 4, and Supro’s Huntington II—in addition to outings with the Orange Brent Hinds Terror, the PRS Silver Sky, Source Audio’s Ventris reverb, Blackstar’s HT Club MkII, the Cort GB75JH 5-string, Fender’s the Bends compressor, Dusky’s Mandorla, the Lovell Shakey tremolo, Land Devices’ HP-2, the Meris Polymoon, Hü Tonelabs’ Psychlone Jr., and Ampeg’s Opto Comp. In the print edition, we’ve also got full transcriptions of three tunes: Jeff Beck’s “Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers,” Django Reinhardt’s “Honeysuckle Rose,” and Imagine Dragons’ “I’m So Sorry.”