Guitar World

Guitar World is the world’s leading guitar magazine. Professionals and beginners alike turn to Guitar World for top-flight coverage of their favorite artists, from rock titans like Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Metallica's Kirk Hammett to contemporary stars like the White Stripes' Jack White and Tool's Adam Jones. Every issue of Guitar World magazine offers broad-ranging interviews that cover technique, instruments and lifestyles as well as Guitar World’s famously thorough lessons and transcriptions.

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This Year’s Model • AFTER SERIOUSLY REINING THINGS IN ON THE LATEST OFFERING BY HIS MAIN BAND, FROST*, PROG-ROCK STALWART JOHN MITCHELL BRINGS HIS AX TO THE FORE ON THE NEW LONELY ROBOT ALBUM, A MODEL LIFE

Lindsay Ell • THE COUNTRY-POP STAR GEEKS OUT ON ANALOG GUITAR GEAR

Horsegirl • CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOLERS TEAM UP WITH A TOP INDIE PRODUCER AND CRANK OUT SONIC YOUTH-INSPIRED PUNK-POP GEMS

Bartees Strange • THIS D.C. ARTIST’S LATEST ALBUM IS A CONVINCING REMINDER TO REMEMBER WHERE YOU CAME FROM — WHETHER IT’S THE MUSIC YOU WERE RAISED ON OR THE IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE

Lexi Rose • THIS PROLIFIC POSTER HAS AMASSED 500,000 FANS ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND CAUGHT THE ATTENTION OF SOME OF HER IDOLS. AND ALL IT TOOK WAS ONE KINGS OF LEON CONCERT

Korner stones, part 1 • KORN’S GUITARIST REVEALS THE SONGS THAT HAVE MOST IMPACTED HIS LIFE

MY PEDALBOARD REB BEACH • WHAT THE LONGTIME WINGER/WHITESNAKE GUITARIST SEES WHEN HE LOOKS DOWN

Charlie Worsham • HOW THIS SESSION SLINGER AND SINGER-SONGWRITER SWITCHES NASHVILLE’S GUITAR SCENE INTO OVERDRIVE

The Meter Is Running Wild • MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST FAREES AND METERS GUITAR LEGEND LEO NOCENTELLI DISCUSS THEIR DEBUT COLLABORATION, “THE MELTING”

Where There’s Smoke… • FORMER TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS CO-CAPTAIN MIKE CAMPBELL BREAKS DOWN EXPLOSIVE COMBUSTION, HIS LATEST ALBUM WITH THE DIRTY KNOBS

GWAR • PUSTULUS MAXIMUS and BALSAC THE JAWS OF DEATH discuss exactly what you’d expect super-powered outer-space aliens to talk about: old-school vs. new-school gear

JOHNSON AND JOHNSON • The Texas guitar great has concocted not one, but two albums bursting with new material — plus a few extras. “It feels good to clear out the vaults and to get everything out there…”

STARDUST MEMORIES • Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust producer (and Beatles engineer) KEN SCOTT recalls the making of two of DAVID BOWIE and MARK RONSON’s most iconic albums.

PLAY BALL • Sixty years ago, a man named ERNIE BALL forever revolutionized the guitar string industry — and the rest, as they say, is history…

LIFE & DEATH • THE STRENGTH. THE COURAGE. THE CRUSHING NEW ALBUM. IN THIS EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW, MEGADETH MAIN MANDAVE MUSTAINE — WITH AN ASSIST FROM GUITARIST KIKO LOUREIRO — TAKES YOU DEEP INSIDE THE SICK, THE DYING… AND THE DEAD!

The Badass Ambassador • DAVE MUSTAINE DISCUSSES HIS “BRAND AMBASSADOR” RELATIONSHIP WITH GIBSON — AND LET’S NOT FORGET HIS TWO NEW SIGNATURE FLYING V’S!

The Quick and the Dead • DAVE MUSTAINE BREAKS DOWN EVERY TRACK ON MEGADETH’S NEW ALBUM, THE SICK, THE DYING… AND THE DEAD!

High Concept • JACKSON CONCEPT SERIES RHOADS RR24 HS AND SOLOIST SLAT7P HT MS

As Good As It Gets • BARE KNUCKLE POLYMATH HUMBUCKING PICKUPS

Heavenly Light • BLACKSTAR AMPLIFICATION ST. JAMES 50 EL34 HEAD & 6L6 COMBO

Buzz Bin Squier 40th Anniversary Telecaster Gold Edition

CATFISH BLUES • Improvising on the Muddy Waters classic, “Rollin’ Stone”

McCRAY'S WAY • String bending, à la blues great Larry McCray

MORE SHUGGIE • How to play “Shuggie,” part...