The best Stratocasters 2020: how to find the perfect Fender Strat for you By Amit Sharma The best Strats for every budget and playing style
Jon Gomm: “It's inevitable that when I write a new song I'm going to have some ridiculously complex way of playing it“ By Jonathan Horsley The English acoustic guitar trailblazer on beauty over technique, audience expectations and his game-changing new Ibanez acoustic
IDLES: "We always dreamed of having such huge setups… we get giddy every time we look at our guitar rigs!" By Jonny Scaramanga Mark Bowen and Lee Kiernan talk balancing simple guitar lines with tons of gear, injecting hip-hop into guitar music and how their pedalboards got quite so enormous…
Guitar World has a long history of uniting guitar legends – as evidenced in these classic covers By Jeff Kitts #GuitarWorld40: We look back at some iconic – and surprising – cover pairings
Cory Wong on 10 key tracks from his extraordinary run of funk guitar albums By Chris Bird The contemporary funk master has recorded six albums in one year. Here, he outlines his musical journey in 10 tracks...
Zach Myers: “Brent told an audience of 2,500 people that we were making a double album… it was the first I'd heard about it!” By James Wood One half of new duo and Shinedown offshoot Smith & Myers on the pair's mammoth debut album, and what's next for the Billboard chart-topping hard-rockers
Nile Rodgers: “Bernard Edwards hated my sound with a big fat jazzy guitar… he talked me into buying a Strat!” By Amit Sharma The godfather of funk guitar talks his enormous collection, growing up in New York's studio session scene and how Fender's Acoustasonic Stratocaster is stoking his creative fire
Why Canada is home to some of the world's most exciting hard-rock guitar players By Adam Kovac The Dirty Nil, Monster Truck, David Wilcox and PUP offer a guided tour of the Canadian six-string scene
Steve Morse: ”I don’t plan out my solos. It’s not really a solo if you do!” By Amit Sharma The Deep Purple guitarist talks tone, tension and technique – and explains how jazz continues to inspire him
Classic gear: Gibson Flying V By Rod Brakes Futuristic in both design and success, the Flying V was ahead of its time
Deep Sea Diver: "I wanted the guitar to be more natural on this record, because what I was saying was truer and lyrically stated” By Matt Parker The Deep Sea Diver guitarist talks the guitars and themes behind the band's bold new album, Impossible Weight
Firewind: "This is the most complete Firewind record to date" By Matt Doria Firewind are officially back, and as Gus G fills us in, more fiery than ever before
Paul Kossoff's 'Stripped Top' 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard up close and personal By Jamie Dickson Steve Clarke walks us through the features of the guitar used to wax All Right Now
Jah Wobble on his 5 essential bass albums By Bass Player Staff Celebrating the back catalog of the former Public Image Ltd. bassist – all the hits, the misses and the maybes
Joey Molland looks back on Badfinger's tumultuous, remarkable career – 50 years on By Joe Bosso The story of the British power pop phenomenon is one of hits, Beatles, music industry sharks and tragedy
L.A. Witch's Sade Sanchez: ”People can’t go out, so this is a perfect time for everybody to learn how to play the guitar” By Joe Bosso How the burgeoning SoCal trio went from getting fired to playing for keeps with a reverb-drenched garage rock sound
Australian Guitar's Fresh Frets: Vol. 5 By Matt Doria On the lookout for your next favourite Aussie band? You've come to the right place – here are eight of the locals we're loving most at the moment!
Robby Krieger: "I always like to be really near the amp, to keep the dynamics going between guitar and amp" By James Rotondi With 'The Ritual Begins at Sundown,' the Doors guitarist's jazz muse runs free
Diesel: "I’ve been fascinated with the whole idea of suburbia since we moved from the place I grew up in..." By Matt Doria Diesel takes us for a ride through Sunset Suburbia: a piercingly poignant rock ’n’ roll paradise.
15 of the greatest all-star guitar teachers By Jonathan Horsley From legends of the old-school to the internet era’s pedagogues of polyphonic fingerstyle, these are the players who changed the guitar teaching game
