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- January 19
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- Wolfgang Van Halen learned Tremonti's entire setlist the night before joining the band on tour
- Steve Vai shares video detailing insane, triple-neck Ibanez Hydra guitar
- Deftones bassist Sergio Vega opens up Reverb Shop for studio- and tour-played gear
- Watch Tommy Emmanuel and Mike Dawes give Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit a virtuosic acoustic makeover
- John McLaughlin: The Montreux Years sees the guitarist select his key performances at the legendary Swiss festival
- Line 6 opens the doors to its amp collection room and showcases its finest vintage treasures
- Guitto’s GGP-04 pickup aims to turn your parlor acoustic into a dreadnought with five onboard impulse responses
- Joe Satriani announces new album, The Elephants of Mars, unveils expansive first single, Sahara
- Joe Bonamassa shows you how to get 10 different sounds from a Les Paul using just the knobs and pickups
- Cort joins forces with prog phenom Hedras for upgraded Fishman Fluence-loaded Duality II model
- Anthrax's Scott Ian teams up with his 10-year-old son to jam Sepultura's Roots Bloody Roots
- Mooer R7 X2 Reverb review
- Watch Mateus Asato treat Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah to sublime slides and lush licks in new instrumental cover
- JAM Pedals releases the Seagull, a pedal dedicated to David Gilmour’s iconic Echoes sound effect
- Avenged Sevenfold's Synyster Gates and Johnny Christ personally deliver fan a signed Schecter guitar
- Illuminati Hotties’ Sarah Tudzin: “I always feel like I’m playing in the sandbox when I’m making music with a guitar”
- How to alternate pick on guitar
- January 18
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- Nancy Wilson, Orianthi, Jennifer Batten to host women-only Rock ‘N’ Roll Fantasy Camp in Los Angeles
- Steve Vai postpones the start of his American tour
- Slipknot announce 2022 Knotfest Roadshow North American tour
- Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson says he’s against guitarists who have techs tune their instruments for them
- D'Angelico unveils new, mid-priced Premier Bedford, EXL-1 electric guitars, new Sky Blue finish for Premier SS, DC, Mini DC models
- Walrus Audio updates the Mako Series D1 High-Fidelity Stereo Delay with refined tones and new functionality
- Animals As Leaders announce US tour in support of new album, Parrhesia
- March 2022 Guitar World lesson videos
- Every Time I Die announce breakup
- Source Audio seeks to “make everything sound better” with its new ZIO Analog Front End + Boost
- Iconic pedal brand Maestro returns with five all-new stompboxes, including a reimagined Fuzz-Tone
- The 12 best budget guitar amps under $500 for 2022: affordable amps for new players and home practice
- Zakk Wylde reflects on 12 musical milestones from a career spanning more than three decades
- Shake up your progressions with 5 chords that are neither major nor minor
- Massive Unity TAE 10th Anniversary review
- Howard Alexander Dumble, legendary designer of Dumble Amps, has died
- January 17
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- Watch Yvette Young teach her transformative tapping technique in this new video lesson
- Iron Maiden may play Senjutsu in its entirety for “diehard fans” on a future tour
- Spiritbox’s Mike Stringer on the high-tech modelling solutions and innovative guitar behind the band's breakout album, Eternal Blue
- Hear the anthemic title track of Scorpions' new album, Rock Believer
- Spaceman Effects downsizes its cult classic Deluxe phaser with the powerful Explorer pedal
- YouTuber builds an entire guitar using reclaimed ocean plastic
- Percy Jones: “I related to fretless right away, and I could express myself in a way that I couldn’t do on a fretted bass”
- Sadowsky MetroLine VJ5 review
- Solar Guitars unleashes five impressively spec'd, Fishman-loaded axes for 2022
- Meshuggah announce 9th studio album, Immutable, share chug-heavy teaser
- Judas Priest reverse decision to remove Andy Sneap from live lineup
- January 14
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- Frank Zappa and The Mothers' legendary 1971 Fillmore East shows to be released in their entirety in mammoth new eight-disc box set
- Keb’ Mo’ previews his upcoming album with breezy new single, Good To Be (Home Again)
- ESP unveils 43 new LTD and LTD Deluxe models in mammoth drop
- Eddie Van Halen's former guitar tech Tom Weber recalls his insane "trial-by-fire" job interview
- Jack White shares soothing, stripped-back acoustic ballad, Love Is Selfish
- Broaden your rock 'n' roll rhythm guitar horizons with Greg Koch's jam-style lesson
- Keith Richards enters the NFT fray, auctioning off a signed Gibson ES-335 guitar and digital asset in aid of charity
- The secrets behind Uli Jon Roth’s guitar tone on The Scorpions’ The Sails of Charon
- PRS treats Mark Lettieri’s signature Fiore guitar to fresh Larkspur colorway
- Eddie Vedder’s new album is set to feature Ringo Starr, Elton John, Stevie Wonder – and guest vocals from his late father
- Coheed and Cambria announce new album, Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind, due this May
- The 10 best fuzz pedals 2022: add some filth with this guitar effects essential for your pedalboard
- Pigtronix Moon Pool Tremvelope Phaser review
- Slash dials up the classic rock crunch on Call Off the Dogs, his new single with Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators
- 2022 Guitar Workout & Simon Neil's guide to rock: inside the new issue of Total Guitar
- Dave Mustaine confirms bassist James LoMenzo will join Megadeth for the second leg of the Metal Tour of the Year
- Best guitar picks 2022: 11 recommended plectrums to upgrade your playing
- January 13
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- Melissa Etheridge unveils exclusive, custom-designed Epiphone DR-100 acoustic in conjunction with new, guitar-centric graphic novel
- From spectral folk to metal Muse: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Best cheap electric guitars under $500 2022: 12 epic electrics for smaller budgets
- Seattle production legend Jack Endino on his new solo album, recording Nirvana and Soundgarden, and his endless search for riffs he's never heard before
- Steve Vai harnesses lick lightning on new single, Zeus In Chains
- Muse release pummeling new single, Won’t Stand Down
- Epiphone vs Gibson: what's the difference?
