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March 31
- NAMM 2023: Is this the ultimate Klon clone? J. Rockett’s Archer Select offers a choice of seven clipping diodes
- Acorn Amplifiers unveils slimmed-down Solid State preamp pedal, the company's latest take on Josh Homme's "secret weapon" Peavey Decade amp
- NAMM 2023: Catalinbread writes a “love letter to the flanger” with STS-88 Flanger/Reverb pedal
- Hear Nuno Bettencourt tap into his inner Yngwie Malmsteen on a new classical crossover track that stretched his abilities
- NAMM 2023: Josh Smith and Seymour Duncan release the Flat V pickup set – an unorthodox blend of Tele-style single coils
- Slash, Billy Gibbons and Warren Haynes to perform in all-star tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd's Gary Rossington at the CMT Awards
March 30
- Watch Phil X jam Van Halen's Somebody Get Me a Doctor with Michael Anthony
- From all-star extreme metal to riffs built entirely around ring modulators: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Harley Benton goes for gold with 25th anniversary series of affordable electric guitar and bass models
- Marshall Amps sold to Swedish speaker company, bringing an end to family ownership
- Watch Vulpeck's Joe Dart break down Flea and Victor Wooten's slap bass technique
- Behold Ernie Ball Music Man’s ultra-limited, ultra-luxurious Spring 2023 Ball Family Reserve range
- Guitarist plays $90 acoustic for headline set at Guinness World Records’ largest-attended music festival
- You’ve never heard Fender Strats and Gretsch Jets sound so devastatingly heavy as in this new Loathe session
March 29
- Anthrax's Scott Ian honors Dimebag Darrell with new "Baldini Burst" signature Jackson X Series King V guitar
- James Hetfield says “if there was a guitar that changed the course of my history” it was this one – and it’s a cheap copy
- Tom Leadon, guitarist for Tom Petty-fronted band Mudcrutch, dies at 70
- Andrew Whiting unleashes his first-ever Attack Attack! solo in fierce – and funny – playthrough of new single Dark Waves
- Here's your last chance to save a massive 50% on Line 6 Helix Native in its spring software sale
- Tom Morello says he has been relegated to rhythm guitar at home as his 11-year-old son “can shred circles around me”
- NAMM 2023 news: all the latest guitar news, rumors and predictions
- NAMM 2023: Ampeg gives bassists “an entire rig in a single stompbox” with the SGT-DI preamp and DI pedal
- Jimmy Page unearths lost Led Zeppelin demo, The Seasons – the acoustic guitar arrangement that became The Rain Song
- NAMM 2023: Walrus Audio confirms its new slider-equipped Fundamental pedal series is real
March 28
- Newly unveiled Fender Next Class of 2023 highlights 25 guitar-powered artists you need to hear this year
- Gibson announces the USA Kirk Hammett ‘Greeny’ Les Paul Standard, bringing its most anticipated signature model to the masses
- Mattoverse unveils its latest Solar Sound unit – the $79 Desktop Saturator, which uses light to deliver a huge range of gain tones
- Every guitarist should hear this isolated guitar track of Jimi Hendrix performing Voodoo Child live at Woodstock
- Fender Japan doubles down on its vintage hot streak with racing stripe-equipped Traditional ‘60s Competition Stripe collection
March 27
- Metal musicians were asked to pick the heaviest riff of all time. This Metallica riff was the (not so clear) winner
- Watch Jimmy Page demo his most iconic guitar gear, including his Les Paul, the Telecaster that “built Led Zeppelin I,” and the Gibson double-neck behind Stairway
- Fender CEO Andy Mooney teases the possibility of Acoustasonic models inspired by classic acoustic body shapes
- NAMM 2023: Martin debuts spotlight-stealing StreetLegend series, recreating historic models from the brand’s museum
- Solar’s AC6BR Raw promises “the best of what can be put into an electric guitar”
- Joe Bonamassa names the guitar pedal he’s used the most throughout his career
March 24
- Canadian guitar great Frank Marino is launching his own hand-built pedal line – and he’s making them himself
- Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood to play bass on Nick Cave’s forthcoming solo tour
- Former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony teases new band with Bon Jovi guitarist, Aerosmith drummer and “a really, really cool singer”
