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- March 31
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- Dave Mustaine reveals bassist on new Megadeth album – and surprise Sammy Hagar, Ice-T guest appearances
- Glenn Tipton teases “experimental” new Judas Priest album
- Australian Guitar x Full Tilt 2022: Justice For The Damned
- Charvel launches newly spec'd, freshly finished Pro-Mod DK24, San Dimas and So-Cal models
- John Scofield announces first ever solo guitar album
- Steve Morse announces temporary hiatus from Deep Purple due to personal reasons
- Is this the most baffling "greatest guitar riffs" list ever assembled?
- King Garbage's Zach Cooper details his tricked-out Coopercaster hybrid guitar setup: “The potential for the hybrid rig is such a deep well”
- IK Multimedia launches ToneNET, a new preset-sharing community for AmpliTube 5
- AC/DC's Angus Young: "I liked the SGs because they were light. I tried Fenders but they were too heavy and they just didn't have the balls"
- Acorn Amplifiers unveils the Peavey Decade-inspired Solid State preamp pedal, based on Josh Homme's "secret weapon" amp
- Steve Vai on how Frank Zappa inspired him to design the Ibanez JEM – and why the Japanese guitar builder succeeded where others failed
- Yard Act's Sam Shipstone and James Smith trace the origins of their unconventional post-punk sound
- Michael Romeo: “There’s always some Randy Rhoads in what I do, but I throw in a little Van Halen, too”
- Luna Li: “When I got the J Mascis Squier Jazzmaster, it felt like the first time I fell in love with a guitar”
- Trace Elliot Elf C110 Combo review
- Fender Japan unveils Japan Junior Collection of 24”-scale Stratocaster, Telecaster and Jazzmaster models
- March 30
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- EVH launches newly finished 5150 Standard and Deluxe models
- Yoshi Ikegami steps down as president of Boss
- Gretsch refreshes Electromatic Jet lineup and unveils new looks for the G5700 Lap Steel
- Best Tube Screamer clones: top alternatives for all budgets
- You can now control your Kemper with your phone using the new Profiler Rig Manager iOS app
- 3Degrees Audio launches the Bygones, a multi-effects pedal that aims to bottle your nostalgia
- Justus West on forging a successful career playing guitar with a producer’s perspective – and how it all started with a venomous spider bite
- Ceti’s E.S.U. is a pocket-sized touchscreen multi-FX, amp processor, audio interface and hard drive recorder
- Chase Bliss Audio unveils the Habit, a half-effect, half-instrument that even the company doesn’t quite understand
- Flea stars on the cover of the new issue of Bass Player
- Paul McCartney pays tribute to Taylor Hawkins: “You were a true rock and roll hero”
- Cory Wong announces season 2 of his Cory and The Wongnotes talk show – and reveals its stellar lineup
- PRS USA Silver Sky vs SE Silver Sky
- Foo Fighters cancel all upcoming tour dates following Taylor Hawkins' death
- Spiritbox’s Mike Stringer: “I try to keep the chords as simple as possible and push things in the layering”
- Best expression pedals: get creative with our top choices
- March 29
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- KMA Machines slims down, revamps its Wurm distortion pedal
- Fender expands its most affordable line of guitar amps with new Frontman 20G model
- Ann Wilson shares infectious, riff-driven new single, A Moment in Heaven
- Gibson launches considerably more affordable Adam Jones Les Paul Standard
- Joe Satriani announces massive 2022 North American tour
- Lost Symphony’s Benny Goodman and Nuno Bettencourt on the making of an all-star guitar hero album
- Flea reveals he changed his long-serving bass amp setup for Red Hot Chili Peppers’ latest album
- Zach Myers on Shinedown's new album, Planet Zero: “It's the sound of a band in a room playing rock 'n' roll – I think a lot of our fans missed that”
- Ibanez Tube Screamer vs Boss Blues Driver: which is better?
