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- August 31
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- Gibson teams up with singer/songwriter Nathaniel Rateliff for new signature LG-2 Western acoustic guitar
- Johnny Marr wields a nine(!)-pickup Strat on his new "electro soul anthem," Spirit, Power And Soul
- INXS guitarist Tim Farriss sues boat owner after accident that severed his finger pushed him into “forced retirement”
- Hear Jason Newsted’s original bass-driven instrumental demo that paved the way for Metallica’s My Friend of Misery
- Gus G offers a bountiful supply of silky guitar melodies with blues-style ballad, Enigma of Life
- Bogner's new Ecstasy Mini amp head is a $329 bundle of high-gain joy
- Johnny Ramone’s iconic 1965 Mosrite Ventures II is set to hit the auction block
- Watch Soulfly cover Fear Factory's Replica with Dino Cazares
- John Mayer says wearing headphones live on stage has helped him become a more dynamic guitar player
- Watch Rabea Massaad’s scorching solo spot opening for Stormzy at Reading Festival
- Tom Morello calls for evacuation of young female Afghan guitarists: “They are in grave danger”
- August 30
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- Jason Newsted says he was “f*cking livid” when he first heard …And Justice For All
- Ernie Ball Music Man updates the Mariposa model with stunning new finishes
- Hear three previously unreleased recordings from The Beatles' Let It Be sessions
- Watch Samantha Fish debut wailing new track Better Be Lonely in killer live performance video
- Watch Cory Wong and Dirty Loops play jazzy new single, Ring Of Saturn
- Elliot Easton says he recorded the solo for The Cars’ Touch And Go “in tears”
- August 27
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- Fractal Audio launches its most powerful floor unit yet, the FM9
- Take a look at Dave Grohl, Chris Shiflett and Pat Smear’s pedalboards for the Foo Fighters 2021 tour dates
- Harmony debuts sumptuous Series 6 all-tube guitar amp range
- Hear Halsey team up with Dave Grohl, Lindsey Buckingham on their new album, If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power
- Kiss cancel Pennsylvania show after Paul Stanley tests positive for COVID
- Watch Nandi Bushell's dream come true as she plays Everlong onstage with Foo Fighters
- Metallica – The guitar power of the Black Album: inside the new issue of Total Guitar
- August 26
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- Hear IDLES' incendiary, left-field take on Metallica's The God That Failed
- You'll never be as metal as the sound of this harp run through a distortion pedal
- Harley Benton expands its boutique-for-a-bargain Fusion-III electric guitar lineup with 3 new models
- KK’s Priest want you to Raise Your Fists to their new single
- A new statue of Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott has been unveiled in his hometown
- Tim Henson reveals he's never heard Metallica's Black Album – much to the amazement of Tosin Abasi and Misha Mansoor
- August 25
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- Ernie Ball Music Man updates its Valentine model with sparkling new finishes
- Say hello to NUX’s super-compact C-5RC wireless system, and say goodbye to guitar cables for good
- Nirvana are being sued by Spencer Elden, the baby on the cover of Nevermind
- Joe Bonamassa announces new album, Time Clocks, premieres soulful new single, The Heart That Never Waits
- Noel Gallagher's 10-year-old son taught him how to play AC/DC's Back in Black
- The Reddick Guitars Voyager is a modular six-string that allows you to swap out pickups and controls on the fly
- Strymon launches “multidimensional phaser” pedal, the Zelzah
- August 24
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- Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dies aged 80
- Gibson unveils Murphy Lab-aged Jerry Cantrell “Wino” Les Paul Custom
- See inside Les Paul's heavily modded 'Number One' 1952 Goldtop in this exclusive video
- Petition launched for Ritchie Blackmore’s hometown to honor the guitarist with historic blue plaque
- Old Blood Noise Endeavors unveils dreamy Sunlight Dynamic Freeze Reverb
- John Mayer’s 2021 Dead & Company pedalboard has been revealed – but what’s that mystery pedal?