- NAMM 2023: Laney unveils the Ironheart Loudpedal, a surprisingly affordable, two-channel 60W amp in a stompbox
- Wes Borland is selling off a huge gear haul, including the Mesa/Boogie head used on Three Dollar Bill, Y'all and a host of custom and prototype guitars
March 23
- D’Angelico debuts stunning signature semi-hollow Deluxe DC for neo-soul virtuoso Melanie Faye
- Foxgear launches the Gurus Echosex 3º Steve Lukather Signature pedal, the “always-on” Echorec emulator that gives the Toto guitarist his secret sauce
- From swirling Hendrixian arpeggios to fresh solos from one of John Frusciante's favorite modern-day players: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Bush’s Chris Traynor got the Fender Custom Shop to make him a baritone version of Keith Richards’ Micawber Telecaster
- Give your Jazzmaster a serious boost with EMG’s innovative JMaster prewired pickguard and pickup set
- Saliva guitarist Wayne Swinny dies aged 59
- Kirk Hammett just bought one of the rarest Les Pauls ever made – a Factory Black ’59 Les Paul Standard
- Wolfgang Van Halen teases name change to Wolfgang Led Zeppelin following accusations he’s trading on the Van Halen surname
- Kristan Dawson dishes out a technical tour-de-force in blistering playthrough of Bury Tomorrow’s “aggressive” new track, Heretic
- Watch DragonForce’s Herman Li shred underwater as he goes Through the Fire and the Flames – and a water slide – to end up in a hot-tub
March 22
- Watch Soundgarden's Kim Thayil tear through Led Zeppelin's Communication Breakdown at Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Camp performance
- Watch Larkin Poe deliver a dueling Strat and slide workout in punchy Jimmy Kimmel performance
- NAMM 2023: Fishman debuts signature Fluence pickup sets for Polyphia’s Tim Henson and Scott LePage – complete with an onboard nylon-string substitute setting
- Watch Marcus King play a 1955 Gibson Les Paul Custom once owned by Paul Kossoff and Eric Clapton
- Kiesel unveils the A2, a future-forward offset electric guitar and bass that marks the dramatic evolution of the Aries
- Deryck Whibley is selling off a “treasure trove” of gear used across two decades with Sum 41
- Wolfgang Van Halen flexes his tapping chops on new Mammoth WVH single, Another Celebration at the End of the World
- Morgan Amps has teamed up with legendary luthier Grover Jackson (yes, that one) on a new high-end guitar line
- Nita Strauss reunites with Alice Cooper for new single Winner Takes All – and Strauss is cutting heads in the solo
- NAMM 2023: Positive Grid unveils the Spark Go, a 5-watt modeling amp that fits in your pocket
March 21
- HeadRush debuts the amp-cloning and Auto-Tune-equipped Prime, “the most powerful, versatile, and realistic-sounding floorboard FX processor ever”
- Nuno Bettencourt reveals the most important pedal in his guitar rig: “I tried playing without one and f**kin’ hated it!”
- The pedals that the world's greatest guitarists can't live without – only in the new Guitar World
- Gibson unveils new Billie Joe Armstrong Les Paul Junior, complete with the pinkest hardcase you’ve ever seen
- Fender honors one of the most heard electric guitars of all time with two new Michael Landau signature "Coma" Stratocasters
- NAMM 2023: Darkglass seeks to shake up the noise gate market with mysterious and “cutting-edge” new NSG pedal
- NAMM 2023: The holy grail of saturated tones? Crazy Tube Circuits’ Motherload combines Big Muff and Rat sounds in one pedal
- NAMM 2023: Blackstar unveils its most powerful entry-level amp yet, the Debut 50R
March 20
- Taylor Swift’s parents recreated her Fearless guitar using rhinestones and super glue
- Hawkwind founder and guitarist Mick Slattery dies aged 77
- Save big on Player Series bundles with up to $180 off in Fender’s Spring Sale
- John Frusciante gets struck with cramp, forcing him to stretch his fretting fingers in the middle of a blistering live solo
- Fender Japan trades wild builds for classy vibes with stylish reverse headstock-equipped Traditional Stratocaster
March 17
- NAMM 2023: Danelectro's new '59 Triple Divine guitar adds a pickup to one of the company's classic designs
- 5 alternatives to the DigiTech Bad Monkey that you can actually afford
- Gary Moore’s Bad Monkey is now on sale for $12,000 and JHS has debuted BM T-shirts. When will the Bad Monkey bubble burst?
