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February 28
- Stone Temple Pilots’ Robert DeLeo has a solo album on the way
- Dave Grohl says making his Dream Widow metal album has been “almost therapy – I’m finally getting it out of my system”
- See John Mayer play Cory Wong’s signature Strat on funk tune Still Feel Like Your Man
- Solar Guitars introduces a trio of strikingly finished bass models
- The Rasmus to represent Finland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022
- Eddie Vedder recruits Stewart Copeland to cover The Police’s Message in a Bottle during live show
- The Specials' Horace Panter: “In the '60s, the clever bloke played lead guitar, his best mate was taught rhythm, and the guy who wanted to play guitar, but wasn’t very good, ended up playing bass!”
- Dave Brock: “I busked in cinema queues and subways. It taught me a lot and gave me plenty of practice performing”
- Phil Demmel to join Overkill on their March US tour after guitarist Dave Linsk pulls out due to “personal reasons”
- Electro-Harmonix Dirt Road Special review
- Slash thinks this is the heaviest riff of all time: "Not one band that I can think of has a riff that is as heavy"
- Silktone launches germanium transistor-loaded, Active Bias Monitor-equipped Fuzz pedal
- Green Day cancel upcoming Moscow show due to Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine
February 25
- JHS Pedals introduces the Overdrive Preamp pedal, inspired by a DOD 250 “that didn’t exist”
- From fuzz re-awakenings to blistering desert blues: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Sit in on an intimate jam session with Orangewood’s new video series, The Duet Show
- John Rzeznik reveals the experimental guitar tuning secrets behind Goo Goo Dolls’ classic hits
- Bonnie Raitt announces first album in six years, Just Like That…, delivers a bounty of blues licks in lead single, Made Up Mind
- Sasami: “Metal may be mostly a white man's genre, but the emotions that go with the sounds of metal guitar are emotions that all humans experience”
- Bill Gould: “I learned to play by writing songs. To me, it’s more about feeling and passion than technical playing”
- Chad Smith ditches drums for guitar during Eddie Vedder show – and ticks off every guitar hero trick in the book
- KMA Machines unveils the Pylon, a feature-packed two-in-one noise gate and boost pedal
- John 5 announces mammoth US tour in support of his latest solo album, Sinner
- The 40 best basslines of all time
- The 10 types of string bending, from blues and boomer bends to tweak and tap bends
- Harley Benton CLB-10SE review
- John Mayer tests positive for Covid-19 for the second time in two months, reschedules tour dates
February 24
- Gibson releases new mini-documentary on Sister Rosetta Tharpe, "the founding mother of rock 'n' roll"
- Dave Grohl tells the shocking story of how he got electrocuted by a distortion pedal at a Las Vegas corporate gig
- Mooer launches the GTRS PTNR, an uber-compact Bluetooth amp to pair with its GTRS Intelligent Guitar
- Dry Cleaning’s Tom Dowse: “I play all day and it’s a big part of my life, but I just can’t think of myself as a guitarist!”
- Metallica announce two U.S. stadium shows with Greta Van Fleet, Ice Nine Kills
- Monuments' John Browne showcases his formidable fretboard skills in this brutal playthrough of Cardinal Red
- Bernard Butler: “The best thing about a Tele is that when you bash them, they look even better. You don’t say that about the 355!”
- Periphery side-project Haunted Shores drop metal riff masterclass, OnlyFangs
- Watch Wolfgang Van Halen cover Alice in Chains’ Them Bones on a prototype semi-hollow EVH guitar – and nail the solo despite his strap falling off
- Alex Lifeson on making his Epiphone Les Paul Axcess: “My biggest concern was, can we get Custom Shop quality in a guitar that costs quite a bit less? I think we did it”
- Learn the rhythm and lead styles of neo-soul virtuoso Jairus Mozee
- Squier Contemporary Stratocaster Special HT and Paranormal Toronado review
- Boss SY-200 Synthesizer review
- Lamb of God are in the studio with Body Count guitarists Ernie C and Juan Garcia
February 23
- Watch Yasmin Williams demonstrate her signature lap-tapping technique on an Epiphone G-1275 doubleneck guitar
- "I love playing the blues, now more than I ever have before": Johnny Winter reveals how he paid tribute to his favorite blues greats on Roots in 2011 GW interview
- Fender partners with Andertons to channel '80s hair metal with a bright new Ferrari Yellow Player Strat HSS
- New Twitter account explores the creation of Steve Vai’s insane triple-neck Ibanez Hydra guitar
- Guitar shopping with Slash, Glenn Tipton unleashed, Robert Fripp's best and more – only in the new Guitar World
- How Lemmy Kilmister found his terrifying bass tones: “I just turn it up really loud and hit it really hard!”
