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- September 30
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- Hear The Rolling Stones' previously unreleased cover of Troubles A’ Comin
- John Petrucci breaks down the main riff to Dream Theater's Invisible Monster in new Guitar World lesson
- From tortured neo-soul to festival-ready indie: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Kickstarter launched for The Fart Pedal, a guitar pedal that turns your tone into fart noises
- Mrs. Smith puts Kirk Hammett to shame once again with a wah-driven cover of Metallica's One
- Diezel's new VH Micro Head packs the high-gain heat of the company's VH4 amp into a compact, lightweight package
- The 30 greatest rock guitar albums of 1991
- Fender Custom Shop builds Jason Momoa a replica of Buddy Guy’s “holy grail” Strat – with Buddy Guy’s blessing
- Venezuelan guitar ace Douglas Saab teams up with John Petrucci for new instrumental prog jam, 'Space Traveller'
- Limp Bizkit drop studio version of brand-new song, Dad Vibes
- The best hollowbody electric guitars you can buy today
- Luca Stricagnoli: "I want to leave a mark for the new wave of guitar players. Maybe one day a guitarist says, ‘I play this weird way because of Luca Stricagnoli’"
- LIINES' Zoe McVeigh: “I play a Fender Kurt Cobain Jag-Stang – people come up to me at gigs to take pictures with it!”
- Nick Jonah Davis: “It’s easy to just say, ‘I’m going to be weird,’ and then stick some things on the guitar, but I need the listener’s trust before I get weird”
- Mark Hoppus announces he’s beaten cancer
- Ghost return with new single, Hunter's Moon
- December 2021 Guitar World lesson videos
- September 29
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- Join Paul Riario for a 360 tone tour of the Reverend Gil Parris Signature GPS
- Courtney Barnett is at her thought-provoking guitar-pop best on new single, Write A List Of Things To Look Forward To
- Watch Paul Riario demo the “top-of-the-line masterpiece” Taylor Builder’s Edition 816ce acoustic
- Dave Grohl lends his throne to Greyhawk bassist Darin Wall, who stopped a mass shooting
- 22 of the best guitarist stage names of all time
- Josh Homme granted calls with sons amid ongoing custody battle with Brody Dalle
- Ernie Ball Music Man updates its Ball Family Reserve collection with four new eye-catching offerings
- Joe Bonamassa unveils epic seven-minute title track of new album, Time Clocks
- Ghost Hounds' Thomas Tull: “There's always a prodigy in town who can pick up the guitar and just play. That was not me – I had to really work at it!”
- Adia Victoria: “The guitar is an outlet for me, a safe space to express a range of emotions that women – especially black women – aren't able to openly exhibit”
- Hone your hybrid picking with Greg Koch's lesson on how to play Luna Girl
- Mark Tremonti names the one guitar he regrets selling
- The Meters guitar legend Leo Nocentelli’s remarkable unreleased '70s solo album Another Side to finally see the light of day
- Want to record in a world-class studio for free? Fender’s new Player Plus initiative could pay for your band’s sessions
- How to play the James Bond guitar chord – and 007 ways you can solo over it
- Richie Faulkner in a “stable” condition after undergoing major emergency heart surgery
- How Todd Mosby's Imrat Guitar lets him combine western harmony with Indian melodies for a thrilling hybrid sound
- David Gilmour flexes his fretless bass skills in newly shared Yet Another Movie demo
- September 28
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- IDLES announce new album Crawler, take soulful left turn on new single, The Beachland Ballroom
- Pigtronix takes its delay game to the next level with slimmed-down, powerful Echolution 3 pedal
- Watch Paul Riario put Elixir Strings’ Acoustic Phosphor Bronze with NANOWEB Coating strings to the two-week tone test
- Converge recruit Chelsea Wolfe, Ben Chisholm and Stephen Brodsky for new collaborative album, Bloodmoon: I
- Pigtronix aims to offer a buffet of tone-boosting capabilities with its new Gamma Drive pedal
- The hard-rocking return of Kramer Guitars
- Mike McCready joins Brandi Carlile for faithful cover of Soundgarden’s Searching With My Good Eye Closed
- Fender launches new small-scale California series Sonoran Mini, Redondo Mini acoustic guitars
- Hoodoo Gurus' Dave Faulkner and Brad Shepherd share the secret to their longevity: "If it sounds real and exciting, we're good to go"
