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September 30
- Hear The Rolling Stones' previously unreleased cover of Troubles A’ Comin
- John Petrucci breaks down the main riff to Dream Theater's Invisible Monster in new Guitar World lesson
- From tortured neo-soul to festival-ready indie: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Kickstarter launched for The Fart Pedal, a guitar pedal that turns your tone into fart noises
- Mrs. Smith puts Kirk Hammett to shame once again with a wah-driven cover of Metallica's One
- Diezel's new VH Micro Head packs the high-gain heat of the company's VH4 amp into a compact, lightweight package
- Fender Custom Shop builds Jason Momoa a replica of Buddy Guy’s “holy grail” Strat – with Buddy Guy’s blessing
- Venezuelan guitar ace Douglas Saab teams up with John Petrucci for new instrumental prog jam, 'Space Traveller'
- Limp Bizkit drop studio version of brand-new song, Dad Vibes
- Mark Hoppus announces he’s beaten cancer
- Ghost return with new single, Hunter's Moon
September 29
- Join Paul Riario for a 360 tone tour of the Reverend Gil Parris Signature GPS
- Courtney Barnett is at her thought-provoking guitar-pop best on new single, Write A List Of Things To Look Forward To
- Watch Paul Riario demo the “top-of-the-line masterpiece” Taylor Builder’s Edition 816ce acoustic
- Dave Grohl lends his throne to Greyhawk bassist Darin Wall, who stopped a mass shooting
- Josh Homme granted calls with sons amid ongoing custody battle with Brody Dalle
- Ernie Ball Music Man updates its Ball Family Reserve collection with four new eye-catching offerings
- Joe Bonamassa unveils epic seven-minute title track of new album, Time Clocks
- Mark Tremonti names the one guitar he regrets selling
- The Meters guitar legend Leo Nocentelli’s remarkable unreleased '70s solo album Another Side to finally see the light of day
- Want to record in a world-class studio for free? Fender’s new Player Plus initiative could pay for your band’s sessions
- Richie Faulkner in a “stable” condition after undergoing major emergency heart surgery
- David Gilmour flexes his fretless bass skills in newly shared Yet Another Movie demo
September 28
- IDLES announce new album Crawler, take soulful left turn on new single, The Beachland Ballroom
- Pigtronix takes its delay game to the next level with slimmed-down, powerful Echolution 3 pedal
- Watch Paul Riario put Elixir Strings’ Acoustic Phosphor Bronze with NANOWEB Coating strings to the two-week tone test
- Converge recruit Chelsea Wolfe, Ben Chisholm and Stephen Brodsky for new collaborative album, Bloodmoon: I
- Pigtronix aims to offer a buffet of tone-boosting capabilities with its new Gamma Drive pedal
- Mike McCready joins Brandi Carlile for faithful cover of Soundgarden’s Searching With My Good Eye Closed
- Fender launches new small-scale California series Sonoran Mini, Redondo Mini acoustic guitars
- Fender Japan debuts limited-edition Thinline Telecaster models with literal 'F'-holes
- Eruption: Conversations With Eddie Van Halen is a definitive new biography based on 50+ hours of interviews with the man himself
- Travis Haley – aka ex-Steel Panther bassist Lexxi Foxx – forms new band, Hollywood Gods N' Monsters
- Guns N’ Roses announce new four-track EP, Hard Skool
- Judas Priest postpone remainder of US tour as guitarist Richie Faulkner is hospitalized for “major medical heart condition issues”
September 27
- Watch Paul Riario test drive eight fast-playing, killer-sounding FU PRO guitars from hardware upgrades brand FU-Tone
- Kirk Hammett joins Judas Priest onstage at Louder Than Life for performance of Fleetwood Mac's The Green Manalishi
- Legendary music photographer Ross Halfin has announced a huge new Ritchie Blackmore book, limited to just 400 copies
- Jack White performs surprise set atop Damien Hirst’s balcony at Third Man Records store grand opening
- Johnny Ramone's iconic 1965 Mosrite Ventures II guitar sells at auction for $937,500
