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Easy-install single-coils are loaded with a vintage-style Retro Active preamp, and also offered in a prewired pickguard with additional boost options

The Click Click Boom and Always hitmaker has passed away suddenly following a brain hemorrhage

The Metallica guitarist has been unicorn hunting and bagged a true specimen from Carter Vintage Guitars – a guitar to make Greeny green with envy

More than 30,000 of WVH’s followers voted for a new moniker after the musician informed a Twitter user: “Van Halen is literally my name”

With his Schecter C-1 in tow, Dawson gives Guitar World a view of the razor-like riffs and two-tapping sequences that underpin the metalcore outfit's pummelling new single

The DragonForce shredder and bassist Alicia Vigil donned masks and snorkels and turned power metal into a water sport during their set at the 70000 Tons of Metal Cruise 2023

The grunge guitar legend revisited an early Soundgarden setlist standard onstage with some lucky campers at the Whisky a Go Go

The duo performed stomping new blues rocker Bad Spell, complete with some killer harmonic lead sections

The Polyphia boys land the big Fishman, with each pickup featuring three voices, including the ridiculously tantalizing “nylon-string surrogate” mode on Henson’s neck humbucker

King was on tour in France when super-collector Matthieu Lucas of Matt’s Guitar Shop dropped by with a very special single-cut in tow

The A2 guitar and bass debut a refined body shape and contouring to enhance ergonomics and offer players a speedy ride

The new Reverb haul includes a custom-built Fender Thinline Tele, a 1962 Gibson SG and his first Marshall cabinet

The big-riffing, big-soloing track is our first taste of WVH’s second album – which is arriving sooner than you think

The Tennesseean boutique amp-maker now has a boutique guitar line, Morgan Electrics

“There was no question that I wanted to create a song to collaborate with my longtime boss and friend, the legendary Alice Cooper,” says Strauss

The “ultra-portable”, battery-powered Bluetooth guitar amp offers access to Spark’s full ToneCloud library and practice features

The touchscreen-equipped amp modeler and multi-FX brings the fight to Neural DSP and Line 6

The unlikely stompbox is integral to the Extreme virtuoso’s searing distorted tone, even if he admits, “Other players think it’s not doing anything and would probably wonder if the battery is dead”

Plus! Periphery, Huey Lewis guitar great Chris Hayes, Nova Twins, Tom Verlaine, Vinnie Moore, Obituary, Slade's Noddy Holder, the Sweet's Andy Scott and more, more, more!

The Green Day leader returns with a new single-pickup signature model, packed with a P-90 and a none-more-pink Protector case