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June 18
- Harley Benton decks out Dullahan headless guitar range with new finishes and tuning hardware, starting at $457
- Mastodon announces first-ever acoustic show – at an aquarium
- Paul McCartney: “I figured out my own way of doing fingerstyle – that’s really how I learned every instrument I play”
- 10 best bass guitars 2021: top 4-string and 5-string bass guitars for beginners to pros
- Steve Howe: "There has to be a certain accuracy in the live sounds. It was possible because I was using Line 6 – I was fascinated with the Variax"
- Prime Day guitar deals 2021: all the early deals in one place
- Best blues amps 2021: electric guitar amplification for when the thrill is gone
- Seymour Duncan’s new Vapor Trail Deluxe teams all-analog delay tone with versatile digital control
- Bullet For My Valentine announce self-titled 7th studio album, share brutally heavy debut single, Knives
- Origin Effects accused of attempting to “strip” Revival Electric of its name
- Megadeth's new album will not feature David Ellefson's bass recordings
- Over 6 hours of never-before-seen restored Beatles footage to air on Disney+
- D’Addario co-founder Janet D’Addario dies aged 72
- The history of Fender tweed amps
- Way Huge Atreides Analog Weirding Module review
- Tony Choy: "I’m a groove-oriented bass player – I love to stay in the pocket. I love the groove. We call it a kick drum with notes"
June 17
- Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis on being inspired by Thin Lizzy and working with Kurt Vile
- From radical, guitar-heavy remixes to moving country-blues: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- KK's Priest bring scorching six-string leads and pounding palm-muted fury with new single, Sermons of the Sinner
- Melting Fender Stratocaster art piece to appear at Degrees of Separation street art event featuring Dave Navarro and Billy Morrison
- Tracking down Steve Vai's elusive "Crossroads" Jackson – the most famous guitar that was never heard
- Watch Tim Henson improvise with Herman Li using Jason Becker’s original prototype Peavey Numbers guitar
- Jim Ward: “I've always written on an unplugged electric guitar. That's why I play a lot of bombastic stuff with open strings – it fills up the room”
- Godin equips its hybrid Radium model with a sleek new Matte Green finish
- Boss officially launches the HM-2W Heavy Metal Waza Craft pedal
- BIG|BRAVE's Mathieu Ball: “Whenever we play something too musical, I feel it’s almost a cop out. We have to get rid of any traditional guitar playing!”
- Moon Groove Master GM4 review
- How to use synth pedals on guitar
June 16
- Ian Curtis’s iconic Vox Phantom VI guitar returns to Manchester for major music exhibition
- Mark Knopfler donates signed Fender Stratocaster to Streets of London's #ComeOnHome prize draw
- Eddie Van Halen-signed Kramer, gifted to his guitar tech, Tom Weber, goes up for sale
- Soundgarden reach temporary agreement with Chris Cornell’s estate over social media accounts and website
- Yngwie Malmsteen says his upcoming Parabellum tour won't feature a guest vocalist: “No singer. Just me”
- Watch Michael Gilbert deliver a hard-thrashing playthrough of Flotsam and Jetsam's Brace For Impact
- Slash's 10 best guitar solos ranked
- Steve Hackett: "My first professional gig with Genesis was a complete disaster. I forgot every single note I was supposed to play"
- Fender Master Builders celebrate the Fender Play Foundation with 12 one-of-a-kind ‘Student’ guitars
- Danny Elfman: “I’m not a shredder. My guitar on this album was the feedback and the messiness!”