- One of the first Gibson Les Pauls ever made – now owned by Jared James Nichols – has been fully restored
- August 23
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- Guitar World and Line 6 explore the past, present, and future of the Helix family of amp and effects processors
- Zakk Wylde rocks a retro suit and wig in Black Label Society’s bloody new video, Set You Free
- Watch John 5 tear through an awe-inspiring medley of classic rock and metal riffs
- Tom Morello says a Kanye West brag inspired him to record guitars on his phone
- Fender Japan is reprising the Super-Sonic shape for a new limited-edition run
- Watch Dino Cazares make his live debut with Soulfly
- Watch Megadeth's first show with bassist James LoMenzo in almost 12 years
- Don Everly, of rock 'n' roll trailblazers The Everly Brothers, dies aged 84
- August 20
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- Rory Gallagher beats U2 and Thin Lizzy to be voted Ireland’s Greatest Music Artist
- Contemporary artist Mister E customizes 5 D'Angelico guitars to commemorate Dead & Company's 2021 tour
- Third issue of Joe Satriani’s sci-fi-themed comic book epic, Crystal Planet, open to orders now
- Cory Wong flexes his fresh signature Strat in new single with Dirty Loops, Follow The Light
- Watch Ayla Tesler-Mabe tear it up on the versatile Cort KX500
- Metallica issue live covers of Soundgarden's All Your Lies and Head Injury on vinyl
- Dave Mustaine recalls how jealousy of Metallica’s success motivated him to make a band “more metal” than them
- Ed Sheeran announces new solo studio album =, shares heartstring-pulling single, Visiting Hours
- Kauer Guitars raises over $40,000 for the evacuation of those at risk in Taliban-occupied Afghanistan
- August 19
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- Iron Maiden are in classic form on their new single, Stratego
- SolidGoldFX adds to its arsenal of fuzz pedals with the LYSIS MKII Polyphonic Modulator
- From serene, guitar-glazed beats to prog-metal epics: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Sabbadius Electronics unveils two small-scale, Uni-Vibe-inspired pedals, the Tiny-Vibe 68 and Tiny-Vibe 69
- Rathbone ventures into the world of parlor guitars with all-new No. 6 acoustic range
- Fender Japan revives the ultra-rare Swinger model for Daiki Tsuneta’s radical-looking new signature guitar
- Dino Cazares says Fear Factory have found a replacement for Burton C. Bell
- August 18
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- Watch Brandi Carlile play Black Hole Sun with the surviving members of Soundgarden
- Halestorm return in style with ferocious new single, Back From The Dead
- The "first" Gibson Les Paul approved by the man himself is going up for auction
- Royal Blood pay tribute to Metallica with a faithful, bludgeoning cover of Sad But True
- Carlos Santana reunites with Rob Thomas for their first collaborative single in 22 years, Move
- Kiko Loureiro took part in Herman Li’s blindfold shredding challenge – and absolutely crushed it
- Dino Cazares shares video of Soulfly rehearsals ahead of upcoming US tour
- Bumblefoot recalls recording guitar parts for the song that became Guns N’ Roses’ new track, Absurd
- Gus G to release new solo album, Quantum Leap, in October
- Steel Panther are holding open auditions to recruit a new bassist following Lexxi Foxx’s departure
- August 17
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- Dimebag Darrell's estate sues Dean Guitars
- Gibson teams up with Tony Iommi for new signature SG Special
- Recording at home? Here are five spectacular pieces of gear that will up your studio game
- This PRS Private Stock Custom "Sculpture" might just be the lightest Custom 24 ever created
- Watch J Mascis take his eye-catching new signature Fender Telecaster for a spin
- Sammy Boller delivers a two-handed-tapping masterclass in this playthrough of Dark Night of the Soul
- HeadRush unveils ultra-compact, feature-packed amp and FX modeler, the MX5
- Megadeth touring bassist James LoMenzo shares photos from rehearsals for the Metal Tour of the Year
- Bruce Dickinson on the game-changing Black Album: “None of us had the balls to step up to the next level – but Metallica did”
- Green Day invite 11-year-old fan onstage for cover of Operation Ivy’s Knowledge during Hella Mega Tour
- L.A. Guns reveal details of new album Checkered Past, share hard-rocking new single, Knock Me Down
