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October 31
- Stream Tuesday's live interview event with Lez Zeppelin right here
- Wampler promises a more terrifying take on "the world’s greatest OD/boost circuit" with Spooky Tumnus Deluxe
- Slayer's Kerry King joins Dean Guitars
- Haunted Labs’ Scorched Earth offers fuzz tones "like mainlining hot magma into your bloodstream"
- Go on a blessed hellride with Wylde Audio’s Halloween-themed Odin Grail Orange Buzzsaw guitar
- Zakk Wylde reflects on Pride And Glory, jamming with the Allman Bros and that time he very nearly joined Guns N' Roses
- Mooer returns to mini pedals with the funky-sounding E7 Synth
October 30
- Review: Electro-Harmonix's Attack Decay delivers a vast universe of exciting new sounds to explore
- Pete Townshend: get the guitar sound and style
- Reverend's Sensei RT LE is a sparkling six-string success
- Get back in black with Fender’s new Champion 100XL digital amp
- Watch John 5 tear it up in this "wacky, weird" I Want It All playthrough
- Go trick-or-treating with Neunaber's Special Edition Halloween Neuron pedal
October 29
- Conjure up “spooky” tones with Orangewood’s limited-edition Oliver Black acoustic
- Watch Felix Martin give traditional Venezuelan music a 16-string prog-metal makeover
- Intrepid bassist surfs the waves while he slaps the bass
- Dave Mustaine is selling a trove of guitars and other personal gear… who’s buying?
- Thin Lizzy's Eric Bell brands Metallica “bastards” after band failed to pay for Whisky in the Jar guest spot
- Phil Campbell on his favorite guitar gear - and that bonkers Distortocaster
- Nili Brosh on playing with Cirque du Soleil and Tony MacAlpine, and what every guitarist can learn from horn players
October 28
- Watch Brad Paisley play Van Halen's Hot For Teacher with a 6-year-old drummer
- Get spooky with Gibson's new Bats in Flight Les Paul Custom
- Put your pedal to the metal with Joyo’s new Nascar Delay
- Little Feat guitarist Paul Barrere dead at 71
- Kurt Cobain’s 1993 In Utero Fender Mustang sells for $340,000
- Nils Lofgren talks touring with Bruce Springsteen, collaborating with Lou Reed and why he favors thumb picks
- Guitar truss rod adjustment: how to do it safely
October 27
- Ian Moss: reigniting the matchbook
October 25
- Tom DeLonge: Five things we learned from his Ernie Ball String Theory episode
- Sweet dreams: the world’s only guitar-shaped hotel opens in Hollywood, Florida
- Michael Schenker looks back at UFO's Strangers In The Night
- Fit For An Autopsy’s Pat Sheridan: why switching to Mayones guitars was “one of the best moves I’ve made in my life”
- Joyo’s Atmosphere reverb features Shimmer, Comet and, erm, Forest settings
- Gibson’s handmade phone cases bring a whole new meaning to the word ‘ringtones’
- Canary Cables announce premium line of pedalboard and instrument cables
- YouTube series Scar My Guitar is a six-string version of MTV’s Pimp My Ride
October 24
- December 2019 Guitar World lesson videos
- Positive Grid’s Spark is a smart amp and app that "jams along with you"
- Open your mind to new sounds with these symmetrical fretboard patterns
- Strandberg introduces super-ergonomic Neck-Thru Metal and Fusion guitars
- Fender set to introduce more signature guitars for female artists next year than in its entire 70-year history
- This mind-bending offset features a built-in fuzz, pitch-shifter, delay and reverb: Noveller explains how she uses it
- Strymon's Iridium is an amp modeler like no other
- Gibson loses Firebird body shape trademark in EU court battle
October 23
- Head back to the garden with Gibson’s Alvin Lee ES-335 '69 Festival’ reissue guitar
- Dean Markley introduces Orianthi and Doyle custom gauge strings
- Review: Fender's '62 Princeton Amp Chris Stapleton Edition is a stunning, no-nonsense reissue
- "We did it!": Jared Dines finally sells his 18-string Ormsby, raises $20,000 for charity
- Tool fan asks fellow gig-goer to take his picture, fails to realize it’s Eddie Van Halen
- Get fuzzy and filtered with SolidGoldFX’s 76 Plus pedal
- Dear Guitar Hero: Vinnie Moore answers your burning questions
