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- May 31
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- Snowy White: "It's funny that I used a Strat for Pigs on the Wing. I was so used to my Les Paul – I was surprised I felt as comfortable as I did. I still hated it, but I got through it"
- Meet 'Sunny', a newly uncovered 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard from South Africa
- Furch Violet Master's Choice, Yellow Deluxe and Red Deluxe review
- Hear the new Extreme single that Nuno Bettencourt says features his favorite solo on the whole album
- Blues guitar techniques you can learn from Telecaster master Roy Buchanan
- Run out of ideas? Try Scott Holiday's 'mind eraser' songwriting method
- Flea names the one bassline that he would “go back and fix” from the Red Hot Chili Pepper's 1995 album, One Hot Minute
- Kirk Hammett: “Maybe the age of active pickups is over”
- Double Whammy: metal guitarist Sean Long goes viral with his bonkers dual-pedal technique
- Architects announce departure of guitarist Josh Middleton
- Duff McKagan: “I discovered my acoustic guitar as a refuge during Covid. It lessens the panic attacks”
- Watch Joe Bonamassa play Peter Green’s guitars – and explain why he’s pleased Kirk Hammett owns the Greeny Les Paul
- May 30
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- Best humbucker pickups 2024: buck up your guitar with mellow lows and punchy mids
- Watch Ben Harper play Ed Helms' custom Gene Autry acoustic in spellbinding kitchen duet with Jack Johnson
- We came for Reb Beach and Steve Morse covering Crossroads. We stayed for the guitar faces
- Ibanez revives the Paul Gilbert PGM for 2023
- Nuno Bettencourt once played through Eddie Van Halen’s rig, but said it was “a horrible nightmare”
- How Gibson developed the mini-humbucker, its underrated ‘other’ pickup
- "Bewildering technique that went way beyond any standard root/5th ideas": Listen to John Entwistle’s isolated bass on My Generation
- Zakk Wylde picks his 5 essential Lynyrd Skynyrd tracks
- Larry Carlton: "I believe my Sire line is better than anything Fender's Squier line is producing. These are great guitars, and I believe in them"
- Bob Rock clarifies comments about Nikki Sixx’s recordings: “At no time did I ever actually think Nikki didn’t play bass on Mötley Crüe’s records”
- Dave Grohl appears to confirm his Epiphone signature model is a reality… by posing with one
- Dave Mustaine’s Epiphone and Kramer signature models are finally here – and it looks like they’ve been worth the wait
- Fender debuts limited-run Sakuraburst MIJ Hybrid II Stratocaster – and this one’s actually available outside of Japan
- May 29
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- Celebrate Father’s Day with irresistible free gifts and money off Positive Grid’s Spark amps and BIAS software
- This is the Hallmark Wing-Bat – a guitar based on the original Batmobile design
- Samantha Fish: “I play other guitars, but I always go back to the SG because it fights me just enough. I need something to push back a little bit and she does”
- Paoletti 112 Loft Series 2P90 review
- How to solo over relative major and minor chords
- May 28
- May 26
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- Jeff Beck's stage-used prototype Graffiti Yellow Fender Stratocaster sells at auction for over $94,000
- Jimmy Page and Jack White both loved Metallica's St. Anger, according to Bob Rock
- This week's essential guitar tracks: two of YouTube's biggest shred heroes team up and a slide titan pays tribute to a Southern rock guitar legend
- DigiTech just dropped a major announcement that made us even more excited about what's in store
- Tina Weymouth: “I know Bono used me to taunt Adam Clayton when U2 were starting out”
- Nikki Sixx once told Bob Rock he thought someone “replaced” his bass parts on early Mötley Crüe albums
- Steve Vai called him “the evolution of guitar”, Tosin Abasi said he was “a virtuoso beyond virtuosos” – now Matteo Mancuso shares his mind-twisting new single
