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.

GILMOUR: THE SOLO YEARS

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Old-School Cool • WHY 18-YEAR-OLD GRACE BOWERS MIGHT BE THE GREATEST THING TO COME OUT OF NASHVILLE SINCE MARTIN'S BAR-B-QUE JOINT

MY PEDALBOARD RICHIE KOTZEN • WHAT THE FORMER POISON (AND CURRENT WINERY DOGS) GUITARIST SEES WHEN HE LOOKS DOWN

Asymmetric Universe • MEET TWO BROTHERS WHO TRAFFIC IN PROGRESSIVE-DJENT, ELEVATOR JAZZ AND MERCURY-DRIPPING GUITAR AND BASS RUNS

LOST CLASSICS: Cocteau Twins’ Robin Guthrie • THE ALT-ROCK INNOVATOR ON HIS COCTEAUS GEAR, EFFECTS FASCINATION AND THE NEWLY REISSUED COCTEAUS/HAROLD BUDD COLLABORATION, THE MOON AND THE MELODIES

Austin Powerhouse • LIKE EVERYONE ELSE WHO’S READING THIS HEADLINE, AUSTIN SIX-STRINGER IAN MOORE HAS BEEN ON A CONSTANT SEARCH FOR SONIC PERFECTION; HE JUST MIGHT HAVE COME A LITTLE CLOSER TO IT THAN THE REST OF US

Catching Up with Karl Sanders • IT TURNS OUT SEASONED METAL PROS CAN STILL LEARN VITAL LESSONS FROM THEIR YOUNG GUITAR STUDENTS; CASE IN POINT, BEHOLD NILE’S FEROCIOUS LATEST, THE UNDERWORLD AWAITS US ALL

Alcest • “I FELT THAT ALCEST MAGIC AGAIN, AND I KNEW I WAS BACK.” HOW NEIGE OVERCAME SOME SERIOUS WRITER’S BLOCK TO CREATE THE FEEL-GOOD SHOEGAZE-METAL ALBUM OF THE YEAR

Jontavious Willis • IT'S NO WONDER THIS WEST GEORGIA GUITARIST IS SOMEHOW THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE OF MODERN ACOUSTIC BLUES

Wunderhorse • BLAZING BRITISH INDIE ROCK IS ALIVE AND WELL — AND IT'S NAMED AFTER A NEARLY FORGOTTEN TV SHOW FROM THE FIFTIES

My Favorite Riffs: Marcus King • THE SOUL, BLUES AND ROCK MONSTER DISCUSSES THE FIVE RIFFS THAT STOPPED HIM IN HIS TRACKS — AND SHARES AN AMAZING MEMORY OF GARY ROSSINGTON’S FINAL SHOW

RUSAN GUITARWORKS • With Prince’s Cloud 3 guitar fetching nearly a million bucks in June, we speak to Dave Rusan about working for the Purple Rain legend and the replicas he continues to produce for diehard fans

LEARNING TO FLY • HOW MIKE CAMPBELL APPLIES LESSONS LEARNED FROM TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS AND FLEETWOOD MAC TO HIS OWN BAND, THE DIRTY KNOBS

LES DUDEK • Meet the guitarist who played on the Allman Brothers’ “Ramblin’ Man” and “Jessica,” dated Cher, worked with Steve Miller, got scolded by Mike Bloomfield and was almost a founding member of Journey (But wait, there’s more…)

JUSTIN HAYWARD • The iconic Moody Blues guitarist revisits obscure Moodies tracks and discusses the gear and thought processes behind his gear, tone and criminally unsung riffs

FROM MADONNA TO MINISTRY • IT MIGHT SEEM STRANGE THAT A DUDE BEST KNOWN FOR PLAYING GUITAR LINES FOR PUMPING, THUMPING DANCE SONGS IS NOW BLOWING EARDRUMS WITH INDUSTRIAL METALLERS MINISTRY. BUT MONTE PITTMAN SAYS HE’S RIGHT WHERE HE BELONGS

KNOT’S LANDING • TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, A LITTLE-KNOWN DES MOINES, IOWA, BAND DROPPED AN ALBUM THAT WOULD FOREVER CHANGE THE LOOK AND SOUND OF HEAVY METAL. BELOW, SLIPKNOT’S MICK THOMSON DISCUSSES THE MANIC RECORDING OF SLIPKNOT, HIS 1999 GEAR, THE ALBUM’S WEIRD DEARTH OF GUITAR...