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- September 18
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- Classic gear: Boss DM-2
- Jimi Hendrix: paying tribute to the ultimate guitar hero, 50 years on
- From radical acoustic reinventions to masterclasses in metalcore: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Blackstar and Gordon Smith/Auden announce plans to “demerge”
- Watch Steve Vai – actually, many Steve Vais – shred Joe Satriani’s Teardrops
- The 8 best fuzz pedals 2020: a guitar effects essential for your pedalboard
- Dean introduces the budget-friendly Edge Pro Select Series bass with walnut and burled poplar tops
- Gibson donates two dozen acoustic guitars to Bozeman, Montana high school
- The best guitar capos 2020: 10 top choices for acoustic and electric guitar
- Larrivée C-03R-TE Custom review
- Strymon unveils the NightSky - its most experimental multi-reverb pedal yet
- September 17
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- Victory Amplification and Two Notes launch the Victory Official DynIR Virtual Cabinets
- PRS and Sweetwater team up for the fully head-turning Owls in Flight electric guitar
- Boss updates its classic octave circuit with the new OC-5 pedal
- Upgrade your Sadowsky – or any J-style bass – with the new Sadowsky VTC Retrofit Kit
- Roger Glover: "I'm a simple bassist. I’m not the virtuoso bass player that some people expect"
- How to use reverb pedals on bass guitar
- How to get the most out of four-note blues solos
- Rob Caggiano waxes lyrical on his new Jackson signature, the Shadowcaster
- The best electric guitars under $2,000: high-end guitars for intermediate and pro players
- Boss’ Pocket GT packs an amp modeler, multi-effects processor and practice toolkit into a compact unit that, yes, fits in your pocket
- Juketone Trailblazer Head review
- September 16
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- What’s the deal? Positive Grid sells 100,000 Spark amps
- Robby Krieger: “In the Doors’ music there are a lot of silences. We weren’t the type of band that had to fill up every little gap“
- Is it worth modding a cheap guitar?
- Conjure “jangly, shimmering” new-wave and post-punk tones with Big Ear’s Albie pedal
- What would Death's extreme metal riffs sound like stripped of distortion?
- Harness dual-amp power in a compact pedal with MXR’s new FOD Drive
- Nick Johnston signs on as Orange Amplification’s newest Ambassador
- Save $150 on the highly versatile Blackstar Studio 10 KT88 combo over at Sweetwater
- Get ready to rage with the Dunlop Tom Morello Cry Baby wah
- Sick Riffs: Quinn DeVeaux teaches you the soulful acoustic chord progression of Been Too Long
- Eastman SB55DC/v review
- September 15
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- Emuso/Studio lays out the building blocks of music right before your eyes
- Reb Beach announces first all-instrumental solo album, A View From the Inside
- Watch Steve Vai, Bumblefoot, Sammy Hagar and more improvise over Joe Satriani backing tracks
- The best Stratocasters 2020: expert advice on choosing the best Fender Strat for you
- Eventide promises "a reverb as big as the cosmos" with the feature-rich Blackhole
- This guitar is built out of concrete – and the results are, well, heavy
- 10 used guitar amp bargains
- El Ten Eleven's Kristian Dunn: "I'm not even a guitar player, I'm a bass player. I'm faking my way through it!"
- Dave Grohl writes and records entire song for 10-year-old viral sensation Nandi Bushell
- The 4 artists who have appeared on Guitar World's cover more than any other
- Chicano Batman's Carlos Arévalo conjures dreamy funk soundscapes in this playthrough of psych-soul jam Moment Of Joy
- Kenny Wayne Shepherd’s stunning new signature Fender Stratocaster officially launched
- DB Bass Elbee 10 Series II and Embee 12 review
- Joe Bonamassa: ”It’s amazing how many sounds you can pull out of a guitar if you mess around with the volume and tone knobs”
- September 14
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- 8 great guitars for kids: the best electric and acoustic guitars for children
- Marty Friedman teams up with Mastodon, Baroness members to shred Fleetwood Mac’s You Make Loving Fun
- Electro-Harmonix’s Pitch Fork+ could be its greatest pitch-shifter yet
- Bill Wyman’s Fender Mustang and Vox AC30 set records for most expensive bass and amp sold at auction
- 6 best acoustic guitars under $500: our top picks, including acoustic-electric guitars
- Buy a Line 6 Helix LT from Sweetwater and get a free backpack worth $169.99
- Guitarfetish.com releases super-affordable Xaviere PRO500 electric guitar
- Jason Momoa spent the week jamming Primus tunes with Les Claypool and talking Gibson guitars with Slash
- Wade Allison, guitarist for Texas hardcore band Iron Age, has died
- Strymon teases new pedal - could it be the successor to the BigSky?