- Get yourself up to 35% off loads of guitar gear in the massive Guitar Center Memorial Day sale
- Save up to 40% on a huge range of guitar gear with the Musician’s Friend Memorial Day sale
- Best resonator guitars: our pick of the best dobro guitars for blues, bluegrass and country
- Someone built a robot to pick your guitar strings so you don’t have to
- Kirk Hammett says he prefers the Epiphone Greeny to the $20k Gibson Custom Shop version – here’s why
- Robert Trujillo: “We have more riffs than we know what to do with. With every handful of riffs we get out of Kirk, there’s another 500 we didn’t hear”
- Take your guitar solos to the next level with these genre-spanning tips
- Origin Effects M-EQ Driver review
- Download and stream the audio from Total Guitar 372
- May 25
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- 11-year-old guitarist on Britain's Got Talent leaves Brian May in awe with Queen cover
- Watch Dweezil Zappa nail Eruption with the Kramer guitar Eddie Van Halen gave him when he was 12 years old
- In 1965 Elvis Presley was playing bass guitar, with a little help from Paul McCartney
- Bill Lee, jazz bassist, composer and father of Spike Lee, dies aged 94
- Eric Clapton and Gary Clark Jr. played Cause We’ve Ended As Lovers at the recent Jeff Beck tribute – see how they handled the show’s most daunting task
- 7 ways playing guitar can benefit your mental health
- Watch Foo Fighters play their first show with new drummer Josh Freese – and is that Dave Grohl’s new Gibson DG-335 signature guitar?
- Sweetwater’s Memorial Day sale is the place for pedal lovers with sizable discounts on Line 6, Eventide, Walrus Audio, Pigtronix and more
- Meet Xander & the Peace Pirates, the triple-guitar band discovered by an ex-Gibson CEO, featuring Liverpool's answer to Stevie Ray Vaughan
- George Lynch shows us what’s on his pedalboard
- How to use chromatics in a blues guitar solo
- Alex Skolnick says Phil Demmel is the Winston Wolf of metal guitarists, as the ex-Machine Head man joins Testament’s EU tour
- May 24
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- Legendary singer Tina Turner dies at 83
- Download and stream the audio from Guitar Techniques 349
- Positive Grid just radically upgraded its BIAS FX 2 software
- Rob Chapman shares one simple trick that will improve the sound of your Boss Katana
- The Soldano SLO-30 Combo is finally here – and it comes in purple
- Best guitar brands 2024: Whether you’re an acoustic or electric player, these are the guitar companies you need on your radar
- Epic five-part documentary focusing on Van Halen's crucial 1983-1984 period announced
- TC Electronic debuts the Infinite Mini Sample Sustainer, shrinking John Mayer’s favorite infinite sustain pedal
- Taylor Guitars just made one major change to its entire acoustic line
- What if Dimebag Darrell played the solo in Megadeth’s Symphony of Destruction? Kayla Kent makes it a reality – and the results are scary accurate
- Tom Morello’s guitar rig is now a Neural DSP plugin – watch the Rage Against the Machine firebrand demo his signature software… with a wrench
- The Beatles’ “first left-handed bassist”, Chas Newby, dies aged 81
- Primus's Les Claypool names 7 bassists who shaped his sound
- Danelectro Blackout ’59M NOS+ review
- “The phone rings and it's Jaco Pastorius. He says, 'I’m in room 265, come up here and get your lesson!'” Marcus Miller on an encounter with the self-proclaimed ‘greatest bass player in the world’
- Hank Marvin: “Cavatina is such a beautiful tune to play. It was a very good moment for me to nail it in one take”
- Epiphone reboots its Broadway, Sheraton and Casino collections with some of its most luxurious finishes yet
- Mooer’s new smart practice amp wants to take on the Positive Grid Spark at its own game – but is it smart enough?
- Steel Panther’s Satchel: “I really like the sound of single-coil pickups. It makes me play differently and feel like I’m David Gilmour. Or Yngwie!”
