The always-eclectic axeman talks gear, the Play it Loud exhibition and his absolutely wild, guest star-packed solo album

"There’s no statement of intention to retire," David Gilmour tells us. So why is he selling off some of his most iconic guitars?

"It’s not a roots record, but it has an inherently rootsy feeling.”

'Controlled Chaos' is a panoramic view of Nita Strauss' many strengths. In our Holiday cover story, one of the industry's rising stars breaks down her stellar debut.

Alice Cooper has performed with an astonishing array of guitar virtuosos, but what does he think of them? Find out here.

A handful of amazing players you might have missed—at their finest.

"I want to take a point of view and adjust it.” John Mayer opens up about his controversial PRS Silver Sky guitar.

There are few bands in rock music whose individual members have résumés as long and as impressive as those in Queens of the Stone Age.

You may not have heard of Mutoid Man, but it seems like just about everyone else has.

In 1979, the British songwriter wrote The Wall, a nightmarish rock opera he recorded with his former band, Pink Floyd.

Back in the early Sixties, the brilliantly eccentric jazz pianist Thelonious Monk created a list of what he thought every musician should know about gigging.

“My grandpa always said, getting old ain’t for pussies, and that is soooo true,” says a laughing Synyster Gates, co-guitarist in the hard rock force of nature known as Avenged Sevenfold.

It’s a pretty harsh way to say “howdy do” after such a long absence, but most metal fans would probably agree a pissed James Hetfield is a good James Hetfield.

He’s an albino blues guitarist who’s jammed with Muddy Waters, Jimi Hendrix and Duane Allman. But what Guitar World readers really want to know is …