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- October 31
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- Watch Adam Jones play Stinkfist onstage with Tool in a full Dwight Schrute costume
- Harley Benton's new J-style MV-4JB Gotoh bass guitar has a more impressive spec sheet than its price tag would suggest
- Experience Bixonic’s Axentrix A1, a “new-gen distortion pedal with an endless supply of drive tones for any playing style”
- KHDK issues updated version of Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein’s Annihilator pedal – and it glows in the dark
- Fidelity Guitars unveils Mars Volta-inspired signature double-cut for Poly-Math guitarist Tim Walters
- Guitar missing? You're not alone. New survey reveals 1 in 4 UK musicians have had gear stolen
- 15 Britpop guitar heroes who shook up the UK in the '90s
- That Pedal Show rate the most legendary pedals of all time: the deserving, the overrated and the total sleepers
- Pale Waves on embracing “heavy distortion and chaos and power” and how The 1975's Matty Healy got them hooked on Vox's coffin-shaped Phantom
- Robert Fripp and Toyah celebrate Halloween with a spine-tingling take on Black Sabbath's Children of the Grave
- Amon Amarth on what drew them to baritone tunings over 7-strings and why no amount of pimping can polish a turd of a riff
- J Mascis offers a guided tour of his prized gear collection
- Nikki Sixx on why Mötley Crüe picked John 5 as Mick Mars' replacement: “He checks all the boxes. He's an insane player”
- Trickfish Bullhead Mini 500 and Mini 112 Cab review
- Watch Red Hot Chili Peppers cover Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit with John Frusciante on lead vocals
- Best guitar straps 2024: play in comfort and secure your guitar in style
- How Bob Dylan’s infamous Newport Folk Festival Fender Stratocaster ended up in the back of a woman’s attic – and why its discovery was so controversial
- October 28
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- The Beatles' Revolver: a comprehensive guide to the guitars and recording equipment the Fab Four used to make the landmark album
- Jerry Lee Lewis, legendary rock 'n' roll wild man, dies at 87
- Steve Vai to auction off electric guitars and gear from across his career
- Mark Tremonti embarked on a quest to “try every pick ever made” in a bid to improve his tone – and reveals the one that “made a huge difference”
- Watch Mick Mars tear through a set-closing Kickstart My Heart in his final show with Mötley Crüe
- Guitar wisdom you can learn from Berklee professor and John Mayer mentor Tomo Fujita
- Best metal guitars 2024: hell-raising electrics for shredders on any budget
- Snake Sabo: “I'm not as good as I used to be. But it inspires me – if I don't feel like I need to get better, then what's the point?”
- Best electric guitar strings 2024: the finest electric guitar strings for every budget and playing style
- Mike McCready breaks down the gear and inspiration behind 15 landmark Pearl Jam tracks
- Solar Guitars enters the effects pedal market for the first time with the Chug distortion pedal
- Avenged Sevenfold’s Synyster Gates is also a world-class gypsy jazz guitarist – watch him channel Django Reinhardt in this insane performance
- Fender unveils its “most accessible Acoustasonic yet”, the cut-price Acoustasonic Player Jazzmaster
- Eastman Juliet P-90-VR and PB review
- How Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan recorded a bass classic with Sweet Child O’ Mine
- John 5 confirmed as new Mötley Crüe touring guitarist
- The rarest Gibson Firebird of all time might just be this 1964 Kerry Green example
- Best practice amps 2024: hone your guitar and bass chops at home
- Hear Polyphia channel Dimebag and Deftones in their heaviest song yet, the Chino Moreno-featuring Bloodbath
- Alter Bridge: “By learning how to turn down the noise in my brain, I can centre in on the music”
- October 27
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- Gretsch graces its ultra-affordable G9500 Jim Dandy acoustic guitar with a limited-edition Nocturne Blue finish
- Mick Mars on his favorite Mötley Crüe solo, how he (unintentionally) ended up on Aerosmith's Pump, and the Dr. Feelgood Garnet amp