- Solar bolsters its baritone lineup with three stealthy six-strings
- Make your solos sing with this lesson on Susan Tedeschi's lyrical blues stylings
- Nova Twins’ Amy Love on recording Supernova, a synth-sounding riot of guitar, bass and drums
- Dunlop Justin Chancellor Cry Baby Wah review
- Opeth drop expansive new single, Width of a Circle, announce extended edition of In Cauda Venenum
- Fender and Jackson Custom Shops announce two new Master Builders
- Watch Lita Ford join Sammy Hagar onstage to cover Led Zeppelin and Montrose classics
- March 28
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- Hear Slash and Marc LaBelle’s biting cover of Mountain’s Mississippi Queen
- The Gaslight Anthem return and confirm work has begun on their sixth album
- Watch Jack White’s humorous attempt to ‘steal’ Beck’s Nashville show with a Chumbawamba cover
- Watch Robb Flynn cover Black Sabbath onstage with a tribute band
- Hear Yngwie Malmsteen’s energetic cover of Long Red, taken from the new all-star Leslie West tribute album
- How to weave the Mixolydian mode into your jazz and blues solos
- Wolfgang Van Halen pays tribute to the late Taylor Hawkins with emotional cover of Foo Fighters’ My Hero
- Cream T Aurora Standard 2PS review
- Black Country, New Road’s Luke Mark on the time signature sleight of hand and ‘hacked’ Fender guitars behind the band's new album, Ants From Up There
- Rammstein and Faith No More members Come Together for Beatles cover in aid of UNICEF Ukraine fundraiser
- Snail Mail's Lindsey Jordan: “I’m a perfectionist – I will rip a song apart until it is done”
- Strandberg teams up with Plini for updated Prog NX 6 and Neck-Thru Black signature guitars
- Watch Genesis play their last-ever gig at London's O2 Arena – with former frontman Peter Gabriel in attendance
- Midnight Oil: “There’s a generational shift that’s happening, and I can feel it in the water”
- March 26
- March 25
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- Matt Heafy recruits My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way on epic new Ibaraki single, Rōnin
- Meshuggah drop excoriating new single, I Am That Thirst
- Best guitars for indie rock: iconic brands and signature sounds from Fender, Rickenbacker and more
- Minus the Bear guitarist David Knudson announces debut solo album, The Only Thing You Have to Change Is Everything
- From ethereal desert ballads to scuzzy '90s power-pop: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Western Electric gearing up for domestic production of guitar amp tubes to fulfil demand
- Fender vs Squier: what’s the difference?
- Skid Row debut first track with new vocalist Erik Grönwall, The Gang’s All Here
- 12 highlights from Ibanez’s remarkable 50th anniversary Custom Shop Collection
- Dave Grohl finally releases his full-length metal album – and it's heavier than you'd ever imagine
- Bradley Hall: “It's nice that people enjoy my playing as well as my comedy – my goal has always been to have a good mix of both”
- 11 crazy guitarist signature products that have nothing to do with guitar
- Jason Richardson offers gravity-defying sweeps and insane two-handed tapping aplenty in new single, Ishimura
- At the Gates on creating new nightmares, orchestral influences and the evolution of an iconic death metal sound
- How the Vox AC30 Twin found a voice of its own and became a British amp classic
- Dingwall D-Roc Standard 5 and Hellboy review
- Camp Cope: “I really wanted to make something that I would like enjoy listening to”
- March 24
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- Watch Van Halen close out a 1986 show with a rabble-rousing cover of Led Zeppelin's Rock and Roll
- Australian Guitar x Full Tilt 2022: In Hearts Wake
- Red Hot Chili Peppers dial back the tempo on dreamy new ballad, Not the One
- Best Strat-style guitars 2024: Our choice of the finest S-style guitars for all budgets and players
- Robin Trower releases blistering new track, The Razor’s Edge
- These are the 25 guitar artists you need to hear this year, according to Fender
- Glenn Tipton looks back at 50 years of triumph and tragedy in Judas Priest
- Metallica will bring 7 historic live albums and documentaries to the Coda Collection this spring
- Beabadoobee returns with scuzzy new single Talk and announces second album, Beatopia
- Boss Waza-Air Bass review
- Cobra Kai star Billy Zabka on his love of ’80s rock, jamming with Robert Downey Jr. and the time Eddie Van Halen gave him a guitar lesson
- Fredrik Åkesson had to “scale down” his leads on Ghost's new album, Impera
- Robson Renegade and Paradise 73 review
- Nili Brosh set to perform with Danny Elfman at Coachella 2022 – complete with an eye-popping new Ibanez Custom Shop model
