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“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…

November 2024 Guitar World editors’ picks
By Michael Astley-Brown published
Fresh jams from GW faves like Ola Englund, Smith/Kotzen, Ally Venable – and the hottest new guitar acts you need to hear right… about… now

9 must-hear albums that fueled the British blues guitar boom
By Denny Ilett published
The essential records that chart blues music’s epic journey – from its Delta roots through to the masterpiece that launched the heavy rock movement

Thin Lizzy to release first new record in over 40 years
By Phil Weller published
The Acoustic Sessions will feature stripped back acoustic reimaginings of some of the band's biggest hits

“The sonic equivalent of a fist-fight between James Hetfield and Alex Lifeson”: October 2024 Guitar World editors’ picks
By Michael Astley-Brown published
The hot new tracks and deep cuts GW editors have been listening to this month

Eddie Van Halen’s soloing takes center stage once again as the last song he ever wrote with his brother is released
By Matt Owen published
Unfinished is a powerful, mournful instrumental epic that sees the late guitar legend let loose on six minutes of guitar action

How Richard Bona found a rare Pastorius tune for his Brazilian-inspired solo album
By Nick Wells published
Bass worshippers will need to listen between the layers to catch the bottom-end brilliance of Bona’s Jaco tribute

Grace Bowers takes a rare acoustic turn to cover Led Zeppelin on her new single
By Matt Owen published
The fast-rising 18-year-old blues-rock sensation has paid homage to Page with an atmospheric take on Going to California for her new single

“I have convinced myself that they are the best actual rock band in the world at the moment”: September 2024 Guitar World editors' picks
By Michael Astley-Brown published
Your monthly round up of the freshest new cuts from the world of guitar courtesy of Tetrarch, The Cure, Larkin Poe, Amyl and The Sniffers, Dayglow, and many more
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