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- August 31
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- Gretsch teams up with Nigel Hendroff for a simplified but elegant signature Penguin guitar
- EVH reimagines the 5150 Deluxe model with an ornate Limited Edition Ash finish
- Watch Tommy Emmanuel tear it up on Steve Vai's custom, Strat-style Ibanez JEM – with Vai on rhythm guitar
- Dave Mustaine on the secret to playing Megadeth: “A lot of the technique is in the right hand. It's not what the left hand is doing at all”
- At long last, you can treat your guitar to the novelty toggle switch surround and truss rod cover it deserves
- Fender’s latest Chicago Music Exchange-exclusive Telecasters have a secret finish that reveals itself the older the guitars get
- Jim Root's first-ever Charvel signature model has officially landed
- August 30
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- Josh Klinghoffer: "Rick Rubin was way more a hindrance than a help" on Red Hot Chili Peppers' I’m With You
- Nashville and LA session player Shawn Tubbs offers some of the most iconic amp tones in history with his new signature overdrive, the Revv Amplification Tilt
- Watch Nirvana's legendary Reading 1992 set in full in remastered 4K
- Watch Steve Vai and Yvette Young share the stage for an ‘80s-flavored jam at Vai Academy 6.0
- Hear Nita Strauss unleash a storm of shred in new instrumental single
- Neurosis founding guitarist Scott Kelly retires from music after admitting to abuse of wife and children
- Gibson recreates two of Noel Gallagher’s prized guitars with 1960 ES-355 and Epiphone Riviera signature models
- Zakk Wylde will use Dimebag Darrell’s guitar gear on Pantera's reunion tour
- Ozzy Osbourne hints at future tour: “If I have to go up there and die on the first song, I’ll still be back the next day”
- John Mayer used this $58 delay pedal during the Born and Raised and Paradise Valley world tour
- August 29
- August 26
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- Watch Megadeth perform The Sick, The Dying... and The Dead! single We'll Be Back live for the first time
- Ryan ‘Fluff’ Bruce of Riffs, Beards & Gear unveils signature Fishman Fluence Custom Series pickup
- Julian Lage explains why he doesn’t use many effects pedals
- Dimebag Darrell’s final Dean USA Custom Shop guitar showcased in new video
- Machine Head drop sprawling new album ØF KINGDØM AND CRØWN, share melodic fifth single, NØ GØDS, NØ MASTERS
- Watch Mateus Asato shred while John Petrucci lays down the funk
- Watch Slash guide you through his incredible guitar haul in Gibson TV’s The Collection
- Hear Matt Bellamy’s Yngwie Malmsteen-inspired solo on the new Muse album
- Fender Japan launches sensationally styled Scandal signature Stratocaster and Telecaster models
- First Pantera reunion shows announced
- Fulltone reportedly shutting down its California factory after 3 decades
- Inside the new issue of Total Guitar: Muse – How two metal titans inspired their heaviest songs yet!
- August 25
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- From John Mayer-approved folk-pop to returning mathcore fury: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Vola partners with Myrath’s Malek Ben Arbia for one of the wildest-looking signature models of the year, the Djinn
- Michael Manring heads up unique fundraiser on August 28
- 18-29-year-olds more likely to play guitar than any other age group
- Sammy Hagar claims Eddie Van Halen visited him in a dream and they wrote a song together
- Boss expands its portable practice amp lineup with the Dual Cube LX and Dual Cube Bass LX
- August 24
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- Nita Strauss hints at future return to Alice Cooper’s band: “Everyone’s saying it’s a ‘departure’ but I don’t feel, necessarily, that I left”
- Mathcore pioneers Botch surprise-release first new song in 20 years
- Ernie Ball Music Man introduces 5 new limited-edition finishes for its Short Scale Stingray bass
- Mdou Moctar shares unreleased 13-minute guitar jam in new 6-track collection, Niger EP Vol. 1
- Arctic Monkeys announce seventh studio album, The Car
- Did Gibson just reveal a Noel Gallagher Epiphone Riviera is in the works?