- Fender Japan debuts limited-edition Thinline Telecaster models with literal 'F'-holes
- Boss overdrive pedals: what you need to know about the company's classic drives
- Charles Berthoud: "I don’t want my music to only appeal to people who play bass"
- Eruption: Conversations With Eddie Van Halen is a definitive new biography based on 50+ hours of interviews with the man himself
- Travis Haley – aka ex-Steel Panther bassist Lexxi Foxx – forms new band, Hollywood Gods N' Monsters
- Guns N’ Roses announce new four-track EP, Hard Skool
- Judas Priest postpone remainder of US tour as guitarist Richie Faulkner is hospitalized for “major medical heart condition issues”
- September 27
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- Watch Paul Riario test drive eight fast-playing, killer-sounding FU PRO guitars from hardware upgrades brand FU-Tone
- Kirk Hammett joins Judas Priest onstage at Louder Than Life for performance of Fleetwood Mac's The Green Manalishi
- José González: "For this album, I didn't buy any new gear. I decided if I'm going to put time into something, it would be on rehearsing guitars and refining the songs"
- Legendary music photographer Ross Halfin has announced a huge new Ritchie Blackmore book, limited to just 400 copies
- Jack White performs surprise set atop Damien Hirst’s balcony at Third Man Records store grand opening
- Johnny Ramone's iconic 1965 Mosrite Ventures II guitar sells at auction for $937,500
- Warwick/Framus declares victory over Gibson in Flying V legal battle
- Watch Eddie Vedder, Josh Klinghoffer, Chad Smith and Pino Palladino perform Prince, R.E.M. and the Pretenders classics at Ohana Festival
- Guitar whammy bars: what you need to know
- Thom Yorke’s son Noah shares atmospheric, Radiohead-esque track, Trying Too Hard (Lullaby)
- How John Mayer conquered the world
- Alan Lancaster, bassist and founding member of Status Quo, dies aged 72
- Metallica perform The Black Album in its entirety at Louder Than Life festival
- Katatonia's Anders Nystrom and Roger Ojersson on finding creative rebirth in the electronic textures of City Burials
- Jocelyn Gould: "Jazz is a language – if you don’t hear it, you can’t speak it"
- Mo Foster: "What I had witnessed in real time was the start of the transition from jazz to fusion"
- How Nita Strauss ended up playing Jason Becker’s prototype Peavey 'Numbers' guitar live
- Watch the Rolling Stones play their first No Filter tour show since Charlie Watts’ death
- ChopTones offers free downloads of its IR Loader plugin for a limited time
- September 26
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- September 24
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- The ultimate playing experience: Andy Powers on Taylor's Builder's Edition guitars
- Recording King pays tribute to Justin Townes Earle with new signature acoustic guitar
- Building a backbeat and groove with Calum Graham
- Rammstein’s Richard Kruspe announces fourth Emigrate album, The Persistence of Memory
- Kurt Cobain's final Guitar World interview: “We play so hard that we can’t tune our guitars fast enough. People can relate to that”
- Watch Red Hot Chili Peppers bring the funk to MTV's New Years Eve 1991 broadcast
- Bernth: "Maybe blowtorching my guitar was a bit dramatic, but it was a statement about all these articles saying 'guitar music is dead!'"
- Jinjer's Roman Ibramkhalilov: "I almost feel sorry for anyone who comes out to our shows, because we are going to smash them"
- Trevor Bolder: “Bowie played you a song and you had one runthrough and that was it. Ziggy Stardust was recorded in a day“
- Jake Bugg on resisting the urge for a guitar adventure – and why his number one acoustic is made from a kitchen table
- John Mayer debuts live rendition of Wild Blue on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert
- Strandberg introduces hardware and tonewood overhaul in all-new NX Concept series
- Red Hot Chili Peppers give first interview with John Frusciante back in the fold
- Joyo names new reverb pedal after the most-hated word in the English language
- Stephen Carpenter shares a peek at his epic guitar rig in new playthrough for Deftones' Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)
- Steve Howe reveals he recorded most of the new Yes album with a Line 6 Spider
- The Ultimate Guide To Pedals – Build Your 'Board From Scratch: inside the new issue of Total Guitar
- Guns N' Roses drop hard-rocking new single, Hard Skool
- Attention music producers and songwriters: what do you want from streaming platforms?
