Latest Features
Fender has announced its new CEO – what does it mean for the future of the iconic guitar brand?
Fender’s new CEO pioneered the firm’s most talked-about projects. Now he’s taking his innovative Fender Japan ethos global
Foam swords, steel riffs – and medieval raga? Meet the queen of fantasy doom metal guitar, Castle Rat’s Riley Pinkerton
Who can stop the irresistible rise of underground heavy metal’s most theatrical troupe? Pinkerton, the self-styled Rat Queen is taking no prisoners
How the Cry Baby wah pedal changed electric guitar – and why it’s still (kinda) underrated
Popularized by Hendrix and Clapton, resplendent on some of guitar's greatest tracks, the wah pedal might divide opinion, but it has transformed the instrument
How Italian maestro Andrea Rinciari is reinventing the great American jazz guitar songbook
Soho Sessions is the sound of Rinciari cutting loose and putting his own stamp on the classics, with the help of his one-of-a-kind Fibonacci Ambassador
The boutique pedal explosion and what comes next in this golden age of guitar effects
Jamie Stillman of EarthQuaker Devices gives GW a pulse check on the trends affecting what we see on our pedalboards
What Brandi Disterheft learned from her studies with bass legend Ron Carter
The New York jazzer lifts the lid on her early lessons with the world’s most recorded bassist
Unorthodox, powered by EMGs, Gary Moore's 1982 Charvel San Dimas was the battle-ready hot-rod he needed in the ’80s
Hasty mods made to this Charvel made it a choice workhorse for Gary in the early ’80s – and it fetched over $40,000 when auctioned at Bonham's
Why Jared James Nichols stopped obsessing over gear – and honed in on his playing instead
Freedom, says Nichols, is the knowledge you can pick up anyone's guitar and sound like you, and now the Nashville-based Les Paul wrangler is finding that freedom in songwriting