- Session guitar legend Michael Landau reveals what it takes to play with the biggest artists of all time and explains why “Strats are the ultimate couch guitar”
- May 23
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- Blackstar and Toby Lee aim to cover everything “from Buddy Holly to Metallica” with new St. James signature guitar amp
- Best bass preamp pedals: consistently great tone, wherever you are
- Best parlor guitars: compact acoustics from Martin, Yamaha, Gibson and more
- Fender finally releases John 5’s Ghost signature model – and it's one of the most striking Telecasters ever made
- How Gary Rossington played through the pain to define the quintessential Southern rock sound with Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Nail Slash’s iconic tone - only louder - with the new Seymour Duncan Slash 2.0 pickup set
- Algy Ward, bassist with The Saints and The Damned and founder of Tank, dies aged 63
- How ditching pedals and embracing open tunings made H.C. McEntire love the guitar again
- Malina Moye: “The music business makes you question things, so you have to know your worth... Like Eddie Van Halen said, ‘If it sounds right, then it’s right’“
- Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, Kirk Hammett and more close out first Jeff Beck tribute concert with star-studded rendition of Going Down
- Nick Jonas says his “guitar solo debacle” with Kelsea Ballerini at the ACM Awards led him to seek therapy
- May 22
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- Justin Hawkins explains why he thinks John Frusciante is overrated
- Duane Betts shares new single featuring Derek Trucks – and it’s a tribute to his dad, Allman Brothers founder Dickey Betts
- Take your playing a level up with Dean’s hot-rodded Thoroughbred Select Quilt Maple with Floyd Rose electric guitar
- Abasi Concepts finally launches the Emi 6 – an ergonomic reinvention of the classic Stratocaster design
- That time Little Richard reprimanded Jimi Hendrix for his guitar showmanship: “Don’t you ever play your f**king guitar behind your head again!”
- Zakk Wylde reveals why he and Dimebag Darrell never jammed together
- 5 easy ways to create complex sounds from simple chords
- Meet ambient shredder Jakub Zytecki – the trailblazing virtuoso who picks plugins over pedals and plays a Kurt Cobain-inspired 8-string
- Cort G300 Glam and G300 Raw review
- Is this the most expensive smashed guitar ever sold? Kurt Cobain’s stage-smashed Fender Stratocaster sells at auction for $600,000 – 10 times its initial estimate
- Foo Fighters officially name Josh Freese as their new drummer
- May 21
- May 19
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- Godin announces the Session HT MN – adding new finishes and maple necks to the firm’s flagship solid body guitar
- Six of Eddie Van Halen's stage-played Charvel EVH Art Series guitars – and a Masterbuilt Frankenstein copy – go up for auction
- This week's essential guitar tracks: Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton's final collaboration is revealed, and psychedelic titans channel their inner thrash demons
- 5 mind-blowing techniques you can learn from Polyphia’s Tim Henson
- Remembering David Lindley: A tribute to one of the greatest slide players and multi-instrumentalists of all time
- TWA SH9 Scott Henderson Signature Distortion review
- Hear the previously unreleased Jeff Beck tracks that were played at the Stratocaster icon’s funeral
- Andy Rourke: “If I wasn’t eating or in the bath, I had a bass in my hand. I played it constantly”
- Andy Rourke, bassist with The Smiths, dies aged 59
- "I thought, 'Wait a minute – we never practiced this…'" Jimi Hendrix bassist Billy Cox remembers Woodstock
- May 18
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- Gibson adds Kirk Hammett’s 1960 “Sunny” Les Paul Standard to its Certified Vintage Collection
- Benson expands its temperate-controlled fuzz pedal range with the vintage '60s flavors of the Stonk Box
- Kate Bush on John Giblin: “We’ve all lost a great man and an unmatchable musician”
- Vito Bratta names 11 guitarists who shaped his sound
- Quicksand’s Walter Schreifels: “I use the tricks I have to the most effect that I can. And I think that’s the trick of my playing”
- Hermanos Gutiérrez: “It always starts as an individual trip for us. Most of it is non-communicative; it just happens”
- Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo offer their track-by-track guide to Metallica’s super-heavy smash-hit new album, 72 Seasons
