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- July 29
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- Andy Wood recruits Tosin Abasi, Mark Lettieri, Greg Koch and more for 2022 Woodshed Guitar Experience
- From psychedelic transatlantic collaborations to nostalgic acoustic ballads: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Watch Billy Corgan perform new song Photograph – a tribute to the victims of the Highland Park shooting
- Zoltan Bathory: why James Hetfield is the perfect metal rhythm guitar player
- Hear Led Zeppelin deliver a rare performance of Gallows Pole amid their chaotic 1971 Vancouver show
- Sammy Hagar and the Circle announce new album, Crazy Times, and share the hard-rocking title track
- Take a tone tour of Guild’s new Starfire I-12, the company’s most affordable 12-string electric guitar
- Watch The Linda Lindas’ Fender Player Plus Session: “It’s just like, Wow! I have a guitar. I can rule the world now”
- Acoustic 2022: Inside the new issue of Total Guitar
- July 28
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- Old Blood Noise Endeavors debuts the Float Dual Moving Filter – its first digitally controlled analog pedal
- Lamb of God unleash fretboard fury in crushing title track from their upcoming album, Omens
- Watch Nita Strauss rehearsing with pop superstar Demi Lovato
- Watch Tim Henson’s masterful unplugged rendition of Polyphia’s Neurotica
- David Lee Roth gets nostalgic for Van Halen high-jinks on new single, Nothing Could Have Stopped Us Back Then Anyway
- Dunlop partners with Korn’s James “Munky” Shaffer and Brian “Head” Welch for new signature 7-string set
- Orianthi announces new album Rock Candy and drops riff-loaded single Light It Up
- July 27
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- David Ellefson and Jeff Young to play classic Megadeth albums in their entirety on tour this fall
- Add Joe Duplantier’s city-leveling guitar tone to your pedalboard with KHDK’s limited edition Gojira Drive
- Tedeschi Trucks Band unveil The Fall, the third installment of their quadruple album and film project, I Am the Moon
- John Mayer recruits Bob Weir and Dave Chappelle for three Yellowstone Flood Relief benefit concerts
- Watch Slash audition for a teenage rock band in new Capital One commercial
- Misha Mansoor is selling off a heap of his used Periphery gear on Reverb
- Bass Player meets Metallica: Robert Trujillo salutes our cover star Cliff Burton
- Luna Guitars welcomes the Exotic Caidie to its beginner-friendly Gypsy series
- This man has built guitars out of everything from copper pipes to Mountain Dew bottles
- Herman Li explains why more rock musicians should be getting into online content creation
- July 26
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- Epiphone unveils beginner-friendly new Power Players Les Paul and SG electric guitars
- Death By Audio’s Space Bender is a chorus modulator offering “vintage sci-fi sounds, bending sonic bedlam, and pulsing atmospheres”
- Taipei Houston, the band featuring two of Lars Ulrich's sons, drop debut single As the Sun Sets
- Achieve ultimate phase tones with the groundbreaking Strymon Multidimensional Phaser
- Origin Effects unveils versatile Tube Screamer-style drive pedal, the Halcyon Green Overdrive
- Fender launches George Harrison Rocky Stratocaster, a replica of the Beatle’s iconic hand-painted Day-Glo Strat
- Mojo Hand FX offers “otherworldly sonic textures” with its new Octaverse reverse delay octave pedal
- Epiphone debuts downsized Les Paul and SG models in new learner-friendly Power Players range
- Joni Mitchell watched online videos to relearn guitar after brain aneurysm
- Jim Root partners with Dunlop for chug-friendly drop A and drop B signature strings
- July 25
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- Five reasons why the Mackie Thump GO is perfect for a guitarist’s live performance needs
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert unveils guitar-heavy list of musical residents, including St. Vincent, James Taylor and Joe Walsh
- Matt Heafy and YouTuber Anthony Vincent team up to reinvent Running Up That Hill in the style of Master of Puppets