- Turnstile’s Brady Ebert and Pat McCrory on why huge guitar groove is front and center of their hardcore punk sound
- Watch Eric Gales and Carlos Santana share the stage at the 1994 Woodstock Festival
- The D'Addario Foundation launches the Bridge Fund, a new initiative to provide funding for music education in Black communities
- 15 times Mark Lanegan conjured dark magic with alternative music's greatest guitarists
- Peter Frampton recounts the recovery and restoration of his legendary Gibson “Phenix” Les Paul in new 20-minute video
- Dunlop launches the Rock III Custom Nylon, a Jazz III pick for high-gain shredders
- Mark Lanegan, 1964-2022: the guitar world pays tribute
- Guns N' Roses' Duff McKagan joins Eddie Vedder onstage in Seattle for an energetic cover of The Pretenders' Precious
- Best high-end classical and nylon-string guitars: 8 of the most beautifully crafted guitars for classical, jazz and Latin
February 22
- Mark Lanegan, lead singer of the Screaming Trees, dies at 57
- Josh Smith and Jon Deiley of Northlane: “We create trends"
- Gary Brooker, lead singer and pianist of Procol Harum, dies at 76
- Gibson announces wider release of Dave Mustaine’s signature Flying V EXP
- Mdou Moctar breaks out the wah for sizzling new song, Nakanegh Dich
- Steve Vai: “I’m very fortunate in that whatever ridiculous ideas come into my head, the people at Ibanez can make them real”
- Mithans introduces birch burl-topped Valira model
- Slash estimates he owns 400 guitars but still considers his Appetite-era ‘59 Les Paul copy his number one
- Mammoth WVH debut unreleased track during the opening show of their Young Guns tour with Dirty Honey
- Positive Grid unveils the Spark MINI, a downsized version of its celebrated Spark smart guitar amp
- Glenn Tipton fires back at K.K. Downing: “His accusations have gotten sillier and sillier – and I deserve to respond”
- How to solo using the CAGED scale
- Freekbass on his 5 best bass albums
- Godin A5 Ultra AE review
- Origin Effects unveils BassRIG Super Vintage and BassRIG ‘64 Black Panel overdrive and preamp pedals
February 21
- A lyric sheet torn in half and signed by Jimi Hendrix at a 1967 gig has been put back together – and will soon go up for sale
- Nux pays tribute to the Roland Space Echo 201 with all-new NDD-7 Tape Echo pedal
- Mateus Asato shares blissful instrumental reimagining of Tears For Fears’ Everybody Wants To Rule The World
- 5 soloing ideas you can learn from Tony MacAlpine
- Peter Hook on his 5 best bass albums
- Dan Patlansky: “I’ve hemorrhaged money on fuzzes. I probably could have retired on the money I’ve spent on them”
- Scorpions preview imminent new album with swaggering single, Shining Of Your Soul
- Fender Tone Master Super Reverb review
- Tom Morello, Nandi Bushell, Julien Baker and more join forces for new Afghan charity single, God Help Us All
- Steve Vai's hands will appear in Foo Fighters' new horror movie, Studio 666
February 18
- Watch John Paul Jones, Derek Trucks, Susan Tedeschi, Buffalo Nichols and more join forces to cover Led Zeppelin's When the Levee Breaks
- Watch Paul Riario explore the future of guitar design with the “cutting-edge” LAVA ME 3 smart guitar
- Robin Trower announces new album, No More Worlds To Conquer, hear its slow-burning title track
- Joe Bonamassa's slide playing takes center stage on Edgar Winter’s new Johnny Winter tribute track, Mean Town Blues
- Matt Heafy announces Rashomon, the debut album of his black metal side project, Ibaraki, and recruits Behemoth's Nergal for new single, Akumu
- From frenetic eight-string exchanges to swaggeringly catchy country: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Paul McCartney announces first live shows since 2019 with the Got Back tour