- Richie Faulkner says he used a Bigsby-equipped Fender Telecaster for his clean tone on Judas Priest’s Firepower
- Watch Eddie Van Halen explain how he figured out the two-handed tapping technique behind Eruption – all thanks to a little help from Jimmy Page
- Boss reinvents the SDE-3000 Digital Delay rack unit as two feature-packed pedals – and one is preloaded with Eddie Van Halen’s live settings
- Has Zakk Wylde’s signature guitar brand spec’d up its most brutal electric guitar design yet? Meet the Thoraxe
- May 17
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- Diamond Pedals is officially back with five compact new stompboxes featuring original circuits, and updated classics
- Rolling Stone Darryl Jones, Aerosmith’s Tom Hamilton (and an actual Beatle) to lead next Rock ’N’ Roll Fantasy Camp in New York
- Tony Iommi trades guitars with Brian May and faces the struggle of all left-handers, as he wields the Red Special upside down
- Gretsch launches six celebratory 140th Anniversary models – see the luxuriously-spec’d guitars in action
- Slash once partnered with Jimi Hendrix’s bandmates for a stirring tribute cover of Hey Joe in honor of the guitar great
- Weird Al Yankovic guitarist Jim “Kimo” West on his love for Hawaiian music, the serious technique behind unserious parodies, and seeing himself onscreen
- Téa Campbell on how classic skatepunk, Dave Grohl’s Kemper tone and Hannah Montana inspired Meet Me @ The Altar’s explosive debut
- 5 ways to improve your hybrid picking technique
- Inside Zakk Wylde's heartfelt celebration of Pantera's Dimebag Darrell – only in the new Guitar World
- Best Jazz Bass: recommended J-Bass guitars to suit all levels, budgets and tastes
- The Tella-Fiddle – a Telecaster and electric violin hybrid – gets put to inspiring use by its creator in this Shipping Up To Boston cover
- Mike Dawes starts an acoustic jam with Tommy Emmanuel on live TV – in the wrong tuning – but styles it out like a boss
- EarthQuaker Devices revives its flagship Disaster Transport delay pedal with wild new graphics in limited run
- May 16
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- Josh Scott says this distortion pedal is the most unique design he’s seen "in decades" – and it’s still on shelves
- Chris Holmes: “I’m overlooked, sure. When I was in W.A.S.P., I was never allowed to do any interviews with guitar magazines. Blackie Lawless wouldn’t let me”
- Mike Watt: “I think for every 7-string bass they should make a 1-string!”
- ESP officially welcomes Slipknot's Mick Thomson to its artist roster – and confirms a new ESP/LTD signature model is on the way
- Daniele Gottardo: “I remember thinking Yngwie Malmsteen’s playing was amazing, and I wondered if the scalloped neck was his secret”
- Maybury Cholla review
- Zakk Wylde used a Guitar World buyer’s guide to help him assemble his Pantera rig
- Ernie Ball Music Man and Tosin Abasi introduce a six-string version of the “visionary and compelling” Kaizen electric guitar
- Joe Bonamassa names the biggest guitar geek he’s ever met
- DiMarzio partners with Periphery’s Jake Bowen for Mirage signature pickups – a “super-saturated” set that has been tailored to his picking technique
- Fender debuts limited-edition British Racing Green finish – but you’ll need to be quick off the line to bag one
- May 15
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- Joe Bonamassa unpacks the influence behind his super-premium guitar tone – “It’s the two Erics, Clapton and Johnson”
- Reverse tapping virtuoso Luís Kalil channels Eddie Van Halen and Randy Rhoads in one of 2023's most explosive guitar tracks
- Blues Music Awards 2023: Buddy Guy, Tedeschi Trucks Band, and Christone “Kingfish” Ingram win big as John Primer is inducted into the Hall of Fame
- PRS once made a prototype thinline model for Eric Johnson – and it’s one of the strangest 'what if?' guitar designs you’ll see
- Gene Simmons: “Eddie Van Halen talked about being a fan of Eric Clapton. I’m sorry, I don’t see that. What he did was closer to classical music”
- Up close and personal with Mel Bay’s very own 1958 Gibson ES-335
- Two people, 13 instruments, countless happy accidents and a Hawaiian Gretsch: Inside The Blackheart Orchestra’s horizon-chasing sound
- Harley Benton Twoface review
- Mötley Crüe have finished their first studio album with John 5 – and promise it’s “heavier than anything”
- Is this the return of Stella? The first US-made Harmony acoustic guitars for 50 years could be on the way...