- Sum 41 announce half-punk, half-metal double album, Heaven and Hell
- How Gibson unearthed a 1957 Ted McCarty sketch and turned it into a new guitar shape for 2022, the Theodore
- Tosin Abasi and Javier Reyes used a Gibson Les Paul on the new Animals As Leaders album
- Boss unveils two new Space Echo pedals, the long-awaited RE-2 and RE-202
- March 23
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- Aerosmith announce 2022 Las Vegas residency dates
- Joe Satriani reveals the song that was impossible to play live: "My hand didn’t want to do it live. It started to really hurt"
- A 1970 Gibson Les Paul Custom – gifted by Eric Clapton to Gregg Allman – is headed to the auction block
- Ernie Ball Music Man adds luxurious limited-edition Spring 2022 models to its Ball Family Reserve collection
- How to restring an acoustic guitar: step-by-step guidance from a professional guitar repairer
- John Mayer praises Jim Root’s signature Fender Telecaster as what “every Tele should look like in this day and age”
- 30 instrumental masters, starring Tosin Abasi and Joe Satriani – only in the new Guitar World
- Best reverb pedals 2024: from spring to shimmer, these are our top picks for your pedalboard
- Watch Joe Bonamassa get hands on with Gibson’s new Theodore electric guitar
- Steve Vai offers a guided tour of his favorite guitars
- Boss GX-100 Guitar Effects Processor review
- Joey Santiago: “The non-traditional sounds I get are just the way I attack the guitar. When we play Vamos, I’ll hit my amps, bite my strings – I just go bananas”
- Curse of Lono’s Felix Bechtolsheimer: “Punk and Pink Floyd showed me there was so much more to say in a song than ‘I love you, baby’”
- Neo Instruments Micro Vent 122 and 16 review
- Learn the rhythm and lead styles of neo-soul virtuoso Tom Misch
- March 22
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- Amid supply crunch, Western Electric publicly floats expansion into guitar tube manufacturing
- Gibson and Triumph join forces to unveil 1959 Legends custom Les Paul and motorcycle
- Line 6 reveals the DL4 MkII, a reboot of its legendary multi-function delay/looper pedal
- Fender launches new JV Modified Series, inspired by its sought-after ’80s Japanese Vintage reissues
- Dean unleashes Trans Blue-finished Quilt Top ML Select 24 Kahler
- Jazzmaster vs Jaguar: what's the difference between these iconic Fender offsets?
- Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo dons Ed Sheeran’s Martin Divide acoustic for Kimmel performance of A Little Bit of Love
- Joshua Travis on his love of rhythm guitar: “I’ve always wanted to hit you hard. Lead playing doesn’t hit me like that – it doesn’t punch you in the face”
- Greta Van Fleet postpone US tour following Jake Kiszka's battle with pneumonia
- Sterling by Music Man launches refreshed 2022 guitar and bass lineup
- Zeal & Ardor’s Manuel Gagneux: “If I limited myself to Black music and black metal, I’d end up painting myself in a corner”
- Larrivée OMV-03 review
- March 21
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- Best acoustic electric guitars 2024: electro-acoustic picks for every type of player
- Dunlop releases Joe Bonamassa Custom Jazz III picks
- Gibson-backed virtual fundraiser MusicCares: Music on a Mission returns for 2022
- Danny Elfman and Trent Reznor reunite for a souped-up cinematic reworking of Native Intelligence
- Mark Tremonti announces Frank Sinatra covers album in support of the National Down Syndrome Society
- James Hetfield’s son launches debut album with Bastardane
- Slash: “When I play fast, it really is an energy thing. I would actually like to tone it back sometimes, but I get so taken away!”
- Dianthus guitarist Jackie Parry on balancing soloing with songwriting and how classical piano informs her guitar approach
- Watch Perry Farrell join Foo Fighters onstage to perform Jane’s Addiction hit Been Caught Stealing
- Machine Head reunite with founding guitarist Logan Mader for The More Things Change... 25th anniversary full-album playthrough
- The 30 heaviest guitar albums of all time
- Watch Tosin Abasi test drive a prototype Abasi Concepts Larada nylon 7-string
- Framus Diablo Supreme review
- Dave Grohl confirms release date for full Dream Widow thrash album
- 5 soloing ideas you can learn from Richie Kotzen
- Hear Edgar Winter and Keb’ Mo’s new tribute to Johnny Winter, Lone Star Blues
- Kirk Hammett confirms his second signature Dunlop Cry Baby Wah is on the way
- Australian Guitar celebrates the founding fretters of alt-rock in #147, on sale now
- Totally Unicorn: “Who doesn’t want to see a bunch of pasty white boys in their thirties trying to be sexy?”
