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Brent Hinds of Mastodon performs at Riot Fest 2024 at Douglass Park on September 22, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois
Brent Hinds’ estate sets the record straight on its ongoing Mastodon lawsuit

By Phil Weller Published

The estate has responded after news broke of its lawsuit with Mastodon

Guitarists
Orange Baby Terror
Meet the Baby Terror: Orange's answer for the modern musician

By Guitar World Staff Published

Sponsor Content Created With Orange

With hands-on tone shaping, pedal-friendly features, direct recording and a footswitchable boost, this 1.5 kg head is built for more than bedroom volume

Desktop Amps
Carl Carlton posing with his guitar
How British superstar Robert Palmer pushed his guitarist out of imposter syndrome

By Janelle Borg Published

Sideman to the stars Carl Carlton recalls one particularly difficult studio session, and how Palmer’s confidence in him eventually helped him nail the track

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Brent Hinds (L) and Bill Kelliher of Mastodon perform in concert at the Austin Music Hall on October 28, 2015 in Austin, Texas.
Bill Kelliher on his difficult songwriting sessions with Brent Hinds

By Phil Weller Published

Kelliher reflects on his songwriting partnership with the late Brent Hinds

Bands
The Roger Giffin Outlaw Custom Shop Guitar Collection
The inside story of the ‘Outlaw Guitar Collection’ – unique bootleg guitars made from stolen Gibson parts

By Jonathan Horsley Published

The remarkable story of the wholly unauthorized project that pushed the limits of Gibson guitar design using its own materials – and why the guitars are finally going up for sale

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A guitarist with a nylon-string guitar in his lap holds his cellphone out in front of him
Has social media been good or bad for guitarists?

By Jackson Maxwell Published

Has social media’s playing field equalization outweighed its darker psychological effects and the cases of thievery? Let us know your thoughts

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Martin/Epiphone/Mono/Gibson/EHX
My pick of the best guitar gear launched this week: Fractal blinks first, Tim Henson gets more signature gear, and Joan Jett’s iconic Epiphone triumphantly returns

By Matt Owen Published

A vintage week for guitar gear thanks to new drops from Martin, Gibson, Fender, Mono, EHX and more...

Guitar Gear
Billy Corgan points to his new Reverend Billy Corgan Z-One Infinite Sadness signature model
Reverend launches the very sweet Billy Corgan Z-One Infinite Sadness – and there’s a Drop-Z baritone version too

By Jonathan Horsley Published

Who wants that honey? The Billy Corgan Infinite Sadness is released to coincide with the Smashing Pumpkins’ Rats in a Cage Tour, and is limited to 60 instruments

Electric Guitars
Sterling By Music Man Cory Wong StingRay II
Cory Wong’s Sterling By Music Man StingRay II is officially here, and even nicer than we remember it

By Jonathan Horsley Published

Do you remember NAMM 2026? Yeah, we've still got the nightmares, the Anaheim stare, but this affordable, all-kinds-of-high-end-looking Wong signature model is no flashback

Electric Guitars
Sammy Hagar plays a red Explorer [left] in 2025; Alex Van Halen in action behind the kit during a Van Halen show in 2015.
Sammy Hagar responds to Alex Van Halen calling him a “complete idiot”

By Jonathan Horsley Published

Hagar makes an impassioned play for the Van Halen co-founder and drummer to clear the air, and insists whatever he wrote in his book, it was all true

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