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Guitar World
The Frst
SINGER-GUITARIST MIKEI GRAY HAS A SECRET WEAPON — A GUITAR MADE OUT OF AN OLD BUICK HUBCAP, OF COURSE
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July 2025
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BRIAN RAY
From playing the “Monster Mash” with Bobby Pickett at17 to touring the world with Paul McCartney, Brian Ray has had a career like no other
8 min |
July 2025
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Black to the Future
The death of AC/DC frontman Bon Scott in February 1980 looked like it might've also dealt a fatal blow to the band. But then they got a new singer and made a career-rejuvenating record that became the biggest-selling rock album of all time — Back in Black
10+ min |
July 2025
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On-Stage Travel Guitar Amplifier
BEFORE YOU RIP my head off for reviewing the most basic of portable guitar amps — the On-Stage Travel Guitar Amplifier — allow me to point out that there’s more to this one than meets the eye.
2 min |
July 2025
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LOST CLASSICS: Sonic Youth
NYC NOISE-ROCK PIONEER THURSTON MOORE RECALLS THE MAKING OF 1987’S SISTER AND HIS LATEST ALBUM, 2024’S FLOW CRITICAL LUCIDITY
7 min |
July 2025
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SOUND CHECK
FOR MANY GUITARISTS, the Mesa Boogie Mark IIC+ ranks at the top of their Holy Grail, bucket list, unobtanium amps.
3 min |
July 2025
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Cort Sunset Nylectric DLX
EVERY GUITAR PLAYER should have at least one nylon-string guitar in their collection.
2 min |
July 2025
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RIFFER MADNESS
How Deafheaven brought back the heavy on Lonely People with Power
7 min |
July 2025
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LIEBER GUITARS
The story of Tom Lieber, the aspiring guitar builder who wouldn't take no for an answer and ended up making prized instruments for the Grateful Dead
5 min |
July 2025
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Fender Standard Series Stratocaster
AT THIS POINT, Fender's core instruments have become the equivalent of classic novels like Moby-Dick and On the Road, which are refreshed nearly every other year for new audiences to digest.
3 min |
July 2025
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Weapons of Mass Destruction
HOW ALIEN WEAPONRY CAME UP WITH THE CONCEPT OF MIXING THEIR MĀORI BACKGROUND WITH HARD-HITTING RIFFS
5 min |
July 2025
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Ricky Warwick
HOW OLD FRIENDS (AND GUITARS) HELPED TURN THE THIN LIZZY SINGER'S NEW SOLO RECORD INTO A SONIC TOUR-DE-FORCE
2 min |
July 2025
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PERMANENT WAVZ
Envy of None guitarist Alex Lifeson brings his prodigious chops back to the forefront on the band's sophomore release, Stygian Wavz. Plus, a new Rush box set, hangin' with Geddy Lee, Lerxst gear and more
10+ min |
July 2025
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A FABULOUS DISASTER
Exodus and Slayer mainstay Gary Holt reveals what compelled him to finally roll up his sleeves and unflinchingly tell his life story
10+ min |
July 2025
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IBANEZ ICEMAN
1975-82, 1992-PRESENT CATEGORY: SOLIDBODY ELECTRIC GUITAR
2 min |
July 2025
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Funkwrench Blues
THIS SAN FRAN BASS PLAYER HAS A KNACK FOR GETTING TOP-SHELF GUITARISTS – INCLUDING VERNON REID, OZ NOY, GRANT GREEN JR. AND JAZZER MIKE STERN – TO PLAY ON HIS NONSTROP STREAM OF SPOTIFY MASTERPIECES
1 min |
July 2025
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Hamstead Redwing Analogue Stereo Modulator
THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN modulation effects are often a simple matter of different delay ranges (for example, delay times for flanging effects typically range from 1 to 15ms, while chorus typically uses a 15 to 50ms delay), delay versus filtering (a split signal is delayed for flanging or filtered for phasing), or what is actually modulated (a phaser modulates phase while vibrato modulates pitch).
3 min |
July 2025
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MY PEDALBOARD KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD
WHAT THE MODERN BLUES-ROCK ICON SEES WHEN HE LOOKS DOWN
2 min |
July 2025
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Dark Chapel
DARIO LORIA — WHO HAS SPLIT BLACK LABEL SOCIETY'S GUITAR DUTIES WITH ZAKK WYLDE SINCE 2014 — DELIVERS SOME SERIOUS FUEL-INJECTED MOTO-METAL FURY ON SPIRIT IN THE GLASS
3 min |
July 2025
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Robin Nolan
HOW A GYPSY JAZZ BUSKER BECAME A FRIEND, INTERPRETER AND COLLABORATOR OF GEORGE HARRISON
2 min |
July 2025
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Dutch Interior
ON THEIR THIRD ALBUM, THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA-BASED INDIE ROCKERS REFINE THEIR SOUND WHILE HONORING THE MUSICAL BOND THAT BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER
2 min |
July 2025
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Winona Fighter
ON THE NASHVILLE BAND'S DEBUT ALBUM, GUITARISTS COCO KINNON AND DAN FUSON SPECIALIZE IN GRUNGY POP HOOKS AND BRASH LEADS
1 min |
July 2025
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Divine Intervention
SIX-STRING-SAVANT JASON RICHARDSON ON THE NEW ALL THAT REMAINS ALBUM, DUAL GUITAR SOLOS, USING MUSIC THEORY AND IMPROVISATION (HIS ALLEGED ACHILLE'S HEEL)
7 min |
July 2025
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5 FIVE QUESTIONS CAMILLA SPERATI
THE ON-THE-RISE ROMAN GUITARIST IS HELPING TO PUT FUSION BACK ON THE MAP
2 min |
July 2025
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THE OPULENT GUITAR SCENE OF 1985
In 1985, the world of guitar playing became a grand banquet, where styles, techniques and sounds from every corner of music collided to create a tasty, revelatory moment in rock history
10+ min |
June 2025
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JIM BABJAK
The Smithereens guitarist talks “A Girl Like You,” New Jersey lore, touring with Tom Petty and his guitar tone's impact on Nirvana
10 min |
June 2025
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SMASHING PUMPKIN
Kiki Wong on her life, gear and technique before and since teaming up with Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan and James Iha in the spring of '24
8 min |
June 2025
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SOUND CHECK
THE ORIGINAL GIBSON Victory models (the dual-humbucker MVII and triple-pickup MVX) date back to the early Eighties when Gibson was losing serious market share to Fender and super Strats from upstarts like Charvel, Jackson and Kramer.
10+ min |
June 2025
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The Fleshtones
KEITH STRENG'S RHYTHMIC GARAGE RIFFS KEEP THE PUNK-ERA LEGENDS VITAL AFTER FIVE NON-STOP DECADES
2 min |
June 2025
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Bonnie Trash
MEET THE CANADIAN QUARTET TWISTING POST-ROCK WITH GOTHIC NOISE AND AVANT-GARDE SURREALISM
2 min |