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Exclusive Video: Walter Trout Discusses His New Album, 'Luther’s Blues: A Tribute to Luther Allison'

Posted 06/05/2013 at 7:47am | by Damian Fanelli

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Today, GuitarWorld.com presents the exclusive premiere of a new video featuring Walter Trout. In the video, the venerable blues guitarist discusses his new album, Luther’s Blues: A Tribute to Luther Allison, which will be released June 11 by Mascot Label Group's Provogue Records.

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Review: Zoom MS-100BT Multistomp Pedal with Bluetooth

Posted 06/05/2013 at 7:41am | by Guitar World Staff

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The following content is related to the May 2013 issue of Guitar World. For the full range of interviews, features, tabs and more, pick up the new issue on newsstands now, or in our online store.

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1973 Photo Gallery: 50 Classic Albums Celebrating Their 40th Anniversary in 2013

Posted 06/05/2013 at 7:30am | by Damian Fanelli, Melanie Gottshall

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Nineteen hundred and seventy-three is one of those rare years — like, say, 1968, 1969, 1971 and 1991 — that saw the release of an impressive assortment of seminal rock albums. As we wrote two years ago in our 1971 roundup, "Even for a year that falls squarely in the heart of the 'classic rock' era, it was a particularly classic year."

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Music Industry Day: 2013 Summer NAMM Show to Open Doors to the Public July 13

Posted 06/04/2013 at 4:32pm | by Guitar World Staff

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Music Industry Day Opens Iconic Nashville-Based NAMM Event to All

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Photo Gallery: Sigur Ros, Surfer Blood, BRMC and More at Sasquatch! 2013 Music Festival

Posted 06/04/2013 at 3:17pm | by Guitar World Staff, Photos by Robert Delahanty

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Check out live photos of Sigur Ros, Surfer Blood, BRMC and more!

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Yes to Host Yestival, Their First Rock Festival, August 3 in Camden, New Jersey

Posted 06/04/2013 at 2:15pm | by Melanie Gottshall

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Yes have announced their first-ever rock festival — Yestival — which will take place August 3 at the Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden, New Jersey. The band, which will be performing 1971's The Yes Album and 1972's Close to the Edge in their entirety, will be joined by the Musical Box, Renaissance featuring Anne Haslam, Carl Palmer's ELP Legacy and other acts (TBA).

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Pasquale Custom Guitars to Donate Guitars to Operation Support Our Troops America and Artistic Tools for Veterans

Posted 06/04/2013 at 12:27pm | by Melanie Gottshall

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Chicago-based Pasquale Custom Guitars has announced it will create three HTM Signature Series guitars to be donated to Operation Support Our Troops America and the Artistic Tools for Veterans programs this summer.

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John McLaughlin Announces US Tour in Support of Latest Album, 'Now Here This'

Posted 06/04/2013 at 11:50am | by Melanie Gottshall

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Guitarist John McLaughlin is set to begin his first US tour in three years. The tour kicks off June 11 in Durham, North Carolina, and will hit Asheville, DC, Bethlehem and Boston. It also will include a three-night stand in New York City at the Blue Note before ending in Toronto June 23.

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Performance Tips: Jason Becker — "Perpetual Burn"

Posted 06/04/2013 at 10:52am | by Jeff Perrin

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Throughout this title track to Jason Becker’s landmark 1988 debut album, the phenomenally gifted and accomplished young guitarist frequently employs a lead-playing technique known as sweep picking to help perform the many swift and nimble-fingered arpeggios used to convey his classical virtuoso-style melodic ideas.

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Poll: What Was George Harrison's Coolest Beatles-Era Guitar?

Posted 06/04/2013 at 10:52am | by Damian Fanelli

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Forty-nine Februarys ago, after the Beatles made their debut appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, thousands of kids across the US suddenly "needed" electric guitars, basses and drums. Kids who were able to pick out their dream gear took their cues from their new long-haired heroes and tracked down Gretsch and Rickenbacker guitars, Hofner basses, Vox amps and Ludwig drums.

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Exclusive Video: Walter Trout Discusses His New Album, 'Luther’s Blues: A Tribute to Luther Allison'

Review: Zoom MS-100BT Multistomp Pedal with Bluetooth

1973 Photo Gallery: 50 Classic Albums Celebrating Their 40th Anniversary in 2013

Music Industry Day: 2013 Summer NAMM Show to Open Doors to the Public July 13

Photo Gallery: Sigur Ros, Surfer Blood, BRMC and More at Sasquatch! 2013 Music Festival

Yes to Host Yestival, Their First Rock Festival, August 3 in Camden, New Jersey

Pasquale Custom Guitars to Donate Guitars to Operation Support Our Troops America and Artistic Tools for Veterans

John McLaughlin Announces US Tour in Support of Latest Album, 'Now Here This'

Performance Tips: Jason Becker — "Perpetual Burn"

Poll: What Was George Harrison's Coolest Beatles-Era Guitar?

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