- Slash says he has never owned a copy of Appetite for Destruction
- Nux launches new feature-packed headphone guitar amp, the Mighty Plug Pro
- U2 reportedly set for 2023 Las Vegas residency at the largest spherical structure on earth
- Fender Japan releases gloss black limited-run 60s Jazzmaster HH with Wide Range CuNiFe humbuckers
- Watch Paul Simon and Joni Mitchell make surprise appearances at Newport Folk Festival
- Ashdown unveils the LB-30 2.N, a bass tube amp head loaded with Two Notes Torpedo IR cab emulator technology
- Robben Ford and Bill Evans announce new album, Common Ground, share soulful title track
- Julian Lage shares pro tip for traveling with a Telecaster – remove the neck completely
- Tom Morello accidentally wiped out by security guard in pursuit of stage invader
- Red Hot Chili Peppers announce second album of 2022, Return of the Dream Canteen
- Fender celebrates the release of Minions: The Rise of Gru with four wild master-built instruments that will be sold for charity
- July 23
- July 22
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- Explore the wide range of tones offered by Donner’s versatile and affordable DST-400 electric guitar
- From pit-starting drop B chug to intricate jazz tapestries: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Fender-hosted panel share advice on how TikTok can help you make it as a guitar player
- Peter Jackson is planning another Beatles film
- Ozzy Osbourne recruits Tony Iommi for his Sabbath-esque single, Degradation Rules
- Megadeth join forces with Ice-T for pummeling new single, Night Stalkers
- July 21
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- Two Notes Audio Engineering joins forces with Steve Stevens for new signature collection of virtual cabs
- YouTuber builds the thinnest guitar he possibly can – and it is ridiculously thin
- Muse push the boundaries of their sound – and Matt Bellamy’s chops – on heavyweight new single Kill or Be Killed
- Watch Jack White unleash his arsenal of Fender custom electrics in pro-shot footage of his set in Paris
- Cliff Burton’s estate launches Burton: Cliff ‘Em All limited-edition IPA beer
- Tony Iommi to perform at the 2022 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony
- July 20
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- Harley Benton debuts two fresh colorways for its $200 DC-60 Junior
- Steve Vai and DiMarzio join forces for new-look Blue Powder signature UtoPIA humbuckers
- Joe Bonamassa says Jeff Beck is “the best rock ‘n’ roll guitar player in the world”
- Kerry King says his first post-Slayer project will sound like Slayer and is coming soon
- Gibson teams up with Tak Matsumoto to release Japan/Asia exclusive signature Murphy Lab 1955 Les Paul Goldtop
- Clutch have a new studio album incoming and it is titled Sunrise on Slaughter Beach
- Slipknot announce new album, The End, So Far, and debut obliterating second single, The Dying Song (Time to Sing)
- July 19
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- Trivium announce 2022 North American tour
- John 5 says his signature Fender Telecaster is coming soon and it is called The Ghost
- Watch guitarist Kayla Kent perform a track that her musically gifted guinea pig co-wrote on virtual piano
- Joe Satriani recruits Peter Frampton, Steve Lukather, Mateus Asato, Cory Wong, Nili Brosh and more for G4 V6.0 Experience 2023
- Heading back to school? You’ll be top of the class with 15% off beginner-friendly acoustic guitars and lessons at Guitar Center
- Explore Aurally Sound’s Song Master app, “a game-changer for learning songs or licks from recordings”
- Watch Gary Clark Jr. enlist Samantha Fish for a show-stopping live rendition of When My Train Pulls In
- Billy Corgan announces virtual concert to support victims of the July 4 Highland Park shooting
- J. Rockett Audio Designs pairs authentic Vibe swirl with vintage spring reverb on the aptly named Uni-Verb pedal
- Spice’s Ian Simpson on how he built a rock-grunge sound around a “tonally juicy” modded Jazzmaster, a well-stocked ‘board and a pop sensibility
- What was actually on Randy Rhoads’ “chip pan” pedalboard?