- Best high-end guitar amps 2024: 8 of the finest-sounding amplifiers money can buy
- A Perfect Circle’s Billy Howerdel shares teaser clip for new solo single, Poison Flowers
- Doyle W. Von Frankenstein unpicks his insane Dean Annihilator signature guitar
- Hear Joe Satriani go Gilmour on progressive new song Faceless
- BMG acquires John Lee Hooker catalogue, boom boom in publishing sales continues
- The Aggros’ Parris Mayhew: “I can tell a musical story without a singer – I let the instruments tell it instead”
- Boss confirms a compact RE-2 Space Echo pedal is on the way
- Krist Novoselic: “I have so many blessings – I got to play with Dave Grohl and Kurt Cobain”
- How to use drop tunings, octave effects and layered tones to create a deep, huge sound
- Eventide TriceraChorus review
- Fender's Ensenada, Mexico factory struck by fire
- Jason Richardson and Tim Henson reach dizzying heights with fiery fretboard masterclass, Upside Down
- Guitar gear market expected to remain largely unaffected by UK's cost of living crisis
February 17
- Brian May, Seiko team up to create Red Special-inspired watch
- Ed Sheeran, Bring Me the Horizon release studio version of their ultra-heavy reimagining of Bad Habits
- Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard announce rescheduled 2022 North American stadium tour with Poison, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
- TC Electronic unveils Impulse IR Loader mini pedal, packed with Celestion impulse responses
- Nilüfer Yanya: “It could be the most amazing guitar in the world, but it only matters how you’re playing it”
- Dave Grohl has recorded an entire album of metal music to coincide with the release of Foo Fighters' new horror movie, Studio 666
- Animals As Leaders traverse time signatures and shine a spotlight on the low-end in dizzying new single, Gordian Naught
- An original, 1958 Paul Bigsby semi-hollow electric guitar is on sale for $750,000 on Reverb
- Patterns of Decay showcase House of Doors' pummeling palm-muted riffs and soaring leads in new guitar playthrough
- Cesar Gueikian: “Being at the forefront of innovation and evolution has been part of Gibson heritage for almost 128 years”
- Kiefer Sutherland: “The closest Jack Bauer ever would have been to a guitar was smashing it over someone’s head”
- Go from jazz to Jimi with this guide to the 7#9 Hendrix chord
- Health team up with Lamb of God for punishing new single, Cold Blood, announce new album, DISCO4 :: PART II
- 10 easy guitar songs for beginners
- Walrus Audio Eras Five-State Distortion and Iron Horse High-Gain LM308 Distortion review
- Premier Guitar's Instagram page looks to have been hacked
February 16
- Joe Satriani: Young Instagram guitarists "play so much better than I could ever play in terms of speed, dexterity and complexity"
- Eddie Vedder first crossed paths with Andrew Watt after Watt gifted him an electric guitar
- End of the roll? Rammstein’s new album reportedly held up by paper shortage
- Joe Walsh's Barnstorm have reportedly recorded their first album together in almost 50 years
- Carl Martin announces Ampster tube guitar amp and speaker sim/DI pedal
- Watch Spoon play their swaggering, guitar-driven rocker The Hardest Cut on Jimmy Kimmel Live
- Tone chasers rejoice, with up to 60% off AmpliTube Signature Collections from IK Multimedia
- Sweetwater unveils Fender Player Stratocaster, Telecaster in exclusive Seafoam Green, Sienna Sunburst finishes
- Logan Mader: “I was super-lucky to play in Machine Head… it was a one-in-a-million chance, like winning the lottery!”