- Charles Berthoud's 60 second version of Slipknot's Duality might make you want to give up playing bass altogether
- Solar Guitars announce signature bass for The Haunted’s Jonas Björler
- From hell-raising garage-punk to towering shred storms: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Best bass guitars 2024: long and short-scale bass options for beginners to pros
- Matt Sorum reunites with Slash and Duff McKagan on scorching Kings of Chaos single, Judgment Day
- Gretsch G5220 Electromatic Jet BT review
- G&L launches highly limited ASAT Classic Thinline model
- Best combo amps 2024: the best all-in-one amps for every budget
- Best guitars for kids 2024: top electric and acoustic guitars for children
- 3 hell-raising bands taking modern metal guitar to new heights
- Brian May Guitars treats its Arielle signature model to Red Special-flavored Antique Cherry finish
- Michael Amott: “I actually play quite soft – I’m not as aggressive as people might think. I prefer to explore the dynamic range”
- Slash once joined Nile Rodgers and Chic for a marathon Le Freak solo spot – but the show ended in tragedy
- Watch Alex Lifeson and Robby Krieger join forces for 8-minute jam of Santana's Evil Ways
- Mötley Crüe’s Mick Mars retires from touring
- October 26
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- Vinnie Vincent's controversial Kiss solos drove Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley mad – watch one of the guitarist's craziest live wigouts
- VegaTrem’s new VT2 Teletrem lets you easily equip a whammy bar to Fender Telecasters
- 5 guitar skills you can learn from Jeff Beck
- LAVA MUSIC’s new BLUE LAVA Original acoustic-electric provides “simplicity with stunning sound,” along with onboard chorus, delay and reverb effects
- Warm Audio debuts sub-$200 “true-to-original” clones of the iconic Klon Centaur and Hermida Audio Zendrive pedals
- Epiphone Noel Gallagher Riviera review
- Aguilar debuts new micro drive pedal, the long-awaited Storm King
- Marco Puglisi – aka Syndrone – recruits Andy Gillion for a no-holds-barred guitar playthrough of Android God Revolution
- Best electric guitars under $500 2024: epic electrics for smaller budgets
- Tech 21 partners with Geddy Lee for new YYZ Shape-shifter SansAmp to bring unprecedented levels of… Schmegilka?
- These one-off Lego pedals meticulously recreate iconic designs including the Tube Screamer and Fuzz Face
- How Lexii Lynn Frazier became Top Gun: Maverick’s new guitar hero and recorded her parts with just hours to spare
- Pepper Keenan on why Corrosion of Conformity switched from “beat-to-s**t” Gibson SGs to ESPs: “James Hetfield said, ‘Man... these guitars ain't gonna make it!”
- Sleep’s Al Cisneros: “For my lifespan, I’ll be playing Rickenbackers. When I hear the sound of Rush’s Permanent Waves, there’s nothing else like that’”
- Spotlight: Bec Sandridge
- How Supersonic Blues Machine are evolving the art of blues guitar and doing everything in their power to stop the genre becoming a "museum piece"
- Holiday 2022 Guitar World lesson videos
- October 25
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- K.K. Downing and Glenn Tipton dissect 17 of Judas Priest's loudest, fastest and toughest tracks
- Richie Faulkner and Rex Brown form new metal supergroup, Elegant Weapons
- Gibson and Dave Mustaine team up once again for another, limited-edition Flying V EXP guitar
- Best Squier guitars 2024: Stratocasters, Telecasters, Jaguars and more for the budget-conscious player
- Bono wants U2's next record to be a “noisy, uncompromising, unreasonable guitar album”
- Fender Japan harks back to summer with breezy, ultra-limited Art Canvas Esquire models
- Metal bassist and YouTube hero Kello Gonzalez: “How I went from zero to 75k subscribers...”
- Kramer Disciple D-1 Bass review
- LAVA MUSIC debuts sub-$500 BLUE LAVA Original acoustic, complete with onboard reverb, chorus and delay effects
- Solar Guitars unveils striking new 7-string signature model for Heavy As Texas guitarist Marzi Montazeri
- Robert Fripp doesn't care what King Crimson fans think of his YouTube covers: “At age 76, why should I give a f**k?”