- Warwick/Framus declares victory over Gibson in Flying V legal battle
- Watch Eddie Vedder, Josh Klinghoffer, Chad Smith and Pino Palladino perform Prince, R.E.M. and the Pretenders classics at Ohana Festival
- Thom Yorke’s son Noah shares atmospheric, Radiohead-esque track, Trying Too Hard (Lullaby)
- Alan Lancaster, bassist and founding member of Status Quo, dies aged 72
- Metallica perform The Black Album in its entirety at Louder Than Life festival
- How Nita Strauss ended up playing Jason Becker’s prototype Peavey 'Numbers' guitar live
- Watch the Rolling Stones play their first No Filter tour show since Charlie Watts’ death
- ChopTones offers free downloads of its IR Loader plugin for a limited time
September 25
- Focusrite redefines clarity and presence with the new spectacular Clarett+ range of USB audio interfaces
September 24
- The ultimate playing experience: Andy Powers on Taylor's Builder's Edition guitars
- Recording King pays tribute to Justin Townes Earle with new signature acoustic guitar
- Building a backbeat and groove with Calum Graham
- Rammstein’s Richard Kruspe announces fourth Emigrate album, The Persistence of Memory
- Watch Red Hot Chili Peppers bring the funk to MTV's New Years Eve 1991 broadcast
- John Mayer debuts live rendition of Wild Blue on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert
- Strandberg introduces hardware and tonewood overhaul in all-new NX Concept series
- Red Hot Chili Peppers give first interview with John Frusciante back in the fold
- Joyo names new reverb pedal after the most-hated word in the English language
- Stephen Carpenter shares a peek at his epic guitar rig in new playthrough for Deftones' Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away)
- Steve Howe reveals he recorded most of the new Yes album with a Line 6 Spider
- The Ultimate Guide To Pedals – Build Your 'Board From Scratch: inside the new issue of Total Guitar
- Guns N' Roses drop hard-rocking new single, Hard Skool
- How Eddie Van Halen shaped the sound of Def Leppard's Hysteria with a single piece of advice
September 23
- Gibson Gives donates $300,000 to Nashville school music programs
- Rush’s Geddy Lee will release an “epic-length” memoir in 2022
- Super Deluxe 30th anniversary reissue, remaster of Nirvana's Nevermind announced
- From certified ragers to haunting, meditative fretboard excursions: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Volbeat announce new album Servant of the Mind, share destructive new single, Shotgun Blues
- Alt-J announce first album in four years, The Dream, share euphoric lead single, U&ME
- Watch the Foo Fighters perform at Dreamforce 2021 – accompanied by a troupe of fluffy dancing mascots
- Julz Sale, guitarist and singer for Delta 5, has died
- Josh Smith teases a Strat-style version of his signature Ibanez FLATV1
September 22
- From Genesis to Surrender: great Steve Hackett guitar moments
- Watch Justin Johnson try out the Maton Australian EA80C, “one of the best fingerstyle guitars I’ve ever played”
- Watch Nita Strauss shred onstage using Jason Becker’s original prototype Peavey Numbers guitar
- Brian Fallon debuts first single – The Virgin Mary Had One Son – from new spirituals album, Night Divine
- D'Addario unveils new Beatles-branded Get Back picks and straps
- Girls Smash Guitars pay homage to Phoebe Bridgers’ SNL performance with hectic guitar-smashing video
- Mooer launches the drum machine-loaded Groove Loop X2 stereo looper pedal
- The 1991 pedal aims to pack Pearl Jam’s Ten tones into a single stompbox
- Dusky Electronics cooks up the Toasted – an “amp-like” overdrive pedal with a pair of MOSFET gain stages
- Hear the pulverising debut single from Vended, featuring Slipknot offspring Griffin Taylor and Simon Crahan
- Billy Corgan set to sell over 100 pieces of gear used throughout his Smashing Pumpkins career in new Reverb Shop
- Dream Theater grapple with the effects of anxiety on new mid-tempo burner, Invisible Monster
