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Unreleased Jimmy Page/Rich Robinson composition set to feature in Jimmy Page & the Black Crowes: Live at the Greek reissue
By Jackson Maxwell published
The newly remastered set, Page says, provides a glimpse of “the full explosive passion and exciting energy of those alchemical moments”

“The king of modern blues getting down and dirty (musically) with a former Van Halen singer”: January 2025 Guitar World Editors’ Picks
By Michael Astley-Brown published
2025 has kicked off with an explosion of new guitar releases, led by Joe Bonamassa and Sammy Hagar, G3, Alex Lifeson, Billy Gibbons, Joanne Shaw Taylor and so very many more

In the 1970s, Hayley Williams’ grandfather made an album that nobody heard. Now it’s finally being released through her Paramore bandmate’s label
By Janelle Borg published
Rusty Williams’ debut album, Grand Man, is seeing the light of day after it was recently unearthed by his old production partner

The iconic charity rock song that missed out on its star guitarist due to illness – and why it could have sounded very different
By Michael Astley-Brown published
Do They Know It’s Christmas? could have ended up with more guitars had fate not intervened

The best guitar albums of 2024
By Jonathan Horsley published
The guitar albums that had the biggest impact in the guitar world and beyond, as chosen by GW editors and pro players

“It’s rare to find Gilmour and Vai in one package”: December 2024 Guitar World Editors’ Picks
By Michael Astley-Brown published
This must surely be the busiest December for guitar releases since records began, as the likes of Bumblefoot, Reba Meyers, Julien Baker, TORRES and Phil X save their best for the end of the year

The best guitar songs of 2024 – as chosen by Guitar World editors and pro players
By Jonathan Horsley published
With the help of pals including Eric Gales and Vernon Reid, we run down the songs that lit up the guitar-o-sphere this year, including a remarkable hardcore breakthrough, a virtuoso collab for the ages and the prodigy that everyone’s talking about

“This is like Santana’s Soul Sacrifice at Woodstock or Hendrix’s Machine Gun”: The best guitar solos of 2024
By Jonathan Horsley published
From a supernova of tapping and pitch-shifted metal guitar anarchy to all-star team-ups, here is your year in lead guitar – featuring Mdou Moctar, Diamond Rowe and some dudes named Satriani and Vai…
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