- How Eddie Van Halen shaped the sound of Def Leppard's Hysteria with a single piece of advice
- September 23
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- Gibson Gives donates $300,000 to Nashville school music programs
- Rush’s Geddy Lee will release an “epic-length” memoir in 2022
- Super Deluxe 30th anniversary reissue, remaster of Nirvana's Nevermind announced
- From certified ragers to haunting, meditative fretboard excursions: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Volbeat announce new album Servant of the Mind, share destructive new single, Shotgun Blues
- "I was shocked by how good Eddie was… no-one had seen anybody playing outside of the box like that": a first-hand account of Van Halen's early backyard shows
- Yngwie Malmsteen: "There are two man-made objects you’re gonna see from space: the Great Wall of China and my wall of Marshalls. My road crew hates me!"
- Alt-J announce first album in four years, The Dream, share euphoric lead single, U&ME
- Watch the Foo Fighters perform at Dreamforce 2021 – accompanied by a troupe of fluffy dancing mascots
- Black Pumas’ Eric Burton and Adrian Queseda on how two “rhythm players“ found an unintentionally retro sound
- Rivers of Nihil's Brody Uttley: “If you're building a solo, really consider what you're playing over, because it's just as important as what you're playing”
- Julz Sale, guitarist and singer for Delta 5, has died
- April Kae: “Bringing my bass playing to social media has challenged me, and I feel like I’m growing“
- Universal Audio Astra Modulation Machine review
- I didn’t touch an acoustic guitar during the pandemic. Could a private island retreat with one of the world’s biggest guitar tutors help me reconnect?
- Josh Smith teases a Strat-style version of his signature Ibanez FLATV1
- September 22
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- From Genesis to Surrender: great Steve Hackett guitar moments
- Watch Justin Johnson try out the Maton Australian EA80C, “one of the best fingerstyle guitars I’ve ever played”
- Watch Nita Strauss shred onstage using Jason Becker’s original prototype Peavey Numbers guitar
- Brian Fallon debuts first single – The Virgin Mary Had One Son – from new spirituals album, Night Divine
- D'Addario unveils new Beatles-branded Get Back picks and straps
- Girls Smash Guitars pay homage to Phoebe Bridgers’ SNL performance with hectic guitar-smashing video
- Mooer launches the drum machine-loaded Groove Loop X2 stereo looper pedal
- The 1991 pedal aims to pack Pearl Jam’s Ten tones into a single stompbox
- Dusky Electronics cooks up the Toasted – an “amp-like” overdrive pedal with a pair of MOSFET gain stages
- Hear the pulverising debut single from Vended, featuring Slipknot offspring Griffin Taylor and Simon Crahan
- Billy Corgan set to sell over 100 pieces of gear used throughout his Smashing Pumpkins career in new Reverb Shop
- Dream Theater grapple with the effects of anxiety on new mid-tempo burner, Invisible Monster
- LP: “The ukulele is a serious instrument and it has range – It doesn’t have to be cutesy”
- Watch St. Vincent perform the electrifying title track of her new movie, The Nowhere Inn, on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
- Tom Morello drops heavy-riffing new single with Bring Me the Horizon, Let's Get the Party Started
- Metallica's James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett reveal The Black Album's deepest, darkest secrets in this classic 1991 Guitar World interview
- Sterling by Music Man Mariposa and Cutlass CT50HSS review
- How to play slide guitar solos in open E tuning
- Carl Martin debuts streamlined Ottawa Vintage Optical Envelope filter pedal
- Jim Root showcases new one-of-a-kind Black Paisley Fender Jazzmaster at Slipknot's recent festival shows
- Tremonti share bruising new single, Now and Forever
- September 21
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- “It's like having my own little built-in monitor”: Nikki Lane, Scarypoolparty and Amythyst Kiah talk Gibson’s pioneering new Generation Collection of acoustics
- Spector brings new finishes and tonewoods, and beefed-up electronics, to its Euro line with new Euro RST bass guitar
- Australian Guitar x Bluesfest 2022: Hiatus Kaiyote
- Jaco Pastorius talks Weather Report, playing fast, and why the bass is "the number one instrument in the world" in his first Guitar World interview from 1983
- Carlos Santana recruits Steve Winwood for soulful new single, Whiter Shade of Pale
- Bruce Keir, co-founder and Technical Director of Blackstar Amplification, dies at 60
- Fender partners with MoFi for swamp ash-built, sunburst-finished PrecisionDeck turntable
- Chelsea Wolfe shares two previously unreleased songs from her Birth of Violence sessions
- Slash teases new Guns N’ Roses song with soundcheck TikTok video
- Why Les Paul didn’t like the Gibson SG
- Beetronics Vezzpa Octave Stinger review
- Gibson debuts the Generation Collection, the company's first acoustics to feature its new Player Port secondary soundhole
- Dave Keuning: “The second I get a pedal, I write a song with it right then and there, because it’s some fun, new sound that inspires me”
- Scott Gorham leaves Black Star Riders to focus on Thin Lizzy
- Rise Against's Zach Blair and Tim McIlrath on their Grateful Dead-inspired guitar interplay and making music with a message
- Download and stream the audio from Total Guitar 350
- September 20
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- Watch Les Paul’s son Gene reveal his father's incredible journey in developing the iconic electric guitar
- Plugin Alliance introduces software version of Pete Thorn’s signature Suhr PT100 amp head
- Thundercat joins Haim to perform 3AM at their Santa Barbara show, serves up a dizzyingly virtuosic bass solo
- Loathe announce departure of guitarist Connor Sweeney
- Paul Thorn: “Half the songs on this album were recorded on a Gibson Hummingbird with three-year-old strings!”