- March 18
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- Megadeth’s Kiko Loureiro sets up his own online Guitar Academy
- From funk-leaning shred to blackgaze catharsis: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Yvette Young and Carmen Vandenberg set to be honoured alongside Dionne Warwick at 10th Annual She Rocks Awards
- Cory Wong: “Most people know me as a rhythm player with a clean sound. But I’ve been playing lead guitar since I was a kid, too”
- Mattoverse’s Solar Sound Drive pedal reacts to light using a built-in solar panel
- Vote for your favorite covers in Martin's No Limits Challenge
- The secrets behind B.B. King’s guitar tone on The Thrill Is Gone
- Guild A-20 Marley review
- Royal Blood release surprise new single Honeybrains
- Watch blues phenom Justin Johnson conjure big vintage tones from the versatile Baldacci Bighorn Solidbody electric
- May 2022 Guitar World lesson videos
- Harley Benton expands sub-$500 acoustic guitar line with 2 full-size strummers, 2 hollowbody hybrids and a parlor model
- Joe Satriani shares funk-infused new single, Pumpin’
- Gibson debuts the Theodore, a brand-new body shape based on a 65-year-old archive design
- Bakers Eddy: “We’re trying to escape from the whole 'lad band' scene”
- March 17
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- Get an in-depth tour of Gibson's former Kalamazoo, Michigan factory in this recently unearthed 1967 documentary
- The Smile give a Radiohead rarity a jazzy re-working on new single, Skrting On The Surface
- Best DAWs for guitarists: guitar-friendly music-making software
- Machine Gun Kelly drops new single with Bring Me the Horizon – and hints at new signature Schecter with Mainstream Sellout artwork
- Def Leppard announce first new studio album in seven years, Diamond Star Halos, premiere catchy lead single, Kick
- "All we ever wanted to do in this band is kick people's ass": The Smashing Pumpkins on '80s Marshalls, epic guitar arrangements and their essential pedals
- Lollar launches Bass VI single-coil pickups
- Muse announce first album in four years, Will of the People, share ominous new single, Compliance
- Steve Vai recalls playing to a crowd chanting Yngwie Malmsteen's name at his first gig with Alcatrazz
- Godlyke partners with Carbonfund.org Foundation for carbon-free power supply, the Power-All ECO-Dapter
- John Mayer owns the Dumble amp that Stevie Ray Vaughan used to record Texas Flood
- Beach Goons’ Pablo Cervantez: “Jose Feliciano is untouchable for flamenco, but he’s an amazing rock guitarist, too”
- Learn Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram's fiery blues rhythm and lead styles
- Yngwie Malmsteen partners with Dunlop for new signature Delrin guitar pick
- Eric Gales and Devon Allman to host two-night Albert King tribute concert with Gibson Gives
- Boss debuts its first-ever Katana bass amps, the Katana-110 and Katana-210 Bass
- March 16
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- Jackson launches the Concept Series, offering Custom Shop hardware without the eye-watering price tag
- Mooer's Prime P1 aims to put 126 guitar effects into your pocket
- Monoprice takes on its affordable guitar gear rivals with the $249 Indio 66SB DLX Plus single-cut
- Watch Nilüfer Yanya perform Midnight Sun on The Tonight Show with a Fender Player Plus Strat – and a pair of angel wings
- Blackstar partners with blues ace Jared James Nichols for JJN 3 practice amp
- EarthQuaker Devices celebrates the success of its Afterneath V3 reverb with special-edition pedal and feature-length documentary
- Electro-Harmonix resolves export issues for Russian tubes – but prices will go up
- Watch an aggrieved customer stage a shred guitar protest outside a dentist's office
- Randy Rhoads’ prototype Jackson RR3, once lost for 25 years, goes up for auction
- Sweetwater has slashed $500 off the rock-ready D'Angelico Deluxe Bedford and Deluxe Brighton models
- Hughes & Kettner unveils ultra-compact StompMan pedal amp
- Star One’s Arjen Lucassen: “I really felt I needed to do a heavy, guitar-oriented album again. That’s in my blood”
- Thunder’s Chris Childs on his 5 best bass albums
- Fredrick Effects The Accomplished Badger MKII review
- John Reis details his approach to guitar playing: “Rules are important – you need to know how to do something in order to know how to f**k with it”
- Line 6 debuts metal-focused Metallurgy Collection of amp and effects plugins
- March 15
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- SolidGoldFX aims to put a fresh spin on the BluesBreaker with new, slider-equipped Commodore overdrive pedal
- Alex Lifeson partners with Julien's Auctions to sell over 100 items of used guitar gear and Rush memorabilia
