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June 30
- Spector teams up with Rudy Sarzo for the luxurious Euro4 LT signature bass
- The Sovtek MIG-50 amp rides again with new Electro-Harmonix reissue
- Watch virtuoso picker Sierra Hull get back to her bluegrass roots with the Cort Core-OC Mahogany acoustic
- Hear Jason Isbell turn Metallica's Sad But True into a frenzied, country-fried blues romp
- Ichika Nito's first-ever signature model headlines Ibanez's all-new Quest headless guitar range
- Is Duff McKagan handling bass duties on Jerry Cantrell’s new solo album?
- Faith Guitars revisits historic acoustic shapes with new PJE Legacy Series models
- Harley Benton upgrades its $279 SC-550 single-cut with stainless steel frets and Tesla Opus-1 humbuckers
- Has Misha Mansoor designed the ultimate Strat for progressive players?
- Andy Sneap confirmed to be playing guitar for Judas Priest on upcoming 50th anniversary tour
- Frank Marino announces immediate retirement from touring and “possibly all things related to continuing my career” due to unexpected illness
- Kithara Guitars teams up with artist Terry Bradley for Never Give Up guitar raffle in aid of Action Mental Health
- Jackson unleashes metal mayhem as it launches new made-in-Japan MJ Series Rhoads, Dinky and Soloist models
June 29
- Mdou Moctar proves why he's one of today's most exhilarating guitar virtuosos with electrifying Niamey, Niger performance
- Sammy Hagar apologizes for exposing Eddie Van Halen's "dark side" in memoir
- Emily Wolfe, Gina Chavez and Jaime Wyatt to headline Epiphone Pride Month livestream concert
- Metallica share previously unreleased Take 36 of Sad But True from their forthcoming Black Album reissue
- Vexed’s Jay Bacon celebrates his partnership with Jackson guitars with a monstrous chug-heavy playthrough of Fake
- Hear Gamechanger Audio's one-of-a-kind Bigsby Pedal in action in this surf-tastic demo
- Hear St. Vincent take on Kirk Hammett’s solo in dark reimagining of Metallica’s Sad But True
- K.K. Downing says Judas Priest threatened him with legal action over KK's Priest name
- Shin-ei, the company behind the Uni-Vibe and Vibe-Bro stompboxes, shuts down pedal production
- Brian Setzer announces first new solo album in 7 years, Gotta Have the Rumble
- Watch Eric Gales deliver jaw-dropping Jimi Hendrix, Billy Gibbons and Robin Trower covers as he puts his signature MXR Raw Dawg pedal through its paces
- Inglorious announce all-female covers album, Heroine, featuring tracks from Halestorm, Heart and Whitney Houston
June 28
- Crazy Tube Circuits thinks it’s about TI:ME for a fresh take on digital delay
- Harley Benton bolsters its southpaw-friendly range with 3 fresh metal-minded Amarok models
- Robert Fripp and Toyah Wilcox take it up a level with a high-octane cover of Aerosmith’s Love in An Elevator
- This astonishing Les Paul-style guitar is made entirely out of glass
- Manson launches new Knight Rider-inspired Matt Bellamy signature model
- Steve Lukather says there will be no more new studio albums from Toto
- Alex Lifeson reveals he's finished recording a new album with Coney Hatch's Andy Curran
- Laney debuts Digbeth bass amp series and a trio of new bass pedals
- Robben Ford teases potential PRS signature electric guitar
June 25
- Paul Riario demos the Fishman Fluence Signature Series Greg Koch Gristletone P90 Pickups
- Watch Gretchen Menn showcase the Breedlove Pursuit Exotic S-Series
- Between The Buried And Me announce new album Colors II, recruit Mike Portnoy for thunderous lead single, Fix the Error
- Willow Smith announces guitar-driven album, lately I feel EVERYTHING, shares moody second single, Lipstick
- Fender joins forces with Kyser for vintage colorway-inspired Classic Colors Quick-Change electric guitar capos
- Fishman teams up with Greg Koch for Fluence Gristle-Tone signature three-voice P-90 pickup
- Guitarist who relearned to play left-handed celebrates with savage death-metal show… at an elementary school
- Dual-bass prog trio The Omnific recruit Polyphia's Clay Gober for epic new single, Antecedent
- David Crosby releases two new tracks from his forthcoming album, For Free
- Laney revisits its roots with the ultra-modern, vintage-voiced Digbeth bass amp series
June 24
- From extreme-metal riff fests to A-list acoustic collabs: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Journey release their first single in over a decade, The Way We Used to Be