- Watch St. Vincent perform the electrifying title track of her new movie, The Nowhere Inn, on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
- Tom Morello drops heavy-riffing new single with Bring Me the Horizon, Let's Get the Party Started
- Carl Martin debuts streamlined Ottawa Vintage Optical Envelope filter pedal
- Jim Root showcases new one-of-a-kind Black Paisley Fender Jazzmaster at Slipknot's recent festival shows
- Tremonti share bruising new single, Now and Forever
September 21
- “It's like having my own little built-in monitor”: Nikki Lane, Scarypoolparty and Amythyst Kiah talk Gibson’s pioneering new Generation Collection of acoustics
- Spector brings new finishes and tonewoods, and beefed-up electronics, to its Euro line with new Euro RST bass guitar
- Carlos Santana recruits Steve Winwood for soulful new single, Whiter Shade of Pale
- Bruce Keir, co-founder and Technical Director of Blackstar Amplification, dies at 60
- Fender partners with MoFi for swamp ash-built, sunburst-finished PrecisionDeck turntable
- Chelsea Wolfe shares two previously unreleased songs from her Birth of Violence sessions
- Slash teases new Guns N’ Roses song with soundcheck TikTok video
- Why Les Paul didn’t like the Gibson SG
- Gibson debuts the Generation Collection, the company's first acoustics to feature its new Player Port secondary soundhole
- Scott Gorham leaves Black Star Riders to focus on Thin Lizzy
September 20
- Watch Les Paul’s son Gene reveal his father's incredible journey in developing the iconic electric guitar
- Plugin Alliance introduces software version of Pete Thorn’s signature Suhr PT100 amp head
- Thundercat joins Haim to perform 3AM at their Santa Barbara show, serves up a dizzyingly virtuosic bass solo
- Loathe announce departure of guitarist Connor Sweeney
- Wallace Detroit Guitars partners with Jeep for car-branded electric guitar made from 100-year-old wood
- Hear Andy McKee’s stunning acoustic interpretation of Prince’s Purple Rain
- Watch Michael Angelo Batio join Smashing Pumpkins for a shredtacular jam at Chicago's Riot Fest
- Watch Nick DePirro and Jason Richardson put John Petrucci’s awe-inspiring eight-string Majesty through its paces
- The Doof Wagon – the speaker-packed, flame-throwing vehicular guitar rig from Mad Max: Fury Road – is up for auction
- Commemorative Eddie Van Halen Pasadena plaque gets formal approval for installation
- Watch Lindsey Buckingham flex his fingerpicking solo skills in On the Wrong Side performance on The Late Show
- Former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer joins Pearl Jam as touring musician
September 19
- Premiere: Justin Bernasconi channels the spirit of the Australian outback on luminous new single “Lady In The Field”
September 17
- Squier adds a new offset to its Classic Vibe range with the Late '50s Jazzmaster
- New Epiphone Lucille model confirmed for October release as Gibson and B.B. King Music Company reaffirm partnership
- Cort expands its Artisan Series of bass guitars with the 4- and 5-string B4 and B5 Element
- Watch Metallica play a surprise club show in San Francisco
- Roger Waters says David Gilmour and Richard Wright were “snipe-y because they felt very insignificant” in Pink Floyd
- John 5 recruits Dave Mustaine for Que Pasa, the ultra-shreddy first track from his upcoming album, Sinner
- Fender Japan resurrects the Squier Katana for Hama Okamoto’s super-jagged signature bass
- Ernie Ball dishes out the low-end love with new 8-String Regular Slinky set
- Ace Frehley on a potential future Kiss reunion: “Anything's possible”
- Dave Navarro, Chris Chaney and Taylor Hawkins join forces for new band, NHC
- Synergy expands amp module range with high-gain Diezel Herbert preamp module
September 16
- Phish's Trey Anastasio takes you on a guided tour of his full live rig
- From riff-tastic sledgehammers to serene acoustic beauty: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Instrumental Aluminum is a new company building sustainable electric guitars out of, well, aluminum