- Slash: “I was always turned on by rock ’n’ roll bands that had that raw kind of spirit”
- Kramer unveils the SM-1 H, the latest evolution of its hot-rodded Stagemaster model
- Wolfgang Van Halen’s upcoming EVH semi-hollow will be called the SA-126, in honor of Eddie Van Halen’s birthday
- Best cheap looper pedals: 7 essential budget loopers for your ‘board
- Fender showcases the first relic’d Acoustasonic Stratocaster – and it was made for Brie Larson
- Fender launches new Player Plus Meteora models, bringing its most extreme offset to the masses
- Evil Invaders' Max Mayhem serves up rapid-fire leads and crystalline cleans in new In Deepest Black guitar playthrough
- Live Review: UNIFY Gathering, Gippsland 11/03/22
- How Jeff Loomis channeled charred earth to design his new Jackson signature 7-string – and why he's afraid of learning theory
- Strum Perfect is a guitar attachment that aims to help beginners learn the art of strumming
- Buffalo Nichols: “As a teenager, I was more into metal and punk. Skip James always felt heavy and haunting, and I connected with metal in that same way”
- Blast Cult Hollow Vee Bass review
- March 14
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- Dolly Parton withdraws from 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominations
- Solar debuts its Duncan Solar Plus Alnico VIII humbucker set on new Type-A six- and seven-string guitars
- Mike McCready confirms a more affordable version of his signature Fender Stratocaster is in the works
- The Aquabats debut Eaglebones Falconhawk’s two-in-one signature pedal, The Falcondrive
- Joe Satriani announces new Crystal Planet NFT collection
- Watch Sammy Hagar & the Circle cover Van Halen's Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love – with Michael Anthony on lead vocals
- Watch Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox perform Green Day’s Basket Case while hitting a drum with eggplants
- New documentary Really Good Rejects tells the story of cult LA luthier Reuben Cox
- Daryl Hall reveals Eddie Van Halen asked him to replace David Lee Roth in Van Halen
- Keith Richards reveals The Rolling Stones are writing new music with drummer Steve Jordan
- Is a tube shortage imminent? Mike Matthews confirms Electro-Harmonix brands are subject to Russian export ban
- ESP unveils ultra-limited, handcrafted Pyrograph Nosferatu
- Neural DSP takes a vintage-voiced turn with new Tone King Imperial MKII amp sim
- Watch Glenn Tipton join Judas Priest onstage for encores in Oakland and Las Vegas
- Puscifer's Mat Mitchell: “Songwriting is like playing a three-way game of chess. What you do next is based on what the other player does”
- The Darkness: “We just see how far we can get before the solos go flying off the edge of the cliff”
- 10 scales from around the world that will broaden your playing horizons
- Aclam Guitars The Windmiller Preamp review
- March 11
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- Joan Jett and the Blackhearts announce their first ever acoustic album, Changeup
- Kim Thayil on performing Soundgarden material with his former bandmates: "I think we'd wanna re-explore that and do that at some time in the future"
- Best guitar audio interfaces 2024: our top picks for every budget
- From 18-minute opuses to Rammstein's return: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Machine Gun Kelly fires back at TikTok user who accused him of not playing guitar on stage
- Watch Flea jam with Warren Ellis and Nick Cave on the Bad Seeds‘ We No Who U R
- John Mayer has a secret stash of uniquely finished PRS Silver Skys that he says would make people “flip out”
- Watch Wet Leg perform on The Tonight Show armed with Fender Noventas
- Johnny Marr – The Ultimate Interview: inside the new issue of Total Guitar
- Josh Smith announces new album, Bird of Passage, shares laid-back lead single, Brand New
- Joe Satriani used one plugin for all the guitar tones on his new album – and it wasn't his signature AmpliTube collection
- Burnt Sugar’s Jared Michael Nickerson: “I’ve never been a two-fingers bass player... Most of my recording career is based on plucking with my thumb”
- How Gibson’s Byrdland took flight and bridged the gap between traditional jazz boxes and electric solidbodies
- Rapier 33 review
- March 10
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- KHDK and Trivium join forces once again for the In Waves clean boost pedal
- Mike Cross, guitarist and co-founder of alt-rock band Sponge, dies at 57
- Boston's Tom Scholz: “I was basically a dork that hit the books and liked to build things... somehow I ended up onstage, playing guitar in front of everybody else"
