ISSUE 19 EDITOR’S LETTER
The Year of the Guitar starts now.
“Something was shifting. It felt louder, rawer, more immediate. Now it’s here. Guitar music is happening again.”
Issue 19 celebrates the artists, energy, and culture driving guitar music forward. With features on Bring Me the Horizon, The Warning, Villanelle, Cardinals, Ed O’Brien, Violet Grohl, Iceage, and more.
Pick up the new issue and join us all year long.
Welcome to Issue 19—and the Year of the Guitar.
You could feel it coming last summer. Something
was shifting. It felt louder, rawer, more immediate.
Now it’s here. Guitar music is happening again.
What started as a guitar issue turned into
something bigger: YOTG. A full year dedicated to
the artists, the energy, and the culture around the
instrument that never really left. It was just wait-
ing for the right moment to come back through.
We’re kicking it off with three covers: Villanelle,
a British rock band carving out their own lane;
The Warning, bringing precision and power; and
Bring Me the Horizon, continuing to push what
guitar music can be. Each of them comes at it
differently, but they all hit hard—and that’s
the point.
Inside, you’ll find some great artists: Lzzy Hale,
Violet Grohl, Bec Lauder and the Noise, Melissa
Auf der Maur, Ed O’Brien from Radiohead, Sawyer
Hill, and more. I also got the chance to sit down
with artist and producer Dweezil Zappa to talk
guitars, his father’s legacy, and what it means to
carry that forward. We hung out in LA with Bring
Me the Horizon before their show at the
Palladium, shot The Warning in London before
their tour with Yungblud, and featured some of
our favorite guitar stores in the world.
This issue is just the start. We’ll be covering guitar
music throughout the year—across print, digital,
and live.
We’re also launching a summer of MARVIN LIVE
events, in partnership with one of my favorite
guitar brands of all time, Gibson. Bringing it off
the page and into real life, where it belongs.
Psyched is an understatement.
—Marvin Scott Jarrett