- Online guitar lessons vs face to face: which is right for you?
- How a pummeling Garth Brooks cover helped hard-rocking Oklahomans Fist of Five tackle social stigmas
- Learn 60 years of legato guitar in 5 generation-spanning lessons
- Best high-end acoustic guitars 2024: 10 of the most lust-worthy instruments for guitarists
- Foo Fighters go death metal on surprisingly heavy new track March of the Insane
- Best Fender Play deals: find the biggest savings on our favorite online guitar lesson service
- Dark Funeral's Lord Ahriman channels sinister riff magic in this brutal playthrough of Let the Devil In
- Alt-J's Joe Newman: "I'll never be a John Mayer. I'm one of those people that just explores the guitar – I'm on that journey now"
- ABBA guitarist Lasse Wellander shares his story of playing for the Swedish pop institution
- Epiphone Joe Bonamassa ‘Lazarus’ 1959 Les Paul Standard and BB King Lucille review
- Learn the basics of acoustic guitar maintenance
February 15
- Line 6 shakes up its amp offerings in a big way with affordable new Catalyst range of dual-channel combos
- Gibson joins forces with Jerry Cantrell for two new signature acoustic-electric guitars
- Charlie Collins: “I wanted to keep the full version of myself intact on ‘Undone’”
- Pete Townshend says the death of John Entwistle forced him to become a better guitarist
- Fender's George Harrison Rosewood Telecaster is back
- Bomber guitarists Anton Sköld and Max Huddén prove classic rock is alive and kicking in this hard-riffing playthrough of Zarathustra
- Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale set to wine, dine and jam with celebrities in new TV cooking show
- Plush's Bella Perron: "It's important to study styles you wouldn’t normally gravitate to – it can give you a broader outlook on playing"
- The PRS SE Silver Sky was being discussed before development on the original had even begun
- Watch Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators perform new album 4 in its entirety during recent Live at Studios 60 livestream concert
- Ibanez commemorates US distributor Hoshino's 50th anniversary with dazzling Custom Shop Collection
- Rage Against the Machine announce rescheduled dates for their upcoming Public Service Announcement tour
- How using the wrong pentatonic scale can actually sound great
- Meet Tim Staffell, John Deacon's bass-playing predecessor in Smile, the band that became Queen
- Electro-Harmonix Nano Deluxe Memory Man review
- April 2022 Guitar World lesson videos
February 14
- This is what the average guitar rig looks like in 2022
- Anthrax's Scott Ian and his 10-year-old son get hyped for the Super Bowl with a wholesome yet hard-rocking cover of System of a Down's Bounce
- Official biography announced for John McGeoch, guitarist for Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and PiL
- Michael Angelo-Batio dubs new Guitar Solo book “the most comprehensive book on guitar that has ever been written”
- Watch Phil Demmel shred a wah-heavy rendition of the national anthem at a high school basketball game
- Judas Priest guitarist Richie Faulkner reveals he has solo material recorded and ready to go
- Best modeling amps 2024: recreate iconic guitar tones with these top amplifier picks
- Watch session ace Rob Gueringer wield a one-of-a-kind chrome PRS Silver Sky guitar at the Super Bowl
- Paul Davids removes Jimi Hendrix Monterey Strat video until a panel of “independent industry experts” can verify the guitar's authenticity
- The Black Tones' Eva Walker: “We would start our sets with a heavy blues instrumental. It locks people in, like, 'Oh s**t, that Black girl's actually shredding'”
- Fender Acoustasonic Player Telecaster review
- Biffy Clyro's Simon Neil: “I swear to God I cannot get rid of the Boss Metal Zone. It’s the one thing that brings the Stratocaster into that real heavy world”
- Gibson celebrates the release of Slash’s latest record with Album Edition Les Paul Standard
- Matt Pike: “I wanted this album to sound different to my previous work. But everything I play on is going to sound like me, in a weird way, shape or form”