- Wallace Detroit Guitars partners with Jeep for car-branded electric guitar made from 100-year-old wood
- Hear Andy McKee’s stunning acoustic interpretation of Prince’s Purple Rain
- Watch Michael Angelo Batio join Smashing Pumpkins for a shredtacular jam at Chicago's Riot Fest
- Watch Nick DePirro and Jason Richardson put John Petrucci’s awe-inspiring eight-string Majesty through its paces
- The Doof Wagon – the speaker-packed, flame-throwing vehicular guitar rig from Mad Max: Fury Road – is up for auction
- Jackson Browne: "It took me a long time to understand what guitars I preferred – sometimes it’s the beat-up old one that works and the spectacular thing doesn’t"
- Commemorative Eddie Van Halen Pasadena plaque gets formal approval for installation
- Lou Barlow: "Every time we make a record, I hope to find some magic combination that approximates the growl of what we get live. I don’t know if I’ve done that yet"
- Watch Lindsey Buckingham flex his fingerpicking solo skills in On the Wrong Side performance on The Late Show
- Former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer joins Pearl Jam as touring musician
- How John Mayer came to join Dead & Company
- Takamine PTU441-MTB review
- September 19
- September 17
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- Squier adds a new offset to its Classic Vibe range with the Late '50s Jazzmaster
- New Epiphone Lucille model confirmed for October release as Gibson and B.B. King Music Company reaffirm partnership
- Cort expands its Artisan Series of bass guitars with the 4- and 5-string B4 and B5 Element
- Watch Metallica play a surprise club show in San Francisco
- Roger Waters says David Gilmour and Richard Wright were “snipe-y because they felt very insignificant” in Pink Floyd
- John 5 recruits Dave Mustaine for Que Pasa, the ultra-shreddy first track from his upcoming album, Sinner
- How the Boss MT-2 Metal Zone conquered the world and inspired a new generation of metal guitar players
- The origins of the Fender Jazzmaster, from surf supremo to alternative hero
- Fender Japan resurrects the Squier Katana for Hama Okamoto’s super-jagged signature bass
- Kiko Loureiro: "I thought the greatest message would be to have Marty Friedman on Open Source, not only because he was the Megadeth guy, but to show that music is not a competition"
- Ernie Ball dishes out the low-end love with new 8-String Regular Slinky set
- Richard Fortus: "Gretsch were in rehearsals with us, winding pickups on the spot while I was trying them out"
- 633 Engineering Dragonfly 1x10 Combo review
- Ace Frehley on a potential future Kiss reunion: “Anything's possible”
- Thrice reveal how challenging their songwriting and transforming the Fibonacci sequence into a guitar riff shaped bold new album, Horizons/East
- Dave Navarro, Chris Chaney and Taylor Hawkins join forces for new band, NHC
- Taylor GS Mini Mahogany review
- Synergy expands amp module range with high-gain Diezel Herbert preamp module
- September 16
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- Spotlight: Sam Sheumack of Fangz
- Phish's Trey Anastasio takes you on a guided tour of his full live rig
- From riff-tastic sledgehammers to serene acoustic beauty: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- 20 classic rock songs with no guitar solo
- An introduction to the fundamentals of classical guitar
- Instrumental Aluminum is a new company building sustainable electric guitars out of, well, aluminum
- Billy F. Gibbons: “We let off steam by letting it rock... Hardware is a raging rocker but always mindful of the desert’s implicit mystery”
