7 of the best 7-string guitar songs By Peter Hodgson Believe it or not, the 7-string has been around since long before djent rose to popularity... Here are some of the best songs that utilize this genre-pushing instrument
Watch Ace Frehley play classic Kiss songs in the Guitar World studio By Jackson Maxwell The Spaceman himself shows off some classic Kiss riffs - in all their attitude-filled, swaggering glory
Watch Ritchie Blackmore and Deep Purple perform in New York in 1973 By Damian Fanelli See the band's classic Mark II lineup at the peak of their powers
5 times a live version of a song was better than the studio recording By Tom Gilbert A studio recording merely captures a moment in time. Who says you can't play the song more convincingly 17 days later in front of a live audience in Peoria?
AC/DC's Angus Young handles a heckler during Bad Boy Boogie By Damian Fanelli You can take the schoolboy out of Glasgow, but you can't take the streets of Glasgow out of the schoolboy
Billy Sheehan names 5 of his favorite bass albums By Bass Player Staff Sheehan is one of the world’s most accomplished bassists - so we can all learn from the five albums that influenced him
Watch Eddie Van Halen, David Gilmour and Les Paul Play Blue Suede Shoes with Stray Cats By Damian Fanelli Quite simply one of the greatest all-star guitar jams of all time
The 10 best movies for guitarists By Tony Grassi From Wayne's World to School of Rock, these films will provide some satisfying six-string viewing...
Kurt Cobain's final Guitar World interview: “We play so hard that we can’t tune our guitars fast enough. People can relate to that” By Jeff Gilbert The Nirvana icon talks his love for the Fender Mustang and why he wouldn't endorse Gibson in his last conversation with GW
Tony Iommi names the best - and worst - Black Sabbath albums By Jeff Kitts The heart and soul of Black Sabbath offers his own thoughts on the highs and lows of the band's vast discography
Tony Iommi's 10 best Black Sabbath riffs By Guitar World Staff, Intro by Jackson Maxwell Guitar World pays tribute to one of rock's greatest axemen by revisiting 10 of his greatest riffs
*repeat repeat's Jared Corder: "College only offered jazz or classical guitar, and the guys in classical were all metalheads, so I chose that" By Mark McStea The guitar playing half of the US-based duo talks Glazed, *repeat repeat’s guitar-packed (and catchy-as-hell) new album
Dylan LeBlanc: "Certain guitar moments can sound like poetry if you get ’em right" By Joe Bosso The American guitarist and singer-songwriter on the influence of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers on his writing style
Turkish metal guitarist Demir Demirkan on how writing in English shaped his latest album, Elysium in Ashes By Jeff Kitts The hard-rocking shredder by way of Istanbul looking to make a name for himself on American Shores
Submit your questions for Robert Cray By Damian Fanelli Round up your best and brightest questions and send them our way, people
Stephane Wrembel: "When you cut out string noise, you’re left without the physical aspect of what a musician does" By Joe Bosso Stephane Wrembel’s annual The Django Experiment albums are mind-blowing odes to the music, legacy and influence of the late, great Django Reinhardt
Nirvana's Krist Novoselic: "I'm never in any bass magazines" By Bass Player Staff Back in 2012, we met the bassist turned political activist, commentator and now recipient of his own signature instrument
Sam Kiszka: hard rock is alive with Greta Van Fleet By Freddy Villano The fast-rising band's bassist talks influences, gear and what he thinks of those Led Zeppelin comparisons
Tim Commerford: "My tone is always a work in progress, and the stage is my laboratory" By Jon D’Auria The Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave bassist talks Prophets of Rage, songwriting and his practice regimen
Guthrie Govan: "I don’t see how it’s possible to have too much technique or knowledge" By Joe Bosso He of the mad, mad skills talks dinosaurs, blind alleys and the Aristocrats’ quirky-as-hell new album, You Know What...?