- Rammstein announce new album, Zeit, share cinematic title track
- Squier refreshes Contemporary Series with redesigned Active Jazzmaster, Starcaster and Jazz Bass, plus all-new Active Precision Bass
- Ditch your cables for wireless freedom with the “amazingly portable and powerful” NUX C-5RC wireless guitar system
- The Black Keys announce 11th studio album, Dropout Boogie, drop slick new blues-rock banger, Wild Child
- Alexisonfire announce first album in 13 years, Otherness, share explosive new single, Sweet Dreams of Otherness
- PRS SE Silver Sky review
- When Frank Zappa shut up ’n’ stopped playing guitar
- How Leo Birenberg and Zach Robinson wrote the perfect score for Netflix blockbuster series Cobra Kai
- Luna Vista Bear Bass review
- Guitar modes: how to learn all 7 major modes the easy way
- Charvel expands its bass guitar lineup with the five-string Pro-Mod San Dimas PJ V
- 20 tasty country guitar licks that will knock 'em dead in Nashville
- Blues On Broadbeach announces second lot of acts for 2022 festival
- March 9
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- Tom Morello: these are the three greatest guitar solos of all time
- Paul Gilbert teams up with Guitar Techniques to debut his latest fretboard masterclass, That’s Too Much Like Work!
- The MC5 announce first album in over 50 years, American tour
- Fender Custom Shop revs up 16-strong Hot Wheels guitar collection
- Tallah announce sophomore album, The Generation of Danger, share raging first single, Telescope
- Slash swapped his Les Paul for a Gibson Flying V on two tracks from his new solo album
- Hear Kenny Wayne Shepherd “play his butt off” on Ann Wilson’s new single, Missionary Man
- Jackson and Jeff Loomis team up once more for seven-string signature, the Pro Series Soloist SL7
- Harley Benton expands its ukulele offering with a new solidbody mini-strummer and three U-Bass models
- Moon Tooth's Nick Lee serves up a prog-metal take on Hendrix in Carry Me Home playthrough
- Orange’s new wireless headphones transmit audio by vibrating your face bones
- Funk up your chords with these minimal vamp-friendly blues shapes
- 98% of female performers have suffered performance anxiety, according to global survey
- Andy Timmons supplies soulful vocal guitar lines aplenty in emotive new single, When Words Fail
- Deftones part ways with longtime bassist Sergio Vega
- King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard announce 20th album Omnium Gatherum, share 18-minute lead single, The Dripping Tap
- Warren Haynes: “I go into a project hoping to do no overdubs. It rarely works out like that, but I feel like all my best parts are when I’m playing live with the band”
- Geese’s Gus Green and Foster Hudson on turning dad rock influences into their urgent NY post-punk guitar sound
- LD Systems Maui 5 Go 100 review
- Joe Bonamassa shows you how to get 10 different sounds from a Gibson Les Paul using just the knobs and pickups
- Steve Gunn: “I’ve played Fenders from the '50s, pre-CBS, and there’s an energy in the wood. There’s a lot of magic in older guitars”
- March 8
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- Catalinbread aims to create Many Worlds of swirl with its new phaser pedal
- Gibson salutes Elvis Presley with two new signature acoustic guitars
- Matty Took of PLANET: “We just tried different things out and had fun”
- Guitareo review 2024
- Harley Benton vows to deliver dying battery tones with its $65 PowerPlant ISO-3AC SAG Modular power supply
- Watch Sister Rosetta Tharpe shape the future of blues-rock guitar with an incendiary 1964 performance at an English train station
- Porcupine Tree announce first tour in 12 years, share deceptively complex new single, Of The New Day
- Cort introduces the updated G290 FAT II, equipped with an alder body and roasted maple neck
- Electro-Harmonix shakes up its tremolo pedal lineup with the Nano Pulsar
- Mélissa Laveaux talks luthiers, representation and her "Pretty Woman moment" with Sister Rosetta Tharpe’s guitar
- Nita Strauss shows you how to sweep pick on guitar
- Guitar pedal jargon buster: all the essential guitar effects terms explained
- Yvette Young: “I never really felt like I got good on guitar. The way I spend my time is still very much based around improving”
- Watch Chris Stapleton deliver a fierce performance of Watch You Burn with a Squier Baritone Jazzmaster at the 2022 ACM Awards
- Harness Joni Mitchell's acoustic imagination with this lesson on dulcimers, altered tunings and cluster chords
- Remembering Michael Nesmith (1942-2021)
- Ty Tabor: “I developed my entire sound and style around one type of guitar pick. If I use a different one, I can’t get the same tone”
- Fender Trapper Bass Distortion review
