Music Releases

Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker also features on the track

Two generations of virtuosos – Steve Vai and Matteo Mancuso – join forces, Midwest Emo GOATs American Football return, Anna Calvi works wonders with her Telecaster, Mateus Asato gives us long-awaited instrumental bliss, and Angine de Poitrine deliver, uh, “Dada-Pythago-Cubist Mantra-rock” – all this and much, much more

Stage Tour has been tipped as the spiritual successor to Guitar Hero

Featuring an onslaught of leviathan power chords from Sunn O))), a bruiser of a blues rock romp from Jared James Nichols, a beautiful, heartfelt piece of desert blues from Imarhan, a genre-obliterating piece of twisty guitar genius from Tim Henson, and a whole lot more

We’ll have to wait a little longer to hear their track, but the record’s dazzling first single is ramping up the excitement

Let There Be Shred finds Teemu Mäntysaari playing like a man possessed – and Dave Mustaine doing karate in the music video

Atlas and Nothin’ mark the band’s first new material since 2023

The new guitar music that GW editors have been obsessed with this month: fresh names, old hands and trailblazing players

Liven up your Halloween with six-string (and five-string) sorcery from Alter Bridge, Mei Semones, Whitney, Karma Sheen, Jacob Collier, Unprocessed, and many more

Cryin’ is the first taste of Asato’s eagerly anticipated debut album