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Téa Campbell on how layered melodies and lots of guitar made Meet Me @ The Altar‘s energetic brand of pop-punk take off

By Jim Beaugez

The Reverend-toting six-stringer discusses the challenges of interstate collaboration, starting out early, and learning by music video

The Antlers - Green To Gold album review

By Matt Doria

"There’s no two ways about it: The Antlers’ comeback effort is simply delightful"

'68's Josh Scogin: “The guitar is the closest thing I have to the other side of that pandemic tunnel”

By Matt Parker

The noise-punk frontman talks returning to the stage post-Covid, his copious pedal collection and the Atlanta duo's raucous new album, Give One Take One

Meet 2020's Guitarists of the Year

By Guitar World Staff

Featuring the best electric and acoustic guitarists, best teacher, and best young guitarist, as picked by GW editors and star judges

Best distortion pedals 2021: the top 11 high-gain stompboxes for guitarists

By Jonathan Horsley, Alex Lynham

Crunch, filth, mayhem! Dive into our expert round-up of the best distortion pedals available today

Trevor Dunn: “It’s in my personality to sit back and groove with the drummer – I took to bass immediately“

By Joel McIver

With his groundbreaking work with Mr. Bungle, John Zorn and Tomahawk, Dunn is a bassist like no other

Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen: “We’ve loved Australia since the first time we went there in 1978”

By Matt Doria

Neilsen chats LP #20 and Cheap Trick's upcoming Australian tour, and bleeds a whole bunch

Download and stream the audio from Total Guitar 344

By Total Guitar editors

All of the backing tracks and audio from issue 344 of Total Guitar, to download and stream

August Burns Red on expansive new Guardians Sessions EP: “There's only so many metal riffs you can write – so we decided to do something new”

By Richard Bienstock

The Pennsylvania metalcore vets on stripping down tracks from 2020's Guardians, Mariah Carey covers and their music being used as a torture device on NCIS: Los Angeles

Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak performs at Saturn Birmingham on July 27, 2018 in Birmingham, Alabama.

Flock of Dimes' Jenn Wasner: “I'm such a fan of altered tunings. That's one of my favorite things about guitar – the malleability of it”

By Matt Parker

The Wye Oak guitarist and songwriter on the gear, ideas and thorny creative process behind spellbinding new Flock of Dimes album, Head of Roses

5 ways My Bloody Valentine changed the sound of guitar playing forever

By Alex Lynham

A deep dive into the forces behind MBV's formidable shoegaze approach, and how their pioneering take on the electric guitar changed the future of the instrument

Best rock guitars 2021: 8 of the finest rock-ready axes from Gibson, Fender, Ibanez and others

By Amit Sharma

Searching for the right guitar to rock people like a hurricane? Well, this list is sure to strike a chord

Thundercat: “Not every instrument carries the weight to be able to morph and change in the way that bass does“

By Joel McIver

Want to learn the secrets of the universe? Then you’d better join us as we sit down with Stephen ‘Thundercat’ Bruner

Erra - Self-Titled album review

By Matt Doria

"A rich, concentrated distillation of everything the fivesome excel at"

How Malina Moye teamed up with Bella Thorne for one of 2021's hottest hip-hop guitar crossovers

By Guitar Gabby

The blues-rock phenom lends her incendiary guitar style to Thorne's new single, Phantom, aided by a heavily customized Gibson Hendrix Flying V and lefty Fender Strat

Ariel Posen: “When it’s my record, I want to play and feel like I do when I’m playing live – that’s really important to me”

By Jamie Dickson

Slidemeister, tone guru, master songwriter and all-round dude Ariel Posen offers us the lowdown on his newly released album, Headway

Jaguar Jonze: "For me, guitars input imperfections, and that’s what adds to the storytelling"

By Chris Schwarten

The Aussie songwriter discusses how the guitar shapes her writing process, her COVID recovery, and the influence of spaghetti westerns on her music

Hard-rock icon Doug Aldrich on his guitar chemistry with David Lowy, Glenn Hughes… and Lady Luck

By Adam Kovac

The Dio/Whitesnake guitar-slinger discusses the importance of fortune and the inner workings of his new supergroup, the Dead Daisies

Producer Profile: Shane Edwards

By Matt Doria

Unlocking the secrets of Aussie hardcore's very own Willy Wonka

Nick Johnston: "I wanted to evolve – and for me that meant learning how to sing, changing the guitars I use and experimenting with my tone"

By Amit Sharma

The progressive virtuoso details new project Archival, his fresh Tele-style signature Schecter and why he's an "old man" when it comes to gear

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