- Spector launches 5-string version of its short-scale Bantam bass
- Boss debuts new-and-improved travel amp, the Cube Street II
- Mark Hoppus reveals cancer diagnosis: “It sucks and I’m scared”
- Catalinbread unleashes Ritchie Blackmore-inspired double-pedal boxset
June 23
- Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler announces 'best of' album and assembles massive 4CD box set of his solo works
- Bidding opens for the 2021 Great Guitar Build Off instrument auction
- Solar Guitars expands its range of Tele-inspired guitars with eye-catching 6- and 7-string T2 models
- Brian May to reissue 1992 debut solo album, Back to the Light
- Ov Sulfur set fretboards ablaze with blistering Bathe in the Flame playthrough
- Metallica re-revisit the basement to share a 1990 demo of Enter Sandman ahead of epic Black Album reissue
- Harley Benton introduces sub-$400 Marquess range of 4- and 5-string bass guitars
- Ernie Ball Music Man unveils the DarkRay bass – a StingRay with onboard fuzz and distortion from Darkglass Electronics
- 85 counterfeit guitars worth up to $260,000 seized by Washington Dulles International Airport customs agents
- PRS unveils all-new HX amp line inspired by Jimi Hendrix's 'Woodstock' Marshall Super Lead
- Joe Bonamassa stops by Guitar World for an exclusive first look at his signature Limited Edition Fender '51 Nocaster, “The Bludgeon"
June 22
- Watch Paul Riario unlock an insane array of tones from the classic-but-modern ESP LTD Deluxe EC-1000T CTM
- Pigtronix expands lineup of looper pedals with Infinity 3, debuts Universal Remote passive digital effects controller
- Metallica reveal The Metallica Blacklist, a 53-artist tribute to The Black Album, announce remaster of iconic 1991 record
- Is Fender working on a Tom Morello ‘Soul Power’ Telecaster?
- Gibson officially launches limited-edition Noel Gallagher signature J-150 acoustic guitar
- Fieldy to sit out upcoming Korn tour: “I will be working towards getting the bad habits out of my system”
- Matt Heafy now earns more money from Twitch than from Trivium's digital streaming revenue
- The Cribs call on Fender to revive their Squier Mus-Uar signature guitar after online prices reach $1,800
June 21
- Does Jared like the Positive Grid Spark?
- Watch Pete Thorn put 23 pickups through their paces in a bid to find the ultimate Eddie Van Halen-sounding set
- Get the ultimate distortion effects bundle – a ProCo Rat 2, cable, power supply and picks – for only $90
- Marty Friedman explains why “playing slow is a thousand times more difficult than playing fast”
- 30 YouTube guitar heroes join forces for world’s biggest all-female shred-a-thon
- Guitar Center takes on Amazon with $320 off the D'Angelico Premier Series Brighton, today only!
- Carcass announce first album in 8 years, unveil brutal single, Kelly’s Meat Emporium
- KMA Machines' Tyler Deluxe cuts your guitar signal in two for vast tonal possibilities
- Ibanez revives the Iron Label series with all-new guitars and basses
- At The Gates share sprawling new single The Fall Into Time, announce guitar giveaway
June 18
- Harley Benton decks out Dullahan headless guitar range with new finishes and tuning hardware, starting at $457
- Mastodon announces first-ever acoustic show – at an aquarium
- Seymour Duncan’s new Vapor Trail Deluxe teams all-analog delay tone with versatile digital control
- Bullet For My Valentine announce self-titled 7th studio album, share brutally heavy debut single, Knives
- Origin Effects accused of attempting to “strip” Revival Electric of its name
- Megadeth's new album will not feature David Ellefson's bass recordings
- Over 6 hours of never-before-seen restored Beatles footage to air on Disney+
- D’Addario co-founder Janet D’Addario dies aged 72
June 17
- From radical, guitar-heavy remixes to moving country-blues: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- KK's Priest bring scorching six-string leads and pounding palm-muted fury with new single, Sermons of the Sinner
- Melting Fender Stratocaster art piece to appear at Degrees of Separation street art event featuring Dave Navarro and Billy Morrison
- Watch Tim Henson improvise with Herman Li using Jason Becker’s original prototype Peavey Numbers guitar
- Godin equips its hybrid Radium model with a sleek new Matte Green finish