- Emerald Guitars breaks the mould with carbon fiber, Fishman Fluence-equipped electric-acoustic hybrid, the Virtuo
- Watch the pro-shot version of Guns N’ Roses and Dave Grohl’s plug-pulling Paradise City performance
- Fender unveils Adrian Younge’s insane half-fretless, fuzz-equipped Jazz Bass
- Shawn Mendes employs an old-school Silvertone for a raw electric guitar cover of Billie Eilish's Happier Than Ever
- Boss debuts feature-packed IR-200 Amp & IR Cabinet and SY-200 Synthesizer pedals
September 15
- Watch Megadeth rehearse Hangar 18, Symphony Of Destruction, Peace Sells and more in Kiko Loureiro’s new YouTube video
- Jackson teams up with former Megadeth guitarist Chris Broderick to launch impressively spec'd Pro Series Soloist model
- The War on Drugs' heartland rock influences shine on their shimmering new single, I Don't Live Here Anymore
- Snail Mail announces sophomore studio album, Valentine, shares infectious title track
- Orange promises tube-like tone from solid-state circuitry with the new Super Crush 100 Head and Combo
- How recording The Unforgiven changed Kirk Hammett's approach to guitar solos forever
- Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit announce star-studded covers charity album featuring Julien Baker, Chris Thile, John Paul White and more
- Clutch have written a song called Boss Metal Zone – watch the first live performance
- Mastodon and Opeth announce 15-date co-headline US tour for late 2021
September 14
- Grab your guitar, dial in a fat jazz tone and explore this in-depth bebop scale lesson from six-string ace Matt Warnock
- All-star Allman Family Revival tour announced
- Keeley Electronics ushers in its next generation of compression pedals with the Compressor Mini
- John Mayer wins Best Rock Video at 2021 MTV VMAs
- Steve Vai announces enormous 54-date US tour
- John Petrucci's signature 8-string Ernie Ball Music Man Majesty has arrived at last
- Fender launches official TikTok account
- Jerry Cantrell remembers watching Axl Rose throw his Alice in Chains demo tape away
- Fender introduces limited-edition Pink and Black Paisley Acoustasonic Telecasters
- Fender launches all-new Player Plus electric guitar and bass models with fresh finishes and switching options
- Hear Ozzy Osbourne and Lemmy Kilmister trade vocals on new version of Hellraiser
- Robert Trujillo’s 17-year-old son performs alongside Suicidal Tendencies at Blue Ridge Rock Festival
- Queen's Brian May hints towards all-instrumental solo album
- Mudvayne reunite for first live show in 12 years at Ohio's Inkcarceration festival
- Al Joseph unleashes a barrage of blazing riffs and licks in mesmerizing new instrumental single, Elemental
- King’s X bassist and frontman dUg Pinnick announces new solo album Joy Bomb
September 13
- Who was the first guitarist to fit a Floyd Rose on a Gibson Les Paul? Brad Gillis maintains he started the trend
- Watch Machine Gun Kelly tear through Papercuts before smashing his guitar to pieces at the MTV VMAs
- UK guitar great Michael Chapman dies aged 80: Thurston Moore, Ryley Walker and Steve Gunn lead tributes
- Solar Guitars partners with Patrik Jensen of The Haunted and Witchery for a bloodthirsty new E-type signature model
- Roger Newell, bassist for Rick Wakeman and Marty Wilde, dies aged 73
- Watch present-day Brian May jam with 1992 Brian May in his new Back to the Light video
- Metallica and Miley Cyrus unite for stunning live rendition of Nothing Else Matters
September 10
- Stevie Nicks responds to Lindsey Buckingham’s “factually inaccurate” recollection of his Fleetwood Mac departure
- Hear Billy Talent and Rivers Cuomo duke it out on their new “Hendrix + Weezer” track, End of Me
- Restraining order filed against Josh Homme by his family
- John 5 and Rob Zombie pay tribute to live mayhem in new Shadow of the Cemetery Man video
- Bullet For My Valentine promise an “absolute sledgehammer of a track with riffs for days” on new single Shatter
