In this issue

JOHN MAYER'S EIGHTIES FANTASY
“I still want to make a song that sounds like Eric Clapton, you know? I still want to wear a big black trench coat”.

HELLO, HOLLOWBODIES!
Ten addictive hollow- and semi-hollowbody guitars for every budget, including four standout models for less than $500..

Jinjer

GUITARIST ROMAN IBRAMKHALILOV EXPLAINS HOW THE PANDEMIC INSPIRED THE UKRANIAN PROG-METALCORE STALWARTS TO DIAL IN THE “MOST POWERFUL SOUND POSSIBLE”

2 mins

Cedric Burnside

THE GRANDSON OF MISSISSIPPI HILL COUNTRY BLUES GREAT R.L. BURNSIDE GOES ALL IN — AND ALL OUT — ON HIS NEW ALBUM, I BE TRYING

2 mins

Bernth

How an Austrian shred whiz took inspiration from his own popular weekly YouTube videos — and rabid fanbase — to complete his first album, a dazzling project four years in the making

2 mins

Tomahawk

JESUS LIZARD GUITARIST DUANE DENISON TALKS AURAL CLARITY, THE NEED FOR BALANCE — AND TOMAHAWK’S LATEST, THE EXHILARATING TONIC IMMOBILITY

2 mins

Dinosaur Jr.

FRONTMAN/GUITARIST J MASCIS TALKS CAPOS, THE BENEFITS OF SMALLER AMPS AND THE SURPRISINGLY UPBEAT SWEEP IT INTO SPACE

2 mins

Luca Stricagnoli

WHY THREE NECKS — AND MILLIONS OF YOUTUBE VIEWS — MIGHT JUST BE BETTER THAN ONE

2 mins

Open-Source Guitar

Besides collaborating with Marty Friedman and Marcus Asato, MEGADETH shredder KIKO LOUREIRO is taking a breakthrough community approach on his new album: He’s uploaded all the stems online — from beats to guitar solos — so that anyone with internet access can concoct their own epic remixes

9 mins

Billy Gibbons Goes To The Desert

How ZZ Top legend Billy F. Gibbons and his band (guitarist Austin Hanks and former Guns N’ Roses drummer Matt Sorum) headed to the California High Desert to seek Rock ’N’ Roll inspiration — with a side of “mystery”

10+ mins

OLD LOVE

On his new album, JOHN MAYER lives out a very specific rock ’n’ roll fantasy: “What if it’s 1988 and I had had a band in the late ’60s through the ’70s, and now I’m my age in the ’80s and people are handing me these things called chorus pedals?” The result is Sob Rock, a highly polished, extra-“generous” studio offering that slyly channels the guitarist’s high-school–days guitar gods — including Journeyman-era ERIC CLAPTON

10+ mins

NOWHERE MEN

RISE AGAINST’s TIM McILRATH and ZACH BLAIR dig through the roots of their unique six-string interplay — and their brawny new album, Nowhere Generation, a message of solidarity to the band’s young fans

10+ mins

Silver Lining

STERLING BY MUSIC MAN MARIPOSA AND CUTLASS CT50HSS

4 mins

Revival of the Fittest

ORIGIN EFFECTS RD COMPACT HOT ROD

4 mins

The Thick of It

EVENTIDE MICROPITCH DELAY

3 mins

Buzz Bin

THE STRIPPED-DOWN appeal of the EVH Striped Series of guitars will most likely never lose its enduring popularity for Van Halen fans and players alike. Even the many iterations of the Wolfgang series adopted by numerous artists continues to grow by leaps and bounds. But if you ask me, I’ve been digging the EVH 5150 Series Standard guitar, which combines the very best attributes of Eddie Van Halen’s famed “5150” guitar along with the refined tones of Eddie’s innovatively designed Wolfgang guitars.

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For more than 31 years, Guitar World has served as North America's leading publication for rock guitarists, providing unique instructional content, exclusive photography and interviews with the genre's leading celebrity guitarists. Each month, Guitar World offers lessons that help players refine their craft, in-depth reviews of the latest guitars, amplifiers and effects, current happenings from around the rock scene, celebrity columnists and one-on-one conversations with artists ranging from iconic superstars to the young guns of today.