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- September 30
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- D’Angelico enters the baritone guitar market for the first time ever with two luxurious new models
- D'Addario XS strings review: bring tone, longevity and a smooth feel to the electric/acoustic coated string world
- Mighty duck! Sitka has teamed up with Martin and Thomas Rhett to auction this custom HD-28
- Dave Mustaine wants to write new music with James Hetfield: “There is a pretty good possibility of it happening”
- Robb Flynn says Dimebag Darrell smashed his guitar but made it up with a personal replacement
- Lzzy Hale: “When you get your first Gibson, it feels almost like it could play itself because there’s some kind of intangible magic”
- 5 classic YouTube guitar videos that will make you nostalgic
- Spice up your slash chord skills with these 10 tips on how to use them in your playing
- A huge range of Squiers just got even more affordable with $50 off at the Fender store
- Guthrie Govan: “You need to learn to enjoy the sound of a scale before you have any hope of using it effectively, in the same way you have to learn to like whiskey”
- How the Gretsch 6128 Duo Jet took flight and became the go-to electric for the likes of George Harrison, Cliff Gallup and Bo Diddley
- The Beths: “We’re really nervous about letting our experimentation become self-indulgent”
- Nandi Bushell ushers in the next era of her musical journey with new original single, The Shadows
- September 29
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- From avant-jazz mini-symphonies to cabaret-tinged stadium-rock: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- PRS announces its entry into the effects pedal world with three all-new stompboxes
- Sammy Hagar issues fresh call for Eddie Van Halen tribute show
- Derek Trucks: “Slide playing is all about intonation – how you attack a note affects whether it sings or not”
- Improve your acoustic accessory arsenal and harness high-end tones with Kyser's Low-Tension Quick-Change Acoustic Guitar Capo
- Victory partners with Adrian Thorpe of ThorpyFX to repackage its revered tube amp tones into all-new V1 stompbox series
- Taylor revamps two 500 Series acoustics with an all-new tonewood: Urban Ironbark
- Julian Lage: “A lot of what you hear on this record is first or second take. I like the tape to be rolling when I'm writing because there's a certain sense of discovery”
- Córdoba Stage review
- September 28
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- Joanne Shaw Taylor premieres mournful new song, Fade Away, from forthcoming Joe Bonamassa, Josh Smith-produced album
- Sammy Hagar praises Red Hot Chili Peppers' "soulful" Eddie Van Halen tribute song
- Dead Cross are auctioning two custom Fender Player Series Lead III guitars to raise money for suicide prevention
- Dave Davidson on the “sexiness” of the Jackson Warrior, and why he doesn't know which amp sounds were used on Revocation's new album, Netherheaven
- Polyphia and Steve Vai deliver a guitar collab for the ages in mesmerizing new single, Ego Death
- The greatest guitar albums of the 2010s
- Joela Bassista: “The best advice I’ve ever gotten about bass was to stay in the pocket. Groove and feel are so important to every song”
- 15 reclusive guitar greats who went off the grid
- Richie Faulkner says he had second heart surgery between the European and US legs of Judas Priest tour
- Watch Joan Jett and Travis Barker perform Cherry Bomb with Foo Fighters in heartfelt tribute to “beautiful soul” Taylor Hawkins
- Nick Zinner on the return of Yeah Yeah Yeahs: ditching amps, embracing EBow and his early love of Eddie Van Halen
- Isabella Manfredi: “This record is an extension of what I was trying to achieve with The Preatures, but couldn’t quite capture”
- Gretsch G5700 Lap Steel review
- Watch Nancy Wilson perform Barracuda with Foo Fighters, Pink and Jon Theodore at second Taylor Hawkins tribute event
- Wolfgang Van Halen nails Panama at LA Taylor Hawkins tribute concert – after promising he'd never play the track live
- Scarlett Johansson and Kelly Clarkson flex their guitar knowledge in superb new talk show game Catch a Riff of This
- Watch an all-star lineup including Dave Grohl, Kim Thayil and Taylor Momsen cover Soundgarden classics at LA’s Taylor Hawkins tribute concert
- Best cheap guitar pedals 2024: killer budget stompboxes you need to try
- September 27
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- Walrus Audio completes a Five-States trifecta with new Eons fuzz pedal
- Hear Cliff Burton blend sweeping, Eddie Van Halen-esque hammer-ons with Hendrixian distorted runs in his final show with Metallica
- Fender partners with Johnny Marr for limited-edition Fever Dream Yellow version of his Jaguar signature model
- Epiphone unveils low-cost version of Tony Iommi's iconic signature SG Special
- Pickup LesLee is a retrofittable onboard tremolo effect that automates pickup switching for Hendrix-esque tones
- Red-hot blues guitar lessons you can learn from ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons
- Best budget multi-effects pedals 2024: access a world of effects at a reasonable price
- Dead Kennedys' East Bay Ray: “Tape delay used to be like a galloping horse you were trying to hold onto. Now, all the horses are very well trained and in a box”
- Dead & Company will end after their final tour next year
- 15 scale patterns for guitar that will fire up your solos
- Blackstar's new 100W Amped 1 might just be the pedal amp of the future
- Fender Blues Junior IV review
- Ozzy Osbourne was too drunk to recognise Randy Rhoads' talent when he first auditioned: “I thought, it’s never gonna work”
- How does a guitar pickup work?