- Boss officially launches the HM-2W Heavy Metal Waza Craft pedal
June 16
- Ian Curtis’s iconic Vox Phantom VI guitar returns to Manchester for major music exhibition
- Mark Knopfler donates signed Fender Stratocaster to Streets of London's #ComeOnHome prize draw
- Eddie Van Halen-signed Kramer, gifted to his guitar tech, Tom Weber, goes up for sale
- Soundgarden reach temporary agreement with Chris Cornell’s estate over social media accounts and website
- Yngwie Malmsteen says his upcoming Parabellum tour won't feature a guest vocalist: “No singer. Just me”
- Watch Michael Gilbert deliver a hard-thrashing playthrough of Flotsam and Jetsam's Brace For Impact
- Fender Master Builders celebrate the Fender Play Foundation with 12 one-of-a-kind ‘Student’ guitars
- The Edge launches signature guitar strap to raise money for refugee women
- Harley Benton debuts new sub-$500 semi-hollow single-cut, the Aeolus
June 15
- Fun-sized, bold-voiced: the Taylor GS Mini-e Koa Plus
- An amazingly well-spec'd $899 Epiphone version of Alex Lifeson's Les Paul Axcess Standard has arrived
- Chris Martin IV steps down as CEO of C.F. Martin & Co Guitars
- Harley Benton launches left-handed EX-84 LH Modern and EX-76 LH Classic
- Gamechanger Audio launches the Bigsby Pedal
- Sick Riffs: Conor Kelly teaches you the soaring guitar solo of Waker's Many Days Ahead
- Juan Nelson, bass player for Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals, dies aged 62
June 14
- Watch guitarist and songwriter Ruben Wan dig into the new Cort G280 Select’s versatile HSS tones
- California police recover 9 stolen vintage guitars worth $225,000
- Code Orange tease collaboration with The Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan
- Julien’s Auctions 'Music Icons' lot, featuring Eddie Van Halen and Prince-played guitars, rakes in nearly $5 million in three days
- Kurt Cobain’s stage-played DOD Grunge pedal sells at auction for $16,000
- Gus G drops hard-riffing, solo-loaded new single, Fierce
- Watch Joe Bonamassa and Jared James Nichols tear through Crossroads at the Gibson Garage grand opening concert
- Ubisoft announces Rocksmith+ subscription-based guitar-learning platform
- New VR game Unplugged lets you play guitar without an actual guitar using hand-tracking technology
- Guitarist uses his feet to play Guns N' Roses' Sweet Child O' Mine in its entirety
- FM Guitars teams up with Chordinero for mammoth dual-neck-compatible capo
June 13
- Take center stage with 20% off everything you need to play live at Guitar Center
June 11
- George Harrison’s estate announces massive All Things Must Pass 50th anniversary reissues
- Dave Grohl says surviving Nirvana members have recorded “really cool” new music
- Breedlove Guitars celebrates three decades in business with the luxurious 30th Anniversary Phoenix acoustic
- Eric Bibb announces new album Dear America, drops blues-soaked single, Born Of A Woman
- Country guitarist Chris Stapleton joins H.E.R. for a spellbinding performance of Hold On at the CMT Music Awards 2021
- Brian May explains why he uses a sixpence as a pick
- Watch Eddie Van Halen play the riffs from Amsterdam years before its release in newly unearthed 5150 studio footage
- This insane-looking bass guitar is made of 2,000 Lego bricks
- Bernie Marsden pays homage to Albert, BB and Freddie King with his first solo album since 2014, Kings
June 10
- From euphoric post-rock to gritty, overdriven blues: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Grez Guitars pays homage to '50s-era electric guitars with the Mendocino Junior, built from 100-year-old redwood
- Hamstead Soundworks aims to open up a solar system of high-gain tones with all-new Comet: Interstellar Driver pedal
- Arturia promises “audio effects you’ll actually use” with its analog-inspired FX Collection 2 plugins
- Redbeard Effects debuts its first-ever overdrive pedal, the Angry Rhubarb Paradynamic Overdrive MKII
- OPFXS crams all of its innovative effects – and more – into one fully reprogrammable compact pedal, the V-Uno
- Fender’s latest limited-edition equips the ’70s Telecaster Deluxe with a Strat-style tremolo
- Matt Heafy joins forces with Richard Marx for metal-heavy reimagining of pop classic Right Here Waiting
- Jared James Nichols announces new EP Shadow Dancer, shares gritty first single Skin 'n Bone
June 9
- What are Sarah Longfield’s favorite Elixir Strings for long-lasting, superior tone?
