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February 26
- Wampler seeks to reproduce classic RAT distortion sounds with new Ratsbane mini-pedal
- Peter Frampton reimagines Roxy Music’s Avalon in latest single from upcoming instrumental album
- Lehle announces Dual Expression and P-ISO hum suppressor pedals
- Liquid Tension Experiment, featuring John Petrucci, release new song, Beating The Odds
- Another Prince-owned and played Cloud guitar is hitting the auction block
- Listen to Ariel Posen's bluesy, slide guitar-heavy new single Heart by Heart now
- Zoltan Bathory on shred guitar: “A song can have four different time signatures and shredding all over it, but does it mean anything to you?”
- Josh Middleton puts his new ESP LTD JM-II signature model through its paces in this searing playthrough of Worship Decay
- Fender adds a Telecaster and Precision Bass to its newly-resurrected Boxer Series for 2021
February 25
- From monstrous tech-metal to intoxicating alt-rock: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Watch Billy Gibbons and Steven Tyler get down and dirty on Fleetwood Mac’s Rattlesnake Shake
- Harley Benton updates the HB-35 Plus with four flashy metallic finishes
- Watch Eric Johnson and Brian May put the Arielle signature electric through its paces
- Will David Coverdale and Jimmy Page reunite for new music?
- St. Vincent's new album, Daddy's Home, rumored to be released May 14
- Watch Ryan “Fluff” Bruce go fanned-fret wild with the Cort X700 Mutility electric guitar
- Tom Morello reveals why he never cuts the ends of his guitar strings
- Kiesel joins forces with Jason Becker to create his "dream guitar", the Yin Yang signature model
- Former I Killed The Prom Queen bassist Sean Kennedy dies aged 35
- Wolf Alice announce new album Blue Weekend, drop first single The Last Man On Earth
- John Petrucci discusses using an 8-string for the first time ever on Dream Theater's upcoming album
February 24
- Tracii Guns teams up with Stryper’s Michael Sweet for classic metal and doom-inspired project, Sunbomb
- Hear a teenaged Duff McKagan rip it up on guitar with his early ‘80s punk band The Living
- Sick Riffs: Alex Dezen teaches you the catchy punk-rock guitar lines of Broken Baby's Royal Pigs
- The true story behind Van Halen’s infamous out-of-tune Jump performance has finally been revealed
- Smith/Kotzen drop bluesy new single Scars from upcoming debut album
- SoCal punk legends The Offspring announce first new album in close to a decade, Let the Bad Times Roll
- Ernie Ball Music Man updates Steve Morse Signature series with two new models for 2021
- Godin unveils ultra-sleek Montreal Premiere HT Laguna Blue semi-hollow
- Nandi Bushell’s all-looped cover of Under the Bridge receives Flea’s seal of approval
February 23
- Dave Mustaine's signature Gibson guitars have finally arrived
- Introducing triads (little chords with big potential)
- Dinosaur Jr. unveil new single I Ran Away, announce Kurt Vile-produced album Sweep It Into Space
- Luna debuts luxuriously styled Vineyard Series ukuleles
- The Armstrum is an accessory that helps single-handed musicians play guitar
- The L.A. Maybe deliver a scorching playthrough of AC/DC-inspired debut single, Mr. Danger
- Heart’s Nancy Wilson: her 10 best guitar moments
- AC/DC's iconic Thunderstruck originated as one of Angus Young's acoustic guitar warmup licks
- Wolfgang Van Halen's Mammoth WVH performs acoustic rendition of Distance live on the Today Show
- Frank Zappa once told Steve Vai his guitar tone sounded “like an electric ham sandwich”
February 22
- Metallica's livestream audio of For Whom the Bell Tolls replaced by actual bells to avoid copyright takedown
- Blues great Joanna Connor to release Joe Bonamassa and Josh Smith-produced new album, 4801 South Indiana Avenue
- Nancy Wilson’s first-ever solo album to feature Eddie Van Halen tribute, Sammy Hagar and Duff McKagan guest spots
- Wolfgang Van Halen recalls the time a bug “the size of a phone” landed on his father’s pedalboard
- Soundgarden responds to Vicky Cornell lawsuit over “villainously low” buyout offer
- Stanley Clarke releases long-awaited Strat-style bass, the Spellcaster
- Green Day debut new single Here Comes The Shock, complete with Punk Rock Aerobics music video
- Way Huge, Walrus Audio, Z.Vex and Chase Bliss Audio introduce exclusive new pedals for Reverb's The Pedal Movie