- How to play a pinch harmonic on guitar
- Marcus King on raiding Dan Auerbach’s fuzz museum, soul singer solos, and chicken pickin’ hoedowns with Brent Hinds and Matt Pike
- SoundLad Liverpool Scran review
- December 2022 Guitar World lesson videos
- September 26
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- Watch Mdou Moctar shred with Gina Gleason, Richard Fortus, Marc Ribot and Lee Ranaldo in the first ever D’Addario Extended Play jam
- Jakub Zytecki proves why his ambient-meets-shred style is the future of guitar playing with genre-smashing new single Heart
- Nancy Wilson releases touching Taylor Hawkins tribute song, Amigo Amiga
- Watch Lari Basilio and Martin Miller's breathtaking rendition of Derek and the Dominos’ Layla
- Jimi Hendrix-played Japanese double-cut guitar hits the auction block for a second time
- How to play guitar: a beginner’s guide
- Matt Bellamy on Yngwie Malmsteen-inspired solos, recording with Jeff Buckley's Telecaster and his secret to beaming blues riffs into Muse’s space-age guitar sound
- Laney radically reinvents its revered Supergroup tube amp with the Two Notes Torpedo-equipped LA-Studio
- Baroni AFK150 review
- The Go-Go’s Kathy Valentine: “When I was asked if I could play the bass, I didn’t even hesitate. I thought, ‘How hard can it be?’”
- Robert Fripp and Toyah recruit Chesney Hawkes for the latest ridiculous installment of Sunday Lunch
- JHS Pedals adds $99 Harmonic Tremolo and Octave Reverb to its 3 Series range
- KHDK launches Shred signature pedal for Bernth Brodtrager, complete with “magic frequency” mid boost
- Nine Inch Nails reunite with former members, including guitarist Richard Patrick, at Cleveland hometown show
- George Harrison’s Gibson ‘58 “ransom” Les Paul – which helped recover his stolen Lucy model – sells at auction for $312,500
- Andy Timmons opens up on mental health: “The guitar and music have always been catharsis for me. I can't imagine life without them”
- September 24
- September 23
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- The Roots guitarist “Captain” Kirk Douglas announces new album, New Unknown, premieres hard-riffing single, Over The Ocean
- Bare Knuckle's new Chris Robertson signature Peacemaker humbucker aims to clarify and firm up the high end of your tone
- Watch Johnny Marr play Rory Gallagher’s iconic 1961 Fender Stratocaster
- D_Drive's Yuki and Seiji serve up Iron Maiden-style harmonized leads in killer I Remember the Town playthrough
- Inside the new issue of Total Guitar: The metal issue! Guitarists from the biggest metal bands on the planet speak about their quests for ultimate heaviness!
- Manson Meta MBM-2 P-90 and MBM-2SF review
- Watch a 16-year-old Jason Becker blow the roof off his high school talent show with a flawless cover of Yngwie Malmsteen's Black Star
- Harley Benton expands sub-$220 guitar range with stealthy JA-Baritone and classic TE-69 Thinline models
- Clutch on keeping their chops up, employing "loose cannon" pedals and writing songs about the Boss Metal Zone Covid-19 conspiracy
- Watch Brian “Head” Welch play Korn classics at an Arizona high school
- ESP School of Metal Guitar: how to play guitar like Slipknot
- Spotlight: Tom Elliott and Joel Martorana of Peace Ritual
- This crazy double-neck SG-style electric is one of the cleverest custom guitars we've seen
- Dave Mustaine breaks down every track on Megadeth's The Sick, The Dying… and the Dead!
