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I really don't love this remix
WHEN I GOT my copy of GW's year-end issue (also known as the January 2026 issue), I realized I had forgotten to include my own thoughts about the music that came out in 2025.
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February 2026
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Orangewood Clementine
Orangewood leans into its acoustic roots and a high spec with an electric model, but can it win you over from the established giants of semi-hollow guitars?
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February 2026
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Thumbs Down
\"Dead thumb\" fingerpicking
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February 2026
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Warm Audio Tube Squealer
Warm Audio's latest overdrive machine serves up the three greatest hits of the \"Green Screamer\" overdrive in one stompbox
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February 2026
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HOW TO PLAY THIS MONTH'S SONGS
ALTHOUGH HE'S MAINLY revered for his fiery fretwork and technical precision, Paul Gilbert puts as much dedication and thought into crafting musically appealing, memorable themes as he does being able to cleanly execute fast single-note lines.
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February 2026
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Gamechanger Audio Motor Pedal
Synth sounds for the guitar from a real spinning motor, packaged in a striking, car-themed aesthetic
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February 2026
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Gibson Noel Gallagher Les Paul Standard
It started as a “mystery” guitar for the 2025 Oasis reunion, became a high-priced (and scarce) collector’s piece and is now a Gibson USA ‘Paul for the people
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February 2026
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WARCHEST
AN ALBUM-BY-ALBUM GUIDE TO MEGADETH'S EXPLOSIVE STUDIO OUTPUT — FROM THEIR 1985 DEBUT TO THEIR 2026 FINALE
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February 2026
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Sounding Board
I CAME TO GW through my Guitar Player subscription – and I just renewed my GW subscription.
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February 2026
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Marcus King
2025 was the year of the King, thanks to his band's landmark guitar-loaded album, Darling Blue
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February 2026
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SEEING RED
In a special, expanded edition of our Lost Classics series, King Crimson guitar icon Robert Fripp - his personal diary open for the first time in 50 years - looks back on the making of 1974's Red, the album that pushed the UK prog-rock greats to their (first) breaking point
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February 2026
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Standard Time
Tips for playing slide in standard tuning
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February 2026
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Melodic Intention
Soloing over chords in a musical way
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February 2026
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MY LIFE IN THREE GUITARS - Trio
The guitars that have meant the most to King Crimson founder Robert Fripp
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February 2026
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Fender Hammertone Breakup Drive
Fender's latest addition to its Hammertone pedal range proves that some breakups are worth going through
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February 2026
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Mu-Tron III - 1972-1980
CATEGORY ENVELOPE FILTER PEDAL
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February 2026
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THE LAST NOTE
DAVE MUSTAINE TAKES US THROUGH THE INSPIRATIONS BEHIND MEGADETH'S FINAL ALBUM-TRACK BY TRACK-AND REVEALS HIS MOTIVATION FOR RE-RECORDING METALLICA'S \"RIDE THE LIGHTNING\"
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February 2026
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COUNTDOWN TO EXTINCTION
AS MEGADETH PREPARE FOR THEIR FINAL ALBUM RELEASE AND TOUR, DAVE MUSTAINE RECOUNTS SOME MEGA-MEMORIES, THE GHOSTS THAT STILL HAUNT HIM AND, OF COURSE, THE LEAD GUITARISTS HE PLAYED WITH ALONG THE WAY — THE GOOD, THE GREAT AND THE UNHINGED!
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February 2026
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COVER MODELS
This is the red one, so it was the second one.
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February 2026
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Car Bomb
Greg Kubacki combines technical wizardry and atmospheric brutality for explosive results
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February 2026
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Lukather Is the Answer
How it took three session-guitar aces to get a soft-rock classic back on the right track
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February 2026
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Extra Jimmies
A new Fabulous Thunderbirds box set is bursting with powerful stuff by Jimmie Vaughan & Co. - including an entire unreleased album from 1978
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February 2026
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Gretsch Synchromatic Falcon
The Falcon has finally landed - in a more affordable price bracket. Let's see if Gretsch's big bird can fly economy
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February 2026
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Frankie and the Witch Fingers
Searching for just the right guitar-packed, frenetic workout soundtrack? These chaotic L.A. psych-punk rockers have got ya covered
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February 2026
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Eric Steckel
Meet the Knaggs Guitars signature artist who grew an international profile by importing metal into the blues
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February 2026
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Hail to the King!
My tribute to the great B.B. King
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February 2026
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Lenny Kravitz
Thirty years ago, the soulful rocker recorded Circus, his most guitar-heavy album. Below, he and guitarist Craig Ross take a look back at a suite of songs born of jams, soundchecks and dreams
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February 2026
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OBEYING THE CALL
TEEMU MÄNTYSAARI ON THE MAKING OF MEGADETH AND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE THE BAND'S FINAL GUITARIST IN A LONG LINE OF GREATS
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February 2026
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Jason Narducy
In 2025, a Chicago alternative-music fixture teamed up with a Hollywood actor to launch a barnstorming R.E.M. tribute tour. This already-rich pageant will only get richer in 2026...
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February 2026
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Jonas and the Les Paul
It turns out Kevin Jonas - yeah, the guy from the Jonas Brothers lives and breathes guitar just like the rest of us
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