- August 16
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- Hear Grammy-winning guitarist Eric Krasno’s new single, So Cold
- Dani Filth says he's been “emailing with” Ed Sheeran about a potential collaboration
- Watch the first full demos of IK Multimedia’s Amplitube-powered X-Drive distortion and X-Space reverb pedals
- Watch Tosin Abasi take St. Vincent’s signature Ernie Ball Music Man Goldie guitar for a spin
- Watch Glenn Tipton join Judas Priest on stage during their first performance in more than two years
- K.K. Downing on how KK’s Priest is passing the baton: “Us dinosaurs won’t be around forever... We must keep the music alive”
- Folk and country singer-songwriter Nanci Griffith dies aged 68
- Ibanez joins forces with Jon Gomm for a more affordable version of his signature acoustic, the JGM5
- Guitars signed by Metallica, Jeff Beck, Chuck Berry and more to be sold on Rock Hall's Reverb shop
- Simon Gallup announces departure from the Cure: “I got fed up of betrayal”
- August 15
- August 13
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- Metallica's Kirk Hammett on the Black Album: "We wanted a Back In Black”
- Carcass return with thunderous new single, Dance of Ixtab (Psychopomp & Circumstance March No. 1)
- Rob Scallon gifts his Washburn X-Series 'Rain' guitar to fellow YouTuber Twooba
- Metallica announce eight-episode podcast series on the story of the Black Album
- Wolfgang Van Halen says his father's death “still doesn't feel real”
- Sophie Lloyd and Cole Rolland join forces for monstrous, shred-heavy reinvention of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony
- Watch Samantha Fish play rootsy new song Crowd Control
- “Pro tip: play triangles!” Watch Primus’s Ler LaLonde offer a madcap masterclass in Gibson’s latest Riff Lords video
- Dream Theater unveil epic new 9-minute single The Alien
- Gibson partners with the Circle Network for a new series exploring country music in the US
- YouTuber Charles Berthoud recreates John Petrucci, Guthrie Govan and Tim Henson guitar solos on bass – and the results are ridiculous
- K.K. Downing says “I should have put my foot down” and “played more guitar solos” in Judas Priest
- Zakk Wylde details “genius” plan to reunite Black Sabbath's original lineup
- August 12
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- The Nowhere Inn is a St. Vincent rockumentary by way of a David Lynch film – see its surreal trailer
- George Lynch: I would have been a "good fit" in Ratt
- Watch John Mayer play an Epiphone Les Paul into a Roland combo – and sound exactly like John Mayer
- From feasts of heavy metal fire to folk-rock perfection: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Watch Primus perform the entirety of A Farewell To Kings as they kick off their Rush tribute tour
- Andy Summers announces final installment of his album trilogy, Harmonics of the Night
- Trivium announce new album In the Court of the Dragon, share pummeling second single, Feast of Fire
- PRS and Flying Dog Brewery team up for wild, one-off "Hop Electric" SE Custom 24
- Watch Paul Riario try out Martin’s “incredible-sounding” GPC-13E Ziricote acoustic
- Yasmin Williams' astonishing fingerpicking prowess shines through on her exquisite new instrumental, Virga
- Machine Gun Kelly reunites with Travis Barker for angsty, Whammy-heavy new single, Papercuts
- Lari Basilio begins recording new album – and Lee Sklar is playing bass
- Guitar World teams up with TrueFire to create the ultimate in guitar masterclasses
- The Darkness deliver “immeasurable rock 'n' roll extravagance” with new single, Motorheart
- Thrice channel Radiohead with expansive new single Robot Soft Exorcism
- Robert Plant and Alison Krauss reunite for star-studded new album, Raise the Roof
- Phoebe Bridgers releases haunting take on Metallica's Nothing Else Matters
- August 11
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- Megadeth announce James LoMenzo as new live bassist
- Night Ranger enlists Gilby Clarke to fill in for Keri Kelli during recent gig
- Wolfgang Van Halen describes heavy use of backing tracks during live shows as “lame as hell”
- 29 Pedals' OAMP promises 29dB of gain without compromising your tone
- Gibson unveils Adam Jones 1979 merch collection, including a Silverburst Les Paul scale model
- Watch a 9-year-old play Geddy Lee's Tom Sawyer bass part to perfection
- Vanny Tonon flexes his Hybrid Slap technique in mind-melting new single, The Hybrid Master of Time