- Gibson confirms Dave Mustaine signature models with Rust in Peace teaser video
February 19
- Harley Benton decks out DC-Junior with new Benton Blue finish
- King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard announce new album L.G., their third in an “exploration of microtonal tunings”
- Mike Campbell reveals his “desert island guitars”
- Miles Seaton, co-founder of experimental folk-rock band Akron/Family, dies aged 41
- New Gary Moore album, How Blue Can You Get, to feature unreleased deep cuts and alternate versions
- Haim recruit Taylor Swift and Thundercat for extended edition of Women In Music Pt. III
- The White Stripes' full From The Basement performance finally released
February 18
- From celestial pop to sleazy neo-blues: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Marty Friedman unveils new single Makenaide, announces worldwide Tokyo Jukebox 3 release date
- One-of-a-kind Jackson Iron Maiden guitar used by Adrian Smith joins Stagehand's #ILoveLive charity raffle
- th1rt3en cement their reputation as one of 2021's most exciting riff-heavy hip-hop acts with electrifying Colbert performance
- Limited-edition Muse-signed Manson Meta Series MGM-1 guitar goes up for charity raffle
- Vicky Cornell sues Soundgarden, following “villainously low” offer for her stake in the band
- Richie Faulkner “sets the record straight” on his new Gibson signature Flying V
February 17
- Tommy Emmanuel set to sell signature Maton acoustics and a 1945 Martin D-18 via new Reverb Shop
- Harley Benton unveils slim and super-affordable CG-400CE nylon-string acoustic-electric
- The Cure put signed Line 6 Spider guitar amp from 2019 Disintegration show up for charity auction
- Smashing Pumpkins guitarist Jeff Schroeder to headline For the Crew online benefit concert
- Dean gets fired up with the MD24 Floyd Roasted Maple Vintage electric guitar
- Jim Root recalls the time Dimebag Darrell gifted him a Dunlop Cry Baby From Hell wah pedal
- Gojira release hard-hitting new single Born For One Thing, announce new album Fortitude
- Herman Li offers Phoebe Bridgers one of his signature guitars for her next axe smash: "Next time, make sure it's a $3,000 guitar"
- RJM Music debuts the Overture, a 6-in-1, programmable analog overdrive pedal
February 16
- Dave Grohl wants to reunite with Josh Homme and John Paul Jones for a new Them Crooked Vultures album
- Myles Kennedy announces second solo album, releases slide guitar-fueled debut single, In Stride
- Pete Townshend reveals his love for Thundercat's latest album, It Is What It Is
- Earliest live Neil Young footage known to exist set for official release
- FM Guitars expands its line of dual-fretboard guitars with 8, 10, and 12-string bass models designed for tapping
- Heavy metal lowers blood pressure and reduces anxiety, according to new study
- Godin bolsters its catalog of acoustics with the Concert Hall-body Fairmount CH Composer QIT
- Iced Earth members quit over Jon Schaffer's involvement in Capitol riots
- Electro-Harmonix unveils MOP-D10 isolated pedalboard power supply
- Watch “PA novice” Gretchen Menn set up and master the high-end Bose L1 Pro32 PA system in minutes
- Get to know the freshly updated PRS SE Zach Myers
February 15
- This mind-blowing fingerstyle reimagining of Led Zeppelin's Kashmir has guitar heroes raving
- Burls Art just built a guitar with a neck – yes, a neck – made of colored pencils
- Dave Grohl, Pat Smear and Krist Novoselic still jam as Nirvana in private
- New Gibson Richie Faulkner Flying V prototype teased
- Watch Mrs. Smith perform Chris Isaak’s slow-burning classic Wicked Game on an Ibanez JEM
- Luxurious new Eddie Van Halen photo book – with guitar-shaped slipcase – celebrates the life of the late guitar hero
- Sick Riffs: Lydia Loveless teaches you the chorus-bathed clean lines of When You're Gone
- Could KnobsAI be the ultimate app for guitar pedal fanatics?
- Old Blood Noise Endeavors unveils versatile $29 Split/Meld signal splitter
- Steve Vai is planning to release a full acoustic album with vocals – and a song he wrote with one hand
February 12
- Red Witch releases Binary Star "celestial time modulator" pedal
- Arielle debuts Brian May signature model in new single, Peace of Mind
- Is Alex Lifeson planning to auction off his guitar collection?