- How John Petrucci's signature model became one of The 1975's main guitars
- Minnie Marks on mastering the dance between guitar and drum for a solo sound that takes retro styles in bold directions
- Aclam The Woman Tone review
- Nita Strauss taps Arch Enemy's Alissa White-Gluz and unleashes the shred on towering metal anthem, The Wolf You Feed
- Worst nightmare: band loses “every piece of musical gear” they own in freak studio fire
- October 24
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- Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp sue professor over plagiarism allegations
- Thief caught on camera stealing Nita Strauss's Boss multi-effects pedal during guitar clinic
- Fender CEO Andy Mooney: “There are still heaps of virtuoso players, but there are fewer guitar gods now”
- Mooer enters the headless guitar market with fan-fretted digital GTRS Wing Series models
- Robert DeLeo on how his vintage guitar collection inspired his first-ever solo album and the songwriting secrets behind Stone Temple Pilots' Core
- The Amazons' Chris Alderton: “Is it boring if I go with three distortion pedals? I do like things quite loud!”
- Behold Rickenbacker’s new Midnight Purple 330
- Fabrizio Grossi has worked with everyone from George Clinton to Billy F.Gibbons, Steve Vai to Ice-T. But in the event of an unlikely effects-based apocalypse, which pedals would he save from the flames?
- How Metallica changed metal with their groundbreaking 1986 classic Master of Puppets
- Gretsch G2420 Streamliner review
- Wolfgang Van Halen is using more of his dad’s guitars on the new Mammoth WVH album – including a modded Gibson SG from Dirty Movies
- Nashville session ace Dave Roe: “The night I played bass with Jaco Pastorius on drums”
- Are you ready? Robert Fripp and Toyah have covered Korn's Blind
- John Petrucci: “If a guitarist is onstage playing their ass off, backing tracks don't bother me. But if they're faking it or pretending, that's a whole different thing”
- Young busker praised by Metallica after absolutely smashing Master of Puppets cover
- The 15 best Halloween guitar songs
- Charvel Pro-Mod San Dimas PJ V review
- October 21
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- JHS Pedals partners with Madison Cunningham for signature Artificial Blonde vibrato pedal
- Fender opens its Mod Shop custom guitar builder to countries outside the US for the first time
- Scott Reeder: “I got a call: ‘Can you come over and jam with Tool?’”
- Vernon Reid announces he’s joined forces with Laney Amps and talks through his playing past and present
- Paul Reed Smith explains what possessed him to call one of PRS’s first guitar pedals Horsemeat
- Watch a 16-year-old Shawn Lane blow minds with warp-speed solos onstage with Black Oak Arkansas
- Origin Effects celebrates its 10th Anniversary with stunning etched aluminum Cali76 and SlideRIG pedals
- Harley Benton adds 6 fresh colorways across its sub-$500 Fusion-III and Fusion-T electric guitar ranges
- The Gibson ES-345 Marty McFly played in Back to the Future was actually from the future
- Is John 5 about to be announced as Mick Mars’ replacement in Mötley Crüe?
- EarthQuaker Devices teams up with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for limited-edition pedals
- Sophie May on confronting TikTok-fried attention spans and setting Leonard Cohen-style arpeggios to slam poetry
- Watch Instagram and TikTok shredder Vixen tear up Jackson's new American Series Soloist SL3 in killer shred video
- ESP School of Metal Guitar: how to play guitar like Parkway Drive
- How to play slide guitar: 5 technique essentials
- Danelectro asserts its authority amid growing baritone guitar hype by reviving the quirky Longhorn baritone model
- Orianthi: “I wanted the verses to focus more on storytelling than aggression”
- Gavin Rossdale: “Modern tones are where it's at – and if you're not where it's at, where are you?”