- Nita Strauss announces The Call of the Void – a star-studded new solo album featuring Lzzy Hale, Marty Friedman and Alice Cooper
- May 14
- May 12
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- Andy Timmons and Robert Keeley join forces once more on the Super AT Mod Overdrive – the “ultimate expression” of the virtuoso’s broken-up clean tone
- Eric Clapton releases Jeff Beck collaboration Moon River – an emotional new single showcasing Beck’s masterful guitar work
- PRS Sonzera 20 Combo review
- Sting, Nikki Sixx and Paul McCartney to guest on new Dolly Parton album
- Listen to Paul McCartney’s isolated bass on Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
- Here’s what Mick Mars texted John 5 after he joined Mötley Crüe
- Ed Sheeran says this is why he never learned to shred
- Taylor’s bold new Builder’s Edition 814ce reimagines the company’s flagship model with premium performance enhancements
- George Benson on the time he met Jimi Hendrix, how Peter Frampton changed the course of his career and what Paul McCartney made of his Beatles tribute
- Meet the Hell Kitty – the evil twin of the Squier Hello Kitty Strat hell-bent on destroying the meme guitar
- The guitar gear secrets behind James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett’s tones on 72 Seasons
- How Jeff Beck sparked Fender’s first Graffiti Yellow finish – and the Strat Plus design that helped revive its ’90s fortunes
- Tim Henson reveals how his rejection from Berklee inspired Polyphia: “I didn't have a back-up plan”
- This week's essential guitar tracks: alt-rock heroes return and a virtual metal band team up with a thrash legend
- 5 ways to use DADGAD tuning
- May 11
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- The worlds of reverb and tremolo come crashing together in Catalinbread's new Tremol8 pedal
- Larry Graham on when you really need to use a 5-string bass
- Takamine GD34CE BLK review
- Voyager’s Simone Dow on why “prog is perfect for playing at Eurovision” as she brings tech-metal solos to one of the world’s biggest stages
- How a Tom Morello attitude and madcap Kemper experimentation shaped Enter Shikari’s genre-smashing tech-forward guitar sound
- Orianthi and Eric Johnson tackle technical issues and trade freestyle solos in searing cover of Never Make Your Move Too Soon
- How a Slash superfan ended up trading guitars with his hero… three times: “I was wondering if it was real life or if I’d died”
- Ed Sheeran makes Lowden signature guitars available in the US through Amazon
- Meet Fender’s latest Master Builder, who worked on its Game of Thrones guitars and some stunning signature models
- Jacob Collier shows off his custom-made Strandberg electric guitar – which only has five strings
- May 10
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- Joe Satriani shares brutal photo of his fingers post-show – and seeks advice for the problem he's had ever since he started playing guitar
- Empress Effects unveils updated Heavy Menace stompbox – its “most versatile distortion pedal ever”
- Electro-Harmonix’s most metal pedal yet: the Hell Melter takes the Boss HM-2 circuit to new extremes
- Nuno Bettencourt says he recorded with a seven-string for the first time on this new Extreme track
- Gibson might be bringing back Dave Grohl’s DG-335 signature guitar – and an Epiphone version could also be on the way
- Rodrigo y Gabriela: “It wasn’t until I got the acoustic that I started to shred more. I felt like I could play faster. With the electric, I wasn’t really attracted to it”
