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Bachman-Turner Overdrive release first new material in over 25 years – and it features a Neil Young guitar solo

By Jenna Scaramanga Published

Young takes care of business with a pounding solo on 60 Years Ago, while the band announces a Canada/US tour

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Captain Beefheart performs onstage with The Magic Band at The Concertgebouw, Amsterdam on April 8, 1972
Aggressively bizarre, Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica remains one of the craziest guitar-driven albums ever made

By Andy Aledort Published

Dense as a rainforest and often hard to grasp, Captain Beefheart's best-known album is the poster boy of late-Sixties avant-garde rock

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Photo of Eddie VAN HALEN and Steve LUKATHER and Eddie VAN HALEN; L-R. Steve Lukather, Eddie Van Halen
Alex Van Halen says a new Van Halen album is in the works – and he’s recruited Steve Lukather to help him complete it

By Matt Owen Published

Reports coming out of the Netherlands have seemingly confirmed a new Van Halen record will become a reality

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Sam Fender performs on Day 2 of Leeds Festival 2023 at Bramham Park on August 26, 2023 in Leeds, England
February 2025 Guitar World Editors’ Picks

By Michael Astley-Brown Published

A round-up of the best new guitar releases from the month of Feb, with new cuts from Sam Fender, Tash Sultana, Los Pirañas, and... Buddy Guy and Switchfoot?

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WEMBLEY ARENA Photo of George HARRISON and Eric CLAPTON, with Eric Clapton, performing live onstage at the Princes Trust Concert
Lost chords that George Harrison wrote down before his passing have been turned into a new song

By Matt Owen Published

For the Love of George is taken from a new George Harrison tribute album, which was recorded using the late Beatle’s own guitars

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Jimmy Page (left) and Rich Robinson perform onstage at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles in 1999
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”

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Joe Bonamassa and Sammy Hagar – Fortune Teller Blues cover
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

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Left-Rusty Williams playing an acoustic guitar Right-Grand Man's album cover
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

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Band Aid recording session
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

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Mk.Gee, Gary Clark Jr., Jack White and Emily Roberts
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

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