- Obscura's Jeroen Paul Thesseling on his 5 best bass albums
- Flea played bass on the Mars Volta’s best album – but you probably never noticed
- Kirk Fletcher reveals the three pedals he couldn't live without
- Les Claypool praises Willow Smith's Primus cover: “Fine guitar pickin’ there young fiery lass”
- Hear Red Hot Chili Peppers pay tribute to Eddie Van Halen in emotional new single, Eddie
- September 22
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- Luxurious appointments abound in the Gretsch Custom Shop's new 2022 Masterbuilt collection
- From divisive prog-pop to a slice of classic blues: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Fender ups the ante with five Mid-Year Collection Stratocaster and Telecaster models
- IK Multimedia AmpliTube 5 review
- Red Hot Chili Peppers' new single is dedicated to Eddie Van Halen
- The greatest guitar albums of the 2000s
- Show-stopping techniques you can learn from Paco de Lucia, Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin
- How Lexi Rose amassed 500,000 fans on social media and caught the attention of her idols – and all it took was one Kings of Leon concert
- ThorpyFX Scarlet Tunic review
- Jackson unveils four head-spinning Masterbuilt electric guitars for 2022
- Behold all 13 of Fender’s stunning, one-of-a-kind Masterbuilt creations for 2022
- Charvel turns up the heat and introduces the Spacecaster in jaw-dropping new Custom Shop guitar and bass drop
- September 21
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- Hear Tommy Emmanuel and Mike Dawes' spellbinding acoustic cover of The 1975's Be My Mistake
- Don Felder: "The Eagles never played three Les Pauls. It just turns into a big train wreck"
- Mateus Asato names three players who he believes to be “the last heroes” of the guitar world
- Gary Lee Conner on the Screaming Trees reunion that nearly was, trading guitars with Chris Cornell and making peace with Mark Lanegan before his passing
- Radial Engineering drops two "state-of-the-art" re-ampers – one of which doubles as a DI box
- Julia Jacklin: “I’m always trying to write songs that sound like they’d play over the end credits in a film”
- Ernie Ball raises the curtain on the Fall 2022 installment of its Ball Family Reserve collection
- Watch Jaco Pastorius go from funk to fuzz in one of his most groundbreaking bass solos
- Gibson unveils long-awaited “Greeny” Les Paul Custom Shop replica
- GWAR on “doing drugs and collecting Marshalls”, becoming “a full-fledged rock juggernaut”, and enjoying wah nearly as much as Kirk Hammett
- Why so many all-time bass greats flocked to the Ampeg B-15 Portaflex
- Introducing Momma, the '90s-inspired guitar duo behind one of 2022's best alt-rock albums
- Cort Flow-OC and Gold-A6 Bocote review
- September 20
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- Watch Steve Lukather jam on Crossroads with Sammy Hagar and Kenny Aronoff
- Steel Panther announce new full-time bassist
- Nuno Bettencourt: "Kurt Cobain had more vibe, feel and atmosphere than half of the guitar players who were shredding"
- Sweetwater reveals the best-selling effects pedal in its entire history
- How The Beths made their latest record with the help of some seriously weird amps – and a strict "more distortion" mantra
- Epiphone Les Paul Studio review
- Trace Elliot TE-1200 review
- W.A.S.P.’s Chris Holmes recalls the time Eddie Van Halen borrowed his Ibanez Destroyer – and made some radical surprise modifications
- The Van Halen Stage officially opened in the Van Halen family’s hometown of Pasadena
- Peter Frampton will perform his final farewell tour shows seated due to his health
- Why the Maestro Echoplex EP-3 remains one of the most iconic guitar effects of all time
- Smashing Pumpkins harness metal chugs and Whammy squeals in first track from upcoming sequel to Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
- September 19
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- Adam Jones' custom Reverse Silverburst Gibson Flying V was designed with help from Kirk Hammett, Richie Faulkner and Jim Root
- Hear Steve Vai and Vernon Reid trade volcanic, high-wire shred licks in new studio remake of Living Colour's Cult of Personality
- Simon McBride announced as Deep Purple's new permanent guitarist
- Producer Ken Scott on the making of David Bowie and Mick Ronson’s most iconic albums
- The Knack’s Prescott Niles looks back on 5 of his best albums
- Universal Audio UAFX Amp Emulators review
- September 17
- September 16
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- Wolfgang Van Halen announces deluxe edition of debut Mammoth WVH album, reveals imminent plans to begin recording a followup
- Turns out Randy Rhoads did have a nice thing to say about Eddie Van Halen: “Eddie is a great player”
- How Elvis destroyed his session guitarist's acoustic by kicking a gun out of his bodyguard's hand
- How to play blues like the early electric guitar masters
- Orange pays homage to the '70s with three rebooted retro-inspired effects pedals
- Fender Japan does it again with two striking signature Stratocasters for alt-rock star Ken
- Australian Guitar’s Fresh Frets: Vol. 11
- From Ulrich-fueled fuzz riffs to unadulterated raucous rock: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- John Mayer channeled every era of his playing into this solo – and it became one of his greatest guest spots ever
- 60 years of Ernie Ball: the history of a family business that changed the world of guitar and bass as we know it
- Erja Lyytinen: “I didn’t want to restrict myself to making radio hits. If the song required a longer guitar solo, I let it happen!”
