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April 30
- At the Gates release shredding new single, Spectre of Extinction, featuring King Diamond's Andy LaRocque
- Watch Reverb.com’s eagerly anticipated The Pedal Movie now
- Jason Hook joins country rocker Cory Marks for new single, Blame It On The Double
- Watch a new director’s cut of Prince’s legendary While My Guitar Gently Weeps solo, now with more Prince
- Tone King promises classic cranked tube tones at low volumes with its new 5W Gremlin Head
- Tony Iommi had to warn Eddie Van Halen to “behave” on the 1978 Black Sabbath/Van Halen tour
- Atomic Amps launches upgraded Ampli-Firebox Mark II modeling pedal
- Squier unveils new Fender Special Run Custom Esquire in 3 double-bound finishes
- Tom Morello joins Pussy Riot for bombastic new single, Weather Strike
- David Bowie once sent Lewis Hamilton two guitars with no note or explanation
- Nux’s Mighty Bass 50BT amp offers powerful bass tone with tons of flexibility in a compact package
April 29
- From funky wah workouts to pop-punk reinventions: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Yvette Young designed the eye-popping artwork for Willow Smith’s out-of-this-world St. Vincent signature model
- Jared James Nichols sets out to restore one of the first Gibson Les Pauls ever made after it was destroyed in a tornado
- Machine Gun Kelly recruits Kellin Quinn and Travis Barker for infectious new single, Love Race
- Hear David Gilmour and Peter Green play a previously unreleased version of Fleetwood Mac’s Need Your Love So Bad
- Watch Ichika Nito play a jaw-dropping guitar solo using only one string
- John Mayer reportedly set to host new late night talk show
April 28
- Watch John Petrucci watch other guitarists try to play like John Petrucci
- Quilter Labs' SuperBlock series aims to pack big amp power and versatility into pedal formats
- Watch Tetrarch serve up a stripped-back rendition of Mudvayne’s Forget To Remember using a Fender Acoustasonic Jazzmaster
- John McLaughlin announces lockdown-themed album built around “transcontinental collaborations”
- Greta Van Fleet say Led Zeppelin comparisons are an “honor” – but aren’t afraid to shake things up on future albums
- Watch Dave Grohl and his 15-year-old daughter Violet cover X's Nausea with Krist Novoselic and Dave Lombardo
- Sick Riffs: Paul Marc Rousseau teaches you the destructive breakdown bends of Silverstein's new single, Bankrupt
- Epiphone announces return of famed USA-built Frontier acoustic after 51 years
- What happens when you cross a Boss DS-1 with a Klon Centaur?
- Epiphone expands range of semi-hollow guitars with updated UpTown Kat ES model
April 27
- PRS teams up with Joe Walsh for new signature Limited Edition McCarty 594 Singlecut guitar
- Willow Smith unleashes her inner pop-punk in guitar-centric new single, Transparent Soul
- Counting Crows announce first album in seven years, Butter Miracle, Suite One, unveil lead single, Elevator Boots
- What would Metallica's Battery sound like performed in a major key?