- Emerald Guitars breaks the mould with carbon fiber, Fishman Fluence-equipped electric-acoustic hybrid, the Virtuo
- How to play legato guitar licks
- Universal Audio Starlight Echo Station review
- Watch the pro-shot version of Guns N’ Roses and Dave Grohl’s plug-pulling Paradise City performance
- Fender unveils Adrian Younge’s insane half-fretless, fuzz-equipped Jazz Bass
- Shawn Mendes employs an old-school Silvertone for a raw electric guitar cover of Billie Eilish's Happier Than Ever
- Boss debuts feature-packed IR-200 Amp & IR Cabinet and SY-200 Synthesizer pedals
- Epiphone Hummingbird Studio review
- September 15
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- Julia Kugel: “When you’re a musician, there's no separation between work and self. That’s why criticism is so gnarly, because they’re criticizing you as a human”
- Watch Megadeth rehearse Hangar 18, Symphony Of Destruction, Peace Sells and more in Kiko Loureiro’s new YouTube video
- Jackson teams up with former Megadeth guitarist Chris Broderick to launch impressively spec'd Pro Series Soloist model
- The War on Drugs' heartland rock influences shine on their shimmering new single, I Don't Live Here Anymore
- Snail Mail announces sophomore studio album, Valentine, shares infectious title track
- Face to Face's Trever Keith: “This album focuses on the best tones and emotions from the records we’ve made throughout our career”
- Orange promises tube-like tone from solid-state circuitry with the new Super Crush 100 Head and Combo
- How recording The Unforgiven changed Kirk Hammett's approach to guitar solos forever
- Charvel Pro-Mod San Dimas PJ IV and JJ V review
- Yamaha THR30II Wireless review
- Vox Adio Air GT review
- Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit announce star-studded covers charity album featuring Julien Baker, Chris Thile, John Paul White and more
- Clutch have written a song called Boss Metal Zone – watch the first live performance
- Mastodon and Opeth announce 15-date co-headline US tour for late 2021
- September 14
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- Grab your guitar, dial in a fat jazz tone and explore this in-depth bebop scale lesson from six-string ace Matt Warnock
- All-star Allman Family Revival tour announced
- Australian Guitar x Bluesfest 2022: The Living End
- Keeley Electronics ushers in its next generation of compression pedals with the Compressor Mini
- John Mayer wins Best Rock Video at 2021 MTV VMAs
- Steve Vai announces enormous 54-date US tour
- John Petrucci's signature 8-string Ernie Ball Music Man Majesty has arrived at last
- Fender launches official TikTok account
- Jerry Cantrell remembers watching Axl Rose throw his Alice in Chains demo tape away
- Fender introduces limited-edition Pink and Black Paisley Acoustasonic Telecasters
- Fender launches all-new Player Plus electric guitar and bass models with fresh finishes and switching options
- Hear Ozzy Osbourne and Lemmy Kilmister trade vocals on new version of Hellraiser
- Robert Trujillo’s 17-year-old son performs alongside Suicidal Tendencies at Blue Ridge Rock Festival
- Slothrust’s Leah Wellbaum: “There's a culture where women haven't been as encouraged to be loud and take up space. Guitar solos are the opposite of that”
- Queen's Brian May hints towards all-instrumental solo album
- Darrell Freeman: “Playing simpler makes the whole thing feel good – people feel the music better when there’s less going on“
- Mudvayne reunite for first live show in 12 years at Ohio's Inkcarceration festival
- Your guide to John Mayer's guitar gear, era by era