- July 18
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- Alter Bridge announce new album, Pawns & Kings, premiere hard-hitting title track
- Watch Joe Haley from Psycroptic put on a progressive death metal rhythm guitar masterclass in this playthrough of Rend Asunder
- Polyphia rock radical custom-finish electrics in rage beat-inspired new single, Neurotica
- Roger Waters says he is “far, far, far more important” than Drake and The Weeknd and argues that his peers “trundle through their hits year after year”
- Zakk Wylde “beyond honored” to join Pantera reunion tour
- Lari Basilio unleashes the 7-string Ibanez on new single, Alive and Living
- Wolfgang Van Halen says “some people” are making it “very difficult” to plan an Eddie Van Halen tribute concert
- July 15
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- Watch Christone “Kingfish” Ingram's explosive Hey Joe cover from Jimi Hendrix blue plaque celebration event
- Paul Ryder, Happy Mondays bassist and co-founder, dies at 58
- From soulful sonic mosaics to stark instrumental post-rock: here are this week’s essential guitar tracks
- Caroline Guitar Company unleashes “fuzztortion” fury with as the Crom: The Riddle of Steel officially joins its lineup
- Hundreds of guitarists join a 1,000-strong ensemble for a stadium-rocking rendition of Guns N’ Roses’ Paradise City
- Fender CEO Andy Mooney hints at more affordable Acoustasonic models to come
- Boss just gave players more reasons to pick up a Katana MkII with impressive Version 2 software update
- Watch Phoebe Bridgers and The Killers perform Runaway Horses live for the first time
- Nita Strauss joins Demi Lovato’s touring lineup – watch her make her debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
- Watch Julian Lage tease more magic from his signature Collings in the video for brand new track Word For Word
- Pantera recruit Zakk Wylde and Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante for 2023 tour
- ICYMI, Gorillaz are playing a handful of shows in Australia this month
- July 14
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- Fender officially releases limited-edition Pro Junior IV SE – a compact and affordable 15W tube combo for “clean-to-mean” tones
- Harley Benton unveils the R-446, a $150 electric guitar for “screaming leads to heavy rhythms and everything in between”
- The hottest new guitarists in the world right now (as chosen by you) – only in the new Guitar World
- Watch Alex Skolnick demo Steve Lukather’s live rig and reveal what’s on the Toto guitarist’s pedalboard
- Gibson and Chicago Music Exchange unveil exclusive Murphy Lab 1961 Les Paul/SG Junior in Shell Pink
- Prime Day guitar deals 2024: all the post-Prime Day sales that are live right now
- Alice Cooper reenlists former lead guitarist Kane Roberts for fall tour
- Pantera to reunite for 2023 tour
- July 13
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- Former Megadeth bassist David Ellefson forms new band, Dieth
- John Petrucci will be backed by Mike Portnoy on first-ever solo headlining tour this fall
- Great Eastern FX's super versatile Design-a-drive might just be the ultimate overdrive pedal for tone tweakers
- Watch Gilby Clarke step onstage with Porno For Pyros for a blistering rendition of Bad S**t
- Russian Circles’ new single, Betrayal, is the cathartic post-metal rager you need in your life right now
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame curator indicted over conspiracy to sell $1 million worth of stolen handwritten Eagles notes
- Kirk Fletcher drops feel-good title track from his upcoming album, Heartache by the Pound
- Córdoba unveils the Stage – its first nylon-string electric guitar
- Brian May and 10cc’s Graham Gouldman release new single inspired by the James Webb Space Telescope
- Fender has the sound of summer covered with its new California Coast ukuleles
- Larkin Poe share video for Blood Harmony, the soulful title track of their much-anticipated new album
- Mesa/Boogie puts vintage U.S. tube amp tones back on the menu with new 20W California Tweed 6V6 2:20 lineup