- Dolly Parton’s upcoming rock album will feature Peter Frampton, Richie Sambora, Warren Haynes, Gary Rossington and many more
- Billy Gibbons gets his pedals on Amazon – and his favorite brand starts at $15
- Joe Bonamassa shares his favorite Gibson ES-335 licks in this exclusive lesson
- Ally Venable on Les Pauls: “They’re not just one-trick ponies – if you experiment with the controls, you can get a lot of different tones out of them”
- May 9
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- Vito Bratta recounts emotional meeting with Eddie Van Halen: "I was touched enough to where I had to leave the room, go to the bathroom, and cry"
- Michael Landau recalls recording guitar in front of David Gilmour: “Playing for Pink Floyd was one of the most bizarre things ever”
- Jeff Berlin: “Look at Jaco Pastorius: clearly a genius, but misunderstood”
- Fender debuts the Steve Lacy “People Pleaser”, a signature Stratocaster with a built-in fuzz circuit
- PRS Silver Sky 2.0? John Mayer spotted playing newly spec’d, freshly finished signature model
- How Kareem 'Big K.O.' Denis and Darryl 'DMC' McDaniels are bringing hard rock guitar back to hip-hop
- Nuno Bettencourt says one of the new Extreme songs made Steve Vai and Tom Morello cry
- Yvette Young: “I’m really optimistic about the future of guitar. It’s being used in a creative way and people don’t know all the cool sounds you can get from it”
- July 2023 Guitar World lesson videos
- Crazy Tube Circuits Unobtanium review
- May 8
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- Rob Laakso, Kurt Vile & The Violators guitarist, dies at 44
- A Jimi Hendrix stage-used 1968 Fender Dual Showman cabinet is headed to the auction block
- Wolfgang Van Halen toys with polyrhythms on anthemic new Mammoth WVH track, Like a Pastime
- Tony Levin: “D’Angelo’s Voodoo made me want to go back to school as a bassist”
- Walrus Audio Melee review
- Crown Lands’ doubleneck devotee Kevin Comeau on his fearless guitar/bass multitasking, recording with Alex Lifeson’s acoustic and why Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream is a tonal benchmark
- Rival Sons’ Scott Holiday on his greatest gear hits and misses: “You can basically install a pair of EMG active pickups into a cardboard box and get the same sound”
- May 7
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- May 5
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- Extreme cancel forthcoming M3 Rock Festival appearance due to Nuno Bettencourt knee injury
- Inside the new issue of Total Guitar: Stevie Ray Vaughan – The Making Of A Guitar Hero
- Watch Joe Perry tackle Beck's Bolero in tribute to Jeff Beck
- This week's essential guitar tracks: from Smashing Pumpkins' shredding metal turn to solos from the son of a session legend
- The 5 Nirvana basslines you need to hear
- Stevie Ray Vaughan swapped his Strat for this Guild 12-string acoustic in his virtuosic MTV Unplugged performance – now it’s up for auction
- Nuno Bettencourt performs sitting down after busting his knee on Monsters of Rock Cruise – but still nails the Rise solo
- John Primer: "When I played with Muddy Waters, he set my amp tone up for me. I use the same settings he gave me back in the mid-'70s"
- Metallica’s Kirk Hammett: “With 72 Seasons, I improvised 20, 30 solos, gave them all to Lars and Greg Fidelman, and went, ‘You guys edit them!’”