- Victory's V4 The Kraken crams a 180W high-gain guitar amp into a pedal format
- Reverb.com suffers temporary data breach
- Reba Meyers reveals how she crafts some of modern metal's most innovative tones in new in-depth pedalboard tour
- Boss Waza Craft TB-2W Tone Benders are now available – and already being sold for $2,000 on Reverb.com
- LegendaryTones announces HOT MOD V2 EVO tube gain module for Marshall amps
- Take a deep dive into the Gibson App – “the one app that does it all” – with guitarist and educator R.J. Ronquillo
- 7 famous guitar intros that will give you chills
April 26
- Austin guitar great Denny Freeman, who played with Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan, dies aged 76
- BITE Guitars unleashes souped-up Booster Bass model
- Frank Zappa's last ever US show set for release as a live album
- A Slash Sanchez custom Strat-style guitar and other Guns N’ Roses-played instruments and amps are up for sale
- Watch Nancy Wilson perform her Eddie Van Halen tribute, 4 Edward, on acoustic guitar
- Harley Benton launches $79, Bluetooth-enabled practice amp, the TableAmp V2
- Ronnie Wood reveals he’s been given the all-clear after battling cancer for a second time
- Billy Duffy teases new smaller-bodied Gretsch White Falcon signature model
- New Peter Green book The Albatross Man to feature rare photos and memorabilia, newly recorded music from David Gilmour and Kirk Hammett
- Gordon Smith Guitars shares first look at luxurious as-yet-unnamed GS Offset model
- Jimi Hendrix's 'Woodstock' Marshall Super Lead and Fender Jazzmaster go up for sale on Reverb.com
- Watch Stephen Carpenter tear through Deftones’ Ceremony in new guitar playthrough video
- H.E.R. scoops Best Original Song for Fight For You at the Oscars 2021
- Paul Gilbert surprises guitarists with his newfound affinity for 0.50mm-gauge picks
- Lollar promises the best of both worlds with new coil-splittable Eldorado humbucker
April 23
- Watch Viennese virtuoso Bernth shred through Paganini’s notorious Caprice No. 24
- Watch Larkin Poe unfurl a harmony-laden Star-Spangled Banner on a Nashville rooftop
- Marshall has now released its own jukebox
- Wolfgang Van Halen's Mammoth WVH debuts stomping new single, Feel
- Late Children of Bodom frontman Alexi Laiho’s studio and stage amps and pedals are up for auction
- Two Notes Audio Engineering partners with Ashdown for new range of virtual bass cabinets
- Play on this April with $130 off a stunning limited-edition HSS Player Stratocaster
- TC Electronic downsizes its Skysurfer reverb pedal – meet the Skysurfer Mini
- Gibson relaunches its Repair and Restoration shop in Nashville, Tennessee
- Watch Justin Johnson use Nux’s Stageman II rechargeable acoustic amp to pick a pristine version of the Beatles’ Let It Be
April 22
- Hagerman unveils the tube-amp-in-pedal One Watter
- From spaghetti Western atmospherics to unrelenting, demonic death metal: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Fredric Effects’ DuoFace Dual Vintage Fuzz packs silicon and germanium circuits into one pedal enclosure
- A David Bowie-owned and -signed Takamine is up for auction
- Billy Gibbons gets atmospheric on new spoken-word-and-guitar single, Desert High
- Watch Dave Mustaine shred on a Les Paul at a Nashville SC Major League Soccer game
- Maton unveils celebratory Made From Melbourne guitar, constructed using woods from iconic music venues
- Watch J Mascis recreate Dinosaur Jr's Freak Scene using a Fender Acoustasonic Jazzmaster
- Dave Keuning announces second solo album A Mild Case of Everything, releases lead single Ends of the Earth
- Godin unveils sub–$500 performer-friendly acoustic guitar amplifier, the ASG-8 120
- Weezer channel their metal-inspired youth with new single, I Need Some of That
- A few quick ways to speedy guitar licks
April 21
- Gibson Les Paul Goldtop signed by Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, George Harrison, Eric Clapton and Chrissie Hynde goes up for auction
- Joe Bonamassa announces new live album of virtual performance, Now Serving: Royal Tea Live From The Ryman
- Bill Kelliher: “It’s not the gain from your pickups, pedals or amp that makes your riff heavy – it’s the riff itself”
- PRS expands its arsenal of accessories with "stunningly accurate" rechargeable clip-on tuner
- Wolf Alice drop fuzz-heavy new single, Smile
- Of Mice & Men announced new EP Bloom, reveal pummeling, riff-heavy title track
