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Strandberg Boden N2 Original
The most advanced Boden platform to date arrives, bringing with it choice upgrades and pickups designed in collaboration with Fishman
3 min |
Holiday 2025
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Craig Chaquico
The Jefferson Starship guitarist on his days as a touring teenage sensation and fighting the “corporate rock” tag
7 min |
Holiday 2025
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Boss RT-2 Rotary Ensemble
Boss attempts to take everything that made the RT-20 great and shrink it to a third of its size
2 min |
Holiday 2025
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TRENDING NOW!
The Guitar World guide to 21st-century gear trends
7 min |
Holiday 2025
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Fender Ultra Luxe Vintage '60s Telecaster Custom
Does this high-end mix of the classic and the contemporary succeed?
3 min |
December 2025
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HOLDING DOWN THE FORT
What does it take to be in Guns N'Roses for 23 years and counting? Let's just say that for Richard Fortus, it requires tone mastery, the ability to mesh with his legendary gunslinger partner and a highly desirable signature Gretsch
10 min |
December 2025
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Martin GPE Inception Maple
Progressive, powerful lutherie with piano-like clarity
3 min |
December 2025
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Canyon Lights
Pat Faherty, formerly of Boston blues hounds GA-20, resurfaces in a new power trio
2 min |
December 2025
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Boss VG-800
A guitar chameleon with the ability to dramatically transform your instrument
2 min |
December 2025
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Christone “Kingfish" Ingram
It's a new era for the blues guitar prodigy of our times
7 min |
December 2025
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Ana Popovic
The Serbian guitarist on the \"jubilant\" recording of her new album
2 min |
December 2025
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Cardinal Black
How many bands take 16 years to craft their debut album? This one did...
4 min |
December 2025
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Brent Hinds
On August 20, we lost one of modern heavy music's most accomplished guitarists. We salute the master of Mastodon
8 min |
December 2025
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Samantha Fish
With her latest studio release, the Kansas City blues rocker bottles the energy of life on the road
6 min |
December 2025
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BLUES RBOOM!
Is Buddy Guy our greatest living blues guitarist? As his 10th decade approaches, we meet the master for a frank talk about passing the torch, the importance of a sip of cognac and the advice he gave Jimi Hendrix
6 min |
December 2025
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Joe Bonamassa
When you're on a winning streak, don't mess with the formula - and opinions be damned, says the perennial blues phenomenon
9 min |
December 2025
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Larry McCray
After his career flagged, intervention from Joe Bonamassa and Josh Smith brought this Michigan master to the forefront of the blues
1 min |
December 2025
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EVH 5150 Iconic Series 15-watt 1x10 Combo
This might be the smallest amp in the Iconic series, but it sure packs plenty of firepower
2 min |
December 2025
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THE GEAR HUNTER Suhr Guitars
John Suhr knows a thing or two about tone. Hey, the guy oversaw repairs at Rudy's Music in NYC, modded amps with Bob Bradshaw, became a Senior Master Builder and launched his own admired brand
5 min |
December 2025
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Rising Son
With their third album (and a bit of his dad's Frankenstein), Wolfgang Van Halen and Mammoth are taking the world of rock guitar by storm once again - critics, anxiety and wildfires be damned
10 min |
December 2025
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SLASH AND BURN
Saul “Slash” Hudson is the luckiest man in rock. Quitting Guns N’ Roses in ’96 when they were on top of the world, he returned in ’16 for the ultimate victory lap, making peace with Axl Rose, playing guitar at the peak of his powers – and even learning to love a certain, harmonics-heavy ballad
10+ min |
December 2025
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Blackstar ID:X 50
In the fierce modelling combo amp market, can Blackstar deliver?
2 min |
December 2025
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EarthQuaker Devices Easy Listening
A guitar headphone amplifier that aims to make things easy breezy for players with pedalboards
2 min |
December 2025
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HOW TO PLAY THIS MONTH'S SONGS
GUITARIST TRAVIS STEVER kicks off this driving, uptempo rock song with a punchy, syncopated lead riff in the key of D minor, playing in the 10th-position D minor penta-tonic “box” and aggressively digging into his note attacks with both hands (see bars 1-12).
4 min |
November 2025
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Santa, Laughing, Spreads His Wings
Paradise Lost guitarist Gregor Mackintosh on the tricky task of combining miserablist metal with Yuletide cheer
4 min |
November 2025
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Peavey Josh Homme Decade Too
In its 60th-anniversary year, Peavey updates a little amp gone by, aka Josh Homme's \"secret weapon\"
3 min |
November 2025
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Miracle Men
Zakk Wylde reflects on his one-of-a-kind relationship with Ozzy
7 min |
November 2025
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Brad Gillis Dials it Back to the Beginning...
BELOW, BRAD GILLIS remembers the day Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne asked him to fill Randy Rhoads' spot in Ozzy's band.
4 min |
November 2025
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Laurence Juber
The veteran session guitarist talks playing for Wings, Harry Styles and more
9 min |
November 2025
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Quadvium
Welcome to the Tetradom! Fretless wonders Steve DiGiorgio and Jeroen Paul Thesseling set out to create a bass-forward epic, but their fusion-heavy debut album isn't just a rhythmic duopoly
2 min |