- Inside the new issue of Total Guitar: How To Play Blues – 20 Ways To Get Your Mojo Workin'
- Hear John Lennon sing Yellow Submarine as a melancholy acoustic ballad in this unearthed Revolver outtake
- Guy Pratt reveals the gear he uses to replicate vintage Pink Floyd tones with Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets
- How the MXR Dyna Comp became the go-to compressor pedal for countless all-star guitarists
- Fender Pro Junior IV SE review
- October 20
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- Moog's Moogerfooger effects pedals are back (as plugins)
- Supro looks to offer vintage crunch in abundance with new Amulet 1x10 combo amp
- Woman unearths dusty old acoustic guitar in her back room – and discovers it’s a Martin from the 1870s
- EVH salutes Van Halen's revolutionary debut album with launch of Striped Series ‘78 Eruption guitar
- Gibson alleges Dean is in contempt of court for continuing to advertise its V and Z Series guitars
- Blackbyrd McKnight on his tumultuous tenure with Red Hot Chili Peppers, the secret to great funk guitar playing, and why Jimi Hendrix is far from overrated
- Meet Dom Martin, the Belfast-born guitarist who may just be Rory Gallagher’s musical inheritor
- Harley Benton puts its own spin on the Jazz Bass with the new budget-friendly JB series
- Godin ups its nylon-string electric game with intriguing, familiar-looking G-Tour Nylon Matte Black EQ
- Fairport Convention’s Simon Nicol looks back on 55 years of the band that transformed British music
- Fender American Acoustasonic Telecaster All-Mahogany review
- Best electric guitars 2024: our top picks for every playing style, ability and budget
- Watch John Mayer cover Van Halen’s Panama with an Eddie Van Halen Frankenstein
- Are ThorpyFX pedals actually bombproof? Watch an explosives team put it to the test
- 3 Eddie Van Halen-signed Charvel EVH Art Series guitars – and a Masterbuilt Bumblebee replica – hit the auction block
- October 19
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- 6.66 meter cables and Blood Splatter straps headline Jackson's new, none-more-metal line of accessories and merchandise
- Austin Evans serves up a volley of six-string carnage – with an upside-down guitar – in this brutal playthrough of Orthodox's Head on a Spike
- This busker just delivered one of the best shred guitar performances of the year
- Jason Richardson on his love of Alexi Laiho, soundtracking Lifetime movies and how his late pet pug's progressive drinking habits shaped his new album
- Friedman updates two of its classic amp models with Pink Taco V2 and Little Sister heads and combos
- Who really played bass on I Want You Back by The Jackson 5?
- Wilco’s John Stirratt: “With the bass, you can change the tone of different parts... I try to find a really good rhythm track that aids the melody”
- Donner’s Seeker Series guitars pair high-end tones with high-end looks on New York Fashion Show runway
- Johnny Depp’s “Shipwreck” guitar is one of the wildest custom builds you’ll see this year
- The story of the Fender Rosewood Stratocaster that never made it to Jimi Hendrix
- 10 guitar lessons you can learn from Muse’s Matt Bellamy
- Joji Malani, aka Pei: “As a solo artist, I’m able to be way more intentional about everything”
- Research by Fender suggests women buy guitars online because they “aren't treated well” in shops
- Buddy Guy announces farewell tour, featuring Eric Gales, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Ally Venable and more
- How to change your guitar amp speaker
- 15 glam rock guitarists from the '70s who defined the decade and beyond
- October 18
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- How Chuck Berry wrote Johnny B. Goode, and created the first rock and roll guitar hero
- Strymon's versatile BigSky reverb pedal is now available as a plugin
- Alan Gorrie: “There was no big time about Jimi Hendrix or Keith Moon – we hung out with those guys every night”
- Dean expands its Exile X line of guitars with new, Satin White-finished model
- Noel Gallagher’s Silver Sparkle Gibson Les Paul Florentine – dubbed “the best guitar in the world” by the Oasis man – goes up for sale again
- Meet Donner’s Hush-I Silent guitar, the “ultimate portable, travel and gig-ready instrument”
- Watch Kinga Glyk’s Jaco Pastorius-inspired solo – played on a ukulele bass – which became one of her most watched videos ever
- Burls Art unveils his best build to date – a guitar crafted almost entirely from newspaper
- How to tell Jim Root and Mick Thomson’s Slipknot guitar parts apart
- Laura Veirs on how she took overdriven riot grrrl electrics into the realm of nylon-string country blues
- Positive Grid launches OMNYSS, a collection of amps and effects for “epic soundscapes and massive tonal exploration”
- Matt Skiba is “truly happy” that Blink-182 have reunited with Tom DeLonge
- Courtney Love’s Masterbuilt Surf Green Fender Venus goes up for sale
- October 17
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- Pino Palladino’s best basslines
- K.K. Downing says he will be performing with Judas Priest at Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame ceremony: “It's what I've done so many times”
- Watch John Mayer wield his custom Charvel for a performance of Never Gonna Be Alone featuring Jacob Collier and Lizzy McAlpine
- Mooer wants to “supercharge your one-man band” with its new Looper X2 and Drummer X2 pedals
- Zakk Wylde says he still needs to learn Dimebag Darrell's guitar parts for Pantera's upcoming reunion tour
- Ernie Ball Music Man DarkRay 5 review
- The evolution of the Hummingbird: how Gibson’s square-shouldered dreadnought became the acoustic icon it is today
- Hugh Cornwell: “I can’t fathom what the attraction is about a relic guitar. It’s battered and beaten up, and suddenly it’s 10 times the price?”