- Watch Dave Mustaine jam Megadeth classics with fans at Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Camp
- Donner pedals are 20% off throughout January! Treat your 'board to a budget pedal overhaul
- Best pitch shifter pedals 2022: an essential tool for channeling Tom Morello, Steve Vai and Joe Satriani
- Korn deploy seven-string riff mayhem in monstrous new single, Forgotten
- The history of Paul McCartney and his iconic Hofner 500/1 bass guitar
- Udo Roesner Da Capo 75 Acoustic Amp review
- January 12
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- This heavily customized 1953 Gibson Les Paul Goldtop just sold for $35,000 – and it has an amazing back story
- Alex Lifeson launches new band Envy of None with industrial debut single, Liar
- Mammoth WVH, Dirty Honey postpone the start of their joint Young Guns North American tour
- Misha Mansoor and Mark Holcomb revive Haunted Shores for new album Void – hear thrashy first single Hellfire now
- Fender's Justin Norvell: “There's been a big rediscovery of what a guitar can be. More people understand how it can become an extension of one's self”
- This fingerstyle acoustic arrangement of Guns N' Roses' Welcome to the Jungle will bring you to your knees
- The Vintage Icon V65V promises an affordable take on a well-worn offset
- Seiji Igusa plays a guitar with no neck in his most bonkers video yet
- Orange unveils the Guitar Butler, a compact two-channel preamp and pedal platform
- PRS unveils mesmerizing Orianthi Private Stock and 24-08 switch-equipped S2 and SE electrics
- Paramore are working on a new album with “more emphasis on guitar”
- Harley Benton gets in on the expandable pedalboard action with the SpaceShip Flex 5085 and 4070
- Orange Glenn Hughes Purple Crush 50 review
- How to make it as a pro guitarist: 6 tips from an industry veteran
- January 11
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- Adam Jones offers first glimpse of potential Gibson Flying V signature model onstage with Tool
- PRS officially launches the $849 SE Silver Sky – watch John Mayer put it through its paces
- Walrus Audio introduces revamped, preset-equipped Slötvå Multi-Texture reverb pedal
- Thrash metal is alive and well – just listen to Vio-lence's furious comeback single, Flesh From Bone
- Fender honors Chicago guitarist Terry Kath with meticulous new Custom Shop LE Terry Kath Telecaster
- Megadeth and Lamb of God announce new Metal Tour of the Year dates for 2022
- Johnny Marr teams up with Primal Scream’s Simone Marie for moody new single, Night and Day
- How Failure built ambitious new album Wild Type Droid from 36 hours of jam session recordings
- Andy Sneap says he’s “incredibly disappointed” but respects Judas Priest's decision to tour as a quartet
- Billy Sheehan looks back on 30 years of Mr. Big’s Lean Into It
- Budgie frontman and bassist Burke Shelley dies aged 71
- Candy Harlots guitarist Marc Lee Dé Hugar dies aged 52
- How to break out of the pentatonic box with your solos
- Fender Kurt Cobain Jag-Stang review
- January 10
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- Watch Tool play using “backup crappy gear” and no effects during intimate final pre-tour rehearsal livestream
- Nita Strauss becomes first female solo artist to have a number one single at rock radio
- Fender Custom Shop’s longest serving employee Rogelio Centeno has passed away
- Multi-effects pedal vs individual pedals: which is right for you?
- Judas Priest to tour as a four-piece as Andy Sneap departs live lineup
- Best guitar amps under $1,000 2022: 10 top combo amps and heads
- Watch Jack White put his sparkling mystery Tele through its paces in a live performance of Taking Me Back
- Mastro Valvola launches the OFF1, a three-in-one octave, fuzz and ladder filter pedal
- Is this our first look at a Gibson Kirk Hammett Flying V?