- "Don't practice it for too long, because you're going to get tendonitis": Watch Rick Beato break down Nuno Bettencourt's jaw-dropping Rise solo
- Meet the John DeLonge – a guitar build that combines John Mayer’s PRS Silver Sky and Fender’s Tom DeLonge Stratocaster
- John Mayer is using three pedalboards on his current tour, featuring a top-spec multi-FX and a newly launched reverb
- KHDK and Slipknot’s V-Man promise a “gritty as f**k” tone that will “change your life” with their new Totality overdrive
March 16
- Jim Gordon – Derek and the Dominos drummer, Layla co-writer, and convicted murderer – dies at 77
- From revived ’80s hard-rock collabs to a very different kind of Meshuggah: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Chibson USA now sells Cease/Desist toggle switch washers for your off-brand Les Paul
- Joe Perry reveals he used Fender Strats to record most of Aerosmith’s ’70s material
- JHS Pedals responds to DigiTech Bad Monkey price hikes: “Learn to listen with your ears and not trends, and you will be a much happier guitarist”
March 15
- Steve Vai's childhood home practice rig is up for sale – but it's not what you think
- Can you reverse the Oscars? Because they should all go to Chase Bliss’ MOOD MKII pedal demo
- Watch Jared James Nichols play Free’s All Right Now on Paul Kossoff’s 1959 Les Paul Burst
- Prices for DigiTech's $59 Bad Monkey overdrive skyrocket to $650 after Josh Scott shows how indistinguishable it sounds from a Klon Centaur
- NAMM 2023: Taylor adds new dreadnought model, cosmetic updates to 400 series in 2023 update
- Charvel launches one of its most meticulously engineered guitars yet with new Inca Silver signature model for session pro Prashant Aswani
- Joe Bonamassa says he regularly apologizes to Eric Johnson: “Every time I see him I’m like, ‘I’m sorry for stealing your style’”
- Reddick ushers in a new age of modular guitar design with first semi-hollow Voyager CS
- Tom DeLonge’s new Fender Starcaster just got a whole lot more Tom DeLonge with this Roswell flying saucer-themed finish
March 14
- Hear Elvis Costello channel his inner blues-rocker in onstage jam with Billy Gibbons
- Synyster Gates reminds everyone why he's one of the greatest metal players on the planet in surprising new Avenged Sevenfold single
- Epiphone joins forces with country superstar Chris Stapleton for new, US-made signature Frontier acoustic
- Beetronics claims to have created a "never-before-heard pitch-shifting modulation" with its new Seabee Harmochorus
- EarthQuaker Devices debuts all-new Legacy Reissue Series with updated version of the elusive White Light Overdrive
- NAMM 2023: Seymour Duncan and Lari Basilio may have just launched the most versatile HSS pickup set on the market
- Watch Lynyrd Skynyrd pay tribute to Gary Rossington at their first show since the founding guitarist passed away
- Stone Gossard spotted playing Pearl Jam bandmate Mike McCready’s signature Fender Custom Shop Stratocaster onstage
- NAMM 2023: Reverend treats Rick Vito and Pete Anderson to two tonally diverse, well-spec'd workhorse signature models
March 13
- Saxon founding guitarist Paul Quinn to retire from touring
- John Mayer wields ultra-rare Martin double-neck acoustic guitar at first solo arena tour show
- Deep Purple almost lost the legendary Smoke on the Water riff because of armed police storming their studio
- Jack Nitzsche was asked to play slide on this 1959 Kay guitar during Neil Young's Harvest sessions. The only issue? He'd never done it before
- The heaviest guitar sound of 2023? This studio-shaking Russian Circles live session is a must-watch for distortion fans
- Watch John Mayer reunite with his Fender Jimi Hendrix Monterey Stratocaster for first blues trio performance in 6 years
- Jim Durkin, guitarist with progressive thrash metal outfit Dark Angel, dies aged 58
March 10
- Aerosmith's Joe Perry: "I’ve played some ’59 Les Pauls that frankly didn’t feel that good or sound that good"
- John Frusciante says this YouTuber’s mindblowing theory on the secret to his Scar Tissue sound is... dead on
- Get a month of Guitar Tricks online lessons for just $1
- Al Di Meola: “Les Paul would get on his knees to get an up-close look at my hands and say, 'Do that again – I don’t understand how you just played that!'”
- Is PRS going to issue an SE version of Orianthi’s $11,000 Private Stock signature model?
- Eric Clapton announces star-studded Jeff Beck tribute concerts with Gary Clark Jr., Billy Gibbons, John McLaughlin, Susan Tedeschi and Doyle Bramhall II
- NAMM 2023: EMG seeks to revolutionize offset guitar tones with the launch of active JMaster pickups for Fender Jazzmasters
- NAMM 2023: Vox takes its Giulietta model to sleek new heights with stylishly streamlined VGA-5TPS
- Former Megadeth guitarist Jeff Young says he turned down the chance to play in David Lee Roth’s band
- Watch session legend Paul Jackson Jr. discuss recording Beat It and Get Lucky – and reveal the amp that was “the Dumble before there was a Dumble”
March 9
- Paul Reed Smith explains exactly what makes a great electric guitar – including the exact amount of time it should sustain
- From cowboy licks to all-star speaker-smashing remixes: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- This guitarist claims to have solved Gibson Les Paul tuning stability issues with the Tune Voodoo Skull
- Listen to Dirty Angel, the new single from blues rockers Ghost Hounds, Gibson Records’ newest signing
- NAMM 2023: Worried about switching to wireless? Shure might have just released the most reliable system on the market – and Tim Henson is already a fan
- Wylde Audio’s jaw-dropping new IronWorks Barbarian might just be its Wyldest guitar yet
- Fortin asks Ukrainian pedal builder to stop using the name Evil Pumpkin
- Chuck Berry’s 1964 Gibson Firebird – which he once played at a headline show at Wembley Stadium – has sold at auction
March 8
- Have a sizzling start to 2023 with Guitar World’s New Year New Gear guide
- Get 2023 off to a rockin’ start with Guitar World’s New Year New Gear guide
- This is Jordan Rudess’s latest project: a custom half-guitar, half-keyboard built by Druzkowski Guitars
- Johnny Depp drops into UK antique store via helicopter for a spot of guitar shopping
- NAMM 2023: Is Magneto's all-new Starlux the coolest-looking semi-hollow design of 2023?
