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...?
Laura Cox on being a leftie playing right-handed and why she'd take a high-end Epiphone over a cheap Gibson By Jonathan Horsley The maverick French hard-rocker talks Burning Bright, chicken pickin’ and why the YouTube comments section is not as terrifying as being onstage for the first time
Jimmy Page’s guitar gear: everything you need to nail the Led Zeppelin legend's sound By Jonathan Horsley Looking to emulate that pristine Stairway to Heaven twang? Or perhaps the pounding riff of Immigrant song? We’ve got you covered
Submit your questions for Adam 'Nergal' Darski By Damian Fanelli Round up your best and brightest questions and send them our way, people
Stone Sour's Josh Rand on how he changed from bass to guitar by accident and what's next for the band By Amit Sharma The hard-rock guitarist gives GW the lowdown on the group's surprise live album Hello, You Bastards: Live in Reno
Joe Bonamassa: "It’s easy to play marginally good blues. It’s very difficult to play great blues" By Richard Bienstock The best living blues guitarist - as voted by you - shares soloing advice and the inside scoop on his next album
Misha Mansoor, Jake Bowen, Plini and Jakub Zytecki go deep on gear, technique and the future of djent By Amit Sharma It's a tech-metal round table! The Periphery axemen are joined by two of today's leading virtuosos to wax lyrical on all things tech-metal
The 20 best guitar riffs of the decade By Jonathan Horsley We’ve got scuzzy blues-rock, skronky indie, a whole bunch of heavy and some funk, too... But was the winner worth the wait?
Watch Andy Gillion and Paul Wardingham unleash a menagerie of other-worldly lead lines in this exclusive playthrough By Sam Roche Hiraeth is taken from guitar virtuoso Gillion's debut album Neverafter
Gov't Mule's Warren Haynes: "When I switch to my ’59 Les Paul, there’s something magical there that you just can’t replicate" By Mark McStea Warren Haynes dishes on how he's kept Gov't Mule together for 25 years, and offers an interesting take on the regime of self-improvement as a guitarist
Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram: “I can’t be the kid wonder forever” By Alan Paul Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram is the future of the blues. Here, he discusses his fiery debut album
Manuel Gardner Fernandes: "I wanted to do something people might not have heard before - and I hope I’ve proved I can play everything live" By Amit Sharma The Instagram virtuoso speaks exclusively to GW about those guitar fakery accusations, his gear secrets and how he honed his jaw-dropping technique
Meet Dabin Lee, the DJ pushing boundaries with his genre-splicing guitar playing By Amit Sharma The revolutionary EDM producer on how incorporating guitar into his live sets brought a new dimension to his music
The Underground Thieves' Nick Perri on ignoring directives from Eddie Van Halen, and why he's more satisfied with his tone than ever before By Jeff Kitts The former Silvertide man discusses his new band, and how he learned to stop worrying and love a simple guitar rig
The 20 best guitar solos of the decade By Jonathan Horsley The results are in. This is the best lead playing from 2010-2019, as voted by you
10 things you didn't know about Stevie Ray Vaughan By Damian Fanelli, Andy Aledort Think you know everything there is to know about the late, great SRV? Read on!
Tommy Emmanuel: "You don’t have to fill up every millisecond with sound and noises - I let the audience fill in the gaps" By Jonathan Horsley The Australian fingerstyle maestro on technique, leaving something to the imagination, and why the story is the most important thing
Scott Stapp guitarist Yiannis Papadopoulos: "When it’s time for the solo, I give my best to play things that justify the hours I put into the guitar" By John Katic The guitar virtuoso on why The Space Between the Shadows is Stapp's best album yet
