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Focusrite redefines clarity and presence with the new spectacular Clarett+ range of USB audio interfaces

By Guitar World Staff

Sponsored Enter to win a Clarett+ 2Pre – the ultimate recording preamp – now

The ultimate playing experience: Andy Powers on Taylor's Builder's Edition guitars

By Guitar World Staff

Sponsored Featuring premium tonewoods and comfort-enhancing design touches, the new collection is a "limitless expression of our instrument-building imagination," Powers says.

Recording King pays tribute to Justin Townes Earle with new signature acoustic guitar

By Jackson Maxwell

Royalties from the sale of this acoustic – which boasts gold hardware and Earle's signature on the headstock – will go to the late singer/songwriter's widow and daughter

Rammstein’s Richard Kruspe announces fourth Emigrate album, The Persistence of Memory

By Matt Owen

Listen to the record’s apocalyptic second single, You Can’t Run Away, now

(from left) Flea, Anthony Kiedis and John Frusciante perform live on MTV on New Years Eve, 1991

Watch Red Hot Chili Peppers bring the funk to MTV's New Years Eve 1991 broadcast

By Jackson Maxwell

The band's seminal, star-making Blood Sugar Sex Magik album celebrates its 30th birthday this week

John Mayer performing live on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

John Mayer debuts live rendition of Wild Blue on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert

By Matt Owen

The Sob Rock track performance played host to some exceptional in-the-moment soloing from Mayer

Strandberg introduces hardware and tonewood overhaul in all-new NX Concept series

By Matt Owen

The brand has refined its original innovative designs with an updated EGS 7 system, fresh fretboards and new finishing techniques

Red Hot Chili Peppers give first interview with John Frusciante back in the fold

By Matt Parker

Costumed RHCP members present ‘KHOT’ news announcement detailing world tour plans for 2022

Joyo names new reverb pedal after the most-hated word in the English language

By Matt Parker

Are you ready to adjust the decay on a Moist Reverb?

Stephen Carpenter shares a peek at his epic guitar rig in new playthrough for Deftones' Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)

By Matt Parker

The Deftones man treats us to a crushing playthrough of one of the metal innovators' biggest tunes, and shows off some choice gear in the process

Steve Howe reveals he recorded most of the new Yes album with a Line 6 Spider

By Matt Owen

The prog titan paired his vintage Gibson ES-175D with the affordable modelling amp for much of the band's upcoming record, The Quest

The Ultimate Guide To Pedals – Build Your 'Board From Scratch: inside the new issue of Total Guitar

By Total Guitar editors

Also in issue 350! Interviews: Iron Maiden's Adrian Smith & Janick Gers, The Killers' Dave Keuning, Eric Bibb, Ida Mae's Chris Turpin. Gear reviews: Epiphone Slash Collection, Supro Delta King 12, Charvel DK24 HH HT E, Pigtronix Space Rip. Learn to play: Foo Fighters, Iron Maiden, José González & Trivium

[L-R] Axl Rose and Slash of Guns N' Roses

Guns N' Roses drop hard-rocking new single, Hard Skool

By Sam Roche

Like last month's Absurd, the track is an axed take from 2008's Chinese Democracy

How Eddie Van Halen shaped the sound of Def Leppard's Hysteria with a single piece of advice

By Matt Owen

Phil Collen recalls modding his Fender Strat because “Eddie Van Halen told me to do it!”

A John Overton High School student in Nashville plays an Epiphone acoustic guitar donated by Gibson

Gibson Gives donates $300,000 to Nashville school music programs

By Jackson Maxwell

Via Music Makes Us, Gibson donated guitars, 36 amplifiers, 1700 pairs of guitar strings and 116 guitar stands to schools throughout the Nashville area

Geddy Lee performs with Rush at the Sleep Train Pavilion in Concord, California

Rush’s Geddy Lee will release an “epic-length” memoir in 2022

By Jackson Maxwell

Set for release next autumn via HarperCollins, the book began as a way for Lee to channel the grief he felt after the death of his Rush bandmate, Neil Peart

(from left) Krist Novoselic, Dave Grohl and Kurt Cobain perform at the Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles in 1992

Super Deluxe 30th anniversary reissue, remaster of Nirvana's Nevermind announced

By Jackson Maxwell

Available in a number of formats and set for a November 12 release, the reissue includes the complete, previously unreleased recordings of four live shows

Andrew Savage of Parquet Courts performs during 2019 Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival on June 14, 2019 in Manchester, Tennessee.

From certified ragers to haunting, meditative fretboard excursions: here are this week's essential guitar tracks

By Michael Astley-Brown, Jackson Maxwell, Sam Roche, Matt Owen

Breathe some life into your fall playlist with new songs from Parquet Courts, Tom Morello and Bring Me The Horizon, Volbeat, Weakened Friends, Ariel Posen, Alt-J, Unprocessed and more

Volbeat announce new album Servant of the Mind, share destructive new single, Shotgun Blues

By Sam Roche

The Danish rockers' eighth studio album arrives December 3 via EMI

Musician's Friend Cyber Monday deals 2021: what to expect

By Guitar World Staff

Everything you need to know about this year's Musician's Friend Cyber Monday deals