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March 31
- Watch Stephanie Bradley put the ESP LTD EC-1000T through its paces
- Joe Satriani names the one guitar that appears on all his albums - and it's not an Ibanez
- Solar Guitars unveils 5 head-turning distressed electrics
- Steve Vai to talk guitars, music and “esoteric life principles” in two weekly Facebook Live series
- Plini turned a photo of birds into a guitar melody - and the results are breathtaking
- Witness VASA’s post-rock guitar heroics and ingenious pitch-shifter usage in this tonesome playthrough
- Sick Riffs: The Buckleys teach you Money's infectious, feel-good hooks
- Tom Morello reveals why he finally released a signature guitar as Fender launches the Soul Power Stratocaster
March 30
- John Prine hospitalized with COVID-19 symptoms
- Arrows frontman Alan Merrill, co-writer of I Love Rock ‘N Roll, dies aged 69 from coronavirus
- Metallica's James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett, John Petrucci and more on why they love Mesa/Boogie’s Mark II amps
- Country music hitmaker Joe Diffie dies aged 61 from coronavirus complications
- Sick Riffs: Learn 2 monstrous heavy-hitters from The Browning's latest album, Geist
- You can get an actual pedalboard in Animal Crossing - and guitarists are freaking out
March 27
- From high-octane thrash-metal assaults to lonesome country ballads: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Scientists develop revolutionary new bass strings that allow high notes to ring out louder and clearer
- Sick Riffs: Zach Bedsaul teaches you the smoldering 7-string chug of 3 monster Saul tracks
- Synergy introduces high-gain Engl Powerball preamp module
- Marshall gets smart with the Alexa-powered Uxbridge Voice speaker
- Positive Grid offers free BIAS FX Mobile download to help musicians “remain creative and positive right now”
- The Music Industries Association: your local music shop needs your support
March 26
- Sick Riffs: Will Knaak teaches you the delay-driven licks of Blue October's Italian Radio
- Dean’s new NashVegas T-style models offer “classic looks with original attitude”
- Godin hits the big leagues with the Stadium HT single-cut electric guitar
- This insane Epiphone Les Paul mod adds an onboard fuzz pedal, complete with joystick
- Dave Mustaine and daughter Electra play The Beatles’ Come Together while in quarantine
- Joyo Audio’s Baatsin packs 8 analog overdrives into one $59 pedal
March 25
- Bass legend Carol Kaye: “98% of bass parts cut in Hollywood in the '60s were done with a pick on flatwound strings”
- Good guitar deed of the day: Jared Dines just bought a brand-new Gibson Les Paul for a combat vet in need
- TIDAL's HiFi service is $4 per month for the next 4 months – pay less for lossless streaming
- Halestorm kick off Gibson's social distancing-friendly HomeMadeMusic video series
- Sick Riffs: Bumblefoot teaches you the finger-twisting runs in Sons of Apollo’s King Of Delusion
- Guitar World launches Sick Riffs video series to help guitarists affected by the coronavirus
- The house is rockin’: Devon Allman launches virtual tour from his home
March 24
- Joe Satriani names the one solo he regrets writing and recording
- Lava Music’s new carbon-fiber acoustic-electric promises “bright, dynamic and open sound at a fraction of the size”
- Acorn Amplifiers’ Circuit Fuzz boasts a bonus boost circuit board mounted on the pedal’s face
- Mateus Asato covers a Nickelback solo - only to realize it was originally by Nuno Bettencourt
- Watch Virgil Donati guitarist Andre Nieri take jazz-fusion to its limits in this mind-bending guitar playthrough
- There's much more to the Wingman FX Danger Zone pedal than its amazing graphics
March 23
- Lose yourself in the Walrus Audio Mako Series D1 Delay pedal's dazzling array of sounds
- Watch Lamb of God's Mark Morton play fingerstyle acoustic in this exclusive All I Had To Lose performance
- Bite Guitars’ Dragon is a monster of a bass with 7 pickup configurations
- Brian May teaches you how to play the Bohemian Rhapsody solo while in self-isolation
- Fender debuts eye-catching new finishes for the American Original Series
- Gibson temporarily closes US operations to help fight coronavirus
- Inside the VPJR Tuner, Ernie Ball’s new 2-in-1 volume and tuner pedal
- Musicians share their experiences dealing with the impact of coronavirus: "I don't know when we'll get to play again"
- Feel like your guitar playing sucks? Angel Vivaldi has one simple trick to turn that around
March 21
- Country music legend Kenny Rogers dies aged 81
March 20
- From groove-heavy djent to Hevy Devy's Quarantine: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Buying these coronavirus tour t-shirts will help out-of-work tour crews
- Behold the 'mother of all volume pedal mods' for the Ernie Ball VP Jr.
