Guitar World

Guitar World is the world’s leading guitar magazine. Professionals and beginners alike turn to Guitar World for top-flight coverage of their favorite artists, from rock titans like Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Metallica's Kirk Hammett to contemporary stars like the White Stripes' Jack White and Tool's Adam Jones. Every issue of Guitar World magazine offers broad-ranging interviews that cover technique, instruments and lifestyles as well as Guitar World’s famously thorough lessons and transcriptions.

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

WHAT'S ON MY PLAYLIST • TAINÁ BERGAMASCHI & SONIA ANUBIS OF CRYPTA

Zach Person • HOW A JAW-DROPPING GARY CLARK JR. COVER ON AMERICAN IDOL LED TO TO SHARING A STAGE WITH BUDDY GUY, SHARING BILLS WITH FOO FIGHTERS — AND RELEASING A MULTI-FACETED DEBUT ALBUM

AXOLOGY

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

As Everything Unfolds • RISING UK METALLERS GO FOR GLORY ON THEIR STUNNING DEBUT ALBUM, WITHIN EACH LIES THE OTHER

Don’t Panic! • JIMMY BROWN EXPLAINS HOW TO USE THE PROCO PANIC BUTTON TO BOOST YOUR GUITAR VOLUME THROUGH A PA SYSTEM

New Music, Anyone? • THIS MONTH: REIMAGINED COUNTRY BLUES FROM THE BLACK KEYS, PLUS NEW TUNEAGE FROM BELLA THORNE (WITH MALINA MOYE), PAUL GILBERT, SCOTT McKEON AND MORE...

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”

STOMPIN' THE BLUSE! • 10 PEDALS that will help you channel the blues gods and bring your very best pentatonic licks to life

Hill Country Kream • Dan Auerbach goes to the source of Mississippi Hill Country blues and enlists guitarist Kenny Brown, R.L. Burnside’s right-hand man, for The Black Keys’ new collection of blues standards

Hill Country Blues Essentials • Want to hear more? Here’s where to start

Everybody Hollerin’ GOAT • MEET KENNY BROWN, THE GREATEST OF THE HILL COUNTRY BLUES SIDEMEN

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

Live Wires • A bevy of name-brand guitarists — from Morello to Strauss to Bonamassa to Reid — name their favorite, most life-changing concert moments

Burnt Offerings • WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE MONTEREY STRATOCASTER AND OTHER GUITARS THAT JIMI HENDRIX SET AFIRE? BY ERIC KIRKLAND

A Texas Flood of Live Memories

ON THE ROAD AGAIN? • PAUL GILBERT, the Eagles’ VINCE GILL and Zepparella’s GRETCHEN MENN discuss a shift from boring to touring

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

BACK TO THE FUTURE • JAKE PITTS RECALLS HIS MOMENT AS A GUITAR WORLD COVER BOY

Solidbody Remix • D'ANGELICO DELUXE ATLANTIC AND DELUXE BRIGHTON

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Technical Ecstasy • JACKSON PRO SERIES DINKY DK MODERN EVERTUNE 6

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Torrefaction Guaranteed • CORT GOLD-A6

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Buzz Bin • Fender Mustang Micro

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