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“Her weapon of choice is, in fact, 45 years older than she is”: The unstoppable rise of Grace Bowers
2024 Year in Review: The teenager's meteoric success continues unabated as her frightening maturity yields magic from her trusty Gibson SG
“This is a historic collaboration”: How Diamond Rowe made history with Jackson Guitars
2024 Year in Review: The Tetrarch guitarist launched a super-charged signature single-cut with the high-performance guitar brand
James Hetfield explains the controversial mixing of Metallica’s …And Justice for All
The band's first album with Newsted, ...And Justice for All was marked by the band's increasingly progressive and technically intricate bent – and barely audible bass parts
When it comes to Donald ‘Duck’ Dunn’s huge catalog of bass grooves, this ear-catching line from The Blues Brothers is a great place to start
As the linchpin of Booker T. & The M.G.’s, ‘Duck’ Dunn helped put the music of his Memphis hometown on the map
“Honest appreciation and devoted teamwork brought us to this special moment”: When Linkin Park returned
2024 Year in Review: Back with a new lineup, the bit between their teeth, and a new album, Linkin Park begin a new era seven years after the death of Chester Bennington
The year Dave Navarro returned to Jane’s Addiction, got assaulted, and a fractious reunion fell apart
2024 Year in Review: The Jane's Addiction reunion was going so well until it wasn't, when frontman Perry Farrell lost it on a feral Friday 13th in Boston, bringing the curtain down on one of alt-rock's greatest bands
Rhonda Smith had been on call with Prince for more than a decade when she told the Purple One she was busy with Jeff Beck
Session ace Rhonda Smith on how her 10-year stint with Prince came to a close
Andy Fairweather Low on his sideman stints with George Harrison, Eric Clapton and Joe Satriani
‘The Invisible Bluesman’ on why he probably won’t write any more songs, the ignored art of rhythm guitar, why he always thinks, ‘Why me?’ – and trying to persuade an amp expert to build a deliberately inefficient model
“Historic for Gojira and metal”: Why the Olympics played an unlikely host for some of the biggest guitar moments of the year
2024 Year in Review: Mainstream metal, historic guitar partnerships and solos while Tom Cruise abseiled – sports and music collided this year, with spectacular results
![Guitar World's Guitarists of the Year 2024 [from Left]: Emily Roberts, Dave Navarro, Grace Bowers, Slash and Mdou Moctar.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/EjsmvUXTwBRdbcxBJGMipX-840-80.jpg.webp)