- Ghost unleash haunting reimagining of Metallica’s Enter Sandman
- Hear the sludgy title track from Jerry Cantrell’s new solo album, Brighten
- Mastodon announce epic new double album Hushed and Grim, share pummeling lead single, Pushing the Tides
- G&L offers wider string spacing on its new L-2500 Series 750 five-string bass
September 9
- Eric Clapton unplugs again (mostly) on new album, The Lady in the Balcony: Lockdown Sessions
- Virtual versions of IK Multimedia's X-Gear pedals can now be demoed for free in AmpliTube 5
- Contemporary guitarist Brian Kastan brings jam band music and modern blues into the boundaryless, improv-heavy future on his new album, ‘Free Blues’
- Rory Gallagher livestream tribute concert announced to celebrate debut album’s 50th anniversary
- Fairfield Circuitry promises bountiful gain and "delicious" harmonics with its new ~900 fuzz pedal
- Harley Benton's new $39 Lightcases seek to provide the “protection of a hardcase with the flexibility of a gigbag”
- Josh Homme reveals the “secret weapon” behind his Queens of the Stone Age tone: Peavey's tiny Decade practice amp
- Gibson partners with School of Rock for unique, limited-edition black-and-gold Les Paul Special
- Jared James Nichols premieres searing live performance of Skin 'n Bone, from forthcoming Shadow Dancer EP
- Martin ukulele set for space in first-ever all-civilian astronaut SpaceX expedition
- Hear the exclusive premiere of Eric Bibb’s powerful new single, Dear America
- Noatronic’s Wireless Guitar System lets you control MIDI pedals via your guitar's tone pot
September 8
- 2022 NAMM show rescheduled to June
- Gov’t Mule announce first-ever blues album, Heavy Load Blues, release acoustic-driven lead single, Heavy Load
- Barenaked Ladies' Ed Robertson has teamed up with Geddy Lee for a "super-secret" project
- Rodrigo y Gabriela share awe-inspiring acoustic reworking of Metallica's The Struggle Within
- Samantha Fish says ditching her pedals “made me a better guitar player”
- Watch deathcore heroes Whitechapel rip through crushing new single Lost Boy in this exclusive playthrough video
- Gibson adds Indian rosewood-equipped versions of the ‘58 Korina Flying V and Explorer reissues to its Custom Shop lineup
- Pavement announce 2022 reunion tour
- Earthbound Audio says pedal brand is on "indefinite hold" and launches fundraiser after home is devastated by Ida floods
- Eddie Vedder’s new single, The Long Way, features a backing band of Red Hot Chili Peppers and Heartbreakers members
- Hetfield and Hammett revisit Metallica's Black Album, plus the true origins of Eddie Van Halen's Frankenstein – only in the new Guitar World
- Joe Satriani pays tribute to longtime manager Mick Brigden, who has died aged 73
- Bill Finnegan announces future Klon KTRs to be made with new components after NOS diode supply diminishes
- Bass Player's new issue pays tribute to Dusty Hill
September 7
- Fender finally releases long-awaited Stratocaster Lego set
- Radiohead announce three-disc Kid A/Amnesiac reissue, premiere previously unreleased track, If You Say The Word
- Man on course to smash world record after playing bass guitar for 60 hours straight in mammoth fundraiser
- Kim Thayil and Jerry Cantrell join forces to lead upcoming Sounds of Seattle rock camp
- Kirk Hammett reveals he has never written a guitar solo with a wah pedal
- Jonny Greenwood says Radiohead side-project The Smile's debut album is "just about finished"
- Faith Guitars revamps its HiGloss acoustic series with the three-piece rosewood-equipped FVHG3
- Adori Audio’s Slimtech is an ultra-slim combo amp that fits in a gigbag
- Hard-rock heroes UFO schedule their last-ever show and promise “it’ll be a worthy finale”
September 6
- Rico Nasty’s unexpectedly heavy NPR Tiny Desk concert makes a star of Strandberg-toting guitarist Liso Lee
- Burgerkill founding guitarist Aries Tanto – aka Eben – dies aged 46
- Johnny Marr shares a closer look at his bonkers 9-pickup Fender Stratocaster