- Vola’s new OZ RV TNC electric guitar is built for “speed, comfort, efficiency and classic and high-output tones”
- Ed Sheeran sparks guitar sale surge at local store after performing free gig in his hometown
- Jan Rivera serves up spellbinding chromaticism and gravity-defying fusion licks in this hypnotic playthrough of Existential Paranoia
- Robert Fripp and Toyah celebrate Chesney Hawkes' swansong Sunday Lunch appearance with a hilarious cover of Stacy's Mom
- Yvette Young announces new Covet lineup: “This is my shot at trying one more time”
- October 15
- October 14
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- This guitar-toting, metal-themed puppet act brings circle pits to the youth
- Solar Guitars partners with Darkthrone's Nocturno Culto for a metal-ready signature model, the GC1.6NC
- CopperSounds expands its mini-pedal lineup with the Gravity Bomb V2 boost and Renegade multi-bias fuzz
- 15 of Kiss's best guitar songs that don’t feature Ace Frehley
- Watch Vito Bratta bring the house down at New York's Ritz club with White Lion in 1988
- Dan Auerbach breaks down the guitar playing on 5 classic Black Keys tracks
- The history of Fender Telecaster pickups
- From Blink-182's powerchord-fueled return to eerie psychedelic soul: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Is a new DigiTech Whammy on the way?
- Best acoustic guitars for beginners 2024: top picks for new players, reviewed and demoed by experts
- Harley Benton boosts its offset offerings with newly finished $177 JA-60CC model
- SolidGoldFX unveils revamped 76 MKII octave fuzz with new JFET preamp
- Kirk Fletcher: “These days, the attention to detail on blues songwriting has been neglected in a lot of ways – and I wanted to address that”
- Watch Kacey Musgraves pause her ACL set to clip her nails – all in the name of guitar technique
- Dave Mustaine’s latest rig tour shows he’s made the full switch to Neural DSP’s Quad Cortex
- Ibanez teams up with viral fingerstyle virtuoso Marcin for his first-ever signature acoustic guitar
- Blink-182 release Edging, their first new song with Tom DeLonge in 10 years
- Country music star Jimmie Allen talks mental health: “Music has always been my go-to, but there are times I can't get out of my head long enough to write”
- Watch Jason Richardson shred in honor of Alexi Laiho after buying his signature ESP V
- Blues? Prog? Floydian grunge? 5 guitar highlights from Return of the Dream Canteen, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ most eclectic album yet
- Big Scary: “Our mental ethos played a big part in how the songs came together”
- October 13
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- Watch Myles Kennedy shred like you've never seen him shred before in early '90s guitar contest
- Watch Guns N' Roses' Duff McKagan and Nirvana's Krist Novoselic perform ‘Sweet Child O' Mine’
- Ritchie Blackmore based Smoke on the Water on a classical masterpiece – and the riff’s roots might surprise you
- The art of pivoting as a musician: how to overcome uncontrollable curveballs and carve a path to success
- Queen share “lost” track featuring Freddie Mercury, Face It Alone, recorded over 30 years ago
- G&L's new CLF Research S-500 is a fan-inspired “retro-futurist dream” that blends original designs with contemporary appointments
- 10 times fans played guitar onstage with their heroes – and absolutely killed it
- S.G. Goodman: “Music is healing for the listener and the writer... You don’t always know exactly what a song is trying to teach you while you’re writing it”
- This unearthed 1960 prototype reveals what the Gibson SG Special nearly looked like
- Download and stream the audio from Guitar Techniques 341
- Faith Guitars celebrates its 20th anniversary with three stylishly appointed The Twenty Legacy acoustic models
- October 12
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- EVH refreshes its Wolfgang WG Standard Exotic line with two eye-catching new finishes
- Les Claypool: the 5 basslines that changed my life
- Kim Thayil set to appear alongside Stone Temple Pilots’ Robert and Dean DeLeo at next Rock ’N’ Roll Fantasy Camp
- Nancy Wilson is selling off her live ‘Barracuda’ SG and a stash of other ’70s and ’80s guitars
- Level 42’s Mark King: the man with the 3 million dollar thumb
- Matt Bellamy’s 10 greatest Muse guitar moments