- The Edge launches signature guitar strap to raise money for refugee women
- Boss RC-5 Loop Station review
- Harley Benton debuts new sub-$500 semi-hollow single-cut, the Aeolus
June 15
- Paper Citizen - Wandering Ghost EP review
- An amazingly well-spec'd $899 Epiphone version of Alex Lifeson's Les Paul Axcess Standard has arrived
- Lucy Dacus: "One piece of advice I would give to anybody: get a bad guitar. It's almost like a blank slate and creates a sense of freedom"
- Chris Martin IV steps down as CEO of C.F. Martin & Co Guitars
- 9 best guitar straps 2021: play in comfort and secure your guitar in style
- Harley Benton launches left-handed EX-84 LH Modern and EX-76 LH Classic
- Gamechanger Audio launches the Bigsby Pedal
- Sick Riffs: Conor Kelly teaches you the soaring guitar solo of Waker's Many Days Ahead
- Juan Nelson, bass player for Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals, dies aged 62
- Fender ‘68 Custom Pro Reverb review
- Marty Friedman: “Much of the Japanese music that is currently very popular has a melodic structure that echoes a lot of '70s Western rock and pop“
June 14
- Liz Stringer: “I didn’t have any design for the outcome, which was very different to other records I’ve made”
- California police recover 9 stolen vintage guitars worth $225,000
- Code Orange tease collaboration with The Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan
- Julien’s Auctions 'Music Icons' lot, featuring Eddie Van Halen and Prince-played guitars, rakes in nearly $5 million in three days
- Kurt Cobain’s stage-played DOD Grunge pedal sells at auction for $16,000
- Gus G drops hard-riffing, solo-loaded new single, Fierce
- Watch Joe Bonamassa and Jared James Nichols tear through Crossroads at the Gibson Garage grand opening concert
- Ubisoft announces Rocksmith+ subscription-based guitar-learning platform
- New VR game Unplugged lets you play guitar without an actual guitar using hand-tracking technology
- Hatebreed‘s Chris Beattie: ”No matter what you do in life, but especially as a bass player, you’ve got to keep learning”
- Status Quo's Francis Rossi: "I put a Tune-o-Matic bridge on my Tele like the old Gibsons. I think all that stuff, and taking off the lacquer, added to the tone"
- Electro-Harmonix Oceans 12 review
- Guitarist uses his feet to play Guns N' Roses' Sweet Child O' Mine in its entirety
- FM Guitars teams up with Chordinero for mammoth dual-neck-compatible capo
June 13
- Teenage Fanclub’s Norman Blake: “If we share the load, it should mean that we can come up with a stronger album”
- Take center stage with 20% off everything you need to play live at Guitar Center
June 11
- George Harrison’s estate announces massive All Things Must Pass 50th anniversary reissues
- Dave Grohl says surviving Nirvana members have recorded “really cool” new music
- Breedlove Guitars celebrates three decades in business with the luxurious 30th Anniversary Phoenix acoustic
- Steve Lukather: “I used to learn George Harrison shit and everyone thought I was a badass! Now little kids on YouTube play like Stevie Ray Vaughan“
- Eric Bibb announces new album Dear America, drops blues-soaked single, Born Of A Woman
- Country guitarist Chris Stapleton joins H.E.R. for a spellbinding performance of Hold On at the CMT Music Awards 2021
- Brian May explains why he uses a sixpence as a pick
- How omitting the 5th in chords can open doors to a much wider musical vocabulary
- Watch Eddie Van Halen play the riffs from Amsterdam years before its release in newly unearthed 5150 studio footage
- The history of the Fender Telecaster, the world's first mass-produced solidbody electric guitar
- The best PRS SE Custom 24 deals in June 2021: own a top-rated PRS for less
- Trapped in Purgatory's Jon Hoare: “I don’t go for expensive gear. If I can make it from the car to the rehearsal room in one trip, then it’s mission accomplished”
- The secrets behind Billy Zoom's guitar tone on X's Los Angeles
- This insane-looking bass guitar is made of 2,000 Lego bricks
- Bernie Marsden pays homage to Albert, BB and Freddie King with his first solo album since 2014, Kings
- A quick Q&A with Brad Cox
June 10
- The Offspring’s Dexter Holland and Noodles: “Everything from Smash ’til now seems like it’s all part of the same era”
- From euphoric post-rock to gritty, overdriven blues: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Save on BIAS plugins and the Spark amp with this Prime Day-beating deal from Positive Grid
- Dhani Harrison: “If you've got time and the will to do it, you can make a guitar sound like anything”
- Voodoo Glow Skulls' Eddie Casillas: “This record is the most ska we've ever been – we've never had clean guitar tones on any of our albums before this”
- Grez Guitars pays homage to '50s-era electric guitars with the Mendocino Junior, built from 100-year-old redwood
- Lee Rocker: ”Elvis was like Batman or Superman when I was a little kid – even before I was aware of his music. It’s so raw”
- Hamstead Soundworks aims to open up a solar system of high-gain tones with all-new Comet: Interstellar Driver pedal
