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The Darkness: "Ed Sheeran's fans probably didn’t anticipate seeing a rock band when they bought a ticket!"

By Richard Bienstock

How do you delight, beguile and offend thousands of Ed Sheeran fans? Just ask UK riff-masters Justin and Dan Hawkins

Gibson and Sweetwater partner with Amped Guitar for free three-month membership to Augmented Reality learning platform

By Richard Bienstock

Amped offers two-way online learning experience via AR app

How guitar relic'ing took over the world

How guitar relic'ing took over the world

By Tony Bacon

Fender, Gibson and more tell the story of new guitars made old, from the very first relic experiments to today's sought-after Custom Shop replicas

Gibson TV launches Epiphone Guitar Giveaway of the Day online series

By Richard Bienstock

The company is also raising money for COVID-19 relief via massive music rig sweepstakes

Tony Iommi: "We had this interest in the supernatural. Light and shade… Something a bit frightening"

Tony Iommi: "I’ve always had determination. I had to go against all the people who said, 'You’re never going to be able to play guitar'"

By Neville Marten

The Black Sabbath guitarist and architect of heavy metal on a lifetime in riffs, bandmates and his trusty Monkey SG

Blaine Thompson of VASA

Witness VASA’s post-rock guitar heroics and ingenious pitch-shifter usage in this tonesome playthrough

By Michael Astley-Brown

Blaine Thompson tears through the Scottish instrumental rockers’ latest

The history of the Gibson SG

The history of the Gibson SG

By Rod Brakes

Take a closer look at Gibson’s iconic SG range with Gibson's Mat Koehler and David Davidson of Well Strung Guitars

Jared Dines buys Gibson Les Paul for military veteran

Good guitar deed of the day: Jared Dines just bought a brand-new Gibson Les Paul for a combat vet in need

By Richard Bienstock

“As much as I could have easily given him one of my own scrap guitars, that just didn’t feel right,” Dines says

Halestorm kick off Gibson's social distancing-friendly HomeMadeMusic video series

By Richard Bienstock

Guitar co will share exclusive artist performances and interviews while guitarists are self-isolating

Portrait of an employee working with an unfinished instrument inside the Gibson guitar factory in Memphis, Tennessee, taken on September 9, 2013

Gibson temporarily closes US operations to help fight coronavirus

By Richard Bienstock

Guitar giant provides financial support to all factory workers

Marshall JTM45

The evolution of distortion: how advances in gear paved the way for heavy music

By Chris Gill

In a never-ending quest for new sounds, gear designers shaped the future of heavy by exploring extremes of distortion, bass and volume

Heritage H-535 and H-150 electric guitars

Gibson sued by Heritage Guitars over alleged trademark threats

By Michael Astley-Brown

Guitar giant says it will not accept BandLab-affiliated company’s attempts to “re-write Gibson’s history or blatantly breach a good faith contract”

Gibson donates guitars to musicians who lost instruments in the Nashville tornadoes

By Richard Bienstock

The move is designed to help get artists playing and working following the devastating storms

Generic view of a guitarist in a rock band in silhouette smashing a guitar on the stage while performing, taken in May 2009 in London, the group is called Caimbo

The biggest threat to the guitar? It could well be guitarists: how online hate endangers the instrument we love

By Michael Astley-Brown

Why we ended up with a culture of player haters, and what we can do to change it

Gibson launches the 'Gibson Guitar Riff' with Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale at Nashville SC’s inaugural Major League Soccer game

By Richard Bienstock

New tradition will be performed on 'The Guitar' to hype up the crowd before future games

11 best guitar straps 2020: top picks for securing your guitar and boosting playing comfort

11 best guitar straps 2020: top picks for securing your guitar and boosting playing comfort

By Chris Corfield

The best guitar straps for every occasion and budget, featuring stylish straps from Levy's, Taylor, Gibson and Fender

The storied history of Noel Gallagher's Les Paul Florentine

The storied history of Noel Gallagher's Les Paul Florentine

By Rod Brakes

Richie Moores tells the story of how his long-lost pride and joy - the iconic Silver Sparkle Les Paul that once belonged to the Oasis guitarist - was eventually found half the world away…

Gibson Firebird electric guitar

Gibson responds to latest trademark ruling: “Gibson still holds valid and enforceable rights to the Firebird design in the EU”

By Michael Astley-Brown

Guitar giant contests Warwick’s portrayal of events

Gibson Firebird electric guitars

Gibson abandons fight to own Firebird and Thunderbird body shape trademarks in the EU

By Richard Bienstock

“It is highly unlikely that the average consumer will rely solely on the shape to indicate a guitar's origin,” EU decision reads

Kurt Cobain's final Guitar World interview: “We play so hard that we can’t tune our guitars fast enough. People can relate to that”

By Jeff Gilbert

The Nirvana icon talks his love for the Fender Mustang and why he wouldn't endorse Gibson in his last conversation with GW