- Teenage Wrist's Marshall Gallagher delivers a cornucopia of shoegazey lead lines in this playthrough of Taste of Gasoline
- Nita Strauss is working on a second solo album, this time with vocals
- Hear Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil tear it up on new The Pretty Reckless track Only Love Can Save Me Now
- Watch Wolfgang Van Halen and Mammoth WVH give first-ever live performance
- Firebird meets Jazzmaster with Fender’s new Spark-O-Matic model mashup
- Epiphone relaunches the Embassy bass in a range of finishes for 2021
- Dolly Parton is auctioning off a custom-designed “9 to 5” Oscar Schmidt acoustic for charity
- This jaw-dropping two-hand-tapped version of the Pokémon battle theme features Elite Four-level guitar playing
- Furch Guitars launches Covid-inspired antibacterial neck finish for its guitars
February 11
- From inspired improvisations to 21st century rock swagger: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Wolfgang Van Halen drops hard-riffing new Mammoth WVH single You're to Blame, reveals debut album artwork and release date
- Meet Ariel Bellvalaire, the Strat-toting pop-rocker who performs stunts while she shreds
- Epiphone introduces new Emperor Swingster hollowbody model for 2021
- Kiesel partners with shred god Andy James for the ultra-customizable AJ2
- Dave Grohl voices his support for Phoebe Bridgers' SNL guitar smash: "Let me tell you, it feels good when you do it"
- Duesenberg introduces five new models, including Jeff DaRosa and Tom Bukovac signatures
- Rage Against the Machine, Foo Fighters, Iron Maiden nominated for inclusion in Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
- Watch Pete Thorn record a full song using the new TASCAM Series 208i USB audio interface
February 10
- Hayley Williams played every instrument on her new album: "I haven't had this much time to play guitar since I was a teenager"
- Les Claypool faces off with Metallica’s Robert Trujillo in a bass-slapping duel in new short film Precious Metals
- Trivium’s Matt Heafy jumps into the sea shanty waters with none-more-metal cover of The Wellerman
- Alexi Laiho’s final recordings to be released on new Bodom After Midnight EP
- Electro-Harmonix recreates the earliest distorted guitar tones with the Ripped Speaker fuzz pedal
- Late New York Dolls guitarist Sylvain Sylvain to be honored with virtual Valentine’s Day concert
- Man builds guitar out of his dead uncle’s skeleton, uses it to play black metal
- H.E.R shortlisted for Best Original Song at 2021 Academy Awards
- Jackson debuts Pro Series Christian Andreu Rhoads signature guitar
- Rickenbacker reveals limited-edition 90th anniversary 480XC and 4005XC models
- Sick Riffs: Chad Peck teaches you the shoegazey, whammy bar-heavy lines of Kestrels' It's a Secret
- Hughes & Kettner unveils feature-packed Spirit AmpMan line of compact pedal amps
- Get early access to the Guitar Center President’s Day sale
February 9
- LR Baggs lets you sculpt your acoustic tone from your wrist with new Apple Watch integration
- Wolf Alice's Ellie Rowsell accuses Marilyn Manson of upskirt filming
- Cort introduces boutique-vibed, modern-minded G300 Pro
- Customs agents seize $158k worth of counterfeit guitars, including fake Gibsons, Fenders and Martins, at Washington DC airport
- Cliff Burton to be honored with livestream event on his 59th birthday
- Nita Strauss details how she became the in-house guitarist for the Los Angeles Rams football team
- Robert Fripp and his wife Toyah Wilcox jam Jimi Hendrix’s Purple Haze
- Godin expands its acoustic lineup with the all-mahogany Metropolis Composer QIT
- Searches for H.E.R.'s signature Fender Stratocaster double following awe-inspiring Super Bowl performance
- Loathe prove why they’re one of the most vital bands in modern metal with this crushing guitar playthrough of Gored
- Blackstar equips game-changing Fly 3 mini amps with new neon finishes
- The Infinity Case offers a dazzling new way to display your guitar
February 8
- Thurston Moore releases surprise new instrumental album, 'screen time'
- D’Addario’s new tuner pedal features a countdown timer to keep track of your set length
- Matt Heafy drops new collection of re-worked Trivium songs in acoustic Ascendancy EP
- H.E.R. performs mesmerizing solo guitar rendition of 'America the Beautiful' at Super Bowl 2021
- New Plini and Per Nilsson Strandberg models revealed ahead of livestream performance
- Wolfgang Van Halen teases new Mammoth WVH guitar solo, announces full debut album tracklisting
- Sick Riffs: Sadler Vaden teaches you the glorious bend-driven chorus lick of Great Peacock's Rock of Ages
- Phoebe Bridgers laughs off SNL guitar smash fail: "Danelectro told me they're hard to break"
- Mateus Asato shuts down Instagram account, announces break from music
- Watch Sophie Burrell use AmpliTube 5 to nail Slash’s Welcome to the Jungle tone