- Dave Mustaine reflects on Marty Friedman’s Megadeth departure: “What happened to Marty was definitely not okay”
- Jane's Addiction founding bassist Eric Avery rejoins the band after 12 years
- Larkin Poe flip the script with latest Blood Harmony track, Georgia Off My Mind
- August 23
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- John Mayer overcomes technical guitar problems to perform Born and Raised in full at final Rise for the River charity concert
- Former Cradle of Filth guitarist Stuart Anstis dies aged 48
- Yep, Robert Fripp and Toyah have covered Limp Bizkit’s Nookie
- Fender Custom Shop honors Jerry Garcia’s 80th birthday with ultra-limited Masterbuilt Alligator Stratocaster recreation
- Polyphia celebrate Dimebag Darrell's birthday with live cover of Pantera's Domination
- Parkway Drive channel Black Album-era Metallica on stirring new ballad, Darker Still
- Alter Bridge partner with Mammoth WVH for North American 2023 tour
- August 22
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- A 1990 Gretsch White Falcon used by Dave Grohl in the Monkey Wrench video is going up for auction
- Godin’s Radium-X is a chambered electric with an acoustic alter-ego
- Watch Steve Stevens demo his newly upgraded signature Friedman SS-100 v2 tube amp head
- Watch Johnny Marr perform classic Smiths tracks onstage with The Killers
- August 19
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- From somber blues guitar duels to Shadows-esque guitar-pop: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Hear Larkin Poe’s roots-y reinvention of the Scorpions’ Wind of Change
- Red Hot Chili Peppers serve up first single from Return of the Dream Canteen with a double serving of funk
- Fender Play Foundation appoints Aarash Darroodi as president
- Stranger Things’ Joseph Quinn reveals his personal guitar heroes
- August 18
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- Bare Knuckle adds Unity humbucker set to its standard range in support of humanitarian aid
- Watch unseen footage of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 1970 performance of Fortunate Son live at the Royal Albert Hall
- Queens of the Stone Age’s Dean Fertita announces solo project Tropical Gothclub, gets wild with the guitar for lead single Wheels Within Wheels
- Watch Dave Grohl, Tenacious D, Beck, Greg Kurstin and John C. Reilly cover Seals and Crofts’ Summer Breeze
- Megadeth’s Kiko Loureiro names the best bass players he’s ever played with
- Eric Clapton drops previously unreleased cover of Albert King's Born Under a Bad Sign
- Mark Hoppus weighs in on Tom Delonge's rumored Blink-182 return: “I keep writing music, and I’m open to whatever the next phase of Blink is”
- August 17
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- Hear the ethereal (and "ridiculous") sounds of a harp run through a wah pedal
- Todd Rundgren recruits Steve Vai, Rick Nielsen, Rivers Cuomo and more for star-studded new album, Space Force
- Nail the tones of the most iconic vintage amps, and more, with Universal Audio’s “extraordinary” UAFX Guitar Amp Emulator pedals
- How to watch the all-star Taylor Hawkins tribute concert at Wembley Stadium
- What would Master of Puppets sound like if it was written by Slipknot? This TikTok user has the answer
- Gibson’s Cesar Gueikian just teased an all-new electric guitar
- Steve Miller says T-Bone Walker taught him how to play guitar behind his head when he was nine years old
- Behemoth summon the darkness on face-ripping new single, Thy Becoming Eternal
- UK math-rockers Alpha Male Tea Party appeal for help following huge gear theft
- Rhett Shull has teamed up with Novo for an all-new offset electric guitar, the Idris
- This Ukrainian guitarist’s apartment was hit by a Russian airstrike – and he’s auctioning guitar pedals that were inside at the time
- Watch Sarah Lipstate show off her insane pedal and guitar collection – complete with a wild Gizmotron-equipped Ed O’Brien Stratocaster
- Tim Henson: “When you compose something, it should sound good in its most bare state. Once it sounds good, you can add whatever you want”
- Bass Player magazine to close, as brand moves fully online
- August 16
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- Electro-Harmonix and J Mascis team up for signature Ram’s Head Big Muff Pi – available exclusively via Reverb
- Nikki Sixx takes aim at Hanoi Rocks guitarist Andy McCoy: “I get it, he’s just trying to sell a book, album or club tour”