- Gibson unveils stunning vintage-inspired Marcus King signature 1962 ES-345
- Dedalo FX launches LA-2A-inspired Gorila GOR-4 optical bass compressor
- Watch Jay Leonard J explore the new, “fully featured” Eventide UltraTap pedal
April 20
- Ernie Ball unveils a spectrum of new finishes for its flagship guitars and basses
- Harley Benton launches affordable Exotic Wood Custom range of acoustic guitars
- Laurens Houvast delivers a six-string thrash-metal onslaught with this playthrough of Cryptosis's Conjuring the Egoist
- Watch Yngwie Malmsteen turn a vintage 1959 Gibson Les Paul into a shred machine
- Joe Duplantier played a solo on the new Gojira album with a guitar string in his mouth
- Richie Kotzen and Adrian Smith swapped signature guitars on their debut Smith/Kotzen album
- DSM and Humboldt launches feature-packed Simplifier DLX stereo amp
- Mudvayne to reunite following 12-year hiatus for a series of live festival performances
April 19
- Spector joins with La Bella Strings for custom line of electric bass strings
- Opeth announce 20th anniversary deluxe reissue of seminal progressive death metal effort Blackwater Park
- Brian May plays Beethoven’s Ode to Joy for new single “uniting the Spanish music industry”
- The Struts team up with Paris Jackson for silky new single, Low Key In Love
- Washburn launches luxurious-looking, affordably-priced Deep Forest Ebony Collection of acoustics
- Listen to Gary Moore’s scorching, previously unreleased live take on Freddie King’s blues classic, I’m Tore Down
- Iced Earth’s Jon Schaffer pleads guilty to two felonies for role in US Capitol insurrection
- Ola Englund demos the first Boss HM-2W Waza Craft reissue prototype, which boasts an all-new custom mode
- Mike Mitchell, The Kingsmen co-founder and Louie Louie guitarist, dies aged 77
- Line 6 bolsters Helix units with new amp and effects models plus smoother high-gain sounds in 3.10 firmware update
- Fender names the 25 guitarists you need to hear this year as it announces the Fender Next 2021 Class
- Find the PRS that's just right for you with the company’s new one-minute guitar quiz
- Positive Grid’s Spark Pearl updates the revolutionary smart amp and app with eye-popping white-and-gold style
April 16
- Nancy Wilson shares acoustic Eddie Van Halen tribute, 4 Edward
- Samurai Guitarist buys a pizza guitar gear history as he snaps up a rare promotional Pizza Hut pepperoni guitar
- Sammy Hagar would have been “embarrassed” if Van Halen had adopted proposed Van Hagar name change
- Rick Beato's signature Gibson Les Paul Special is officially in production
- Save hundreds on a new Gibson Les Paul, Fender Stratocaster or Martin acoustic at Guitar Center right now
- Music Is Win’s Tyler Larson uses Kirk Hammett’s Ouija Board guitar to play his 5 best Metallica solos
- Poco co-founder, guitarist and pedal steel great Rusty Young dies aged 75
- Framus reveals head-turning Special Bionic Snake signature model for Accept’s Wolf Hoffmann
- Hear St. Vincent, Josh Homme, Phoebe Bridgers, Khruangbin radically rework Paul McCartney tracks
- Emily Wolfe debuts first single from new album Outlier
- Charvel launches new Pro-Mod San Dimas basses for 2021
- Watch Stephanie Bradley shred on the “completely mind-blowing” ESP LTD EC-1000 Gold Andromeda guitar
April 15
- From reimagined blues classics to unlikely rap crossovers: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Paul Gilbert unleashes blistering new single, A Thunderous Ovation Shook the Columns
- The Black Keys go back to their roots with swampy cover of John Lee Hooker’s Crawling Kingsnake
- Arielle debuts new slide-heavy, Fleetwood Mac-flavored single, Inside & Outside
- Joe Bonamassa to host Keeping The Blues Alive Foundation’s 2nd Annual stream-a-thon, featuring Jared James Nichols, Emily Wolfe and Warren Haynes
- This none-more-punk electric guitar is made entirely of skateboards
- Ibanez unveils John Scofield 20th anniversary model, the JSM20TH
April 14
- Power up your Profiler with Kemper’s new Power Kabinet monitoring solution
- Mark Hoppus partners with Reverb to sell Blink-182 and +44 album and tour-used gear
- Meet the world's first-ever traditionally built hemp wood acoustic guitar
- José González announces first album in six years, shares new song, Visions
- Wild Custom joins forces with Alice Animal for eye-catching Impala signature guitar
- A guitarist spent 22 years learning to play King Crimson’s Fracture, and wrote a book about it