- Watch the moment a festival pulls the plug on Guns N’ Roses and Dave Grohl – and they carry on regardless
- Death By Audio post Hurricane Ida update, announce latest addition to lineup is a kitten named Toots
- Black Oak Arkansas guitarist Rickie Lee Reynolds dies aged 72
- Hear Ariel Posen’s new swampy instrumental slide guitar masterclass, Clawhammer
- Kiko Loureiro has switched to the Neural DSP Quad Cortex for Megadeth’s current tour
- Judas Priest have “at least an album or two of new material”, according to bassist Ian Hill
- First-ever band-sanctioned Led Zeppelin documentary shares first official clip
September 3
- Calling all gear hounds: You could win $500 simply by taking this survey
- Fender partners with Mattel for new Barbie Collection song lessons on Fender Play
- ESP pays tribute to the late Alexi Laiho with two new signature models
- Guitar Gabby premieres new video for grungy single The Dead Pool
- Lollar’s Regal for Jazzmaster pickup set makes it easy to swap in Wide Range-style humbucker tones on your offset
- Myles Kennedy confirms work on a new Slash album has been completed
- Scottish alt-rock heroes Biffy Clyro announce surprise new album The Myth of the Happily Ever After
- Van Halen: The Eruption and the Aftershock tells the story of the band with input from Black Sabbath, Pantera and Alice in Chains
- Tom DeLonge and Jason Mraz creations head up ArtReach’s 32-model art auction of one-off custom guitars
- Walrus Audio seeks to usher in whole new Eras of high gain with versatile new distortion pedal
- Hear Tony Hawk cover one of his favorite songs from his own game
- Watch the first footage of Lars Ulrich’s sons’ biting new blues-rock band, Taipei Houston
September 2
- Dave Mustaine teaches you the main riff to Megadeth's Tornado of Souls in backstage video
- Gibson redefines guitars as investments with new Rally partnership
- From electro-soul anthems to go-for-the-throat garage rock: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Rick Rubin cried watching the Red Hot Chili Peppers' first rehearsal after reuniting with John Frusciante
- Gibson unveils Mod Collection of rare, exclusive and one-off guitars
- Positive Grid celebrates 10th anniversary with the return of the Spark Pearl, and big savings off the 5-star Spark amp
- Dean DeLeo teams up with Tom Bukovac for new, virtually assembled collaborative album, Trip The Witch
- Boss brings its immersive Waza-Air headphone technology to bassists with the Waza-Air Bass
- Animals As Leaders return with epic, unrelenting new single, Monomyth
September 1
- Watch Sophie Burrell plug into Focusrite’s Scarlett 18i8 3rd Gen USB Audio Interface to rip out a fierce cover of Michael Jackson's Beat It
- New Brad Whitford photobook, Listen To Whitford, announced
- Metallica's Blackened American Whiskey has been “pummeled by the low-hertz frequencies” of the band's classic tracks
- Hear Squier's newly revived Paranormal Series guitars in action
- Hear Lindsey Buckingham’s new single Scream, a galloping "celebration of an aspect of life"
- Recording King equips its latest Dirty 30s resonator with a mini-humbucker
- Fender adds roasted pine bodies, fully rosewood necks and Bigsby Telecaster options to its Mod Shop
- Kiss postpone four shows after Gene Simmons tests positive for COVID
- Watch Yes take to the skies in eagle-eyed video for new track Dare to Know
- Has Herman Li just teased an upcoming PRS signature guitar?
- Zeal & Ardor announce self-titled third album, debut new song Bow, which sounds like a chain-gang death march
- Nearly a third of new gear is bought by church players, according to Fender
- Klon creator Bill Finnegan announces livestream series via newly created YouTube channel
- Fender Japan continues its fine guitar-making form with Heather Brown’s ultra-limited, nautical-themed Original Canvas Esquire
- Nandi Bushell joins forces with Tom Morello and his son Roman for a “sweet improvisational jam”
- Ibanez introduces $299 AZ Essentials series, designed in collaboration with Tomo Fujita