- Catalinbread unveils the Echoplex EP-3-emulating Epoch Boost preamp/buffer
- Prime Day guitar deals 2020: the latest news on dates and the best Amazon Prime Day deals for guitarists
- Sick Riffs: Josh Fore and Diamond Rowe teach you the destructive rhythms and leads of Tetrarch's I'm Not Right
- 25 acoustic guitar songs that will take your unplugged skills to the next level
- Best pickups for metal 2020: our guide to upgrading for high gain heaven
- Jason Isbell: “As I get older, I tend to play fewer notes to try and make my point“
- Fender '64 Custom Princeton Reverb review
- September 11
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- Damon Johnson and Judas Priest's Richie Faulkner team up for A Tribute to Thin Lizzy live event
- From Hendrixian R&B groovers to punkified alt-rock: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Billy Cox reveals what really happened to Jimi Hendrix’s Danelectro Shorthorn “Betty Jean” guitar
- Gibson TV delves into Joe Bonamassa’s insane guitar stash in new episode of The Collection
- Fender releases Road Worn Vintera models
- Solar Guitars announces two new chug-worthy signature electrics - the GC1.6 Killertone and E1.6 Priestess
- Phoebe Bridgers confirms pointy guitars aren’t just for metal with surprise BC Rich Warlock performance
- Sick Riffs: Wade MacNeil teaches you the two-handed tapping hook of Alexisonfire's 44 Caliber Love Letter
- Mojo Hand FX reveals Mu-Tron filter-aping Little Wonder
- Margaret LaBombard: "If a song makes you feel something, you can thank the bass player"
- Beginner guitar: how to take your first steps with lead guitar
- KMA Audio Machines Cirrus review
- 10 best compressor pedals 2020: Tame your tone's dynamics with compression
- September 10
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- Get 3 packs of Ernie Ball Regular Slinky electric guitar strings for just $9.99 with this super-enticing deal
- Jimi Hendrix’s infamous 1970 Maui concerts documented in new film and live album
- Fender debuts dazzling Made In Japan Black Paisley Stratocaster
- Manson updates John Paul Jones Signature E-Bass with new pickups and finishes
- Kenny Wayne Shepherd reveals his onstage Fender amps are actually Dumbles in disguise
- Recording King unveils its first-ever tenor acoustic - the RK Dirty 30s Tenor Guitar
- The birth of Guitar World: looking back at the very first issue
- Guns N' Roses' under-appreciated The Spaghetti Incident and Live Era '87 - '93 re-examined
- The secrets behind Trevor Rabin's guitar tone on Yes's Owner of a Lonely Heart
- Death Valley High's Reyka Osburn: “It’s hard for a guitar player to be a great frontman and really work the audience“
- Bacchus Woodline Jazz DX5AC-WBDP review
- Marty Friedman reveals why he turned down offer to reform Megadeth’s Rust in Peace-era lineup
- September 9
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- Dominate the low-end with Spector's classy Euro 5 Classic bass guitar
- Flea pens touching tribute to late Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Jack Sherman
- Elite Acoustics’ D6-8 Pro is a Bluetooth-equipped acoustic amp with a six-channel mixer
- Neunaber updates Wet Reverb, Seraphim Shimmer and Echelon Echo pedals with selectable algorithms
- Could this piece of gear be the solution to guitar slippage?
- Fender has sold more guitars in 2020 than any other year in its history
- Vintage expands its Paul Brett Statesboro’ Signature Series with super-affordable 12-string and left-handed models
- Save a cool $200 on a Vox AC15 in this awesome deal over at Sweetwater
- How to play slide guitar like the world's greatest players
- Is a Billie Eilish signature Fender Telecaster set to follow the pop phenom’s just-announced ukulele?
- Sick Riffs: Shawn Adams teaches you American Dream Machine's Dead in full
- How are cheap guitars priced so low?
- Hits, misses and major labels: Veruca Salt’s Louise Post and Local H’s Scott Lucas on surviving the '90s alt-rock boom
- Danelectro 3699 Fuzz review
- September 8
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- Hear Justin Johnson's smokey, bluesy reimagining of The Beatles' Come Together
- The Taylor American Dream Series. Premium performance. Exceptional value.
- Four Year Strong's Dan O'Connor: "You don’t have to have the most expensive gear to get the best tone"
- Luna Guitars takes flight with the Vista Eagle Tropical Wood acoustic-electric
- Could Harley Benton's $300 2x12 FRFR active cabinet be the perfect partner for your amp modeler?
- Sick Riffs: Joel Jasper and J.P. Bendzinski teach you the call-and-answer guitar lines of Drugs' Joyride
- What’s the greatest Guitar World magazine cover of all time?
