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- December 23
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- Solar Guitars unveils the AB2.6 series, bringing bolt-on builds and a choice of fixed, Floyd Rose and EverTune bridges
- Wet Leg and Hayley Williams discuss misogyny in music: “There will always be a comment like, ‘Girls shouldn’t play guitar’”
- BBE launches the Sonic Stomp Pro and Green Screamer v2 Overdrive, updating two of its most popular pedals
- Brian May: “The Face It Alone solo is very much in the moment. It’s me trying to be a voice next to Freddie's”
- Lessons you can learn from Slash‘s blues guitar solos
- December 22
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- Remembering the guitarists we lost in 2022
- Brian Johnson “told not to” answer questions about the future of AC/DC, as it's the band's “official line”
- The story of the 1950s Fender “Payola” Telecasters, which featured one of the wildest guitar mods of all time
- ESP School of Metal Guitar: how to play guitar like Iron Maiden
- 5 guitar amp recording techniques you need to try
- Best Blackstar amps: Everything from practice amps to studio quality gear
- The birth and evolution of the Martin D-18 Dreadnought – the archetypical acoustic guitar
- Frank Iero and Travis Stever on the tapping, harmonized solos and gear change-ups that fueled post-hardcore supergroup L.S. Dunes' debut
- Journey's Neal Schon files cease-and-desist over bandmate Jonathan Cain's Don't Stop Believin' performance at Donald Trump's Mar-A-Lago resort
- Harley Benton Evil Twin review
- December 21
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- Meet the Jake Blade, a new guitar mod that could replace your whammy bar
- Chris Wolstenholme’s 10 greatest Muse basslines
- Tom Murphy on the magic of the Les Paul and the Gibson Custom Shop’s meticulous approach to reissues
- Learn the vibrato styles of 5 giants of the blues
- Epiphone Power Players SG and Les Paul review
- The best guitar albums of 2022
- Those tones you’ve been hearing on The JHS Show came from a Kemper, not the tube amp onscreen
- 2022 Holiday Ultimate Gear Guide: here are this year's hottest guitar accessories
- John Mayer likes playing guitar naked after sex, apparently
- Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons talk classic Kiss tracks, including the lick they ripped off from the Rolling Stones, and the song they nearly gave to Rod Stewart
- Head to Positive Grid for a last-minute guitar-themed gift: Bag a FREE Riff interface when you purchase their beloved amp modelling software
- Greta Van Fleet's Jake Kiszka cut off the tip of his brother Sam's thumb when they were kids – now it's perfect for bass playing
- December 20
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- SolidGoldFX buys fellow Canadian pedal brand Diamond following its closure last year
- Donner’s DPB 510 electric bass is highly recommended by Berklee Professors and ideal for players of all levels
- Best budget reverb pedals: wallet-friendly ‘board buys for the thrifty guitar player
- Hayden Maringer: “My goal is to bring guitar solos back to popular music – I want them to be at the forefront”
- Flea: “Basslines take on a different type of melody with a pick”
- The Specials singer Terry Hall dies, aged 63
- Best Orange amps: Add a splash of color to your playing with our pick of Orange amps
- Ratin launches the Apeiron Morphing Fuzz, a one-stop dirt pedal that delivers a huge range of overdrive, distortion and fuzz tones
- 2022 Holiday Ultimate Gear Guide: a roundup of this year's top effects pedals
- February 2023 Guitar World lesson videos
- Inside the strange world of King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, the most eclectic and prolific guitar band on Earth
- The history of power tubes and how they work
- Takamine LTD2022 review
- A ‘Boss’ DB-2 Doorbell pedal now exists
- Sloan’s Patrick Pentland on the art of democratic songwriting, channeling Ace Frehley through a 5150 and why he prefers a wah that looks like a car to a Cry Baby
- The Chisels Are Calling, a new documentary about legendary luthier John Monteleone, is now streaming
- Classless Act's Dane Pieper on touring with Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard, and working with Bob Rock on their debut album, Welcome to the Show
- December 19
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- Herbie Flowers: “People have often said that I should've got a writer’s credit for Walk On The Wild Side”
- Kim Simmonds, blues guitar icon and Savoy Brown founder, dies at 75
- Pioneering rock 'n' roll guitarist Charlie Gracie dies aged 86
- Kirk Hammett debuts new custom Fender, Gibson and ESP guitars at Metallica’s Helping Hands Concert
- The Tubes bass player Rick Anderson dies aged 75
- Watch Billy Gibbons perform with Joe Bonamassa and Robby Krieger at his recent birthday bash
- 2022 Holiday Ultimate Gear Guide: here are this year's top bass guitars
- Jason Momoa has bagged Gibson's last Murphy Lab "Greeny" Les Paul
- Justin Hawkins: “What?! Split harmonics on the bass?”