- Captain Beefheart guitarist Jeff Cotton talks jamming with Frank Zappa and "the eight months of emotional trauma" that went into making Trout Mask Replica
- September 15
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- Ozzy Osbourne on Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen feud: “Randy didn't have a nice thing to say about Eddie – they were rivals”
- Fender Custom Shop honors Johnny A. with Artist Signature Stratocaster
- This guitar influencer's debut single is one of the best instrumental shred tracks you'll hear this year
- The world's first vinyl album that's also a guitar pedal has arrived
- Positive Grid celebrates 300K users of the Spark and Spark Mini by slashing prices on amps and software
- Soilwork guitarist David Andersson dies aged 47
- How session ace Charlie Worsham is sending the Nashville guitar scene into overdrive
- Learn Nick Johnston's soloing secrets in this video masterclass
- Joe Satriani: “You’re not going to sell out theaters or get a billion streams with finger exercises”
- Did MXR just launch its own take on the Fulltone OCD?
- The Eagles’ Timothy B. Schmit: “I call myself a ‘meat and potatoes’ bass player, but that’s exactly what is called for with anything I might be doing”
- Leo Nocentelli and Farees on the far-reaching influence of Jimi Hendrix and recording with $50 amps
- Walrus Audio Lore Reverse Soundscape Generator review
- September 14
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- Watch Amy Winehouse play I Heard Love Is Blind on her Strat unaccompanied in 2004 Fender promo
- Charvel launches sleek, minimalist new Pro-Mod DK22 SSS 2PT CM Mahogany with Walnut guitar
- 20 explosive guitar moments from Ozzy Osbourne's solo career
- Samantha Fish and Jesse Dayton to release collaborative album next year
- Martin partners with pop superstar Shawn Mendes for 000JR-10E Custom Signature Edition acoustic guitar
- Download and stream the audio from Guitar Techniques 340
- Valiant Guitars' Oberig Ukraine charity project showcases guitars designed by artists affected by the war
- How an unreleased Dimebag Darrell guitar solo ended up on Nickelback’s best-selling album
- British blues rock ace Laurence Jones breaks down his rig, and explains why he's switched to the PRS SE Silver Sky
- D'Angelico taps Josh Turner for its first-ever signature Excel Tammany acoustic model
- Lonely Robot: “I was listening to a lot of David Gilmour and Joe Bonamassa. I got really into that big vibrato – vibrato that you can drive a bus through”
- Eliza & The Delusionals: “This album was such a cathartic outlet – and realistically, the only one we had”
- September 13
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- Watch Kenny Wayne Shepherd play Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb on David Gilmour's Black Strat
- Watch Steve Vai nail Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin tracks with Living Colour during electrifying 2022 Rock In Rio set
- Rick Beato's signature double-cut Gibson Les Paul has finally arrived
- Watch Zakk Wylde and Andrew Watt join forces during Ozzy Osbourne's LA Rams halftime show
- Yngwie Malmsteen gives a guided tour of his current pedalboard
- Anthrax's Scott Ian on his thrashtastic history with Jackson guitars, shredding with his son and how an unlikely fretboard shaped the sound of Bring the Noise
- Boss vows to “unleash your Katana” with improved GA-FC EX Foot Controller
- Here's what Dave Mustaine texted James Hetfield after the Metallica leader felt insecure about his playing
- Tash Sultana on winning over MTV with a daring Unplugged performance and cracking Eric Johnson Strats in half onstage
- Squier 40th Anniversary Vintage Precision and Jazz Bass review
- September 12
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- Watch Brandon Ellis showcase his sensational chops on Jackson’s new American Series Soloist SL3
- Documentary on the first all-female metal band in the Middle East gets official trailer
- Kirk Hammett launches his latest project – a mysterious online horror story, which he is soundtracking
