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Yasmin Williams playing acoustic guitar, with the Guitar World Essential Guitar Tracks logo overlayed

’90s alt-rock giants unite and blink-182 make a surprisingly heavy return: this week’s essential guitar tracks

By Matt Owen, Michael Astley-Brown, Matt Parker, Jackson Maxwell published

Tasty new guitar tracks that need to be on your radar from Johnny Marr, Yasmin Williams, Art of Anarchy, The Vaccines, Bleachers, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Chelsea Wolfe and more

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Arielle, pictured playing her signature Brian May Guitars model

From “upside-down Hendrix licks” to sweetly subversive Whammy solos: here are this week's essential guitar tracks

By Michael Astley-Brown, Jackson Maxwell, Matt Owen, Sam Roche published

Start your 'best of 2023' playlists with smoldering new tunes from boygenius, Arielle, The National, Fall Out Boy, Noel Gallagher, Malina Moye, Screaming Females, Erase Theory and more

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Peter Dinklage, Aaron and Bryce Dessner

Watch Peter Dinklage and the Dessner brothers perform Your Name from the Oscar-tipped Cyrano

By Matt Parker published

The actor teamed up with The National musicians for a Firebird-heavy appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert

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Taylor Swift performs in Omaha, Nebraska in 2013

Taylor Swift teams up with “heroes” the National and Bon Iver for surprise new album, Folklore

By Richard Bienstock published

Swift wrote and recorded the new music in isolation

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The National Release "Day I Die" Music Video

By Jackson Maxwell published

New York rockers The National have premiered the strange, almost unsettling music video for their new song, "Day I Die." Watch it here.

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