- Fender launches the Christone “Kingfish” Ingram Telecaster Deluxe – a blues guitar for playing all kinds of genres
- Gene Simmons says Kiss will “continue in ways even I haven't thought of” following conclusion of their End of the Road world tour
- Rage Against the Machine perform Fistful of Steel for the first time since 1997 as New York residency raises $1 million for charity
- Steve Vai on the importance of music theory: “A person has to balance how much technique they need to get their point across”
- New Found Glory guitarist Chad Gilbert diagnosed with tumor in his spine
- August 15
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- Jeff Beck announces mammoth list of US tour dates, including a string of shows with Ann Wilson and ZZ Top
- Wrecking Crew guitarist Bill Pitman dies aged 102
- Tony Iommi explains why Geezer Butler didn’t join him and Ozzy at Commonwealth Games closing ceremony
- Watch Nita Strauss make her full live debut with Demi Lovato
- Orange Amplification updates its O Bass series of single-cut, retro bass guitars
- August 12
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- From Viking metal to indie disco: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- David Ellefson on Megadeth ouster: “You find out who your friends are… pretty f**king quick when the s**t hits the fan”
- Rage Against the Machine cancel European tour dates following frontman Zack de la Rocha’s leg injury
- DYLAN talks customizing Strats and rocking out to Guns N' Roses in latest Fender Player Plus Session
- Megadeth show us their war face on precision-riffing new single Soldier On!
- Buddy Guy announces new album and teams up with Jason Isbell for its first single, Gunsmoke Blues
- August 11
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- Watch Rush’s Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee reunite to perform Closer to the Heart, with South Park creator Matt Stone on drums
- Watch John Mayer and Bob Weir play acoustic versions of Grateful Dead classics at the Rise for the River benefit
- Porcupine Tree’s Steven Wilson says high-gain metal guitars don't sound heavy anymore
- Catalinbread’s all-new Fuzzrite Germanium recreates a highly sought-after Mosrite classic
- August 10
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- Pigtronix unveils the Gloamer – a polyphonic amplitude synthesizer for “cinematic string sounds, asymmetrical tremolos, and angular stutter effects”
- Model your gear and turn it into a plugin with IK Multimedia’s new AmpliTube Tonex software
- Moist Limb’s Trone Noir is the pitch-perfect black metal cover of Wet Leg’s Chaise Longue you must watch
- Watch pro-shot footage of Pavement’s epic headline set from Primavera 2022
- Dave Mustaine reveals the fastest song Megadeth have ever written, and it is 190 bpm
- Fender celebrates 40 years of Squier in style with the official launch of 10 lavish anniversary models
- The Pogues “saddened beyond words” following the death of bassist Darryl Hunt, aged 72
- Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine: the ultimate interview – only in the new Guitar World
- Elvis biopic has doubled the number of people learning the rock and roll icon’s songs on guitar, according to Fender Play
- Kramer debuts the Striker Collection, shreddable electrics in hot colors with high-performance and affordability as standard
- Ernie Ball Music Man officially launches patent-pending Heat-Treated pickup technology on three new guitar models
- August 9
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- Wampler Pedals unveils the Moxie, a compact and “twisted” twist on a vintage TS-style overdrive
- Gord Lewis, founding guitarist of Canadian punk rock outfit Teenage Head, found dead in apparent homicide
- This guitar was made entirely out of Ikea furniture
- Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi reunite for triumphant surprise performance at 2022 Commonwealth Games closing ceremony
- August 8
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- Phil Collen used stock Squier guitars to record Def Leppard’s new album
- Watch BRUIT ≤ guitarist Théophile Antolinos talk us through his killer rig
- High-quality bootleg recording of Led Zeppelin’s 1972 show in Kyoto emerges, and is reportedly set for release
- The Mars Volta announce new album and share Vigil – a track lit up by Omar Rodríguez-López's dreamy guitar tones