- John Mayer: pink PRS guitars and the joys of channeling ’80s Eric Clapton – only in the new Guitar World
- Cort’s X500 Menace is 500x more metal than you
- Want to own a guitar that was shot by a Rolling Stone? Keith Richards’ Gibson 1952 SJ Southern Jumbo is up for auction
- Danny Elfman teams up with Trent Reznor for ultra-industrial reimagining of True
- Joe Bonamassa takes Gibson’s Murphy Lab models for a spin in new Artist Series episode
- Marc Rizzo says he “got no support from Soulfly” throughout the pandemic
- A Jimmy Page-played 1971 Fender Stratocaster is going under the hammer
- John Mayer explains why he doesn’t consider himself a blues guitar player
- August 10
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- Big Thief return with two gorgeous new songs, Little Things and Sparrow
- Hear Ronnie Wood, Mick Taylor, Paul Weller and more pay tribute to blues pioneer Jimmy Reed with two rollicking covers
- Ace Frehley's heavily modified double-cut 1973 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe goes up for auction
- Robben Ford shares atmospheric new single, A Dragon's Tail
- This Heavy Metal-themed six-string from Minarik Guitars boasts just about the most epic electric guitar design we've ever seen
- John Mayer reveals he used a Fractal amp modeler for some of Sob Rock’s standout six-string moments
- Yngwie Malmsteen missed out on a spot with Kiss because he gave his height as a metric measurement
- Les Claypool has been taking bass lessons from Rush's Geddy Lee
- The Fender Stratocaster Prince smashed in his My Name Is Prince music video is going up for auction
- Two Eddie Van Halen-played Kramers and a studio-used Peavey 5150 stack are hitting the auction block
- August 9
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- Watch Paul Riario demo the lush-sounding PRS SE Parlor P20E acoustic-electric guitar
- RIP pioneering zouk guitarist Jacob Desvarieux
- Watch as Dave Grohl brings Foo Fighters fan Lauren onstage to play Monkey Wrench
- Sawtooth Guitars partners with Michael Angelo Batio for two all-new electric guitar lines
- Gibson responds to reports of Murphy Lab model finish flaking issues
- Tosin Abasi reveals Animals As Leaders have finished tracking their new album as he shares tap-heavy teaser clip
- Tesla postpone shows following guitarist Frank Hannon’s Covid diagnosis
- Harley Benton unveils $68 wireless guitar system, the AirBorne 5.8 GHz Instrument
- Foo Fighters troll Westboro Baptist Church protest with disco drive-by
- Was it James Jamerson or Carol Kaye? The new issue of Bass Player sheds light on the decades-old controversy
- Neal Schon teases forthcoming Journey album: "Guitar players are going to love this record, because I'm just unleashing on it"
- Lynyrd Skynyrd cancel shows as guitarist Rickey Medlocke tests positive for COVID-19
- Brian May reacts to Eric Clapton's anti-vax views: "He’s my hero, but he has very different views from me in many ways"
- Soulfly part ways with guitarist Marc Rizzo
- August 6
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- “The future’s bright”: Gibson continues to push forward with new Slash, Custom Shop and Murphy Lab guitars, and raises awareness – and funds – via Gibson Gives
- Fear Factory's Dino Cazares will play guitar on Soulfly's upcoming US tour
- John Mayer gifts blues-rocker Celisse a Roxy Pink PRS Silver Sky
- Eddie Van Halen’s former guitar tech Tom Weber teaches you how to set up an EVH Frankenstein
- Watch The Jaded Hearts Club wind back the years with new video Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)
- KK’s Priest deploy dual Gibson Flying Vs in new single Brothers of the Road
- Save up to 50% off a range of guitar and bass effects pedals in the massive Musician’s Friend pedal event
- Hear the new single from Hyper Planet – the astonishing Iranian prog-metal band endorsed by Bumblefoot
- Neunaber Audio promises “the ultimate reverb machine” with its feature-packed Illumine pedal
- Sick Riffs: Learn to play the fuzz-laden main hook of Fast Romantics' Julia
- Watch Rivers Cuomo cover Sugar, We’re Goin Down after Fall Out Boy were forced to pull out of Hell Mega Tour gig
- Watch Alex Skolnick, Angel Vivaldi and Richard Shaw trade soaring licks in Lost Symphony's new music video, Acceptance
- IK Multimedia’s massive software deal could land you 25 plugins for the price of 1 - including AmpliTube 5!
