Artist Lists

A GW columnist lists 14 of his favorite hard rock covers over the last two decades.

GW highlights guitarists who have embraced gear to its fullest, innovating new sounds and styles in the process.

Frank Zappa famously proclaimed that “jazz isn’t dead, it just smells funny.” And while that certainly may have been true in the Seventies and Eighties, there's a younger breed of jazz musicians making music that is forward-looking but far less odorous.

Guitar World celebrates the heaviest of the heavy—the 25 greatest Pantera songs of all time.

Planning a road-trip to the desert? Keep these tracks in mind when assembling your playlist.

A guide to 10 surf-rock tunes—played by nine different bands or artists—that should be on your reverb-drenched radar.

10 Eric Johnson tracks that we feel come pretty damn close to perfection.

10 song endings that are transcendent moments in themselves.

10 country-fried displays of six-string perfection.

15 of the finest examples of Harrison’s studio guitar work recorded after the Beatles’ breakup.

10 great—and sometimes unexpected—guitar player guest spots.

Jimmy Page's best guitar work with his former band.

10 killer vintage rockabilly songs that every rock fan—let alone every guitarist—should know and/or learn how to play.

From classic rock standards to fingerpicked ballads, we spotlight the acoustic guitar's important place in rock history

A good Hendrix cover is a rarity, so we've taken it upon ourselves to compile for you the 10 best covers of Jimi Hendrix songs

What's on Larkin Poe's playlist? Find out here!

10 tunes to soundtrack the spookiest night of the year.