- Founding Fender Custom Shop builder George Blanda retires after 35 years
- Diezel’s VHX head is an all-tube powerhouse with added digital effects and IR flexibility
- Can't choose between the Fender Acoustasonic Strat and Tele? Let Tyler Bryant and Daniel Donato decide for you with this epic guitar battle
- Standards’ Marcos Mena blends cross-handed tapping and percussive styles into the fruitiest guitar playthrough you’ll see all year
- The Guardian is "a gig bag with the soul of a hardshell case"
March 19
- This bonkers Fender Jazzmaster mod crams a delay pedal underneath the tailpiece for on-the-fly insanity
- Kemper launches its “ultimate cabinet solution” for Profiler players with the new Kabinet and Kone
- Slaves blaze through their latest single, Bury a Lie, in this electronic-infused guitar playthrough
- Watch Zakk Wylde play a surprisingly faithful rendition of David Gilmour's Comfortably Numb solo
- Fender launches Made In Japan Heritage Series, offering historically accurate looks and specs at an attractive price point
March 18
- Al Di Meola offers a moving tribute to The Beatles with Across The Universe
- Woodpecker introduces the Travel Koa mini guitar - because you will leave your home again one day
- Stone Deaf brings unwanted noise to death’s door with the new Noise Reaper gate pedal
- Get 5 issues of Guitar Techniques for just £5 and improve your playing today
- Strymon discontinues the OB.1 Optical Compressor and Clean Boost
- Get 5 issues of Guitarist for just £5
- Bandcamp will waive its cut of sales for one day to support musicians during coronavirus pandemic
- He will rock you: Italian guitarist rips Brian May riffs from his Rome balcony during coronavirus lockdown
- Get a 5-month digital subscription to Total Guitar today for only £5
- Get 5 digital issues of Bass Guitar today for only £5
March 17
- Fuchs Audio’s Marshall-style Mantis 89 promises "everything from Plexi-like gain to metal shredding"
- What do you get when you combine Godin’s Radiator and Stadium models? Meet the all-new Radium
- Is the carbon-fiber Lava U the most technologically advanced ukulele ever?
- Watch Joe Bonamassa, Tommy Emmanuel (on electric guitar) and Josh Smith shred the blues on a boat
- Line 6 recalls Relay G10 wireless system for potential “fire and injury hazards”
- Sacred Reich guitarist and founding member Jason Rainey dead at 53
- Joe Satriani recalls the time Slash spat on his wah pedal: “I should've saved it and put it in a box or something”
March 16
- Headbanging Italian guitarist plays Slayer from his balcony during coronavirus lockdown
- Gibson sued by Heritage Guitars over alleged trademark threats
March 13
- From poignant, moving pop-punk to wall-shaking metalcore: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Technical ecstasy: Synergy unveils Bogner Ecstasy and Ubershall preamp modules
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony honoring Nine Inch Nails, Doobie Brothers and others postponed due to coronavirus
- What size truss rod wrench do you need for that guitar setup? Music Nomad has the answer
- 70 years later, the Fender Broadcaster is back
March 12
- Download Festival Australia 2020 has been cancelled amid COVID-19 fears
- Which pedal is in the Guitar Crate this month?
- Godin invites you to dive into its striking new Imperial Laguna Blue acoustic
- Steve Vai offers a guided tour of his weirdest and wackiest guitars
- Riff-savvy guitarist plays 50 Avenged Sevenfold songs in five minutes - how many can you name?