- The Offspring escape unscathed after car in touring convoy bursts into flames
- August 6
- August 5
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- Kim Thayil, Steve Vai and Wolf Marshall discuss legendary six-strings in these exclusive extracts from Greg Prato's Iconic Guitar Gear
- Watch Ichika Nito shred a Casio DG-20 and give us a glimpse of what could have been an alternate future for guitar
- Slipknot dial back the tempo on Yen, the brooding third single from their upcoming album, The End, So Far
- Demand for female and non-binary artists' signature guitars outstripping supply, says Reverb
- Flower Pedals debuts the digitally controlled, MIDI-compatible analog Sunflower Deluxe Tremolo
- Guitars played by Jimi Hendrix, George Harrison, Ace Frehley go up for auction
- Marcus King drops slow-burning new single, Blues Worse Than I Ever Had
- Hear the ferocious tones of ESP’s smartly spec’d LTD Deluxe SN-1000HT Fire Blast guitar
- Jeff Berlin releases Jack Bruce tribute album featuring guitar solos from Alex Lifeson, Bumblefoot and Eric Johnson
- Ron ‘Bumblefoot’ Thal teases new solo instrumental album for 2023 – “I’m slowly getting there”
- Polyphia’s staggering guitar genius is front and center in this full-band playthrough of Neurotica
- Soulfly's Max Cavalera says “soap opera” surrounding Marc Rizzo's exit fueled the “fire” and “anger” of new album Totem
- Phil Collen says today’s bands lack “star power” and argues that “the TikTok and YouTube crowd” are part of the problem
- Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp accused of stealing lyrics from a 1960s spoken word poem
- August 4
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- Rory Gallagher's legendary Deuce album set for 50th anniversary remaster, deluxe reissue
- Willow Smith will release a new album, COPINGMECHANISM, on September 23
- Sweetwater opens online used gear marketplace, The Sweetwater Gear Exchange
- Watch Steve Vai hand his guitar to a teenage fan mid-show, who then brings the house down with his insane playing
- Deftones recruit Freddie Gibbs, Turnstile and Phantogram for third annual Dia De Los Deftones
- Vinnie Moore says Eddie Van Halen inspired him to take a chisel to his Strat
- August 3
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- Open up worlds of alternate-tuned awesomeness with Kyser’s new Quick-Change Short-Cut and Quick-Change Drop D capos
- Watch pro-shot footage of the Pixies’ triumphant headline set in Cologne, Germany
- Tommy Thayer is teaching you how to play his favorite KISS solos over on the Gibson App
- Get IK Multimedia’s AmpliTube Nu-Tron III auto wah plugin for free throughout August
- Mark Hoppus dispels rumors of Tom DeLonge’s imminent return to Blink-182
- Gretsch expands its range of Electromatic Double Jets with new Bigsby and V-Stoptail-equipped models
- EarthQuaker Devices partners with L.A. creative studio Brain Dead for new-look Ghost Echo reverb pedal
- Neural DSP launches Archetype plugin suite for Rabea Massaad – and it has an actual synth onboard
- Phil Demmel to fill in for Willie Adler on Lamb of God’s European dates
- Alter Bridge unleash destructive dual-guitar action in explosive new single, Silver Tongue
- August 2
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- Pedal Pawn unveils the Octone, an octave fuzz inspired by the “spooky magic” of a vintage Octavia
- Walrus Audio promises “mountains of sustain and a smooth attack from” the Mira Optical Compressor pedal
- Joe Walsh recruits Nine Inch Nails, The Black Keys and Dave Grohl for VetsAid 2022’s all-Ohio lineup
- Is Tom DeLonge about to announce his return to Blink-182?
- Porno For Pyros recruit Billy Corgan for a performance of Led Zeppelin’s When the Levee Breaks at Lollapalooza
- August 1
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- Rick Beato gives viewers a guided tour of his studio – including the ‘secret stuff’ he keeps behind the camera
- Cordoba’s new Stage electric guitar brings nylon-string design into the modern age
- Rise Against guitarist Zach Blair launches podcast dedicated to guitar anti-heroes
- Dean must stop producing V, Z and Gran Sport electric guitars after latest ruling in Gibson trademark infringement lawsuit
- Stone Gossard says grunge didn’t kill ‘80s hard rock bands – but “yes, some did die”
- Watch Metallica jam with Stranger Things star Joseph Quinn backstage at Lollapalooza