- Leprous guitarist Tor Oddmund Suhrke on his prog fanbase’s insatiable appetite for odd time signatures and going from massage table to festival stage
- PJD Carey Apprentice review
- Bloodbath’s Tomas Akvik on stepping up and inaugurating his whammy bar for the death metal supergroup’s sick new album
- Tedeschi Trucks Band cover Harry Styles’ Sign of the Times – and it may well make you weep
- The Bobby Lees on how no-holds-barred songwriting and a musical molotov cocktail helped them create primal new album, Bellevue
- Spotlight: Max Jacobson of Grenade Jumper
- PRS adds 20-watt head and 1x12 cab to its HDRX amp range inspired by Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Woodstock’ Marshall Super Lead
- The missing Beatles bass and the one track that Paul McCartney refused to play on
- PRS expands its SE acoustic line with A20E Angelus Cutaway and parlor-sized P50E
- Lamb of God’s Mark Morton and Willie Adler on making “combative and confrontational” new album, Omens
- October 11
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- Gibson has launched its own pickup shop
- PRS's Robben Ford signature guitar is here at last
- Amazon has just slashed the price of Zoom recording equipment including the killer Zoom H5 and ZUM-2 podcast mic pack
- Watch Steve Vai tame his monstrous triple-neck Hydra in the first-ever live performance of Teeth of The Hydra
- Obvurt, the band featuring a guitarist who relearned to play left-handed after a car accident, announce debut album, Triumph Beyond Adversity
- Josh Klinghoffer says playing with the Red Hot Chili Peppers was "enormously stifling creatively": "They’re an established band with an established sound"
- Andy Timmons teaches you how to string bend more expressively
- Nili Brosh: “For me, the playability is big... I don’t think anybody’s wish is to feel like the guitar is fighting them and everything is harder to play”
- Al Di Meola: "I see a lot of young players online with such super-phenomenal technique – but very rarely do I see it in the framework of a composition"
- “Ow, it's burning!”: watch Justin Hawkins try to play like Polyphia
- Reverend’s futuristic-looking Billy Corgan Z-One model is a “smashing” signature axe
- Bootsy Collins: “James Brown said, “Son, just slow down and give me The One”
- Fender harnesses its heritage with all-new American Vintage II line of Stratocasters, Telecasters, Jazzmasters and basses
- Blink-182 confirm reunion with Tom DeLonge, announce new music and gargantuan global tour
- Ibanez finally launches Tim Henson’s eagerly awaited acoustic-electric signature nylon-string, the TOD10N
- Gear up with great new guitars, amps and pedals from Gibson, Epiphone, Kramer, Maestro and Mesa Boogie
- Joe Satriani on proposed Van Halen tribute concert: “If it's ever gonna happen, Wolfgang Van Halen should play guitar”
- John McVie’s iconic ‘Rumours’ bass to go under the hammer in star-studded Fleetwood Mac auction
- Willow continues her transformation to guitar star with raucous SNL performance
- 6 times the legendary “Greeny” Gibson Les Paul was used to create electric guitar magic
- How gender equality in the guitar industry has improved – and what more needs to be done
- October 10
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- Rob Scallon and Andrew Huang write 100 riffs in a day, with typically brilliant results
- Watch 10-year-old bass wunderkind Ellen Alaverdyan jam with guitar hero Steve Vai at the House of Blues
- Rare Buzz Effects’ Fuzz Bob-Omb offers tonal pilgrims a rare Soviet-era fuzz design
- Fingerstyle acoustic guitarist covers Slipknot's Before I Forget – and the results are astounding
- Polyphia take a blues-rock turn in blistering guest spot with Steve Vai
- Watch the trailer for In The Blood, a film about Rolling Stones bassist Darryl Jones
- Korn share 20 tracks that shaped their game-changing guitar approach
- ESP LTD Deluxe SN-1000HT Fire Blast review
- An Eddie Van Halen and Chris Cornell collaboration very nearly happened
- Watch John Frusciante channel Eddie Van Halen with a tapping-heavy solo in Red Hot Chili Peppers’ live debut of tribute track, Eddie
- Watch Kirk Hammett join Journey for a full-throttle Enter Sandman and Wheel in the Sky jam
- Lamb of God perform with three guitarists for the first time ever: “We're going full Lynyrd Skynyrd!”