- Prog titans I Built The Sky and Jake Howsam Lowe join forces for fiery new single, Coalesce
- Guns N' Roses release hard-riffing new single, Absurd
- August 5
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- Bored with the Olympics? Here's how to tune into the 2021 US Air Guitar Championships
- Watch Paul Riario demo the versatile Baldacci Bighorn Standard
- From classic soul to hellishly heavy extreme metal: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Chris Cornell’s final photoshoot images to be sold as NFTs for charity
- Rudy Sarzo announces his return to Quiet Riot: “It's time for me to come home”
- Mooer launches upgraded X2 Series with supercharged D7 X2 Delay and R7 X2 Reverb pedals
- Watch Sophie Lloyd turn Britney Spears' Toxic into a certified shred-a-thon
- Underoath announce self-produced ninth album, share anthemic new single, Hallelujah
- Marty Friedman enlists Mateus Asato for a soaring instrumental cover of Crowded House's Don't Dream It's Over
- August 4
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- ESP adds electrifying Rainbow Crackle finish to its shred-ready LTD '87 Series models
- The first-ever band-sanctioned Led Zeppelin documentary has been completed
- Dusty Hill recorded bass and vocal parts for a new ZZ Top album, Billy Gibbons reveals
- Vertex Effects promises Dumble-style 'drive tones in a pedalboard-friendly package with its updated Ultraphonix pedal
- Joanne Shaw Taylor announces sixth studio record The Blues Album, shares soulful new single, Let Me Down Easy
- Ibanez debuts duo of sleek semi-hollow AR Standard models, the AR520H and AR520HFM
- Black Sabbath announce extensive Technical Ecstasy reissue, including full-album remix by Steven Wilson
- YouTuber attempts to write and record the first single from Megadeth's new album before it's released
- Tom Morello announces star-studded new solo album, debuts "shredding" Highway to Hell cover with Bruce Springsteen and Eddie Vedder
- James Hetfield's isolated guitar tracks from ...And Justice For All and Master of Puppets prove his picking precision is unrivaled
- Jack Gardiner and guitar guru Owane recruit bass virtuoso Henrik Linder for dizzying fusion masterclass, U.T.F.F
- Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite teams up with Reuss Effects for signature Plasmatron pedal
- Guns N' Roses perform reworked version of rare, unreleased song, Silkworms
- August 3
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- Fender adds to its Tone Master digital amp series with powerful new Super Reverb combo
- Tremonti unleashes epic new track Marching In Time
- Wolfgang Van Halen is using EVH’s pedalboard from 2012 in his new live rig
- Lindsey Buckingham: “Pretty much everyone would love to see me come back to Fleetwood Mac”
- Weezer dial up the wah in this mostly faithful take on Metallica's Enter Sandman
- Want to master jazz and bebop guitar? Get a free five-course Bebop Scale Essentials course now!
- Gibson serves Mojo Hand FX with cease and desist over use of Mister-O name
- Suhr debuts limited-edition Standard Legacy model inspired by John Suhr’s first-ever guitar design
- St. Vincent reworks Los Ageless into a '70s retro stomper in new live performance video
- Lollar rebrands its Blackface pickups as the Sixty-Four Strat
- Sammy Hagar says Eddie Van Halen wanted the pair to "make some noise" again
- Guns N' Roses cover The Stooges' I Wanna Be Your Dog at their first show in 16 months
- Poco guitarist Paul Cotton dies aged 78
- Watch Wolfgang Van Halen and Mammoth WVH’s first show opening for Guns N’ Roses
- August 2
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- Avant-garde improv guitar and bass extraordinaire Brian Kastan is the most exciting musician you’ve never heard of – until now
- Hear Cory Wong and Ariel Posen’s funk-heavy, slide-laden surprise new single, Spare Tire
- Watch Limp Bizkit debut new single, Dad Vibes, as Fred Durst has a senior moment
- Gibson adds new Ebony acoustics to its Exclusives Collection
- Rage and the machine: Fan generates six albums of RATM-style jams using AI – and gets real musicians to record them
- Tye Trujillo’s metal trio Ottto debut thundering new track, Ride Low
- Kurt Cobain’s childhood home officially recognized as a Washington state landmark
- Dave Mustaine shares rapid-fire thrash riff from Megadeth's new album, The Sick, the Dying and the Dead
- Watch footage of ZZ Top's first shows since bassist Dusty Hill's death
- Neal Schon’s 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard sells for $350,000 in mammoth online auction
- Kirk Hammett on Metallica's new album: “Hopefully it will cut through the division in the world and bring people together”