- John 5: “It doesn’t matter if I’m in front of 500 people or 50,000. As long as I have a guitar in my hand, I’m super-psyched and it’s a good day”
- Strandberg Boden Original NX 6 review
- Nile Marr, son of the Smiths' Johnny Marr, shares “liberating” new single, Only Time Can Break Your Heart
- Vola Guitars adds 3 new color options to its Strat-inspired OZ V3 MC
- January 7
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- Watch Tosin Abasi cover Radiohead's Paranoid Android on classical guitar
- Symphony X guitarist Michael Romeo announces new solo album, War of the Worlds, Pt. 2, premieres anthemic lead single, Divide & Conquer
- From full-throttle carnage to Sweet Potato Pie: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Muse unleash their inner metal in teaser for brutal new single, Won’t Stand Down
- DJ Ashba says he submitted “8 to 10” new Guns N' Roses songs to Axl Rose during his tenure, but they never materialized
- Edgar Winter recruits Joe Bonamassa, Joe Walsh, Billy Gibbons, Ringo Starr, Steve Lukather, Derek Trucks, Keb' Mo' and more for Johnny Winter tribute album
- Slash confirms a new Guns N’ Roses album is on the way
- Expand your chord knowledge with these easy three-note Gypsy jazz voicings
- Black Label Society: “When you rehearse too much before recording, you take away all the spontaneity, all the magic, all the fire. You suck the life out of the thing”
- Death From Above 1979's Jesse Keeler: "When I first tried a Dan Armstrong bass, I was like, 'Wow, this neck is so small, and I’ve got all these extra frets. This is awesome!'"
- Orange Super Crush 100 Combo review
- January 6
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- AC/DC's Angus and Malcolm Young: "Most of our early tracks speed up toward the end. After the guitar solo we’d start to take off!"
- The Beatles' legendary 1969 rooftop show will be screened in IMAX cinemas on January 30
- TC Electronic introduces the Infinite Sample Sustainer, complete with onboard reverb and modulation effects
- 20 of the best gifts for guitar players 2022: the ultimate guide to gifts for guitarists
- Best gifts for bass players 2022: 10 of the ultimate gifts for bassists
- Diane Martin, wife of C.F. Martin & Co Executive Chairman Chris Martin IV, has died
- Mastodon: “We write our guitar parts separately then show them to each other. We’re not a jam band – we’re more like choreographed acrobatics”
- Best PRS SE Custom 24 deals January 2022: get your hands on a top-rated PRS for less
- Best Fender CD-60S deals January 2022: get a top-rated beginner acoustic guitar for less
- Ibanez treats the TS9 Tube Screamer to a Ruby Red colorway to celebrate its 40th anniversary
- Iconic pedal brand Maestro is making a comeback this year – is the legendary Fuzz-Tone about to return?
- Tim Commerford: "I’ve always shied away from having basses made for me, but with Music Man I’m really happy to say that this is a bass I’m part of"
- Blackstar Dept. 10 Dual Drive and Dual Distortion review
- John Mayer tests positive for Covid-19, drops out of Dead & Company's Playing in the Sand festival
- Loathe debut punishing new single, Dimorphous Display
- Faith Guitars pledges to plant at least one tree for every guitar it sells
- January 5
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- Radiohead side project The Smile premiere punky debut single, You Will Never Work In Television Again
- Albert Lee: "I took the middle pickup out of this SG and put it on the Tele. I'd like to think I was one of the first people to do that!"
- Fender CEO Andy Mooney “not optimistic” that guitar and amp supply chain struggles will improve any time soon
- Brody Dalle's boyfriend alleges Josh Homme tried to throw him off a balcony
- Want to get Lemmy's bass tone? The new Bass Player reveals all
- MXR reboots its cult classic Blue Box for the refined Poly Blue Octave pedal
- Positive Grid expands its hardware lineup with the new BIAS FX 2-friendly Riff audio interface
- Mike Rutherford: “The Strat can be anybody – it covers all kinds of moods. Other guitars like Gibsons have a sort of one-sound thing, I think”
- YouTuber equips his Telecaster with classical guitar strings – and the results are surprisingly good
- Fender Player Plus Jazz Bass review
- Guitarist records entire album using only broken guitars
- Wet Leg: "We didn’t set ourselves any boundaries. We’d just hit our guitars sometimes – actually hit them!"
- January 4
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- PRS confirms launch date, specs of John Mayer signature SE Silver Sky
- Courtney Barnett: “I’ve started realising how many more options there, are that the ideas are really endless”
- Watch Josh Klinghoffer cover the Golden Girls theme song in honor of Betty White
- Joe Satriani announces fine art tour for January 2022
- Jared Dines recruits Michael Angelo Batio, Manuel Gardner Fernandes, Rabea Massaad and Felix Martin for quite possibly the best shred collab ever
- Trivium: “We wanted to capture lightning in the bottle rather than plan too much. There were no constraints, limitations or boundaries”
- Young Pantera fan gifted Dean Dimebag Darrell ML from anonymous music store customer
- Nirvana Nevermind album artwork lawsuit dismissed
- David Lee Roth cancels his entire Las Vegas residency
- Wolfgang Van Halen names his 2 favorite Van Halen albums
- Samsung is releasing a guitar with LED guide lights on its fretboard
- 7 easy tips that will help you write your next song
- Strymon Zelzah review
- KHDK Electronics debuts two-in-one Scott Ian signature pedal, the JSL
- January 1