- Joe Bonamassa: developing your own tone is the hardest part of learning guitar
- Best distortion pedals 2020: the top 10 high-gain stompboxes for guitarists
- Legendary jazz bassist Gary Peacock dies aged 85
- Fender unveils Billie Eilish signature ukulele
- Get Ernie Ball’s Expression Overdrive and Ambient Delay for just $74.99 each with this killer deal
- Joe Bonamassa, Derek Sherinian and Simon Phillips discuss the making of their cover of Buddy Miles' Them Changes
- #GuitarWorld40: celebrating 40 years of the world's biggest guitar magazine
- Win over $13,000 worth of bass gear in Bass Player's mammoth 400th issue competition
- How Grey Daze's Cristin Davis and an all-star line-up honored Chester Bennington's legacy with Amends
- Cort Little CJ Walnut OP review
- September 7
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- 6 ways to improve the performance of your pedalboard
- Walrus Audio takes its chorus/vibrato game to the next level with the Julianna
- Eddie Van Halen goes deep on the playing and tone secrets behind 10 iconic Van Halen tracks
- A ‘Flying-V’ airplane exists – and it just made its maiden voyage
- STL Tones releases AmpHub - an ever-growing collection of amps, pedals and cabinets
- Tom Morello delivers perfect comeback to Twitter troll who claimed he could “play his s**t piss-drunk on my back”
- This insane electric guitar is built out of 50lbs of salt - but it sounds pretty sweet
- Harley Benton shakes up the sub-$500 acoustic market with first all-solid wood acoustic-electric
- Modern Vintage MVP4 review
- Wishbone Ash's Andy Powell: “Profiling amps keep you from killing the music by spending hours trying to get the definitive guitar sound“
- September 4
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- From fiery riff-rock to dancefloor-primed indie perfection: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Skreddy Pedals’ Super 100 preamp seeks to conjure British-style tube roar
- The Great Guitar Build Off provided luthiers with a kit to create any electric they wanted - and the results are insane
- Solar Guitars rolls out bloody cool Canibalismo six- and seven-string Type V models
- Fender launches 60th Anniversary Road Worn Jazz Bass with weathered finish and matching headstock
- How Bill & Ted Face the Music became the most triumphant celebration of the electric guitar's past, present and future
- The history and mythology behind Fender's rare Blackguard Telecasters
- Joel Hoekstra teaches you the guitar solo for Whitesnake's Always and Forever
- Orange Crush Acoustic 30 review
- September 3
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- Mooer introduces four-channel Air P10 Wireless System
- Matt Bellamy gifted Tom Morello a guitar… Now Morello has returned the favor
- Genesis and Phil Collins guitarist Daryl Stuermer is selling guitars and other gear on Reverb
- Harley Benton unveils SolidBass range of affordable bass amps and cabinets
- Former Bay City Rollers bassist Ian Mitchell dies aged 62
- Mike Dawes offers an intimate look at his acoustic arrangement secrets in this mind-blowing live premiere
- Sick Riffs: Johny Fisher teaches you the tremolo-drenched chorus line of Okey Dokey's Threw My Love Away
- Behind the scenes of Fender Custom Shop's bass creations
- Yamaha Pacifica 1611MS review
- Biffy Clyro's Simon Neil: ”I like my Strat to sound like someone losing their mind and clawing at the door”
- Mike Landau: "Some people drive fancy cars - I went with a cheap Ford and bought a Dumble instead"
- September 2
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- Gilmore Guitars unveils the Bobby G, an electric guitar constructed from monkeypod wood
- Greg Koch joins forces with Tone City for the Lil Heat mini overdrive pedal
- Justin Hawkins on AC/DC: "There’s no left turn that leaves you disappointed. Every crescendo satisfies"
- PRS launches Pulse Artist program to support up-and-coming players
- Ernie Ball debuts versatile Short Scale StingRay Bass
- Sick Riffs: Josiah Mazzaschi teaches you the electro-shoegaze thunder of Bizou's Crashing Sky
- How hybrid picking can open up a world of progressive possibilities
- Tom Morello: "Guitar playing has a different emphasis now – young people want to be producers before musicians"
- Manson META Series MBM-1 review
- September 1
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- Adrian Smith reveals the origins of Iron Maiden's three-guitar lineup
- Marty Friedman explains why he's ditched delay and reverb for his just-announced new album, Tokyo Jukebox 3
- Are you the Guitarist of the Year?
- Post Malone and Jared Dines have been jamming together
- FU-Tone unveils new line of "indestructible" Black Titanium locking tremolo hardware
- Guitar Rig 6 Pro has finally been announced
- Mateus Asato teams up with Jackson Audio for hugely versatile El Guapo Signature Overdrive/Distortion
- Sick Riffs: mxmtoon teaches you the stripped-back ukulele lines of cliché
- Fender debuts all-rosewood necked American Professional Stratocaster
- How to build dramatic tension with dotted-quarter syncopations
- Trivium's Paolo Gregoletto: "I haven’t used a cab live in years. Bass was ahead of the curve when it came to DI"
- Trinity by Relish review