- Eastman Romeo LA review
- Al Joseph unleashes a barrage of blazing riffs and licks in mesmerizing new instrumental single, Elemental
- King’s X bassist and frontman dUg Pinnick announces new solo album Joy Bomb
- September 13
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- Best offset guitars: enter the weird world of wonky guitars from Fender, Epiphone, G&L, Duesenberg and more
- Who was the first guitarist to fit a Floyd Rose on a Gibson Les Paul? Brad Gillis maintains he started the trend
- Watch Machine Gun Kelly tear through Papercuts before smashing his guitar to pieces at the MTV VMAs
- UK guitar great Michael Chapman dies aged 80: Thurston Moore, Ryley Walker and Steve Gunn lead tributes
- Solar Guitars partners with Patrik Jensen of The Haunted and Witchery for a bloodthirsty new E-type signature model
- Roger Newell, bassist for Rick Wakeman and Marty Wilde, dies aged 73
- Spector NS Ethos 4SFB review
- Watch present-day Brian May jam with 1992 Brian May in his new Back to the Light video
- Metallica and Miley Cyrus unite for stunning live rendition of Nothing Else Matters
- September 10
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- Stevie Nicks responds to Lindsey Buckingham’s “factually inaccurate” recollection of his Fleetwood Mac departure
- Hear Billy Talent and Rivers Cuomo duke it out on their new “Hendrix + Weezer” track, End of Me
- Restraining order filed against Josh Homme by his family
- John 5 and Rob Zombie pay tribute to live mayhem in new Shadow of the Cemetery Man video
- Bullet For My Valentine promise an “absolute sledgehammer of a track with riffs for days” on new single Shatter
- Ghost unleash haunting reimagining of Metallica’s Enter Sandman
- Hear the sludgy title track from Jerry Cantrell’s new solo album, Brighten
- Soundgarden's Kim Thayil: "Badmotorfinger was our interpretation of the heavy, dark and psychedelic things we liked in music"
- Mastodon announce epic new double album Hushed and Grim, share pummeling lead single, Pushing the Tides
- The secrets behind George Harrison's guitar tone on The Beatles' Hey Bulldog
- EVH 5150 Series Standard review
- G&L offers wider string spacing on its new L-2500 Series 750 five-string bass
- September 9
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- Eric Clapton unplugs again (mostly) on new album, The Lady in the Balcony: Lockdown Sessions
- Spotlight: Ella Williams, a.k.a. Squirrel Flower
- Virtual versions of IK Multimedia's X-Gear pedals can now be demoed for free in AmpliTube 5
- Contemporary guitarist Brian Kastan brings jam band music and modern blues into the boundaryless, improv-heavy future on his new album, ‘Free Blues’
- Rory Gallagher livestream tribute concert announced to celebrate debut album’s 50th anniversary
- Fairfield Circuitry promises bountiful gain and "delicious" harmonics with its new ~900 fuzz pedal
- Harley Benton's new $39 Lightcases seek to provide the “protection of a hardcase with the flexibility of a gigbag”
- Josh Homme reveals the “secret weapon” behind his Queens of the Stone Age tone: Peavey's tiny Decade practice amp
- Gibson partners with School of Rock for unique, limited-edition black-and-gold Les Paul Special
- Jared James Nichols premieres searing live performance of Skin 'n Bone, from forthcoming Shadow Dancer EP
- Martin ukulele set for space in first-ever all-civilian astronaut SpaceX expedition
- Hear the exclusive premiere of Eric Bibb’s powerful new single, Dear America
- Tom DeLonge: “The secret to playing fast is masturbating. If you don’t masturbate, you can’t play punk rock!”