- Graham Coxon: “A big part of me wishes I had just kept everything simple with Blur and played Gibson Les Pauls for everything”
- How Nova Twins took their sound Supernova: “It’s more like electronic music where the bass is so loud. Guitar is the texture in between”
- Watch St. Vincent perform Nothing Else Matters onstage with Metallica
- The evolution of the Les Paul: how Gibson’s single-cut design developed from 1952 to 1978
- Magneto U-One Eric Gales RD3 review
- December 16
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- John Petrucci’s 2023 Guitar Universe camp will feature Tosin Abasi, Lari Basilio, Tim Henson, Scott LePage, Jeff Loomis and more
- Watch H.E.R. shred as Belle in ABC's live-action Beauty and the Beast show – and get a closer look at her insane "stained-glass" Fender Stratocaster
- Watch Dave Grohl and Phoebe Bridgers join Billie Eilish for a pair of covers at a recent LA show
- Acoustic guitar vs classical guitar: what’s the difference?
- Troy Van Leeuwen, Josh Klinghoffer and Daniel Ash could feature on new Jane's Addiction music in 2023
- Peter Frampton details his farewell tour guitar rig
- Tim Commerford and Jonny Polonsky on the unlikely origins and promising future of their eclectic new trio project, 7D7D
- Session guitarist Mitch Dalton takes you behind the scenes of the recording of Eric Idle's Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
- Taylor 514ce review
- 5 ways to improve your fingerstyle guitar technique
- 2022 Holiday Ultimate Gear Guide: the most unmissable guitar amps of the past 12 months
- Fender Japan launches the Elemental Series – high-spec, mid-priced models that will drive modern players wild
- December 15
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- Zoom debuts its all-new Multi-Layer IR technology with two feature-packed multi-effects processors
- 2022 Holiday Ultimate Gear Guide: the best new guitar gear of the year
- Fortnite players can now play Metallica's Master of Puppets in-game
- Best Marshall amps: Our pick of amps for rock and beyond from Marshall's full range
- Måneskin's next single will feature Tom Morello
- Manuel Gardner Fernandes equipped Tim Henson’s Ibanez nylon-string signature with a virtual whammy bar – and turned it into a different beast altogether
- Watch Steve Vai perform Jimi Hendrix's Midnight in honor of the late guitar icon's 80th birthday – with a professional Hendrix tribute artist
- Buddy Guy’s 5 greatest guitar songs
- Slash reveals how he really came up with the Sweet Child O’ Mine riff
- Victory V1 Series review
- Norman’s Rare Guitars’ Jack Ryan Sullivan talks jamming bluegrass with Coldplay’s Chris Martin, selling guitars to Jack Black, and his favorite instrument in the store
- Marisa Anderson on the art of improvisation versus composition and the everlasting allure of a sustaining electric guitar
- Watch Bernth Brodträger put fireworks in his guitar and set them off – while playing it
- 20 ways to improve your Les Paul
- 2022 Holiday Ultimate Gear Guide: here are this year’s hottest electric guitars
- Peavey celebrates 30 years of one of metal’s most iconic guitar amps with two new 6505 amp heads
- The 10 most famous bass guitars of Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones
- 2022 Holiday Ultimate Gear Guide: our round-up of this year's top acoustic guitars
- December 14
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- Scott Ian controlled Zakk Wylde’s DigiTech Whammy pedal at Pantera’s recent show