- The story of the ‘Ghost Finish’ Telecaster – one of the rarest Fender guitars ever made
- Live Review: King Stingray, Melbourne 08/10/22
- October 8
- October 7
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- Take a sonic tour of PRS’ first-ever range of innovative, flexible and superior-sounding stomp boxes
- How Jack White revitalized Loretta Lynn's career with a touch of fleet-fingered six-string fire
- Solar Guitars partners with Kirk Windstein of Crowbar and Down for an exceptionally minimalist signature model, the E1.6KW
- Gibson unveils the G-Bird, a new acoustic that blends the ‘Player Port’ with the classic Hummingbird profile
- Dunlop launches the Trigger Fly, a sleek, speedy and ergonomic take on its most-popular capo design
- Steve Vai was taken aback when he heard how Polyphia cut up his guest solo: “I thought, ‘Maybe they didn’t like what I did!’”
- Watch Nancy Wilson and Mike McCready tear it up in raucous live cover of Led Zeppelin’s Rock and Roll
- Donner’s innovative Rising-G Pro is a carbon-fiber acoustic that sounds great and is built to last
- Gavin Rossdale reveals how he came to own Joe Walsh's 'Hotel California' Fender Jazzmaster – and why he wasn’t too pleased when the Eagles legend signed it
- Lari Basilio on channeling joy through guitar playing, working with Leland Sklar and discovering 7-strings
- This Marshall 4x10 guitar cab is built almost entirely out of Lego – and it actually works
- Someone built a guitar that tases you for missing a note
- Acoustic guitar shapes explained: how they've changed and how they affect the sound
- Joe Bonamassa reflects on his playing 20 years ago and what you can learn from it
- October 6
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- Epiphone joins forces with Joe Bonamassa yet again for elegant, well-appointed signature 1962 ES-335 guitar
- Troy Van Leeuwen is filling in for Dave Navarro on Jane’s Addiction's current North American tour
- From bowel-busting riffs to life-affirming 12-string acoustic bliss: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Jim Root and Mick Thomson on the depression, wild gear experiments and chaos theory behind Slipknot’s devastating new album
- This is what an acoustic guitar sounds like when you fill it up with water
- Marcus Miller on the stories behind 5 of his iconic recordings
- Watch Nita Strauss rejoin Alice Cooper – and play a Jackson Jeff Loomis signature Kelly – at Colorado show
- Catalinbread gets in on the minimalism hype with one-knob Elements pedal series
- Wolfgang Van Halen discusses nerves over covering Eddie's guitar parts at Taylor Hawkins tribute concert: “I didn’t even know if I could do it”
- The inside story of Matt Bellamy’s vision for Manson Guitar Works
- Boss finally drops the Waza Craft we’ve all been waiting for – the DS-1W Distortion
- October 5
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- Gretsch honors Malcolm Young with all-new, limited-edition “Red Beast” Signature Jet
- Watch Tim Henson shred his mesmerizing parts for Polyphia's Ego Death in new playthrough video
- Watch Smashing Pumpkins debut two new songs, Neophyte and Harmageddon, live
- Hail the cabs: Mesa/Boogie unveils comprehensive Boogie cabinet range
- Watch Nathan East play a virtuosic Sir Duke... while having a conversation with Stevie Wonder
- Straight male guitarists play extreme metal to impress other men, study suggests
- Machine Head's Robb Flynn: “When we were first starting out, I used to say, ‘I want us to be the Grateful Dead of metal’”
- 5 albums shaping the sound of modern guitar music
- Sterling by Music Man introduces the Sabre design to its 2022 lineup with two Fishman Fluence-equipped electrics
