Dinosaur Jr.

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

Luca Stricagnoli

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

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

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

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

Tomahawk

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

As Everything Unfolds

Rising UK metallers go for glory on their stunning debut album, within each lies the other

“Supersonic”

Oasis | Definitely Maybe, 1994 | Guitarist: Noel Gallagher

Marty Friedman – Beast From The East

On the goosebumps-inducing Tokyo Jukebox 3, shred great Marty Friedman tackles the japanese pop charts: “it’s pretty much straight-up j-pop that I put on steroids”

Peter Frampton

The talkbox-toting guitar legend talks new covers album, modded Marshalls and being reunited with his prized Les Paul custom after 30 years

Kirk Douglas

How The Roots guitarist and fallon veteran helped turn the “underrepresented” sg into a jack of all trades

Jurassic Classic

On the 50th anniversary of Electric Warrior, producer Tony Visconti discusses the genius of T. Rex guitarist Marc Bolan

GEORGE HARRISON - IT'S ALL TOO MUCH

ON THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF GEORGE HARRISON’S PASSING, GUITAR WORLD CELEBRATES HIS GREATEST BEATLES-ERA GUITAR TRACKS — AS CHOSEN BY THE WORLD’S GREATEST GUITARISTS

Dave Hause

THE WORKING CLASS HERO — AND FORMER LOVED ONES FRONTMAN — DIGS INTO HIS ROOTS ON HIS NEW EPS, PATTY AND PADDY

Gilby Clarke

THE FORMER GUNS N’ ROSES GUITARIST UNLEASHES SOME “STRAIGHT-AHEAD ROCK ’N’ ROLL” ON HIS FIRST SOLO ALBUM IN 20 YEARS

Jazzercise

RODRIGO Y GABRIELA DIVE HEAD FIRST INTO UNCHARTED WATERS ON THEIR DAZZLING NEW EP

Genghis Tron

THE EXPERIMENTAL METALLERS ARE BACK — AFTER 13 YEARS — WITH AN UNEXPECTED NEW SOUND. GUITARIST HAMILTON JORDAN GIVES US THE LOWDOWN ON DREAM WEAPON

New Music, Anyone?

THIS MONTH: THE RETURN OF YNGWIE MALMSTEEN AND THE ARRIVAL OF CARDINAL BLACK, PLUS CHOICE CUTS FROM IDA MAE, MARC RIBLER AND MORE

George Harrison - The Quiet One Sounds Off

George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass gets the 50th-anniversary box set treatment, lovingly curated by his son, Dhani

Ernest Ranglin – All Hall The King Of Ska Guitar

The life and times of jamaican guitar legend ernest ranglin

GUITAR'S GREATEST LIVE MOMENTS!

From the iconic to the infamous to the (literally) incendiary, we’ve tracked down the absolute wildest on-stage antics in six-string history

Liquid Tension Experiment

SILENCING YEARS' WORTH OF REQUESTS, JOHN PETRUCCI & CO. UNLEASH THE FIRST LTE ALBUM IN MORE THAN TWO DECADES

THE PHANTOM ZONE

BLACK VEIL BRIDES RETURN WITH THE PHANTOM TOMORROW, THEIR FIRST FULL-LENGTH ALBUM IN THREE YEARS. GUITARISTS JAKE PITTS AND JINXX BRING GUITAR WORLD INSIDE THEIR UNIVERSE FOR A CLOSE LOOK AT WHY THE NEW ALBUM MIGHT JUST BE THEIR “BEST WORK YET.”

Tamar Aphek

HOW A FORMER CONCERT PIANIST WAS LURED INTO ROCK — AND GUITARDOM — BY THE SIREN CALL OF DISTORTION

Interview – Damon Johnson

On the hard-rocking battle lessons, the former Black Star Riders/Alice Cooper/Thin Lizzy guitarist establishes himself as a force of one

Born For One Thing

Joe Duplantier details the themes, tones and influences that led to Fortitude, GOJIRA’s cinematic, hard-hitting and uplifting new album (plus songcraft, Death, Whammy pedals and that fine-looking mahogany Charvel...)

Tetrarch – Addictively Unstable

Tetrarch’s Diamond rowe and Josh Fore are more than willing to take you back to the golden era of Nu-metal

THIS VAN'S A-ROCKIN' ON THE NEW VAN WEEZER.

WEEZER’S RIVERS CUOMO OPENS UP A “PANDORA’S BOX OF EVIL GUITAR TOOLS” AND GOES CRAZY. BELOW, HE DISCUSSES HIS POST-EDDIE VAN HALEN SHRED INFLUENCES, EIGHTIES HAIR METAL AND WHY OZZY OSBOURNE HAD TO APPROVE ONE OF WEEZER’S NEW SONGS

Ludic

WITH HER NEW BAND, FORMER CALPURNIA GUITARIST (AND WEEZER MUSIC VIDEO STAR) AYLA TESLER-MABE HEADS FOR UNDERSTATED, GROOVE-FORWARD WATERS

Evile

WITH LEAD GUITARIST OL DRAKE NOW MANNING THE MIC, ENGLAND’S EVILE RETURN TO UNLEASH VINTAGE THRASH METAL HELL WITH THEIR LATEST ALBUM