- Gibson Faded Series Les Paul and SG review
- Uri Tuchman reinvents the single-cut… by making no cuts: meet the YouTuber's bonkers square guitar build
- Scott Ian says Kirk Hammett is the most underrated rhythm player in metal
- Kenny Wayne Shepherd: "Once I found out we were going to be playing Comfortably Numb, I was quietly hoping Jim Irsay would ask me to play the Black Strat"
- Ozzy Osbourne’s 2023 tour dates thrown into question over singer’s struggle to recover from recent surgery
- The Surfrajettes on riding the wave of the surf rock revival, and adding '60s reverb twang to Britney Spears and Mariah Carey hits
- Jimmie Vaughan names his 12 favorite Texas blues guitarists
- How to play rock guitar like the legendary Michael Schenker
- Origin Effects Halcyon Green Overdrive review
- Someone put the Behringer Super Fuzz through a brutal “torture test” to see if it really is the ultimate cheap fuzz pedal
- The 10 best guitar solos of 2022
- Barrie Cadogan talks about his great gear hits and misses, and explains why the Squier 40th Anniversary Jazzmaster is a winner for fans of old-school offsets
- December 13
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- Myles Kennedy bought one of Walter Becker’s guitars – and it ended up inspiring Alter Bridge’s longest-ever song
- Meet Candy, the Pittsburgh metal band even heavier than Code Orange
- Gordon Giltrap: “All the best stuff comes when you’re not thinking about it. It just flows: you start off with a one-bar idea and then build up on that”
- Chris Buck: “We were shooting for Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon meets Ray LaMontagne”
- Watch Victor Wooten deal with a broken string in the middle of his bass solo
- Rage Against the Machine's Tim Commerford reveals he has been battling prostate cancer: "I would be on stage looking at my amp in tears"
- KHDK and Nergal launch LCFR: The Second Coming, a "more brutal" take on the Behemoth man's signature overdrive/boost pedal
- Watch Steel Panther recruit Top Gun guitarist Lexii Lynn Frazier to cover Van Halen’s Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love
- Rex Brown to miss remainder of Pantera's South American shows after contracting COVID-19
- December 12
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- Richie Kotzen, Mike Portnoy and Billy Sheehan revive The Winery Dogs with energetic new single, Xanadu
- Rex Brown misses Pantera show in Santiago, Chile after reported “health issues”
- Christone "Kingfish" Ingram: "You always want to say something when you play the blues, you always want to feel. You can’t play the blues by the book"
- One of Prince’s customized Thinline Teles has gone up for sale on Reverb
- Steve Lukather talks jamming with Eddie Van Halen, and the time Prince gave him the silent treatment
- What's Going On bass lesson: how to play James Jamerson’s iconic bassline on the Marvin Gaye classic
- How the Les Paul transformed from elegant jazz guitar to rock ’n’ roll's weapon of choice
- TC Electronic Plethora X3 review
- Charvel officially launches dazzling Sin City Sparkle-finished Pro-Mod Style 1 model
- Robert Fripp and Toyah get in the festive spirit with this oh-so-ridiculous cover of Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
- Fender's 12 days of deals sale is coming to a close - today is your last chance to pick up a bargain!
