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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SOUNDING BOARD • Got something you want to say? EMAIL US AT: GWSoundingBoard@futurenet.com

A Bad Moon Still Rising • “PEOPLE WONDER HOW THE MELVINS ARE STILL HERE,” BUZZ OSBORNE SAYS. “THE SIMPLE ANSWER IS WE NEVER STOPPED”

Alvvays • WHAT’S THE KEY TO FINDING THE RIGHT GUITAR TONE? FOR THESE TORONTO INDIE ROCKERS, IT’S PRETTY SIMPLE: CRANK UP THE AMPS!

Jared James Nichols • FOR HIS INTENSE NEW ALBUM, THE PENTATONIC ROCKER DIGS DEEPER INTO HIS PERSONAL EMOTIONS

Peter Dankelson • WITH AN ACE BAND BEHIND HIM, THE YOUNG GUITARIST WON’T LET GOLDENHAR SYNDROME HOLD HIM BACK

Double Your Fun • ON HIS LATEST RELEASE, UFO STALWART VINNIE MOORE DELIVERS VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL VERSIONS OF THE SAME TRACKS — PLUS: AN UPDATE ON THE STATUS OF UFO

Nikki Lane • THE GRITTY COUNTRY STAR GETS EVEN GRITTIER ON THE JOSH HOMME-PRODUCED DENIM & DIAMONDS

Will to Live • OBITUARY’S KEN ANDREWS AND TREVOR PERES TAKE GW THROUGH THE DEATH METAL INSTITUTION’S VITAL — AND EVEN BLUESY — 11TH ALBUM, DYING OF EVERYTHING

Party On, Garth! • 10 LAST-GASP HAIR METAL GUITAR ALBUMS

Gabriel Akhmad Marin • MEET A FUSION WIZARD WHO’S CHANNELING THE SOUNDS OF EASTERN EUROPE AND WESTERN ASIA THROUGH HIS FRETLESS AND MIDI BOARD

Pat Finnerty • AH YES, THE MAN BEHIND THE HIT YOUTUBE SERIES, “WHAT MAKES THIS SONG STINK”

QUOTABLE Farewell, Croz • IN THIS EXCEPT FROM ONE OF DAVID CROSBY’S FINAL GUITAR INTERVIEWS (2021), THE BYRDS AND CSNY CO-FOUNDER REFLECTS ON HIS STORIED CAREER

CHRIS HAYES • GW catches up with the guitarist whose stellar solos and riffs graced Huey Lewis and the News’ era-defining songs, including “I Want a New Drug” and “The Power of Love”

TOM VERLAINE 1949–2023 • The cult hero who reconfigured guitar music and inspired generations of alternative rock bands

SUPER NOVAS • HOW U.K. SENSATIONS NOVA TWINS CREATED THEIR HEAVY AND UNIQUE SOUND — AND WHY THEIR PEDALBOARDS REMAIN A CLOSELY GUARDED SECRET

GENRE -NEUTRAL • MISHA MANSOOR, MARK HOLCOMB and JAKE BOWEN take you deep inside their latest slice of trademark Periphery riffery, Periphery V: Djent Is Not a Genre

AMERICAN DREAM • In the Seventies, four British bands achieved wild success pretty much everywhere — except the U.S. Below, SLADE’S NODDY HOLDER & JIM LEA, STATUS QUO’S FRANCIS ROSSI, the SWEET’S ANDY SCOTT and DR. FEELGOOD’S WILKO JOHNSON (in one of his final interviews) explain what did — and didn’t — happen

THE PEDALS THEY CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT • Pedals have provided some of the most thrilling guitar tones in history, from “Purple Haze” to “Comfortably Numb.” To celebrate decades of stellar sounds, we asked 60-plus guitar greats to choose their ultimate stompboxes

Super Freak • FENDER ’48 DUAL PROFESSIONAL JB EDITION

Tensile Strength • CORT KX700 EVERTUNE

Proof of Concept • ABASI CONCEPTS ĒMI 7 MASTER SERIES

Browne Amplification The Fixer and The Carbon

OBLIQUE WORKOUT, PART 3 • Incorporating oblique bends into ascending and descending phrases

TOOLS OF THE TRADE, PART 2 • The 1961 Gibson ES-335

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