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- September 30
- September 27
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- The Black Keys' online MasterCourse will teach you how to "write music like the pros"
- Watch amazing performances from the 2019 Young Guitarist of the Year finalists
- Red Witch reckons its Synthotron II is the “the most surreal, crazy analog pedal you’ve ever encountered”
- Oh! Darling - Z.Vex has unveiled an Abbey Road Fuzz Factory pedal
- Two guitars from Eric Clapton’s personal collection are up for auction
- JHS just recreated the legendary Lovetone Big Cheese - meet the Cheese Ball
- PRS debuts striking Sand-Blasted Swamp Ash finishes for SE models
- September 26
- September 25
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- Stream Sunday's live interview event with Alex Skolnick right here
- Watch Scott Ian's eight-year-old son play guitar with the Foo Fighters
- Led Zeppelin fan returns Jimmy Page's guitar case to him after 47 years
- Mysterious new Ernie Ball Music Man guitar, the Mariposa, spotted at UK Guitar Show
- Gibson's Sheryl Crow Supreme is its most highly customized Country Western ever
- Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven plagiarism battle heads back to court
- September 24
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- Dunable teams up with Revocation's Dave Davidson for the Eidolon boost, reverb and delay pedal
- Get Fender’s excellent PM-TE Travel acoustic-electric guitar for almost half-price
- Geddy Lee to auction off 6 drool-worthy vintage guitars, including his '59 Les Paul
- Jason Richardson talks guitar, inspiration and gear in the latest episode of Ernie Ball’s Striking a Chord podcast
- Fender's Tone Master Deluxe and Twin Reverb digital amps have arrived
- Pluginz’ Fender Jack Rack allows you to, um, hang your keys like a rockstar
- Martin honors Johnny Cash with all-black DX acoustic guitar
- Hughes & Kettner brings the Black Spirit 200 to the floor with feature-packed pedalboard amp
- September 23
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- Watch Eric Clapton and Peter Frampton's explosive While My Guitar Gently Weeps at the Crossroads Festival
- Andy James' STL Tones Revenant preamp pedal offers "perfect response"
- Walrus Audio’s Defcon4 returns as the EB-10 preamp/EQ/boost
- Guitarist of the Year 2019 winners have been revealed
- BB King’s 80th birthday Lucille guitar sells at auction for $280,000
- It’s official: Eric Gales is working with Joe Bonamassa on an “amazing” album and joint tour
- September 20
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- The KMA Audio Machines Cirrus delay and reverb is a soundscaper's dream
- Original Motörhead guitarist Larry Wallis dead at 70
- Squier's revived Starcaster models have arrived
- Mr Black’s Mini Tremolo serves up bias and harmonic tremolo in a tiny package
- See how Fender guitars are made with this fascinating look inside the Corona factory
- September 19
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- Jensen’s C12K-2 ceramic speaker serves up modern British voice in a vintage American package
- Solar Guitars introduces two new Type S models in eye-popping colors
- What guitar helped turn an REO Speedwagon Eighties pop hit into a blues-rock jam?
- Noodle away on this one-of-a-kind ramen guitar
- Fender’s new Rarities Maple Top Telecaster is a Quilty pleasure
- Yamaha may have just perfected the desktop amp with the all-new THR-II series
- September 18
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- Fender launches non-profit Fender Play Foundation with artist ambassadors from Green Day, Fall Out Boy and more
- Audibotics’ PlayX platform does, well, everything
- Add tremolo and dirt to your sound with Mattoverse’s new TremStortion
- Fulltone readies the Ranger, a pimped-out Rangemaster treble booster
- Fender has started selling roasted maple Strat and Tele necks
- September 17
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- Fix your loose guitar jack with Bigrock Innovations' Guitar Jack Tightener
- Stone Deaf debuts limited-edition version of Josh Homme-favored PDF-1
- Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood: “A 20-something carrying a cello case will always be more impressive than someone with a guitar”
- Andy Summers' Monochrome Strat has an actual photo finish
- Mark Tremonti explains why Eric Gales “could be the best guitar player on Earth”
- The Who reckon their newly announced record, Who, is "our best album since Quadrophenia"
- Watch Tom Morello and an all-star cast of guitarists invite you to his Guitar Revolution camp
- Fender debuts trio of new acoustic guitars, including 2 exotic wood models
- Mooer seeks to shake up the compact multi-effects market with the versatile, IR-equipped GE150
- September 16
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- BB King featured in today's Google doodle
- Ric Ocasek, frontman and guitarist of The Cars, dies at 75
- Is TC Electronic finally making a pedal version of the legendary 2290 delay?