- December 11
- December 9
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- Kayla Kent – a YouTuber heralded for nailing Dimebag Darrell’s playing style – has already learned one of Zakk Wylde’s live Pantera solos
- Meet Borja Catanesi – the viral traveling street guitarist who makes better use of a wireless system than any other player on Earth
- Jack White delivers a pedal demo for the ages as Third Man Hardware partners with MXR for the Double Down
- The song in the Guardians of the Galaxy trailer is a lost '90s gem featuring a bass that once belonged to John Lennon
- John Petrucci reveals why he positions his guitar “high and nerdy”
- Steve Morse gives you a technique masterclass with this exclusive track and video lesson
- Peter Frampton on the highs and lows of his remarkable guitar journey, meeting George Harrison, and how David Bowie made him cool again
- What the heck is going on with these double-neck guitars?
- MXR Duke of Tone review
- Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge returns to Fender as he unveils new single-pickup Starcaster design
- December 8
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- PRS confirms SE version of David Grissom signature DGT guitar
- Hear Steve Vai channel his biker-rock side on newly-released track, Busted
- From six-string chess matches to Christmas shred, Blues Lawyer and beyond: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Krist Novoselic: “The bass got caught in the TV lights – and then boom!”
- Best pedalboards 2024: budget-spanning picks to help organize your guitar effects
- Stevie Ray Vaughan producer Richard Mullen: “When he played Voodoo Child live, he brought a life force to the song that no-one else could possibly do”
- The gear Jimi Hendrix used for his bluesiest moments
- An intrepid guitar researcher has assembled an exhaustive list of 100 alternate tunings – and he's just getting started
- Watch Dimebag Darrell's Destructional Home Video – a lost private guitar lesson from 2003
- Roland celebrates its 50th anniversary with limited-edition version of its iconic JC-120 Jazz Chorus amp
- Joe Satriani called it the worst record he ever made, but his debut EP featured his most innovative work
- Jackson drops chug-friendly new seven-string signature model for Northlane’s Josh Smith
- Best guitar amps 2024: tube, solid-state and modeling amplifiers for all levels and budgets
- December 7
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- MXR to release Randy Rhoads signature Distortion+ pedal in 2023
- CopperSound introduces revamped and redesigned Telegraph V2 Autostutter & Killswitch pedal
- The greatest Strat army in history? Watch Bob Dylan and Robbie Robertson lead Eric Clapton, Ronnie Wood and more in a historic rendition of I Shall Be Released
- Snark launches the Snark Air, a rechargeable ‘hidden’ clip-on tuner
- Meet the FloraVolt, a fruit-powered guitar pedal
- Chapman ML2 Pro review
- Why the Collings OM2H is beloved by so many acoustic fingerstylists
- Ernie Ball Music Man unveils Mike Herrara 2022 signature StingRay bass – limited to just 10 units
- Download and stream the audio from Guitar Techniques 343
- Phil Manzanera: “When I lived in Venezuela, a British boy showed me how to play R&B like Chuck Berry and that was it. I was converted to rock ’n’ roll”
- Mikey Demus: “For me, it's not about lead prowess – I just value something being memorable. If you can play something that moves someone, that's the ticket”
- What’s the best guitar album of 2022?