- RockBoard aims to make top-row pedal stomping easier with new QuickMount Pedal Riser
- The Black Keys announce blues covers album, Delta Kream
- Michael Kelly Guitars unveils sub-$500 small-scale acoustic/electric model, the Forte Port Jr. Ziricote
- Joe Bonamassa recalls the time he played Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan’s guitars in one afternoon
- Myles Kennedy takes aim at “how society is affecting the animal kingdom” with new track, Get Along
- Mick Jagger partners with Dave Grohl for guitar-heavy, lockdown-themed single, Eazy Sleazy
April 13
- Eventide unveils versatile new UltraTap delay pedal
- Lucy Dacus announces new album, Home Video, shares wistful new single, Hot & Heavy
- Mooer launches versatile, affordable L6 MKII Pedal Controller with built-in tuner
- Fender releases eye-popping, high-spec Squier Contemporary Series
- Fender launches '68 Custom Vibro Champ and Pro Reverb vintage-style tube amps
- Bob Dylan's 1965 Fender XII 12-string goes up for auction
- Eddie Van Halen's 1986 Kramer Custom, used on the 5150 tour, goes up for auction
- Kirk Hammett's Ouija Board ESP – as used on the Black Album, Load and Reload – is up for auction
- Óskar Logi Ágústsson reveals how a studio mistake gave extra edge to his fierce solo in The Vintage Caravan’s Crystallized
- Chibson USA is now offering NFTs of its ingenious ad campaigns
April 12
- Fender Master Builder Ron Thorn unveils ultra-luxurious Custom Shop Offset Acoustasonic, The Trees
- Watch this cat write an actually-pretty-decent bass solo on piano
- Danny Elfman recruits Robin Finck and Nili Brosh for his first album in 37 years, Big Mess
- Watch Tool’s Justin Chancellor and Danny Carey play Ænema for a class of college students
- Quench your thirst and help save music venues with Fightback Lager
- Jump back, what’s that sound? It’s a mashup of Metallica’s Enter Sandman and Van Halen’s Panama
- Jason Isbell explains why beginner guitarists should opt for rosewood, rather than maple, fretboards
- Has The SoundFile unlocked the secrets behind peak fingernail performance for fingerstyle guitarists?
- The ESP guitar Kirk Hammett used in Metallica's One music video sells for $112,500
- Jason Becker returns home from hospital after being treated for bacterial infection
- Phoebe Bridgers' smashed SNL guitar sells for over $100,000
- KHDK releases NSFW My Big Fatt Rawk distortion pedal
- Eddie Van Halen-owned Frankenstrat, gifted to Leslie West, sells at auction for $50,000
April 9
- Alice in Chains’ William DuVall is releasing recordings from his ‘80s cult hardcore band Neon Christ for Record Store Day
- Rising rock guitar star Ayron Jones announces new album, Child of the State, drops new single
- Harley Benton launches sub-$100 wireless guitar system with onboard tuner and cable tone simulator
- Bassist Sérgio Brandão, known as the “Brazilian Jaco”, dies aged 65
- Keeley partners with Celisse for new psychedelic-finished Monterey Rotary Fuzz Vibe
- Former Sabaton guitarist Rikard Sundén convicted of child sex abuse, possession of child pornography
- Phoebe Bridgers' smashed SNL guitar goes up for auction
- Gojira partners with Wild Custom Guitars for one-of-a-kind “Branches” guitar
- Matt Bellamy announces new album for Record Store Day, featuring Jeff Buckley’s Fender Telecaster
- Heritage Guitars unveils the Core Collection H-150 Artisan Aged
- Watch Pete Thorn create an original song with three “special” Furch acoustic guitars
April 8
- From visceral post-rock epics to riotous remixes: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Watch David Gilmour perform Albatross from the Mick Fleetwood & Friends Peter Green tribute concert
- Eddie Van Halen-owned Kramer Striker/Ripley Frankenstrat, gifted to Leslie West, goes up for auction
- St. Vincent is releasing a cover of Metallica's Sad but True
- Never-before-heard Prince album, Welcome 2 America, set for release
- Fender launches limited-edition Mike McCready 1960 Stratocaster
- Jackson expands Misha Mansoor's signature guitar lineup with all-new EverTune-equipped 6- and 7-string models
- Full details emerge on Joe Bonamassa's signature Fender Custom Shop '51 Nocaster, The Bludgeon
- Nita Strauss shreds the US national anthem at WWE's NXT TakeOver: Stand and Deliver
- Gojira’s Joe Duplantier: James Hetfield barely has drums in his in-ear monitors, Lars Ulrich follows his lead onstage
- Jason Becker hospitalized after experiencing continued shortness of breath and rapid heart rate