- Fender gives Guitar Center a piece of the ‘80s hair metal action with exclusive Ferrari Red and Neon Green Player Stratocasters
- Phish's Trey Anastasio announces first-ever solo acoustic record, Mercy
- Malina Moye: “Your mindset is the most important thing on tour, starting from the plane ride to get to the bus“
- Raise your lead guitar game with this Jennifer Batten masterclass
- March 7
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- ZZ Top announce new live album, Raw
- Fender unveils 2022 Custom Shop Masterbuilt Prestige and limited-edition Annual Collection models
- Watch Tool play Undertow live for the first time since 2002
- Grab a free AmpliTube Mesa/Boogie Triple Rectifier head and cab model from IK Multimedia this month
- Slash says he still gets self-conscious playing in guitar stores
- Paul Reed Smith reveals the first guitar to feature the brand’s bird inlays – and it was made for Peter Frampton
- Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox play Rockin’ in the Free World in solidarity with Ukraine
- Hear Blackberry Smoke’s Charlie Starr cover soulful Leslie West rocker, Silver Paper
- Richie Faulkner returns to the stage as Judas Priest kick off rescheduled 50 Heavy Metal Years tour dates
- 50 guitars that changed the world
- John Mayer parts ways with Columbia Records after 21 years
- Emily Wolfe: “Modern pop songs are immediately stuck in your head. To me, that’s the point. I would defend pop music to my grave”
- When Rivers Meet talk cigar-box electrics, playing blues on mandolin, and ditching Americana for gloves-off rock ’n’ roll
- Phil Thornalley recalls playing bass on The Cure's Love Cats: “I’m sure jazz players feel like crying whenever they hear that line!”
- Positive Grid Experience Jimi Hendrix for Spark review
- Spotlight: Joe Mungovan
- March 4
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- "I try not to put pressure on myself and the instrument": John Frusciante talks soloing, theory and the benefits of home recording in 2009 GW interview
- Billy Gibbons once played a harmonic with his beard, according to Josh Homme
- "I like to approach every track and every solo I do with an open mind": David Gilmour discusses his blues influences, Steinbergers, his oft-imitated tone and more in 1988 GW interview
- PUP’s new single Matilda will make you weep for your first guitar
- From old-school soul to 8-string chug: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- One of Alexander Dumble’s final amps was built for Slash
- Back in black: Strymon offers Midnight Edition finish on its TimeLine, Mobius, DIG, and BlueSky pedals
- What is John Frusciante's greatest guitar song with the Red Hot Chili Peppers?
- Join blues ace Justin Johnson as he shops for a new guitar at ProAudioStar.com
- Download and stream the audio from Guitar Techniques 333
- Billy Howerdel releases haunting new solo single, Poison Flowers
- Caroline Guitar Company's FCK PTN pedal raises $9,500 for Ukraine in 10 minutes
- Best FRFR speakers 2024: full range, flat response speakers that won't color your tone
- Paul Pigat: “I took a little lesson from AC/DC on the solos for this record: to make the solo completely different from the rest of the song”
- The secrets behind East Bay Ray’s guitar tone on the Dead Kennedys’ Holiday in Cambodia
- How to play psychedelic Mixolydian blues
- Ashdown John Myung Double Drive review
- Meshuggah drop uber-destructive new single, Light the Shortening Fuse
- Red Hot Chili Peppers return to laid-back, wah-driven funk with new single, Poster Child
- Download and stream the audio from Total Guitar 356
- March 3
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- Michael Schenker Group announce new album, Universal
- Watch Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Slash, Zakk Wylde, John McLaughlin and more wish Neal Schon a happy birthday
- Best guitar apps: top choices for learning, tuning, recording and more
- Sammy Hagar: Eddie Van Halen recorded the Right Now solo in "pajamas and slippers"
- Bleed From Within announce new album, Shrine, share punishing single, Levitate
- Jack White joins forces with Q-Tip for irresistible off-beat romp, Hi-De-Ho
- Ghost blend reggaeton-style beats with metal riffing in theatrical new single, Twenties
- Deftones’ Stephen Carpenter explains why he’s always preferred being a rhythm guitarist rather than a lead player
- Gretsch refreshes its Electromatic hollowbody collection of guitars with new pickups, trestle bracing system
- Bandcamp acquired by Fortnite developer Epic Games
- Jim James: “I wanted to create a guitar where people could be like, ‘Who the f**k is Jim James? I don’t really care, I just love this guitar!’”