- Behind the scenes of Blizzard of Ozz, the album that launched Ozzy Osbourne's solo career and made Randy Rhoads a guitar god
- 16 ways to improve your acoustic guitar shows
- Reb Beach guides you through his latest pedalboard
- It doesn't look like Mark Tremonti's Explorer-style PRS will be getting a full production release
- Watch Wolfgang Van Halen shred Eruption on Eddie's Frankenstein guitar
- Live Review: Beabadoobee, Brisbane 11/09/22
- How Cliff Burton shaped Metallica's expansive thrash assault – and changed the sound of metal bass guitar forever
- Vance Joy: “When you write a great song you’re just like, ‘How did I do that?’ You get chills or the hair stands up your neck. That’s what keeps everyone going”
- Horsegirl: “If you want to be rebellious, there’s still nothing better than picking up a guitar”
- September 9
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- Wren and Cuff aims to create a "Swiss Army knife of fuzz and drive" with new Claudio Sanchez signature Anna pedal
- The first ever Boss CE-1 has reportedly been found, and it's listed on Reverb for $1,000,000
- The Gretsch White Falcon Dave Grohl used in the Foo Fighters' Monkey Wrench video has sold at auction for over $53,000
- Baldacci returns with the “wildly cool” Bighorn ECO, a vintage-inspired electric built with 100-percent American grown lumber
- Tim Henson showcases the dizzying complexity of Polyphia’s new single in ABC riff playthrough
- The metal issue! Slipknot, Lamb of God, Machine Head and more – only in the new Guitar World
- Blackstar adds “the world’s lightest” 2x12 combos to its St. James tube amp family
- Has Darkglass just announced the ultimate overdrive pedal for bass guitarists?
- Catalinbread makes shoegazers’ dreams come true with the FX40 Soft Focus Reverb
- Best acoustic guitars under $1,000 in 2024: get great tone for less
- Hear Eric Clapton channel his Cream era with a wah-heavy solo on Ozzy Osbourne’s One of Those Days
- Guitar strumming patterns: 5 ways to improve your rhythm playing
- Bartees Strange: “I saw a Black guitar player making contemporary music I could relate to. After that, the gates were just open”
- September 8
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- A new Jimi Hendrix live album, Los Angeles Forum: April 26, 1969, will be released this fall
- Ensure accurate tuning and explore the world of compensated tuning with Cherub’s rechargeable clip-on tuner, the Flow Tune Clip
- Electro-Harmonix adds analog warmth to the digital domain with innovative Big Muff Pi Hardware Plugin
- From wah-drenched jams to Phrygian throwdowns: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Luna Guitars Tribal bass review
- This insane acoustic fingerstyle cover of Dire Straits' Money For Nothing is the most incredible guitar playing you'll see today
- Manson debuts two new space-age Matt Bellamy signature models, including a more affordable DeLorean replica
- Epiphone SG Standard review
- Jackson introduces head-turning new signature models for Northlane's Josh Smith and Death Angel's Rob Cavestany
- The greatest guitar albums of the '90s
- Jim Root on designing his first-ever Charvel signature model, his '80s metal heroes and the most common mistakes he sees in Slipknot guitar covers
- September 7
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- Gibson to auction Paul McCartney-, Slash-played Les Paul guitars for Ukraine relief
- Joanne Shaw Taylor announces new album, Nobody's Fool, featuring Joe Bonamassa, Josh Smith and Carmen Vandenberg
- Steve Vai: His First 30 Years documentary released online for free
- Spite's Alex Tehrani and Lucas Garrigues serve seven-string carnage in this brutal guitar playthrough of The Most Ugly
- Cort introduces high-end Flow Series with flagship Flow-OC acoustic
- Jackson debuts first-ever made-in-Corona guitars with radically revamped American Series Soloist SL3
- Rick Beato debunks claims that Wolfgang Van Halen was playing to a backing track of Eddie at Taylor Hawkins tribute
- Parkway Drive: “As a musician, I just can’t sit still with my legs crossed”
- Dirty Loops' Henrik Linder: "Set a hysterical end goal that you can’t reach. At least, that works for me!"