February 5
- Blues picker Justin Johnson is hitting a YouTube milestone – and celebrating by giving away three guitars
- Devin Townsend gathers “oddities and interesting material” for new Devolution Series
- Add tapped extensions to your chord work with this cool Chon-inspired hybrid technique
- Kerry King: Alexi Laiho was a “guitar god”
- Rivers Cuomo is disappointed that Eddie Van Halen won’t get to hear Weezer's 'Van Weezer' album
- Bergantino Audio Systems launches super-lightweight NXV Series of bass cabs
- Sydney Sprague shows how she weaves ambient drones into indie-rock anthems in this tonesome pedalboard tour
- D'Angelico announces new acoustic additions to its Excel series, the Tammany XT and Gramercy XT
- Mateus Asato shares his seriously impressive seven-step warm-up routine
- Looking for a fun and easy way to jam at home by yourself? Grab this gear and you’ll be rockin’ in no time
- Watch Steve Stine find and purchase the guitar of his dreams in just minutes on eBay
February 4
- From high-adrenaline garage rock to haunted-house heavy metal: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Wolfgang Van Halen teases monster riff from new Mammoth WVH track You’re to Blame
- Rush's Alex Lifeson on new music with Geddy Lee: "We're both eager to get back together"
- Spun Loud unleashes all-new transistor-based overdrive design, the Litigator
- Steven Wilson issues apology to Wolfgang Van Halen over EVH comments
- Boss reveals price and availability of highly anticipated Waza Craft TB-2W Tone Bender
- Wes Borland weighs in on Marilyn Manson abuse allegations: “Every single thing that people have said about him is true”
- Watch blues picker Justin Johnson unbox the all-solid Cort Core-OC Mahogany acoustic guitar
February 3
- Sandberg celebrates its 35 anniversary with special-edition California Supreme bass
- Weezer have four – yes, four – new albums in the works
- Gibson CEO JC Curleigh: “In the last year, more guitarists have been created and engaged than in the previous 10 years combined”
- D’Addario changes pedalboards forever with the launch of telescopic XPND design
- Saved By the Bell star Dustin Diamond’s dying wish was to meet Tool’s Justin Chancellor
- Ernie Ball seeks to streamline your string-changing experience with the new Pegwinder Plus
- Jackson releases Marty Friedman's striking new signature model, the Pro Series Signature MF-1 Purple Mirror
- Benson Amps introduces innovative temperature-regulated, buffer-friendly Germanium Fuzz pedal
- New Year New Gear: Boss releases the boutique-style Nextone amp, Eventide enters deep space with the Blackhole pedal and Singular Sound offers extreme flexibility with the Aeros Loop Studio
- Epiphone launches ultra-affordable entry-level Starling acoustic guitar range
February 2
- Phoebe Bridgers wants Adrianne Lenker as the fourth boygenius member
- Cory Wong debuts new full-throttle funk single Bluebird on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
- Opinionhut offers music makers the chance to get quick, unbiased feedback on their songs
- Fender recreates Chrissie Hynde's '65 Telecaster with new Road Worn signature model
- DC Comics partners with Dream Theater, Megadeth, Ozzy Osbourne and more for Dark Nights: Death Metal – Band Edition
- Brian May gets in on the sea shanty action with a sizzling rock guitar cover of the viral TikTok smash
- Sick Riffs: John Notto teaches you the high-octane, no-frills lead lines of Dirty Honey's Gypsy
- Watch bluegrass virtuoso Sierra Hull pick a winner on Furch’s Orange Series Master’s Choice acoustic
February 1
- Brian May Guitars unveils asymmetric Arielle signature electric, “the Red Special in a parallel universe”
- Tim Henson and Manuel Gardner Fernandes herald the future of rap-shred with mind-blowing In The Cut cover
- Bohemian equips its oil-can guitars, basses and ukuleles with new lignum rosa fretboards for 2021
- Andy Summers is releasing a book of short stories, all of which “feature the guitar in a rather interesting way”
- Interest in Eddie Van Halen guitars and gear has spiked in the months since his passing
- Wolfgang Van Halen's Mammoth WVH to debut Distance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
- Steven Wilson explains why he was "never a fan" of Eddie Van Halen
- Machine Gun Kelly delivers riotous renditions of My Ex's Best Friend and Lonely on Saturday Night Live
- Free the Tone introduces intelligent pitch-shiftable short looper, the Motion Loop ML-1L
- Sick Riffs: Dave Rude teaches you the ultra-melodic, bend-driven solo from Tesla's The Mission
- New Epiphone BB King Lucille model confirmed by Emily Wolfe during livestream performance
- New Year New Gear: Gibson unveils new signature models, Gator lets you store your guitars in style and Xsonic offers new flexibility and control with the Airstep