- Arturia promises “audio effects you’ll actually use” with its analog-inspired FX Collection 2 plugins
- Best lunchbox amp choices 2021: 8 great portable amps for gigging
- Redbeard Effects debuts its first-ever overdrive pedal, the Angry Rhubarb Paradynamic Overdrive MKII
- OPFXS crams all of its innovative effects – and more – into one fully reprogrammable compact pedal, the V-Uno
- Best Epiphone Les Pauls 2021: 10 budget-friendly versions of Gibson’s iconic single-cut
- Fender’s latest limited-edition equips the ’70s Telecaster Deluxe with a Strat-style tremolo
- Matt Heafy joins forces with Richard Marx for metal-heavy reimagining of pop classic Right Here Waiting
- Jared James Nichols announces new EP Shadow Dancer, shares gritty first single Skin 'n Bone
June 9
- Garbage’s Steve Marker: “It was important to keep the initial spirit that we had when we wrote these songs”
- Lucy Dacus releases anthemic new single Brando, complete with full guitar tab
- Behold the Bass Giant – a 13-feet-tall sculpture that features 16 fully playable bass guitars
- John Frusciante and Flea team up for their first recorded material in over a decade
- Guess KMA Audio Machines' next pedal and you could win a fully loaded pedalboard
- The Tragically Hip's Rob Baker on how the Canadian rock icons unearthed their long-lost sophomore sessions for surprise new EP, Saskadelphia
- Jason Hook set to auction off guitars, motorcycles and other memorabilia
- Deafheaven announce new album Infinite Granite, share euphoric single, Great Mass of Color
- Solar Guitars launches new Tele-inspired range with the EverTune-equipped T1.6AN
- Yvette Young gifts Willow Smith her signature Ibanez YY10 guitar
- William DuVall: "That conception of basic musical competence as punk… I wasn’t one of those people. I was on a quest for the truth and jamming to everything"
- David Gilmour teases a sonic shift for his next album: "The electric guitar I'm currently playing is not as 'rock god' as one might expect"
- Amp impedance explained: how to connect your amp head to your cabinet
- Tash Sultana: “I always think there is never enough guitar on records. I’m all for the guitar layering and layering and layering...“
June 8
- Lindsey Buckingham announces first solo album in 10 years
- John Mayer performs first-ever live rendition of Last Train Home on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
- Cort introduces the G280 Select, an impressively spec'd revamp of its flagship G280DX
- 5 highlights from the weekend's star-studded B.B. King Museum celebration
- Renforshort: "I get surges of creativity at 3 in the morning – I'll be up in bed, trying different tunings and seeing if I come up with anything cool"
- Marty Friedman was preparing for a Madonna audition when he landed the gig with Megadeth
- Best acoustic guitars 2021: 11 top acoustics for guitarists of all ages and abilities
- Kemper launches Fuzz Drive System with new Profiler OS update
- Guitar accessories for beginners and beginner guitar gear essentials
- Wolfgang Van Halen: "Dad would rather people not try and sound like him but sound like themselves. I’m being myself – I’m not sitting there doing covers of Panama"
- Warrior Guitars unveils a line of electrics built using hundreds of layers of automobile spray paint
- The Ampbot – the “most portable, powerful, plug-and-play guitar amp ever made” – launches on Kickstarter
- Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready looks back on 30 years of Ten: “It was the first time I was in a situation where everybody was firing on all cylinders“
- August 2021 Guitar World lesson videos
June 7
- Spotlight: Rosie Tucker
- 11 best looper pedals 2021: become a one man band with one of the greatest loop pedals
- Watch Kyle Gass's star-studded video for vaccine-inspired take on the Ramones' I Wanna Be Sedated
- Slash, Phil Collen and Robert DeLeo join forces for a scorching cover of Jimi Hendrix’s Fire
- Amazon Prime members can get up to 4 months of Amazon Music Unlimited completely free
- 11 best guitar cables 2021: brilliant instrument cables for electric, acoustic and bass guitar
- Brad Whitford has his doubts that Aerosmith will ever perform again: “Age is becoming a real factor”
- The Linda Lindas make national TV debut with blistering performance of Racist Sexist Boy on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
- Cleopatrick's Luke Gruntz: “We want to try and give kids something enticing to belong to in guitar music”
- Eddie Van Halen hated how he inspired a wave of “intense uber-shredding”, says Steve Lukather
- Tom Morello announces yet another collaboration, this time with The Bloody Beetroots
- John Mayer sent Mary Spender his new single before anyone else got to hear it
- D'Addario launches environmentally sustainable line of Eco-Comfort guitar straps
- Alter Bridge‘s Brian Marshall: “Bass is a different skill set and a different mindset. I think we’re just born that way“
- Fender American Acoustasonic Jazzmaster review
- Phil Collen: “I put a DiMarzio Super Distortion T in my Teles and got the sound we’d been trying to get for years“