- Download and stream the audio from Total Guitar 355
February 11
- Two Notes Audio Engineering joins forces with amp guru Dave Friedman for new virtual cab collection
- Six guitars belonging to Neck Deep have reportedly been stolen
- From psychedelic blues to relentless punk: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Rush celebrate 40 years of Moving Pictures with new Super Deluxe Edition, including liner notes from Kim Thayil, Les Claypool and Bill Kelliher
- Darkglass Electronics’ Exponent e500 is a bass amp that turns into a multi-effects unit via your phone
- Riversong debuts innovatively styled Glennwood TS6 limited-edition acoustic
- 15 cheap guitar mods you can try at home
- Hear Jack White’s new heavy fuzz slasher, Fear of the Dawn
- Buy one plugin, get one free with this killer Valentine's Day plugin deal from Waves
- Spoon's Britt Daniel: "My playing is all about the right hand. That’s my way of being expressive, by establishing a feel and rhythm"
- Best left-handed guitars: Top electric and acoustic choices from Fender, PRS, Squier and more
- King Crimson and Foreigner multi-instrumentalist Ian McDonald dies aged 75
- Slash discusses working virtually with Tom Morello for their guitar battle track, Interstate 80
- Daniel "Chewy" Mongrain: "When I was 17 or 18, I transcribed Jason Becker's entire Perpetual Burn album. I still have the manuscript – it’s about a hundred pages!"
- Slash – The Return Of The Guitar Hero: inside the new issue of Total Guitar
- How to solo over a two-chord vamp in the style of the Allman Brothers
- Tal Wilkenfeld: “Take improvising one step at a time. Don’t think too far ahead, otherwise it’s not genuinely reacting to the moment”
February 10
- Hear Gary Clark Jr.'s atmospheric, guitar-driven soundtrack to Budweiser's 2022 Super Bowl ad
- Ed Sheeran and Bring Me The Horizon will work together on a new song, following fiery Brits performance
- Watch Slash cover Elton John, jam Guns 'N Roses with Duff McKagan on Conspirators tour
- Matt Pike takes a surprise blues turn with Brent Hinds on new solo track, Land
- Zakk Wylde discusses the possibility of Wylde Audio producing the next line of Dimebag Darrell signature guitars
- Metallica’s Kirk Hammett and Gibson’s Cesar Gueikian share the story behind Greeny’s ‘59 Les Paul sibling
- Capture Mateus Asato's rhythm and lead techniques with this in-depth lesson
- Mikaiah Lei: “I literally got to punch an amp. Nobody in the studio yelled at me”
- PRS HDRX 50 review
February 9
- Joe Bonamassa: “Songwriting is the last frontier. You can recreate your favorite sounds, but far more important is pushing yourself to write better songs”
- Heirs of Jimi Hendrix’s bandmates sue Sony Music over Jimi Hendrix Experience royalties
- Pepper-tone-y? Big Ear pedals and the Tone Mob podcast team up for the first pizza-themed fuzz pedal, Slice Of Pie
- Fantastic Negrito announces new album and movie project, White Jesus Black Problems
- Hear Spoon’s woozy new single, My Babe
- Line 6’s Helix 3.15 update adds Ventoux amp and 10 new Helix effects
- Expand your blues repertoire with this lesson on how to play Greg Koch's Mean Streak
- BecosFX Ziffer Overdrive review
- TrueFire review 2024
- Best 7-string guitars 2024: budget-spanning picks for djent to nu-metal
- Watch Ed Sheeran team up with Bring Me The Horizon for a heavy reimagining of his dance hit, Bad Habits
- Learn guitar from industry giants Joe Bonamassa, Steve Vai and Robben Ford for less with 30% off TrueFire guitar lessons
- Mdou Moctar demonstrates why he’s one of today’s most exhilarating guitarists in new Fender Sessions set
- Watch Dave wield an insane flame-throwing Les Paul during a fiery performance at the 2022 Brit Awards
- Watch Jay Leonard J try out the high-quality, super-affordable Boroughs B30DMH dreadnought guitar
February 8
- Ann Wilson recruits Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Warren Haynes for new solo album, Fierce Bliss
- "A good idea is a good idea no matter when you do it": Eddie Van Halen reveals how Van Halen brought cutting room floor jams back to life for A Different Kind of Truth