- NAMM 2023: Guild unveils the Surfliner HH, a $499 offset that boasts 8 pickup combinations
- Steve Vai recalls the time an A&R rep told him to ditch the pinch harmonics because they sound “like a dying whale”
March 7
- Harley Benton teams up with Guitar Max for new Fusion signature guitar – a well-spec’d $444 shred machine
- Fender joins forces with U2's Adam Clayton for its first ever signature bass amp, the ACB 50 combo
- NAMM 2023: Walrus Audio rewrites the ambient delay pedal playbook with the Fable Granular Soundscape Generator
- Dean found in civil contempt for failing to comply with Gibson trademark ruling
- Mesa/Boogie unveils the “nine amps in one” Mark VII – the first new-generation Mark Series amps in over a decade
- Paul Simonon: “I couldn't hear the bass on The Who, but with reggae I could work out the basslines and play along”
- John Patitucci: “My gratitude for Wayne Shorter is boundless”
- There’s a Pelham Blue version of Jared James Nichols’ single-pickup Epiphone Les Paul Custom on the way, and boy does it look purdy
March 6
- Mr. Big announce farewell world tour
- Nita Strauss will return to Alice Cooper’s lineup for 2023 tour
- Glenn “Spot” Lockett, producer for legendary punk label SST Records, dies aged 72
- Michael Rhodes – prolific session bassist for Joe Bonamassa, Mark Knopfler, J. J. Cale and more – has died aged 69
- Gary Rossington 1951-2023: the guitar world pays tribute
- Gary Rossington, Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist, dies at 71
March 4
- David Lindley, legendary multi-instrumentalist and slide guitar master, dies aged 78
March 3
- Hear the first snippet from Roger Waters' re-imagining of The Dark Side Of The Moon
- Chuck Berry’s stage-played Gibson Firebird – which features on the cover of a 2017 triple-album reissue – is up for auction
- NAMM 2023: ESP launches long-awaited Kirk Hammett LTD KH-V signature models
- JHS pays tribute to three foundational fuzz pedals with new Mary-K, Berkeley and Plugin stompboxes
- Watch Steve Vai shred on command for Jacob Collier as the pair work on Whammy-laden collaborative track
- Fender doubles down on denim as it launches Wrangler guitar cases, straps and picks
- John Page Classic launches overhauled US-made AJ collection with extravagant finishes and upgraded specs
March 2
- Hear Paris Jackson, daughter of Michael Jackson, channel grunge's glory days on new single, bandaid
- Steve Mackey, longtime Pulp bassist, dies at 56
- Chapman Guitars are working on a Peter Honoré Tele-inspired signature model
- From brutalizing extreme metal to Latin-flavored bubblegum shred: here are this week's essential guitar tracks
- Mooer teams boutique looks with a built-in wireless transmitter on upgraded S900 GTRS DSP guitar
- Moog’s Moogerfooger plugins are now available to buy individually
- Rivers Cuomo duets with TikTok guitarist after he plays Weezer’s Buddy Holly lick 990 days in a row
- Orangewood’s first-ever solid parlor and slope shoulder dreadnought models headline classy acoustic guitar collection for 2023
- Marty Friedman hints at next Megadeth performance – and it might be closer than you think
March 1
- Metallica lean into their strengths on hard-hitting new song, If Darkness Had a Son
- Watch a band of Afghan refugees cover Won’t Back Down with the help of Joe Walsh, Matt Sorum and Timothy B. Schmit
- NAMM 2023: Neural DSP unveils comprehensive new Mesa/Boogie Mark IIC+ plugin suite
- D’Angelico unveils the Deluxe Eric Krasno Brighton, a classic-looking double-cut that sounds like a Strat
- Nuno Bettencourt vows to keep Eddie Van Halen's guitar fire burning on Extreme's first new single in 15 years, Rise
- Marty Friedman recalls covering Jeff Beck for Jason Becker – in front of Eddie Van Halen
- Tim Henson explains what makes a great solo, a good guitar and a killer tone