- Lucy Dacus releases anthemic new single Brando, complete with full guitar tab
- Behold the Bass Giant – a 13-feet-tall sculpture that features 16 fully playable bass guitars
- John Frusciante and Flea team up for their first recorded material in over a decade
- Guess KMA Audio Machines' next pedal and you could win a fully loaded pedalboard
- Jason Hook set to auction off guitars, motorcycles and other memorabilia
- Deafheaven announce new album Infinite Granite, share euphoric single, Great Mass of Color
- Solar Guitars launches new Tele-inspired range with the EverTune-equipped T1.6AN
- Yvette Young gifts Willow Smith her signature Ibanez YY10 guitar
- David Gilmour teases a sonic shift for his next album: "The electric guitar I'm currently playing is not as 'rock god' as one might expect"
June 8
- Watch Ryan "Fluff" Bruce demonstrate lush cleans and warm distortion on the PRS Archon 50
- Lindsey Buckingham announces first solo album in 10 years
- John Mayer performs first-ever live rendition of Last Train Home on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
- Cort introduces the G280 Select, an impressively spec'd revamp of its flagship G280DX
- 5 highlights from the weekend's star-studded B.B. King Museum celebration
- Marty Friedman was preparing for a Madonna audition when he landed the gig with Megadeth
- Kemper launches Fuzz Drive System with new Profiler OS update
- Warrior Guitars unveils a line of electrics built using hundreds of layers of automobile spray paint
- The Ampbot – the “most portable, powerful, plug-and-play guitar amp ever made” – launches on Kickstarter
June 7
- Unleash Dad’s air-guitar skills this Father’s Day with an all-access pass to Qello Concerts
- Watch Kyle Gass's star-studded video for vaccine-inspired take on the Ramones' I Wanna Be Sedated
- Slash, Phil Collen and Robert DeLeo join forces for a scorching cover of Jimi Hendrix’s Fire
- Brad Whitford has his doubts that Aerosmith will ever perform again: “Age is becoming a real factor”
- The Linda Lindas make national TV debut with blistering performance of Racist Sexist Boy on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
- Eddie Van Halen hated how he inspired a wave of “intense uber-shredding”, says Steve Lukather
- Tom Morello announces yet another collaboration, this time with The Bloody Beetroots
- John Mayer sent Mary Spender his new single before anyone else got to hear it
- D'Addario launches environmentally sustainable line of Eco-Comfort guitar straps
June 4
- Paul Riario has a special announcement
- Tsakalis AudioWorks targets classic Marshall-style amp sounds with versatile Room #40 pedal
- Want to cure those summertime acoustic-guitar blues? Here's how to take care of your strings
- From yacht-rock reinventions to Viking metal: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Fender expands its Artist Signature Series with the highly decorated Dhani Harrison Ukulele
- The Darkness announce new album, Motorheart, reveal full UK tour in 2021
- Jimi Hendrix's estate gives the nod to an officially licensed “Live at Monterey” bobblehead figure
- TC Electronic announces Paul Gilbert signature MojoMojo overdrive pedal
- John Mayer embraces the ’80s in a big way on new track Last Train Home
June 3
- KHDK joins forces with Trivium for the Ascendency overdrive
- ESP kits out its entire LTD Deluxe 1000 Series with stainless steel frets
- Fern Guitars unveils new-and-improved prototype of its innovative modular six-string, The Phoenix
- Yngwie Malmsteen unleashes Relentless Fury with second Parabellum single
- Sultry, wah-drenched new Prince track, Born 2 Die, unveiled
- Orange branches out into high-end electric guitars with luxuriously crafted OE-1 single-cut
- David Lee Roth partners with John 5 for new country-charged single, Giddy-Up!
- Nita Strauss weighs in on the ‘shred stigma’ debate: "Yngwie Malmsteen’s three notes are no more or less valid than BB King’s"
- Gear Ant seeks to shake up pedalboard aesthetics with custom-designed pedal enclosures
June 2
- Keeley Electronics reintroduces the Katana Clean Boost in sleek Throwback White colorway
- VS Audio packs two vintage-style amp sounds into one stompbox with the Blackbird Overdrive pedal
- Ernie Ball Music Man releases reimagined St. Vincent signature Goldie guitar
- Chaos Audio unveils new-and-improved version of its Bluetooth-enabled multi-FX pedal, the Stratus
- Jackson adds a cornucopia of high-spec bass models to its Pro Series and X Series
- John Mayer teases freshly finished hot pink PRS Silver Sky
- 10 things to know about Gibson, from the Gibson Garage to new Frampton and Orianthi guitars
June 1
- John Mayer reveals release date, title of new album
- Boutique Amps Distribution’s LA warehouse hit by fire
- Guns N' Roses announce US tour with Wolfgang Van Halen's Mammoth WVH
- Sony seeks to shape the future of effects manipulation with the wrist-worn Motion Sonic controller
- Sandberg celebrates its 35th anniversary with racing car-themed bass guitars
- Black Sabbath and Judas Priest donate “money-can't-buy” memorabilia to the largest-ever metal charity prize draw
- Roger Waters releases Pink Floyd’s Animals remaster liner notes following dispute with David Gilmour
- Watch Dave Mustaine celebrate Memorial Day – and promote Megadeth’s own beer – using his new signature Gibson Flying V