- Ever wondered where your guitar’s tone really comes from? This YouTuber embarked on a quest to find the answer
- Andy Golledge: “I don’t want to sound like a copy of my influences”
- Record anywhere and everywhere inspiration strikes with the ultra-portable PreSonus AudioBox GO
- Get 2022 off to a rockin’ start with the sixth installment of Guitar World’s New Year New Gear guide
- Stakes in Alice in Chains catalog sold to publishing firms Primary Wave and Round Hill
- Kirk Hammett announces first-ever solo EP, Portals
- Nine Inch Nails announce first tour dates since 2018
- Buddy Guy’s role as a blues mentor and standard-bearer highlighted in new trailer for The Torch documentary
- Sophie Lloyd and Matt Heafy tease collaborative track
- Neural DSP adds a looper to the Quad Cortex in comprehensive new update
- Watch Matt Pike and Russian Circles’ Mike Sullivan give Van Halen’s Unchained a heavy makeover
- Joanne Shaw Taylor: “There aren’t any rules of how you play the blues, just as long as you input your own personality and feel”
- Charles Berthoud: “I want my music to appeal to people who don’t know anything about bass. That can be a difficult balancing act”
- Beef up your power chords with these massive-sounding open shapes
- Dean MD24 Floyd Roasted Maple review
February 7
- Sammy Hagar on why he doesn't play Fenders: “For me, playing a Strat is like trying to wrestle a professional wrestler”
- The Who announce 29-date The Who Hits Back North American tour
- Devi Ever announces return to building guitar pedals
- Blackstar Dept. 10 Boost review
- Chris Holmes, former W.A.S.P. guitarist, diagnosed with throat and neck cancer
- Watch Eddie Vedder cover the Beatles, Prince and Jimi Hendrix with Josh Klinghoffer, Andrew Watt and Chad Smith
- Syl Johnson, heavily sampled soul singer and guitarist, dies aged 85
- Eric Gales: “I could just look at a guitar and almost start crying! I have never been more in touch with myself than I am now”
- NativeAudio debuts dual-mode optical tremolo pedal, the Rising Sun V2
February 4
- Jason Richardson, Tim Henson to release collaborative single, Upside Down
- Hear Liam Gallagher join forces with Dave Grohl for soaring new single, Everything's Electric
- From Hendrixian comebacks to riff-fueled throwdowns: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Solar drops 3 new savage-looking, high-spec Canabalismo models
- Machine Gun Kelly recruits Willow Smith for angsty new single, Emo Girl
- Best high-end electric guitars 2024: the finest guitars money can buy
- Toymaker Super7 releases Cliff Burton action figure
- Blues veteran Larry McCray teams up with Joe Bonamassa for his first album in 7 years, Blues Without You
- How to develop thematically based improvised solos
- Gail Ann Dorsey: “It was so much fun to work with David Bowie – he was always open to exploration of his material”
- Ernie Ball Music Man DarkRay review
- Halestorm announce new album, Back From The Dead, premiere defiantly heavy new single, The Steeple
- Wallows: “There's that fine line of ‘I want to know where the guitar can take me’ and ‘I don't know where it can take me’”
- Download and stream the audio from Guitar Techniques 332
- Thurston Moore announces Screen Time, a concept album of guitar instrumentals recorded during the 2020 lockdown
- Get 2022 off to a rockin’ start with the fifth installment of Guitar World’s New Year New Gear guide
- Harley Benton releases downsized, 1x12” G112A-FR active FRFR cabinet
- Hear Dave Navarro, Taylor Hawkins and Chris Chaney cover Pink Floyd’s Fearless on their new NHC EP
- Cory Wong and Mark Lettieri announce the return of the Fearless Flyers
- Rolo Tomassi's Chris Cayford: “If something sounds good, don’t worry about how many notes there are or what time signature it’s in. Just keep playing and experimenting”
- TC Electronic debuts $69 Bucket Brigade Analog Delay pedal
- Red Hot Chili Peppers announce new album Unlimited Love, drop lead single, Black Summer
February 3
- Old Blood Noise Endeavors downsizes and updates its combination distortion/delay/chorus Excess pedal
- Watch the trailer for In the Court of the Crimson King, a new documentary on the history of King Crimson