June 6
- Sly Withers - Gardens album review
- 9 best bass amps for practice 2021: top combos for working on your chops at home
June 4
- Tsakalis AudioWorks targets classic Marshall-style amp sounds with versatile Room #40 pedal
- The 10 best guitar wireless systems 2021: set your playing free, from the rehearsal room to the stage
- From yacht-rock reinventions to Viking metal: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- 10 best beginner electric guitars 2021: kick start your musical journey with these epic electric guitars for beginners
- Fender expands its Artist Signature Series with the highly decorated Dhani Harrison Ukulele
- Rolling Stones fans, get 45% off a Guitar Tricks annual sub plus 32 Stones song lessons
- The Darkness announce new album, Motorheart, reveal full UK tour in 2021
- Chris Robertson: "For me, 'self-medicating' always meant sitting down with a guitar, but it got to where that didn't do it for me anymore"
- Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love voted greatest guitar riff of all time
- EBS Stanley Clarke Acoustic Preamp review
- Classic gear: Gibson ES-175
- Jimi Hendrix's estate gives the nod to an officially licensed “Live at Monterey” bobblehead figure
- TC Electronic announces Paul Gilbert signature MojoMojo overdrive pedal
- John Mayer embraces the ’80s in a big way on new track Last Train Home
June 3
- An interview with Fender Custom Shop Master Builder Kyle McMillin
- KHDK joins forces with Trivium for the Ascendency overdrive
- ESP kits out its entire LTD Deluxe 1000 Series with stainless steel frets
- Session great Yolanda Charles on her best (and worst) bass albums
- Fern Guitars unveils new-and-improved prototype of its innovative modular six-string, The Phoenix
- Yngwie Malmsteen unleashes Relentless Fury with second Parabellum single
- Sultry, wah-drenched new Prince track, Born 2 Die, unveiled
- Orange branches out into high-end electric guitars with luxuriously crafted OE-1 single-cut
- The 10 best acoustic guitars for beginners 2021: New to acoustic guitar? These easy acoustic strummers are for you
- David Lee Roth partners with John 5 for new country-charged single, Giddy-Up!
- Nita Strauss weighs in on the ‘shred stigma’ debate: "Yngwie Malmsteen’s three notes are no more or less valid than BB King’s"
- Gojira's Joe Duplantier: "My approach to guitar is very physical… but not sexual!"
- Tetrarch’s Diamond Rowe and Josh Fore on building a second wave of nu-metal with freak tones, high-gain amps and songs you can relate to
- Gear Ant seeks to shake up pedalboard aesthetics with custom-designed pedal enclosures
- 18 of the best Father's Day gifts for guitar players: the ultimate guide to Father's Day gifts for guitarists
June 2
- Australian Guitar's Fresh Frets: Vol. 8
- Greta Van Fleet's Jake Kiszka: “I work very hard to articulate chords and notes. All of that sensitivity and technicality gets lost when you have too much overdrive“
- Keeley Electronics reintroduces the Katana Clean Boost in sleek Throwback White colorway
- How to play like 8 Telecaster-toting country guitar greats
- VS Audio packs two vintage-style amp sounds into one stompbox with the Blackbird Overdrive pedal
- Harakiri for the Sky's Matthias Sollak talks amplifier worship, pandemic blues and picking up the black metal torch from Bathory
- Ernie Ball Music Man releases reimagined St. Vincent signature Goldie guitar
- Chaos Audio unveils new-and-improved version of its Bluetooth-enabled multi-FX pedal, the Stratus
- Jackson adds a cornucopia of high-spec bass models to its Pro Series and X Series
- Andrew Watt: “I’m making music with no deadlines – It’s a lot freer. Because of that, cooler choices are being taken”
- John Mayer teases freshly finished hot pink PRS Silver Sky
June 1
- Amends - Tales Of Love, Loss, And Outlaws album review
- John Mayer reveals release date, title of new album
- Boutique Amps Distribution’s LA warehouse hit by fire
- Guns N' Roses announce US tour with Wolfgang Van Halen's Mammoth WVH
- Sony seeks to shape the future of effects manipulation with the wrist-worn Motion Sonic controller
- How the guitar talents behind Jay Som and Palehound joined forces for one of 2021's essential indie-rock albums
- Wolf Alice: "A lot of times, it's the ideas you feel more embarrassed to try that are your best ones”
- Sandberg celebrates its 35th anniversary with racing car-themed bass guitars
- Black Sabbath and Judas Priest donate “money-can't-buy” memorabilia to the largest-ever metal charity prize draw
- Roger Waters releases Pink Floyd’s Animals remaster liner notes following dispute with David Gilmour
- The best Fender CD-60S Deals June 2021: find the lowest prices on this top-rated beginner acoustic guitar from Fender
- Watch Dave Mustaine celebrate Memorial Day – and promote Megadeth’s own beer – using his new signature Gibson Flying V
- Dino Cazares: “I built up my picking hand speed by hanging weights off my wrist”
- Ampeg BA-108 V2 review
- Starr Cullars: "Prince used to come out to P-Funk shows – he was tripping that I was playing with them"