- Knobs: “The function of pedals has changed – they're collaborative devices that don't have a fixed function. They're instruments in their own right”
- Shame's Josh Finerty and Eddie Green discuss the three-guitar magic behind the London post-punks' exhilarating sound
- Noatronic’s Wireless Guitar System lets you control MIDI pedals via your guitar's tone pot
- Universal Audio Golden Reverberator review
- September 8
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- 2022 NAMM show rescheduled to June
- Gov’t Mule announce first-ever blues album, Heavy Load Blues, release acoustic-driven lead single, Heavy Load
- Barenaked Ladies' Ed Robertson has teamed up with Geddy Lee for a "super-secret" project
- Rodrigo y Gabriela share awe-inspiring acoustic reworking of Metallica's The Struggle Within
- Samantha Fish says ditching her pedals “made me a better guitar player”
- Watch deathcore heroes Whitechapel rip through crushing new single Lost Boy in this exclusive playthrough video
- Gibson adds Indian rosewood-equipped versions of the ‘58 Korina Flying V and Explorer reissues to its Custom Shop lineup
- Pavement announce 2022 reunion tour
- Richie Faulkner: “When I joined Judas Priest, my influences were – and still are – on my sleeve. But it soon became about finding my own voice”
- Orange Crush 20 review
- Julia Shapiro: "Writing music isn't something you can easily define. It's this abstract thing that happens between just you and the guitar"
- TC Electronic Ditto X2 review
- Earthbound Audio says pedal brand is on "indefinite hold" and launches fundraiser after home is devastated by Ida floods
- Eddie Vedder’s new single, The Long Way, features a backing band of Red Hot Chili Peppers and Heartbreakers members
- Hetfield and Hammett revisit Metallica's Black Album, plus the true origins of Eddie Van Halen's Frankenstein – only in the new Guitar World
- John Mayer: “We’re all in the same boat. We’re all sitting down with an electric guitar alone in a room, hoping to trip over something that we’ll never forget”
- Charvel Pro-Mod So-Cal Style 2 HH HT review
- Joe Satriani pays tribute to longtime manager Mick Brigden, who has died aged 73
- How to play the C chord on guitar
- Bill Finnegan announces future Klon KTRs to be made with new components after NOS diode supply diminishes
- Bass Player's new issue pays tribute to Dusty Hill
- September 7
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- Australian Guitar x Bluesfest 2022: All Our Exes Live In Texas
- Fender finally releases long-awaited Stratocaster Lego set
- Radiohead announce three-disc Kid A/Amnesiac reissue, premiere previously unreleased track, If You Say The Word
- Man on course to smash world record after playing bass guitar for 60 hours straight in mammoth fundraiser
- Kim Thayil and Jerry Cantrell join forces to lead upcoming Sounds of Seattle rock camp
- Madi Diaz: "My Harmony Meteor kicks the s**t out of everything. I know I'm gonna be able to hold my own because this guitar, it's just got me"
- Bill Steer: “If you play fingerstyle for half an hour, then use a plectrum, a whole world opens up – you really notice the things you can do with a pick”
- Laney Digbeth DB500H and DBV212-4 cabinet review
- Electro-Harmonix 720 Stereo Looper review
- Taran Plouzané, guitarist for Bicurious, names 10 math/post-rock riffs you need to hear
- Kirk Hammett reveals he has never written a guitar solo with a wah pedal
- Jonny Greenwood says Radiohead side-project The Smile's debut album is "just about finished"
- Dhani Harrison on the incredible story of his father George's All Things Must Pass album
- Faith Guitars revamps its HiGloss acoustic series with the three-piece rosewood-equipped FVHG3
- Adori Audio’s Slimtech is an ultra-slim combo amp that fits in a gigbag
- Hard-rock heroes UFO schedule their last-ever show and promise “it’ll be a worthy finale”
- September 6
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- Rico Nasty’s unexpectedly heavy NPR Tiny Desk concert makes a star of Strandberg-toting guitarist Liso Lee
- Burgerkill founding guitarist Aries Tanto – aka Eben – dies aged 46
- Derek Trucks on how Tedeschi Trucks Band partnered with Trey Anastasio to perform Derek and the Dominos' Layla in its entirety
- Johnny Marr shares a closer look at his bonkers 9-pickup Fender Stratocaster
- Watch the moment a festival pulls the plug on Guns N’ Roses and Dave Grohl – and they carry on regardless
- Death By Audio post Hurricane Ida update, announce latest addition to lineup is a kitten named Toots
- Black Oak Arkansas guitarist Rickie Lee Reynolds dies aged 72
- Hear Ariel Posen’s new swampy instrumental slide guitar masterclass, Clawhammer
- Mark Lettieri: "It’s funny that I have a guitar with so many options, because I like my amps as simple as possible. If there are switches on amps, I freak out!"