- The stage-played Ernie Ball Music Man EVH that Eddie Van Halen gave Aerosmith’s Brad Whitford is up for sale on Reverb
- July 12
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- Gibson teams up with Pantera's Rex Brown for new signature Thunderbird bass guitar
- Bond theme composer Monty Norman dies aged 94
- Monty’s Guitars offers Gibson-style PAF tones with its new UnderSpun pickups
- Richie Faulkner says “the power of heavy metal” kept him alive during his onstage aortic aneurysm
- EarthQuaker Devices unveils special edition Plumes overdrive to raise money for Akron elementary school
- Mark Tremonti says Myles Kennedy wrote “the heaviest riffs” on the upcoming Alter Bridge album
- Fender facing class-action lawsuit alleging millions of players were overcharged for guitars
- July 11
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- Nita Strauss announces departure from Alice Cooper's band, cancels solo 2022 festival appearances
- Metallica’s Master of Puppets is now the number one song aspiring guitarists want to learn, according to Yousician
- Robby Krieger says Jim Morrison took acid before The Doors’ huge Hollywood Bowl show – and wound up examining a moth
- Cesar Gueikian demos Adam Jones' much-anticipated Silverburst Epiphone Les Paul Custom on Instagram
- Steven Wilson takes aim at shredders: “That’s not music. That’s sport”
- Watch Rage Against the Machine play their first show in 11 years
- David Lee Roth shares reflective new single, Pointing at the Moon – but who’s the guitarist?
- Watch Stranger Things star Joseph Quinn play Metallica’s Master of Puppets in rehearsal clip
- Watch Johnny Marr perform Neil Young’s Throw Your Hatred Down and The Who’s Baba O’Riley with Pearl Jam
- Harley Benton doubles down on affordability with new 2-in-1 guitar effects pedal series priced from $67
- July 8
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- Gary Cherone says “singers are secondary” in Van Halen tribute – it's all about the guitar players
- John Mayer’s 2022 Dead & Company touring rig and pedalboard have been revealed
- King’s X cancel European tour after Ty Tabor diagnosed with serious illness
- From Snarky Puppy-style breakdowns to noisy indie-pop: here are this week’s essential guitar tracks
- Nita Strauss recalls a male fan throwing his sweaty boxer shorts at her during an Alice Cooper concert
- Harbinger’s Ben Sutherland, Charlie Griffiths and Kris Aarre serve up a feast of brutal riffs in this killer guitar/bass playthrough of Guile
- Disturbed’s Dan Donegan unveils “F**k cancel culture” Schecter guitar
- Neil Young finally releases the album that was too sad to put out, shares raw opening track Quit
- Emerging artist? PRS Guitars’ 2023 Pulse Artist Program wants to help you
- Johnny Depp and Jeff Beck cover Killing Joke’s The Death and the Resurrection Show
- Eric Clapton’s blues chops are still on point as he leans into a honky-tonk vibe in surprise new single, Pompous Fool
- Check out Five Finger Death Punch's new arena-worthy rock ballad, Times Like These
- July 7
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- Hear Led Zeppelin tear through Black Dog, All My Love, Kashmir and more in their final show with John Bonham
- Queen and Adam Lambert announce Rhapsody Over London – a live stream extravaganza captured during their 10-night stint at the O2 Arena
- The Cult announce first album in six years, Under the Midnight Sun
- Ichika Nito showcases his sublime soloing skills in dizzying new track, Blossom
- ERRA unleash the drop-tuned riffs on punishing new single, Pull From The Ghost
- Massive Wagons announce new album Triggered, share hard-riffing anti-bullying single, F**k The Haters
- Matt Heafy hints at the possibility of Kramer and Steinberger signature models
- One Control expands its pedal lineup with the all-new LX Tuner with BJF Buffer
- Keb’ Mo’ added to Joe Bonamassa’s Keeping the Blues Alive At Sea Mediterranean Cruise II
- Lennon Gallagher’s Automotion drops gnarly experimental new single, Dithyramb
- Catalinbread blurs the line between chorus and flanger with upgraded Callisto MKII
- Manny Charlton, Nazareth guitarist and co-founder, dies at 80
- July 6