- Hear unreleased Rory Gallagher track Continental Op – a rampaging live performance from the Stratocaster great's previously undocumented period
- Best guitars for shredding: unleash your inner guitar god with these supersonic six strings
- Ashdown MF484 2.N review
- 5 ways to start a guitar solo
- May 4
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- Lee Sklar: “If the drummer doesn’t swing – let him serve French fries in McDonald’s"
- Nuno Bettencourt on Rihanna Super Bowl halftime show appearance: "The hell with the NFL for not giving any love to the band"
- Mike Dirnt: “Even Flea told me he wanted to play a P-Bass live”
- Jon Bon Jovi: “I was in the room with Jeff Beck when he took a guitar out of a cardboard box, with a rented amplifier and no pedals and created that sound”
- In praise of the EBow, one of the most under-appreciated yet influential guitar tools of all time
- Eventide H90 Harmonizer review
- Kemper announces Liquid Profiling – offering “the perfect marriage of modeling and profiling”
- Eric Bibb: “I find the most effective songs, the ones that resonate most with the people who hear my music, are songs that come fairly quickly”
- Kiesel unveils the Sophie Lloyd Signature Series – signature guitars you can spec yourself
- May 3
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- A Kurt Cobain stage-smashed Fender Stratocaster is going up for auction
- Hear Justin Chancellor play through Les Claypool’s rig as this Primus-Tool supergroup take on Ænima at chest-rattling velocity
- Rage Against the Machine, Sheryl Crow, Link Wray, Willie Nelson lead 2023 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees
- James Hetfield recalls Dimebag Darrell introducing him to solid-state amps: “He had this freaking amazing crunch going on”
- Dustie Waring steps down from Between the Buried and Me tour following sexual assault allegations
- The British Invasion that failed: why Slade, Status Quo, the Sweet and Dr. Feelgood never conquered the USA
- Marshall Bluesbreaker, Shredmaster, Drivemaster and Guv'nor review
- Obituary’s Trevor Peres and Ken Andrews take you inside the Florida death metal legends’ caveman sound
- How to solo using compound time – the secret behind some of Frank Zappa and Robben Ford's most out-there leads
- Dirty Honey’s John Notto on Les Pauls: “There’s such a great sound and great look that you put up with their charmingly difficult attributes”
- Why Steve Vai’s new rhythm guitarist says he almost got fired on his first night
- Guitarists rally round Ice Nine Kills’ Dan Sugarman as medical scare forces him to pull out of Metallica support slots
- Fender’s latest Tom DeLonge Starcaster features actual meteorite dust in its finish – a potential first for guitar building
- May 2
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- Cesar Gueikian appointed President, Interim CEO of Gibson
- Tim Bachman, guitarist, co-founder of Bachman–Turner Overdrive, dies at 71
- Gibson’s new 80s Flying V and Explorer models party like it’s 1984 with ebony finishes and high output humbuckers
- Watch Derek Trucks and Nels Cline bring different worlds of lead guitar greatness together in stunning live call-and-response duel with Wilco
- Pat Finnerty: “I knew millions of people were gonna get What Makes This Song Stink ’cause millions watch Rick Beato, and maybe 10% know how ridiculous this man is”
- Gabriel Akhmad Marin: “I don’t play many chords. I’m more of a melodic single-note player, and the fretless guitar is a great instrument for that”
- Steve Vai leads 7,968 guitarists in a world record-breaking performance of Jimi Hendrix classic Hey Joe
- How Billy Sheehan learned to slap
- Paul Gilbert names 12 guitarists who shaped his sound
- 8 Hollywood actors who are also bass players
- Keanu Reeves picks up the bass guitar again as his band Dogstar ready new music and live dates
- Canadian songwriter and folk icon Gordon Lightfoot dies, aged 84
- Watch Extreme’s Nuno Bettencourt play the Rise solo live for the first time
- May 1
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- Dunlop, Daredevil Pedals team up to create "gnarly," fuzz circuit-loaded Cry Baby wah pedal
- Slash, Andrew Watt trade solos, channel their inner punk onstage with Iggy Pop in revved-up take on The Stooges' I Wanna Be Your Dog
- Aerosmith announce farewell North American tour
- Huey Lewis and the News’ Chris Hayes: “Am I an unappreciated guitar hero? Probably. But that’s OK”
- How to use chords in a blues guitar solo
- 10 last-gasp hair metal guitar albums that arrived before the grunge armageddon
