We’ve seen a lot of Epiphone guitars but not quite like the Futura series. Unveiled at NAMM 2026, much hyped ever since, and now officially launched and in stores worldwide, these take Epiphone’s Gibson-inspired electric guitar designs and take them… Well, into the future.
The Futura Series has the retro-futuristic resonance of some Atomic Age marketing term, the kind of thing they spoke about when the Jetsons was on the TV, but the only thing 1950s about these are the shapes themselves, the curvature of the single-cut Les Paul, the clean arrow-head symmetry of the Flying V, same as it was when it first came off Seth Lover’s sketchpad, or the devil-horned SG…