- Kiko Loureiro has switched to the Neural DSP Quad Cortex for Megadeth’s current tour
- Epiphone USA Collection Frontier and Casino review
- Judas Priest have “at least an album or two of new material”, according to bassist Ian Hill
- Blu DeTiger: "I would bring my bass to my DJ sets and improvise over disco, house and funk records. People would go crazy"
- First-ever band-sanctioned Led Zeppelin documentary shares first official clip
- September 3
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- Calling all gear hounds: You could win $500 simply by taking this survey
- Fender partners with Mattel for new Barbie Collection song lessons on Fender Play
- ESP pays tribute to the late Alexi Laiho with two new signature models
- Guitar Gabby premieres new video for grungy single The Dead Pool
- Lollar’s Regal for Jazzmaster pickup set makes it easy to swap in Wide Range-style humbucker tones on your offset
- Myles Kennedy confirms work on a new Slash album has been completed
- Billy Sherwood on his best (and worst) bass albums
- Scottish alt-rock heroes Biffy Clyro announce surprise new album The Myth of the Happily Ever After
- Van Halen: The Eruption and the Aftershock tells the story of the band with input from Black Sabbath, Pantera and Alice in Chains
- Tom DeLonge and Jason Mraz creations head up ArtReach’s 32-model art auction of one-off custom guitars
- Walrus Audio seeks to usher in whole new Eras of high gain with versatile new distortion pedal
- Hear Tony Hawk cover one of his favorite songs from his own game
- Watch the first footage of Lars Ulrich’s sons’ biting new blues-rock band, Taipei Houston
- Friedman BE-Mini Head review
- Myles Kennedy on his greatest gear finds and regrets, and how a '53 Tele made him fall in love with guitar all over again
- The story behind the fake Metallica track that fooled the world
- Spotlight: Alex Lees of Four In The Morning
- September 2
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- Dave Mustaine teaches you the main riff to Megadeth's Tornado of Souls in backstage video
- The Superjesus’ Jason Slack: “I had no real plan from the start, I just wanted to make a guitar”
- Gibson redefines guitars as investments with new Rally partnership
- From electro-soul anthems to go-for-the-throat garage rock: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Rick Rubin cried watching the Red Hot Chili Peppers' first rehearsal after reuniting with John Frusciante
- Gibson unveils Mod Collection of rare, exclusive and one-off guitars
- Yes, you can play guitar while pregnant: Stephanie Bradley reflects on her journey shredding for two
- Positive Grid celebrates 10th anniversary with the return of the Spark Pearl, and big savings off the 5-star Spark amp
- Dean DeLeo teams up with Tom Bukovac for new, virtually assembled collaborative album, Trip The Witch
- Paul Leary: “My 1978 Les Paul Custom was so heavy, I was having to go to massage therapy every week just to work the knots out of my back!”
- Eventide UltraTap review
- Boss brings its immersive Waza-Air headphone technology to bassists with the Waza-Air Bass
- Animals As Leaders return with epic, unrelenting new single, Monomyth
- September 1
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- Watch Sophie Burrell plug into Focusrite’s Scarlett 18i8 3rd Gen USB Audio Interface to rip out a fierce cover of Michael Jackson's Beat It
- New Brad Whitford photobook, Listen To Whitford, announced
- Metallica's Blackened American Whiskey has been “pummeled by the low-hertz frequencies” of the band's classic tracks
- Hear Squier's newly revived Paranormal Series guitars in action
- Hear Lindsey Buckingham’s new single Scream, a galloping "celebration of an aspect of life"
- Recording King equips its latest Dirty 30s resonator with a mini-humbucker
- Fender adds roasted pine bodies, fully rosewood necks and Bigsby Telecaster options to its Mod Shop
- Kiss postpone four shows after Gene Simmons tests positive for COVID
- Watch Yes take to the skies in eagle-eyed video for new track Dare to Know
- Jerry Cantrell: “Sometimes I’d be late for soundcheck and I’d show up to find Eddie Van Halen up there with the band, rockin’ out”
- Has Herman Li just teased an upcoming PRS signature guitar?
- Davie504: "Slap bass is still the best for making videos on YouTube, because it's very easy to hear, on any kind of speaker"
- Zeal & Ardor announce self-titled third album, debut new song Bow, which sounds like a chain-gang death march
- Nearly a third of new gear is bought by church players, according to Fender
- Billy Strings: "A lot of times I’ll walk right out and say, 'I’m not going to lie, folks. I’m nervous as f**k right now'"
- Klon creator Bill Finnegan announces livestream series via newly created YouTube channel
- Best beginner classical guitars: Plus the top Spanish guitar for beginners
- Fender Japan continues its fine guitar-making form with Heather Brown’s ultra-limited, nautical-themed Original Canvas Esquire
- Nandi Bushell joins forces with Tom Morello and his son Roman for a “sweet improvisational jam”
- Charlie Parr: “My physical setbacks have strengthened my relationship to the guitar… we're still here together”
- Ibanez introduces $299 AZ Essentials series, designed in collaboration with Tomo Fujita
- How to play barre chords: the 4 most important shapes