- Dunable launches the Minotaur, an all-new guitar model built for “maximum ergonomic comfort”
- The 32 greatest Texas guitarists of all time
- Crazy Tube Circuits seeks to channel Klon Centaur and Dumble tones with its two-sided Unobtanium overdrive
- Warm Audio Warmdrive review
- December 6
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- John Frusciante to release new electronic album in 2023: "After a year and a half writing and recording rock music, I needed to clear my head"
- Harley Benton pays tribute to Keith Richards’ Fender “Micawber” Telecaster with $253 ash-bodied model
- Watch Zakk Wylde play a Jimi Hendrix tribute show just two days after his first concert with Pantera
- Best acoustic guitars under $500 2024: get more for your money
- The Epiphone Adam Jones signature Les Paul has finally arrived – with a collectible twist
- The 10 best guitar riffs of 2022
- Miki Berenyi details the songwriting tension that fueled Lush's landmark '90s releases and the twice-broken Gibson 12-string that helped define her sound
- Wolfgang Van Halen has inspired EVH Gear to release 24-fret and hardtail versions of its Eddie-inspired 5150 Series guitars
- Crobot’s Chris Bishop on the aggressive expansion of his guitar playing vocabulary and the art of a gnarly groove
- Charlie Jones: “I always wanted a plastic bass guitar, but people never took the idea seriously”
- Michael Angelo Batio: “I still practice vibrato over and over. It determines whether you’ll be a great player when you’re older or not”
- December 5
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- John McVie’s Rumours Alembic bass sells for $100,000
- Watch soldiers from the US and Indian armies perform Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit
- Old Blood Noise Endeavors debuts a "true reverse effect" with the BL-44 Reverse pedal
- Richie Ranno on auditioning for Ozzy Osbourne, how a uniquely inlaid Strat helped rename Starz and why “there is no future” for the influential hard-rock outfit
- Willow on her quest to solo like St. Vincent, getting two-hand tapping lessons from Yvette Young and why her latest album is a love letter to rock music
- A guitar pedal has been sent into space for the first time
- Jamie Lenman names 10 guitarists who shaped his sound
- Supro Royale 1932R 1x12 combo review
- Steve Miller explains how he ended up getting guitar lessons from T-Bone Walker
- That time a priceless 145-year-old Martin acoustic was smashed on the set of a Quentin Tarantino film
- Watch Pantera play their first show in 21 years with Zakk Wylde on guitar
- Live Review: Good Things Festival, Melbourne 02/12/22
- December 2
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- Mojotone's new partnership with Fender allows you to create your own Fender replica amp
- A YouTuber has built a pedal to clone Kurt Cobain’s home demo tone
- Emily Barone: "Rather than just looking at the tabs, taking the time to understand what’s going on harmonically and structurally can teach you so much"
- Electro-Harmonix J Mascis Ram's Head Big Muff review
- Fender Japan revives 3 of its top-selling – and best-looking – models of recent times in new limited-edition run
- Guitarists argue the chord Prince Harry is fretting in a new Netflix trailer is, in fact, a complex jazz voicing
- Joe Bonamassa shares the blues lessons he learned from Peter Green
- Sons of Iron Maiden's Janick Gers and Radiohead's Thom Yorke team up for collaborative single
- Railhammer aims to bring heavy Smashing Pumpkins tones to all with the launch of Billy Corgan Z-One pickups
- Wampler debuts $99 Collective Series with Triumph overdrive and Phenom distortion pedals
- That 150-year-old Martin acoustic found in the back of a woman’s house has sold to an ex-Fender CEO
- December 1
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- NOFX's Fat Mike: “You can play bass better with a thin pick. Our job, as bass players, is to play whole notes – not sharp ones – and play them smooth”
- From cosmic collaborations to blistering, chug-powered breakdowns: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Watch Will Lee and Richard Bona cover Liberty City by Jaco Pastorius in this exclusive clip from the Beneath The Bassline documentary
- Orange Phaser review
- Sunn O)))'s Greg Anderson: “Getting the volume up has never been an issue for me!”
- Måneskin’s Victoria De Angelis and Thomas Raggi on Eurovision glory, supporting the Stones and making guitar-driven rock with zero limits
- Plini announces North American tour with Jakub Zytecki and Sungazer
- Darkglass revisits its Duality fuzz pedal as the Duality DFZ
- New Motörhead reissue includes a ouija board “should the desire to have a chat with Lem arise”
- John Petrucci shares his top 3 tips for better guitar tone
- Watch 9-year-old guitarist Maya Neelakantan play an awe-inspiring medley of 15 clean Tool riffs – on a guitar given to her by Adam Jones
- Rare footage of Eddie Van Halen playing an early configuration of his iconic Frankenstein guitar has been synced to audio
- Jackson launches lower-cost version of Rob Cavestany's none-more-metal signature Pro Series guitar