October 22
- Hear the isolated guitar and bass tracks from Led Zeppelin's Ramble On
- Learn the hallmarks of the hugely influential guitar style of Mountain's Leslie West
- These Whiskey Barrel Top Custom T-Style guitars will give you Big D energy
- Billy Corgan shares advice for upcoming bands: “Going out into the world and playing down the street? Don’t even bother”
- PRS unveils jaw-dropping 35th Anniversary Custom 24 models, comprehensively updates S2 and McCarty ranges
- William DuVall: “The guitar is something physical and primal - nothing can take the place of that immediacy”
- Learn over 750,000 songs with Fender’s new Songs app
October 21
- Hear Steve Lukather's isolated guitar from Toto's Rosanna
- Jared James Nichols: why I love my Epiphone Old Glory Les Paul
- Sweetwater is offering a very limited-edition holy grail Marshall Plexi recreation
- Witness the complete and utter insanity of a 36-string bass solo
- Guitarfetish.com introduces super-affordable Xaviere PRO845 Series
- Ditch your bassist with OPFXS’s ingenious Dig Deep octave pedal
- You can now get Silverburst Fender electric guitars
- Battles' Ian Williams: "My philosophy is, 'The guitar is dead, long live the guitar'"
October 18
- Bear's Den: "‘Folk rock’ makes it sound like all we do is strum acoustic guitars and kind of stand there”
- Stream Thursday's live interview event with thrash metal godfather Jonny Z right here
- Gibson’s limited-edition Chuck Berry 1955 ES-350T promises to be a "perfect" replica of the rock ‘n’ roll legend’s iconic guitar
- Steve Lukather reveals Toto will call it quits this weekend
- 'Don't drink and bid': Jared Dines’ 18-string guitar eBay charity auction fails after winner pulls out
- PRS announces limited reissue of the SE One
- Victory Amplification targets British pop, rock and roots tones with VC35 The Copper
October 17
- Why using the major third is crucial for your blues-based solos
- Review: Bare Knuckle's Boot Camp Brute Force humbuckers and True Grit Strat set deliver all the requisite and classic guitar tones without compromise
- Island Instruments' Galo offers classic offset design with modern customization
- Fatten up your sound with Seymour Duncan's new limited edition Pickup Booster
- Go from sparkly cleans to raw bluesy grit with Electro-Harmonix's new 5MM Guitar Power Amplifier
- Godin launches the Session HT solidbody electric guitar
October 16
- Dead Posey: “We’re not religious or anything, but there’s something kind of earthy about that life-and-death grandeur..."
- Watch Richie Kotzen test drive the Fender Tone Master Twin Reverb amp
- Uh-oh: a self-playing guitar string has been developed by scientists
- 10 of John Mayer's greatest guitar moments
- Is this guitar-playing cyborg from Japan the future of heavy metal?
- Behold the iCaster, a Tele-style guitar built from 107 iPhones
- Solar Guitars introduces two stunning distressed-finish models
- Tom Morello reveals the "uncool" origins of his toggle-switching technique
October 15
- Watch Joe Satriani play Surfing with the Alien on a Strat copy at a fan’s home
- How did 10 high-end PRS guitars wind up in Anchorage, Alaska classrooms?
- Watch Kirk Hammett join UFO for Doctor Doctor, Shoot Shoot
- PRS debuts new SE Mark Holcomb SVN and Dustie Waring CE 24 Floyd electric guitars
- Electro-Harmonix reissues classic Ram’s Head Big Muff Pi
- Cort launches the sleek, shred-ready X700 Duality
- Maxon recruits EarthQuaker Devices, Catalinbread, Pigtronix and Keeley for 40th Anniversary Tube Screamers
- Jason Becker: "My heroes understand how devastating it would feel to not be able to play their guitar anymore"
October 14
- The 3D-printed Zero Guitar aims to "save the planet, one guitar at a time"
- The looperEYE is the first zero-button, camera-controlled looper pedal
- Paul Gilbert is working with JHS Pedals on an incredible-sounding signature overdrive
- George Thorogood: why I love my Epiphone White Fang ES-125
- Eddie Van Halen reportedly undergoing throat cancer treatment
October 11
- What's on Paul Pigat's playlist? Find out here!