- Joe Satriani, Nita Strauss, Nuno Bettencourt and Orianthi to appear on new orchestral album
- Squier 40th Anniversary Telecaster Gold Edition review
- Eric Johnson on digging into the vault to turn up two albums bursting with guitar gold
- September 6
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- Hear the Pixies reference Van Halen (yes, really) on snappy new single, Dregs of the Wine
- Ubisoft's Rocksmith+ subscription-based guitar-learning platform is now finally available on PC
- Fender debuts battle-scarred new Joe Strummer signature Telecaster
- Ruokangas introduces the Valvebucker Mk2 – a tube-equipped pickup that might just be the most expensive ever made
- Tom Morello’s greatest guitar solo wasn’t on any studio album – and it crammed all his tricks into one epic lead
- Watch the moment a Nameless Ghoul trips and disappears into the abyss at a recent Ghost show
- How Robb Flynn discovered his trademark natural harmonics by accident
- Best classical guitars 2024: nylon-string guitars for every budget
- Megadeth's Dave Mustaine and Kiko Loureiro go deep on the tragedy and triumph that fueled The Sick, the Dying… and the Dead!
- Watch Aerosmith return for their first show since the pandemic
- Zakk Wylde shreds for a minute straight on new Ozzy Osbourne single, Nothing Feels Right
- Jackson Concept Series Rhoads RR24 HS and Soloist SLAT7P HT MS review
- Lindsay Ell on returning to analog pedalboard treasure to make the most guitar-forward music of her career
- Luís Kalil demonstrates his “door-opening” reverse tapping technique in this exclusive lesson
- September 5
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- Michael Angelo Batio will join Manowar for their upcoming 2023 anniversary tour
- James Gang perform for the first time in 16 years at Taylor Hawkins tribute event
- Robert Fripp and Toyah take on Pantera's 5 Minutes Alone
- Them Crooked Vultures reunite for the first time in over a decade at Taylor Hawkins tribute show
- Watch Wolfgang Van Halen nail classic Van Halen tracks at Foo Fighters' Taylor Hawkins tribute show
- Tyler Bates talks recording and touring with Jerry Cantrell, and how the GuitarViol became a "primary color instrument" for his movie work
- Watch Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee perform Rush classics with Dave Grohl at Taylor Hawkins tribute show
- Guthrie Govan: why I love guitar instrumentals
- Gallien-Krueger Fusion 800S and NEO-IV 410 cab review
- Learn the slippery soloing style of Muddy Waters
- September 2
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- Daredevil Pedals promises optimal tonal definition with germanium and silicon transistor-loaded Aces Hybrid Amplifier pedal
- Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl: "Through Kurt, I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down. That's more powerful"
- Solar Guitars expands its roasted maple necks and fanned fret options in latest 11-strong drop
- Lamb of God’s Mark Morton officially signs with Gibson, seemingly ending his partnership with Jackson
- Spotlight: Lachlan Simpson of Dear Seattle
- Watch Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil shred with The Pretty Reckless on stage in Seattle
- Fender Japan revives some of the brand’s boldest-looking Stratocasters with the Limited International Color series
- Nick Johnston: “The first few Yngwie Malmsteen albums still make me smile. The ferociousness of that playing is still unequaled”
- Push your skills to the limit with 5 Steve Morse licks
- Joe Bonamassa shares the string bending lessons he learned from blues great Larry McCray
- John Petrucci talks buying and selling guitars: “I’m completely illiterate in the world of vintage guitars and Les Pauls and Strats and all that stuff”
- Fender Hammertone pedals review
- Slipknot's Jim Root hints at future Squier signature models
- September 1
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- Schecter launches new “minimalistic workhorse” Aaron Marshall signature models
- From Future Metal to the new Seattle sound: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Polyphia's upcoming album Remember That You Will Die will feature Steve Vai and Deftones' Chino Moreno
- George Harrison’s Gibson 1958 “ransom” Les Paul – used to rescue his stolen '57 Lucy model – goes up for auction
- Add suspense to your chord progressions with these augmented shapes
- Slash bassist Todd Kerns: “Guns N’ Roses’ music was in my DNA, so when I met Slash, it was like, ‘What are we doing? Nightrain? Okay!’ I just knew the songs”
- Eric Johnson reveals his at-home pedalboard
- Taylor 724ce Koa review
- Johnny Depp to join Jeff Beck's upcoming North America tour dates
- MXR partners with revered boutique builder Analog Man for the Duke of Tone
- Al Di Meola on how a legendary live session with Paco de Lucía and John McLaughlin came to light after 40 years
- Silvertone’s sought-after Twin Twelve 1484 amp hits the floor with new Jackson Audio pedal collaboration