- Reverend Billy Corgan Signature Z-One review
- The ‘Led Zeppelin III’ bassline that wasn't played by John Paul Jones
- Meshuggah’s Mårten Hagström: “Fredrik is the mad guitar genius. So for him to come back was natural and made me want to go on with it, too”
- Cort celebrates Elrick Bass Guitars' 30th anniversary with two special edition NJS four- and five-string models
- Rage Against the Machine cancel 2023 North American tour dates following Zack de la Rocha's Achilles tendon tear
- Lzzy Hale, Wynonna Judd and Vicki Peterson to host second-ever women-only Rock ‘N’ Roll Fantasy Camp in Nashville
- Fender releases refreshed Aerodyne Special series, putting a radical contemporary spin on its Stratocaster, Telecaster and bass models
- The Wonder Years: “We only want to put out records that respect our fanbase and our legacy”
- October 4
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- Gibson revives its Faded finish for six fresh Original Collection electric and acoustic models
- Wolfgang Van Halen to begin recording sophomore Mammoth WVH album today
- Robin Trower: “The secret to the warm tone I get, whilst still retaining the clarity, is due to a combination of heavy strings and a high action”
- Is this the best known bassline of all time?
- Loretta Lynn, country music legend, dies at 90
- 5 scorching shred skills you can learn from John Petrucci
- Steve Vai and Polyphia team up for the guitar collaboration (and interview!) of the year – only in the new Guitar World
- Billy Sheehan began his career with Talas. Over 40 years on, he returned for a new album tinged with tragedy
- Chris Cornell-owned 1979 Gretsch Chet Atkins Tennessean up for sale on Reverb for $395,000
- Adam Jones gifts signature Gibson Les Paul to 9-year-old Maya Neelakantan for nailing 7empest cover
- Best guitar cases and gig bags 2024: from cost-effective protection, to indestructible travel companions
- Zakk Wylde to teach “a complete breakdown” of his signature style in new in-depth online guitar course
- Fender partners with sports equipment brand Giro for a range of limited-edition guitar- and amp-inspired snow goggles
- October 3
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- Elvis Presley guitarist James Burton reveals kidney cancer diagnosis
- Neil Young and Crazy Horse announce new album, World Record, share tender first single, Love Earth
- Watch Metallica perform Nothing Else Matters with “real singer” Mickey Guyton
- Watch pro-shot footage of Rush performing Working Man with Chad Smith at Taylor Hawkins tribute
- Transform your guitar from ordinary to extraordinary with FU-Tone’s hardware upgrades
- Best amps for metal 2024: our top picks for high-gain heroes
- Jack Bruce: “Jimi Hendrix regarded the guitar as an extension of himself. But in an instrumental sense, I would argue that Eric Clapton was probably better”
- Best travel guitars 2024: top acoustic and electric travel guitars for portability and performance
- Shinedown’s Eric Bass looks back at the band's top five bass albums
- Stevie Ray Vaughan's 10 greatest guitar moments
- The Big Moon’s Soph Nathan: “When I first started playing, I thought I should be noodling over everything. But space is really important”
- John Mayer once bumped into a fan at a music store, and ended up buying her the guitar of her dreams
- Patrick James Eggle Macon SC Goldtop review
- Ichika Nito wields a headless seven-string Ibanez to devastating effect in dizzying new single, Away
- Robert Fripp and Toyah recruit Chesney Hawkes for his second Sunday Lunch guest spot – for a hilarious performance of The Killers' Mr. Brightside
- Best solid state amps: A killer selection for those who play, dirty, clean, or anything in between
- October 1