- BluGuitar just dropped a metal-focused pedalboard amp, and it could be a game-changer
- Djent Mayer? Mark Holcomb busts out a PRS Silver Sky with Periphery
- September 13
- September 12
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- Death By Audio and the Black Angels team up for “space trippin’ ” Phosphene Scream pedal
- Win $50,000 worth of equipment in Ernie Ball's Great Gear Giveaway
- Mark Knopfler’s 2019 guitar rig has been revealed
- Daniel Johnston, cult US singer-songwriter, dead at 58
- The Beatles were, in fact, planning another album after Abbey Road, according to newly unearthed audio
- Steel Panther’s Satchel: “Yngwie Malmsteen is one of the most emotional guitar players of all time”
- September 11
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- Artur Menezes wins Ernie Ball's PLAY Crossroads contest
- Three genuine '50s blackguard Fenders are now available at Chicago Music Exchange
- Victory and Richie Kotzen debut ultra-desirable, highly limited RK100 head
- Fender revives the iconic Electric XII 12-string for new Alternate Reality model
- Gibson reveals astonishingly expensive Slash 1966 EDS-1275 Doubleneck
- September 10
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- Supro harnesses vintage tube tone for affordable 1x8 Blues King combo
- Weezer’s new album is called Van Weezer, and it’s “all guitars and shredding”
- Nunez’s Tetra-Fet Drive brings the tube amp thunder
- Experience the cinematic sound of India’s premier post-rockers aswekeepsearching in this exclusive playthrough
- Steve Vai and Derek Trucks’ secret weapon? Speaker isolators
- This intrepid guitarist wrote and recorded a new riff every day for a whole year
- September 9
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- Justin Chancellor talks Tool, songwriting and bass playing in premiere episode of Ernie Ball’s Striking a Chord podcast
- Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood pays tribute to Chuck Berry with Mad Lad live album
- Fender dives into the vaults to release five near-mint Strats through Reverb
- Ride the riff lightning with Dunlop's James Hetfield White Fang Custom Flow Pick
- Chase Bliss Audio's Blooper turns looping into a work of art
- "Calling a Dean guitar counterfeit is ludicrous," claims prominent guitar industry lawyer on Gibson lawsuits
- September 6
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- PRS’s roasted maple neck SE Custom 24 is now available in the US
- Z.Vex’s Box of Rock Clear is literally a transparent overdrive pedal
- Muscle Shoals guitarist Jimmy Johnson dead at 76
- The best (and worst) Van Halen albums, according to you
- Get humbucking tones out of a single-coil, and vice versa, with Stone Heavy Sound’s Decade pedal
- Give your guitar some vintage tonal mojo with Supro's new pickup range
- KMA Machines seeks to “transcend the well-known boundaries of overdrive” with the Logan
- Gotta tune ’em all! Korg unveils Pokémon clip-on tuners
- September 5
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- Source Audio’s Spectrum Intelligent Filter offers a world of tone-sculpting options
- Sitek’s Wuffy is a beast of a distortion box
- Hear Lari Basilio trade licks with Joe Satriani on incendiary new track Glimpse Of Light
- Ibanez unveils eye-popping Antique Flamingo Pink and Surf Green-finished Artwood Vintage acoustics
- Fender strikes Amarillo Gold with the Britt Daniel Tele Thinline
- Vox gives the Mini Superbeetle a British Racing Green makeover
- September 4
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- Elite Acoustics’ D6-58 offers a six-channel digital mixer in a battery-powered amp
- Turns out Cara Delevingne can play guitar… behind her head
- Think emo guitarists can’t shred? Witness Tiny Moving Parts’ hook-laden tapping techniques in this insanely catchy guitar playthrough
- Prince’s guitar builder fights estate to keep hold of Cloud design
- Korn's Brian 'Head' Welch releases $130 signature guitar strap
- MXR launches an attack of the Clones with new looper pedal
- Andy James finds “the ultimate guitar tone” with his signature STL Tones Tonality plugin
- September 3
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- Show Me the Gear: Smashing Pumpkins’ Jeff Schroeder takes Guitar World on a tour of his rig
- Why did John Lennon “steal” the Get Back solo from George Harrison?
- Fibonacci’s Ambassador is a hand-carved AAA stunner
- Find out how Elixir Strings keep your tone at its best
- Electro-Harmonix takes on Beats with its own wireless Bluetooth earbuds
- Keeley combines Drive, Chorus and Rotary for versatile new DCR pedal
- September 2
- September 1