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Anxiety, wildfires, slap guitar… How Wolfgang Van Halen made the monster guitar album of 2025
With his third album (and a bit of his dad’s Frankenstein), Wolfgang Van Halen and Mammoth are taking the world of rock guitar by storm once again
Slash on his return to Guns N’ Roses, changing up the Sweet Child O’ Mine solo, and what needs to happen for a new GNR album
Slash is the luckiest man in rock. Quitting GNR in ’96 when they were on top, he returned in ’16 and hasn't looked back. Here he talks about the past, present, and what the future might hold...
How surviving cancer inspired Ana Popovic to take blues guitar to the dancefloor
Dance to the Rhythm is Ana Popovic once more torching convention and presenting a take on the blues that's true to herself and animated by an energy and life she could hardly contain
Fender CBS guitars get a bad rep – but what actually changed?
The CBS takeover of Fender was many things but it was not an overnight revolution. We track the key changes to its builds through the era
Eric Gales on his all-star blues tribute to his brother, the man who started him on guitar
With a stirring tribute to his older brother Manuel, who performed as Little Jimmy King, the master southpaw returns with one of the finest albums of his career
“It would be criminal if this didn’t hit a stage”: Patrick James Eggle Oz-t Cabronita Thinline review
Upholding the craft of the luthier, Patrick James Eggle’s latest build is another reason to look to the UK if you want the best
Samantha Fish on the magic of 335s, “best” players – and why the North Hill Country Delta blues is a bottomless well of inspiration
With her latest studio release, Paper Doll, the Kansas City blues rocker bottles the energy of life on the road and goes in search of hooks, hooks, hooks
Buddy Guy on showmanship, Strats – and why he has unfinished business with the blues
Is Buddy Guy our greatest living blues guitarist? As his 10th decade approaches, we meet the master for a frank talk about passing the torch, the importance of a sip of cognac and his advice for Hendrix
The life and times of Brent Hinds, the visionary guitarist with a maverick style who made Mastodon a big beast of metal
Guitar World pays tribute to the late Brent Hinds, one of metal's wildest and most inventive players, who died on 20 August
For John McLaughlin, it all comes back to Montreux – this is how he took his playing there to the 4th Dimension one last time
The six-string legend is signing off with a live album that chronicles one of the greatest shows of his stellar career, but his journey with guitar is far from over