- Harley Benton launches the Airborne Go, a $140, feature-packed desktop amp with built-in guitar wireless system
- From the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix to Rush and Guns N’ Roses, Rotosound bass strings have powered rock’s most iconic recordings
April 7
- Watch Brian May and his father discuss the Red Special in a vintage video clip
- Guitar Center and D’Addario partner for COVID-safe Earth Day recycling and re-stringing events
- The Pixies praise Nandi Bushell’s all-looped cover of Where Is My Mind
- The White Stripes announce 20th anniversary White Blood Cells reissue, with rarities, unreleased tracks, live cuts
- IK Multimedia is giving away its AmpliTube Mesa/Boogie Triple Rectifier model for free
- Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready wishes he could re-record his Even Flow solo
- Ed O'Brien delivers riotous remix of Paul McCartney's Slidin' in new release from McCartney III Imagined
- Cannibal Corpse’s Erik Rutan chugs, shreds and sweeps with violent aggression in this grinding Condemnation Contagion playthrough
- Orange unveils versatile "do-it-all" preamp, the Acoustic Pedal
- Strandberg debuts first-ever semi-hollow Salen Jazz guitar alongside limited-edition Boden model, the DR Titanium
- The guitar Kirk Hammett used in Metallica's One music video hits the auction block
April 6
- Go for the gold with Epiphone's new Jared James Nichols “Gold Glory” Les Paul Custom
- Nail the sounds of your favorite ‘80s and ‘90s classic-rock records with Eventide’s MicroPitch Delay pedal
- Meet the death-metal guitarist who relearned the instrument left-handed after a car accident robbed him of his picking ability
- Dave Grohl has written a book, entitled The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
- Fender releases feature-packed pocket-sized guitar amp, the Mustang Micro
- Sammy Boller releases awe-inspiring new single Ritual Lights
- Fusion ace Jack Gardiner signs with Ibanez, releases re-recorded version of 1993
- Jason Becker is experiencing “shortness of breath and a rapid heart rate”, according to his mother
- Mastodon, Faith No More, Sepultura members join forces to cover Public Enemy's She Watch Channel Zero
- Jackson launches single-pickup Pro Series Signature Brandon Ellis Kelly
April 5
- Hungry Robot’s Wardenclyffe Deluxe updates its lo-fi ambient modulator with tons of features and flexibility
- War bassist and co-founder Morris "B.B." Dickerson has died aged 71
- King Crimson legend Robert Fripp and Toyah Wilcox take on Iron Maiden’s The Number of the Beast for Easter Sunday
- An artificial intelligence algorithm has created “new” Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana songs
- Watch St. Vincent deliver stirring renditions of Pay Your Way In Pain, The Melting of the Sun on Saturday Night Live
April 2
- Conjure devilish low-end tones with Damnation Audio’s Curmudgeon 2 bass amp distortion pedal
- The Qello Concerts World Tour puts you front and center with your favorite rock legends, on stages all across the globe
- Animals Pedal unveils collaborative Diamond Peak Hybrid Overdrive and Dawn Ocean Meditation Booster stompboxes
- Unlock whole universes of sonic bliss with Spaceman Effects’ Aurora Analog Flanger
- Nail classic George Lynch high-gain tones with the Lynch Mod tube module
- Cesar Gueikian promoted to Brand President of Gibson
- Hear St. Vincent's surreal, soulful new single, The Melting Of The Sun
April 1
- From intricate, high-octane puzzles to unrelenting thrash barrages: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Scott Ian and Corey Taylor team up with Dave Lombardo and Lzzy Hale for new Netflix movie theme song, Thunder Force
- The best guitar April Fools 2021: ambidextrous Fenders, dream pedal collaborations and extraterrestrial whammy bars
- Vertex’s Boost MKII is a slim, single-knob “boost plus”
- Watch Myles Kennedy kick out the funky jams on a cover of Earth, Wind & Fire’s Shining Star
- Tetrarch unleash rapid-fire, solo-heavy new single, Negative Noise
- Mdou Moctar unleashes epic title track from upcoming album, Afrique Victime
- Soundgarden demand Vicky Cornell hand over passwords to band’s social media accounts and official website
- Tallah are now a Disney covers band called Talladdin
- My Bloody Valentine reveal they have two new albums in the works
- Nile Rodgers joins forces with Steven Wilson for funk-driven remix of Personal Shopper