- Electro-Harmonix expands its wireless headphones lineup with new NYC Cans and Sport Buds
- Marcus King announces debut solo album, shares first single, The Well
- John Petrucci details Guitar Universe 3.0 summer camp
- Joe Satriani is reissuing Surfing with the Alien – without guitar solos
October 10
- Improve your shredding skills by connecting string-skipping patterns
- How using the augmented chord in a minor drop progression can change your songs
- Mike Stern and Jeff Lorber: "Inspiration comes at weird times and you always have to be ready for it"
- Power up with Electro-Harmonix's new S8 Multi-Output power supply
- Kurt Cobain's custom 1993 Fender Mustang, used on Nirvana's In Utero tour, is up for auction
- Blackstar's Silverline Series matches boutique tube sound with forward-thinking digital features
- Want to play with madness? Check out Tech 21’s Steve Harris SH1 Signature SansAmp
October 9
- Watch John Lennon, Eric Clapton and Keith Richards play the Beatles' Yer Blues
- Review: Ernie Ball Music Man's Jason Richardson 7 String Cutlass is one of the best seven-string guitars available today
- Explore John Lennon's acoustic guitar technique with the Beatles
- Kirk Hammett reveals a Dumble he once owned is up for sale for a whopping $750,000
- Black Midi: “We played for two hours; the first hour and 20 minutes was all improvised"
- Get a comprehensive look at Frank Zappa's guitars, amps, effects and more in a new book, Zappa Gear
- Source Audio’s Collider packs a whole lot of delay and reverb into a single enclosure
October 8
- Take a look at Ernie Ball Music Man's mouth-watering October Ball Family Reserve guitars
- Fender brings the heat with its new Rarities Flame Koa Top Stratocaster
- Tom Morello: "I wanted one foot planted on a Marshall stack and another in the world of 2019 sonics"
- Nail open tunings with Foxgear's new Multitune polyphonic tuner
- PRS announces six new SE guitars for 2020 35th anniversary
- Submit your questions for DragonForce guitarist Herman Li!
- DSM Noisemaker and Humboldt Electronics introduce the Simplifier “zero-watt” stereo amplifier
October 7
- Add tension to your solos with the atonal 'X' scale
- Lzzy Hale, Suzi Quatro, Linda Perry, Gloria Gaynor and more to be honored at the 2020 She Rocks Awards
- Joe Perry: “It’s probably the closest I’m ever going to get to adorning a Les Paul with all my little touches”
- Get only the most cosmic tones with Deep Space Devices' new Radio-Bright ring modulation and delay
- Jared Dines is selling his custom 18-string Ormsby guitar on eBay
- Guitarists pay tribute to iconic Cream and Blind Faith drummer Ginger Baker
- Fender is making a Joe Bonamassa signature '51 Nocaster
- Dr. Z’s Jetta is a small, streamlined powerhouse of an amp
October 4
- Go beyond the normal boundaries of the minor pentatonic scale with this lick
- Review: when these new Ernie Ball accessories show up on your doorstep, gray skies will turn blue
- Gibson is releasing a Marcus King signature ES-345
- November 2019 Guitar World lesson videos
- Ibanez updates Artwood Series acoustics with new gradation finishes
- “Lost” film The Jimi Hendrix Experience: The Royal Albert Hall to be screened at the original venue
- Pete Townshend’s wrong: these 10 forward-thinking players prove the guitar still has plenty to offer
- Gibson speaks out: "We’re leveraging our iconic past in order to make the best-playing and best-sounding guitars today"
- Polyphia hope “guitar music dies a painful death” - here’s why
October 3
- Metallica's Kirk Hammett: how to play like Stevie Ray Vaughan
- Electro-Harmonix unveils tiny but versatile Nano Operation Overlord
- Lowden celebrates 45 years with the new O-25 Anniversary acoustic
- Kim Shattuck, singer and guitarist for L.A. punk rockers the Muffs, has died at 56
- Fender releases limited-edition American Acoustasonic Telecaster with Ziricote top
- John Mayer: these are the three things amp modelers haven’t got right yet
- Baroness: "It was easier for us to paint a picture with Fenders than Les Pauls"
- Boss’s new Katana MkIIs include just about everything you could want in a modern guitar amp
October 2
- Hudson Electronics teams with guitarist Ariel Posen for new Broadcast-AP preamp pedal
- David Lee Roth: "Van Halen's finished”
- Hear the tastiest tones out there on the premiere of Guitar World's Cooking with Sound
- Line 6 expands its Spider amp range with the ultra-affordable Spider V 20 MkII
- Sleater-Kinney on how St Vincent challenged and reconfigured their sound for The Center Won’t Hold
- MXR drops psychedelic Brown Acid Fuzz
- ESP’s new Kirk Hammett Sparkle Ouija guitars promise a spirited performance
- The secrets behind Adam Jones' tone on Tool's Fear Innoculum: producer Joe Barresi reveals all
October 1
- Enter for your chance to win a Taylor Grand Pacific 317e
- Guitar maintenance: 10 ways to keep your electric guitar in top condition
- Guitar's biggest names tell us what really happened at Woodstock
- Content funding on Guitar World
- Ernie Ball Music Man reveals ornate Mariposa Omar Rodríguez-López signature guitar
- Pete Townshend: today's players have “literally exhausted the possibilities of the guitar”
- You can now buy Robben Ford’s Dumble-serviced Fender Super Reverb… for $15,000