- Andy Summers: “One of the things I loved about playing in The Police was that it was all guitar all the time! But it needed someone like me to fill that out”
- Yamaha revamps its Revstar range, adding new chambered bodies, fresh finishes and more affordable models
- ESP E-II Eclipse Full Thickness review
- Alex Lifeson's Envy of None release dreamy new single, Look Inside
- Pixies return with anthemic new single Human Crime
- Boss launches its first touchscreen-equipped amp and multi-effects processor, the GX-100
- March 2
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- The new issue of Bass Player celebrates the 100th birthday of Charles Mingus
- Nekrogoblikon guitarist Joe Nelson joins Avril Lavigne, Travis Barker and blackbear on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
- Bartees Strange channels jangly indie and post-hardcore on new single Heavy Heart
- Is ThorpyFX’s Boneyard Fuzz the ultimate take on the Tone Bender?
- Joe Doe Guitars puts one-of-a-kind "Apollocaster" up for Emergency UNICEF Ukraine Appeal auction
- NUX’s compact, rechargeable C-5RC brings guitar wireless systems into the 5G future
- Trace Elliot says its connection-packed TE-1200 bass head represents a “new period of innovation”
- Ritchie Blackmore’s hometown refuses blue plaque, but campaign finds a way
- Fractal Audio unveils upgraded FC-6 and FC-12 Mark II foot controllers
- The 25 greatest rock guitar albums of 1982
- Les Paul Foundation recruits Slash, Joan Jett, Peter Frampton and Nile Rodgers to head up new Advisory Council
- Kira Roessler: “I don’t think I understood how physical an instrument the bass guitar is until I was in Black Flag”
- Dean expands its Thoroughbred Select series with Floyd Rose-equipped Quilt Maple model
- Greta Van Fleet extend their Dreams in Gold Tour with over 40 US dates for fall 2022
- Hedras flexes his fusion fretboard prowess in the EDM-infused title track of his newly announced album, Angels
- Solo in the style of Robben Ford and Josh Smith with this primer on Dorian blues-rock leads
- Fender Dual Marine Layer Reverb and Duel Pugilist Distortion review
- March 1
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- Hear Opiate², Tool's extended re-working of their 1992 track, Opiate
- Watch Nili Brosh team up with members of Anthrax and Mastodon for a relentless cover of Judas Priest's Screaming for Vengeance
- Cam Baines of Bodyjar: “We thought we had a good album, but we ended up scrapping about half of it”
- Watch Nirvana cover The Cars at their final show in 1994
- Positive Grid Riff review
- Watch Jerry Cantrell and Kim Thayil play Alice in Chains and Soundgarden songs with fans at Rock ‘N’ Roll Fantasy Camp
- Blink and you'll miss Jason Richardson's insane sweeps and rapid alternate picking in this next-level playthrough of G2 Esports' Our Way
- Nandi Bushell flexes her guitar chops with a quick-fire cover of Jimi Hendrix’s Little Wing
- Band of Horses' Ben Bridwell: "I see my guitar playing as a blessing, after years of seeing it as a hindrance – the way I play is unlike anyone else"
- Best delay pedals 2024: classic analog and modern digital delays to give your tone new life
- How to build a strong website that’s right for your music
- Best PRS SE Custom 24 deals: get your hands on a top-rated PRS for less
- Best Fender CD-60S deals: get a top-rated beginner acoustic guitar for less
- Make an impact with 5 expansive open guitar chords
- Kustom KXB100 and KXB10 review
- Steve Vai announces European leg of his upcoming Inviolate World Tour
- Night Ranger’s Brad Gillis and Mr. Big’s Billy Sheehan announce new Skills project, share debut single, Stop the World