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- James Bay joins forces with Fender to offer five fans the chance to win an in-person guitar lesson
- Mythos releases new and improved R.J. Ronquillo 3-in-1 treble boost/drive/echo signature pedal, the SusMaryOsep! V2
- Les Claypool says he was on acid during Primus’ 1992 MTV Spring Break performance – “everything I saw was just orange”
- Metallica “stoked” by Master of Puppets' scene-stealing role in Stranger Things
- Randy Bachman reunited with beloved orange 1957 Gretsch 6120 Chet Atkins after 45 years apart
- MarkBass promises a bass amp revolution with the wide-ranging MB58R line offering “next level power to weight ratio”
- Hear Ozzy Osbourne and Night Ranger’s Brad Gillis tear it up live in newly surfaced audio from 1982
- Parkway Drive announce new album, Darker Still, and unleash the riffs on arena-shaking single The Greatest Fear
- Carlos Santana collapses onstage from heat exhaustion and dehydration
- July 5
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- IK MultiMedia’s ToneNET preset-sharing platform is “online community building at its finest”
- Randy Rhoads: Reflections of a Guitar Icon documentary to be released on DVD/Blu-ray in September
- Fender launches the Amperstand, a pocket-sized guitar stand and pick holder
- Get Eric Clapton’s Cream-era guitar tone from just one pedal
- Zakk Wylde teases details of Ozzy Osbourne’s “slamming” new album and says “it’s a huge honor” to be involved
- Dave Mustaine lashes out at Judas Priest guitar tech for soundchecking during Megadeth set
- Right now is your last chance to get $100 off the outstanding Positive Grid Mini and Spark Control
- Joe Perry says Aerosmith didn’t like their debut album: “God, I wish my guitar sounded better”
- Amps used by Pete Townshend and The Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia for sale on Reverb
- July 4
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- Watch Kiss at their explosive, raucous best in this clip from a 1975 Alive! show
- Watch Wet Leg wield Mustang and Meteora models in exhilarating Fender Player Plus Sessions performance
- Steve Vai offers a tour of his live rig – and shares a glimpse of the complex signal processing needed for his absurd triple-neck Ibanez Hydra
- Glenn Tipton joins Judas Priest for a trio of tracks at Barcelona Rock Fest
- Former Hüsker Dü bassist Greg Norton has been diagnosed with cancer
- Angus Young, Lzzy Hale, Slash, Joe Perry and Richie Faulkner-signed Gibsons go up for charity auction
- Way Huge celebrates 30 years of pedalboard goodness with the WM23 Smalls Red Llama overdrive
- David Lee Roth is holding up Van Halen tribute project, according to Eddie Trunk
- Robert Trujillo’s son recorded guitar for the Stranger Things version of Metallica’s Master of Puppets
- July 1
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- Jeff "Skunk" Baxter gave Jimi Hendrix his first Fender Stratocaster
- From psychedelic wah odysseys to oceanic soundscapes: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- You can already save hundreds this Independence Day with Guitar Center's early 4th of July sale
- Revealed: What Stranger Things’ metal hero Eddie Munson was really jamming on his BC Rich Warlock
- Meet LAVA MUSIC’s BLUE LAVA touchscreen-equipped smart guitar, “a game-changing, all-in-one instrument”
- CopperSound’s Strategy V2 is the two-channel preamp and overdrive pedal with a monster 30dB of boost and audiophile build
- Jack White says his James Bond theme is “one of the most divisive things” he has ever worked on
- What is the greatest song Muse have ever recorded?
- Those needing a Radiohead-grade anxiety fix will love this performance from Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood’s The Smile
- Carl Barât reunited with prized Gibson Melody Maker as stolen guitars recovered
- Watch Metallica play Kill ‘Em All deep cut Metal Militia for the first time since 2016
- Gary Cherone says Extreme’s new album has some of Nuno Bettencourt's best-ever lead work: “His solos blow me away”
- The Greatest Guitar Albums Of All Time: Inside the new issue of Total Guitar
