Watch Billy Gibbons, Joe Bonamassa cover Jimi Hendrix at Gibbons' 72nd birthday jam in Los Angeles By Jackson Maxwell published 17 December 21 Gilby Clarke was also on hand for the concert, which took place at the Troubadour
Billy Gibbons gives Jingle Bells a blues makeover in his cover of the Christmas classic By Sam Roche published 10 November 21 Jingle Bell Blues sees the bearded ZZ Top legend serve up some fiery fretboard antics in the hopes of earning a place on wreath-bedecked jukeboxes worldwide
Dusty Hill 1949-2021: paying tribute to the bearded boss of bass guitar By Jamie Blaine published 13 October 21 When the ZZ Top bassist left us on July 27, he left a legacy like few others. We look back at the career of a true bass original
Billy F. Gibbons: “We let off steam by letting it rock... Hardware is a raging rocker but always mindful of the desert’s implicit mystery” By Alan Paul published 16 September 21 Why the ZZ Top legend headed to the California High Desert to seek rock ’n’ roll inspiration
Billy Gibbons: “I was fearless when I started playing, but learning that agonizing F chord was miserable!” By Grant Moon published 17 August 21 With new solo album Hardware in record stores, the ZZ Top icon sits down with TG to share some hard-earned wisdom
Dusty Hill recorded bass and vocal parts for a new ZZ Top album, Billy Gibbons reveals By Matt Owen published 4 August 21 The late bass guitar great will feature on the yet-to-be-announced record, though his parts are still in need of some "completion work"
Watch footage of ZZ Top's first shows since bassist Dusty Hill's death By Sam Roche published 2 August 21 The band recruited longtime guitar tech Elwood Francis to handle bass duties – with Hill's full blessing, according to frontman Billy Gibbons
Dusty Hill, 1949-2021: the guitar world pays tribute By Matt Owen published 29 July 21 Ozzy Osbourne, Flea, Joe Bonamassa, Zakk Wylde, Paul Stanley, Jason Isbell, David Coverdale and many more pay their respects to the legendary ZZ Top bass player
Dusty Hill, ZZ Top bassist, dies at 72 By Jackson Maxwell published 28 July 21 The legendary bass player died in his sleep at his home in Houston, Texas, the band wrote on social media
Is Billy Gibbons’s new Wild Custom guitar the craziest signature model of the year so far? By Matt Owen published 13 July 21 The ZZ Top icon's unique new six-string sports the brand's marvelously ingenious Gyrock system, which features a rotating pickup loading bay for seamless sonic swaps
Watch Eric Gales deliver jaw-dropping Jimi Hendrix, Billy Gibbons and Robin Trower covers as he puts his signature MXR Raw Dawg pedal through its paces By Matt Owen published 29 June 21 The blues master makes the riffs of Purple Haze, Just Got Paid, Bridge of Sighs and Red House his own in a playthrough that demonstrates his elite tone and virtuosic feel
Watch Billy Gibbons rip out some mean slide licks – using a beer bottle – in new My Lucky Card video By Richard Bienstock published 14 May 21 The ZZ Top legend’s third solo album, Hardware, is out in June
Watch Billy Gibbons and Steven Tyler team up for a blazing cover of Fleetwood Mac's Oh Well By Sam Roche published 6 May 21 The ZZ Top and Aerosmith frontmen's performance is taken from the Mick Fleetwood & Friends tribute concert in February 2020
From spaghetti Western atmospherics to unrelenting, demonic death metal: here are this week's essential guitar tracks By Michael Astley-Brown, Jackson Maxwell, Sam Roche, Matt Owen published 22 April 21 Tuck into the latest and greatest six-string sonic offerings from Weezer, Wolf Alice, Illuminati Hotties, Cannibal Corpse, Aziya, and many more
Billy Gibbons gets atmospheric on new spoken-word-and-guitar single, Desert High By Richard Bienstock published 22 April 21 The ZZ Top legend’s third solo album, Hardware, is out in June
Billy Gibbons announces new “raging rocker” solo album, Hardware, unveils first single By Richard Bienstock published 26 March 21 Listen to West Coast Junkie now
First trailer released for new Trini Lopez documentary, My Name is Lopez By Matt Owen published 24 March 21 The documentary, which will be released March 25, is set to feature rare live footage of Lopez, as well as guest appearances from Dave Grohl, Billy Gibbons and Jim Brown
Watch Billy Gibbons and Steven Tyler get down and dirty on Fleetwood Mac’s Rattlesnake Shake By Richard Bienstock published 25 February 21 New clip hails from the soon-to-be-released all-star Peter Green tribute show
The 25 greatest classic rock guitar tones of all time By Jonathan Horsley published 3 February 21 The electrifying tones from EVH, Hendrix, Gibbons, Page that lit up rock’s second evolutionary leap
Watch Billy Gibbons and Kirk Hammett perform The Green Manalishi in first official footage from all-star Peter Green tribute By Michael Astley-Brown published 4 December 20 The track is taken from the upcoming cinema release and features Hammett on Green's 1959 ‘Greeny’ Les Paul