- Hear Tool's Pneuma reimagined on a Weissenborn lap slide in this incredible cover
- Best acoustic guitar pedals 2024: essential pedals to transform your acoustic tone and boost creativity
- Watch Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators give The River Is Rising its live TV debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
- Harley Benton adds $148 double-bound TE-62DB model to Tele-style TE line of electric guitars
- The history of Orange in four key guitar amps
- How Ola Strandberg redefined electric guitar ergonomics for a new generation
- 10 great Beatles guitar moments you've never heard before
- Watch as Michael Romeo delivers one of this year's must-see shred solos in this searing playthrough of Divide & Conquer
- 5 ways to play guitar like Greg Howe
- Barefaced Audio One10T Cabinet review
- Patrick James Eggle Macon Junior DC review
- HitPiece, the website selling NFTs of musicians' songs without permission, has been taken offline following artist backlash
- Dunlop honors The Meters’ funk guitar legend Leo Nocentelli with signature Mardi Gras Cry Baby wah pedal
- David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash join Neil Young in removing music from Spotify following Joe Rogan row
February 2
- Kfir Ochaion showcases the Donner Seeker Series DST-400 electric guitar
- Devon Allman, Samantha Fish announce co-headlining American tour
- Get 2022 off to a rockin’ start with the fourth installment of Guitar World’s New Year New Gear guide
- Guthrie Govan adds to his lineup of signature Charvels with new Japanese-made MJ San Dimas SD24 CM
- The Linda Lindas announce debut album, Growing Up, share title track
- Puzzle Effects gives its slot-together pedals a serious makeover and launches Kickstarter
- The 100 greatest bass players of all time are revealed in the new issue of Bass Player
- Nova Twins unveil murderous new single K.M.B. and announce second album Supernova
- 10 free guitar plugins you need to download right now
- Rage Against The Machine, Judas Priest, Eminem, Pat Benatar, New York Dolls nominated for induction into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- Red Hot Chili Peppers share footage of new John Frusciante and Flea studio jam
- Ernie Ball Music Man Tim Commerford Artist Series StingRay review
- Gibson Custom Shop unveils the B.B. King Lucille Legacy, a tribute to the blues great’s iconic custom ES-355
- Score Cubase Elements and Helix Native completely free when you purchase a Line 6 Helix multi-effects unit
- Jon Zazula, co-founder of the record label that launched Metallica's debut album, dies aged 69
February 1
- Kramer adds affordable new Pacer Classic guitar to Original Collection lineup
- Fender launches its own line of wedding rings, made with the same materials used in its guitars
- Jake Webb, aka Methyl Ethel: “I try not to think about what the project has grown to represent”
- Best tube amps 2024: unlock incredible tone with our pick of the greatest tube amps you can buy right now
- Get 2022 off to a rockin’ start with the third installment of Guitar World’s New Year New Gear guide
- Hear Steve Stevens and the String Revolution reimagine Ozzy Osbourne's Crazy Train as a fiery classical guitar instrumental
- Rivers Cuomo has launched his own streaming service, Weezify
- Last-known female World War II-era Gibson factory worker honored in Kalamazoo
- Watch Mateus Asato transform The Beatles’ In My Life into a dreamy fingerstyle workout
- Vox revives its iconic "Teardrop" body shape with new-for-2022 Mark III Mini model
- Our Lady Peace's Steve Mazur: "The guitar compels people because of its physical nature. It's the closest instrument to the human voice"
- John Taylor: “The energy is my department – it gets laid down by the bass and drums. It’s my job to bring as much energy to that mood as possible”
- Learn the licks of 10 Gibson SG legends
- Martin adds a host of new high-spec acoustics to its Modern Deluxe series for 2022
- Boss offers fresh delay algorithms and expanded speaker IR options in GT-1000 update
- Ashdown RM-800-EVO ll review