- Joe Satriani names Nita Strauss as the next shredder to "explode on the scene"
- This Black Dahlia Murder guitar playthrough showcases the very best of modern extreme metal
- PRS cancels Experience PRS 2020 guitar festival due to coronavirus fears
- Way Huge has built a pedal covered in chalkboard paint, so you can give it whatever ridiculous name you like
- Violent Soho graces the cover of Australian Guitar issue #137, out today
March 11
- Dean's new Exile Select guitars are sleek shred machines
- Dream Theater could be funding your music tuition with the launch of new Berklee College of Music scholarship fund
- Ernie Ball’s new Classic Jaquard strap designs aim to secure your guitar in style
- George Lynch: “I wish Judas Priest would call me up and hire me”
- Seymour Duncan’s Polaron offers analog phase shifting with digital modulation control
- Four Year Strong weave infectious melodies into heavy breakdowns in this feel-good guitar playthrough
March 10
- Save space on your pedalboard with Ernie Ball's 2-in-1 VPJR Tuner pedal
- STL Tones releases ToneHub, its “most powerful plugin ever”
- The battle is no more: Led Zeppelin finally win Stairway to Heaven copyright lawsuit
- Mahogany mastery: Brian Truesby demos the Taylor Builder's Edition 517
- Chapman's Battleworn models have arrived - and they look like no relic'd guitars you've ever seen before
- Watch Lamb of God's Mark Morton and Willie Adler blaze through Checkmate in this exclusive playthrough
March 9
- Engl offers speaker cabinets “responsible for some of the most brutal high-gain guitar tones in history” as an IR pack
- Megadeth's Kiko Loureiro is selling a mountain of guitar gear - including a "Grammy-winning guitar"
- Flower Pedals rethinks the wah with the foot rocker-free Hosta
- Supro’s Blues King 10 teams affordable tube tone with a built-in Pigtronix overdrive
- Enter to win a grand prize package from Canary Cables
- Experience some arresting art-rock with dreamy delay textures in this exclusive SPQR playthrough
- Kirk Hammett loses Cry Baby Battle Royale to Mrs. Smith in shock wah-off defeat
March 6
- From politically charged metal to rootsy grooves and folk lyricism, here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Bob Rock recalls the first time he asked Metallica to tune down: "James Hetfield looked like he wanted to kill me"
- Save up to 35% during Guitar Fest at Musician's Friend
- Dynamo’s Flight Rig offers high-gain tube tones in a lightweight, travel-ready package
- Watch Eric Clapton jam with Van Morrison during all-star London charity concert
- Submit your questions for Squeeze legends Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford
March 5
- Get screaming guitar feedback at any volume with Blue Cat Audio's AcouFiend plugin
- Fender resurrects the mid-'60s Marauder offset, this time with a built-in delay circuit
- Steve Vai once told Ozzy Osbourne the first Black Sabbath album was out of tune - Ozzy's response? "What the f**k do you want?"
- Check out the monster tones you can conjure with Revv's D20 amp head and G2 overdrive pedal
- Gibson donates guitars to musicians who lost instruments in the Nashville tornadoes
- Matt Bellamy and Graham Coxon supergroup The Jaded Hearts Club release debut single
- A subscription service for guitarists? Guitar Crate has made it a reality
March 4
- Tommy Emmanuel has a new signature acoustic guitar - and it isn't a Maton
- Joe Bonamassa pays tribute to Danny Gatton with new instrumental project the Sleep Eazys
- Steve Vai teams with Synergy for hugely versatile signature preamp module
- Genesis turn it on again (again) for The Last Domino? reunion tour
- G&L Guitars unveils retro-cool 40th anniversary CLF Research L-2500 bass
- Danelectro reissues the classic Deluxe as the 59 Divine
- Melvins’ King Buzzo and Hilbish Design bring the noise with new Pessimiser distortion pedal
March 3
- Mojo Hand FX's Dream Mender promises iconic DMM delay tones from a compact pedal
- The guitar world is freaking out over B-Benders again - and it's all Rob Scallon's fault
- Gibson launches the 'Gibson Guitar Riff' with Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale at Nashville SC’s inaugural Major League Soccer game
- Fender promises an "undeniable Strat playing experience" and innovative sonics with the American Acoustasonic Stratocaster
- Ernie Ball launches 4 new Slinky string sets - meet the Turbo, Mighty, Mondo, and Skinny Top Beefy Bottom
March 2
- Get all the tube and boutique amp sounds of your dreams with Blackstar's Silverline Series
- A rare John Lennon and George Harrison-owned fretless guitar just surfaced - and it's worth over $500,000
- H.E.R. rips on a custom none-more-black Fender Strat over A Boogie Wit da Hoodie’s Me and My Guitar on The Tonight Show
- Get classic Sadowsky bass tone in a pedal with the company’s new preamp stompboxes
March 1
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