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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Giants Under the Sun • LIFELONG YES GUITARIST STEVE HOWE WEIGHS IN ON THE BAND’S NEW ALBUM AND HOW THINGS HAVE CHANGED SINCE 1973’S TALES FROM TOPOGRAPHIC OCEANS

INQUIRER KAT DYSON • CATCHING UP WITH THE PRINCE AND CYNDI LAUPER VETERAN

Marcin • MEET AN ACOUSTIC MASTER WHO PROBABLY BURNS ABOUT 1,500 CALORIES WITH EACH PERFORMANCE OF BACH’S TOCCATA

Adrian Vandenberg • SUFFERING FROM RIFF-WRITER’S BLOCK? TAKE A PAGE FROM THE FORMER WHITESNAKE GUITARIST’S BOOK AND HOP ON A BIKE

Dusting Off Angel • ANGEL GUITARIST PUNKY MEADOWS TALKS GEAR, NEW MUSIC AND THE GLAM TITANS’ SURPRISE SECOND ACT

MY PEDALBOARD JOHN NOTTO • WHAT DIRTY HONEY’S MARSHALL-DIMING SIX-STRINGER SEES WHEN HE LOOKS DOWN

Teke::Teke • FINALLY, A BAND THAT BLENDS CLASSIC JAPANESE BALLADRY, SURF ROCK AND PSYCHEDELIA

5 FIVE QUESTIONS JAKUB ŻYTECKI • NEW INSPIRATIONS, TWO-MINUTE SOLOS AND WHY RIGHT NOW IS A PARTICULARLY INTERESTING TIME FOR THE GUITAR

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STRETCHING THE TRUTH • ON TRUTH KILLER, SEVENDUST’S MENACING (AND GUITAR-PACKED) NEW ALBUM, CLINT LOWERY AND JOHN CONNOLLY PONDER THE MUSICAL QUESTION, “HOW LOW CAN YOU GO?”

21st Century Schizoid Men • How did a Swedish death metal band end up releasing one of the greatest progressive rock masterpieces of the modern age? Opeth’s MIKAEL ÅKERFELDT looks back on 20 years of Damnation

BIGGIE SMALLS • Ten diminutive practice amps that’ll actually inspire you to practice

WARREN PEACE • WARREN HAYNES and GOV’T MULE return with Peace…Like a River, a sublime example of longform rock ’n’ soul that draws inspiration from John Lennon, the Doors and the multipart masterpieces of Kansas and Queen

ROLLIN AND TUMBLIN • ON STARCATCHER, GRETA VAN FLEET’S NEW BACK-TO-BASICS ALBUM, GUITARIST JAKE KISZKA HEADS FOR THE HILLS, CRANKS UP THE VOLUME AND TAPS INTO HIS COUNTRY BLUES INFLUENCES

GATHERING OF THE TRIBES • JAKE KISZKA’s guide to Greta Van Fleet’s key influences

VITO BRATTA • The reclusive guitarist discusses his classic WHITE LION solos, a poignant conversation with EDDIE VAN HALEN and how he wound up using JIMI HENDRIX’S Strat

WELCOME TO THE MACHINE • SOPHIE LLOYD DISCUSSES THE JOYS — AND THE VERY PUBLIC PITFALLS — OF HER WILD TRAJECTORY FROM POPULAR ONLINE CREATOR TO MACHINE GUN KELLY’S ARENA-ROCKING SECRET WEAPON

POP GOES THE ROCKER • 10 DIEHARD ROCK ’N’ BLUES GUITARISTS WHO — FOR AT LEAST A LITTLE WHILE, ANYWAY — BOARDED THE POP TRAIN

MOMENTS OF TRUTH • SOPHIE LLOYD BREAKS DOWN HER MAIN RIFFS AND SOLO IN “DO OR DIE” AND OFFERS SOME USEFUL PLAYING AND PRACTICING TIPS

Wet and Wild • BOSS SDE-3000EVH DUAL DIGITAL DELAY

Bare Essence • FURCH VIOLET D-SM

And It Was All Yellow • JACKSON GUITARS X SERIES DINKY DK3XR HSS

Buzz Bin Apogee Jam X

Polymorph • FISHMAN FLUENCE TIM HENSON SIGNATURE SERIES AND SCOTT LEPAGE CUSTOM SERIES

QUADRAPHONIC • How to weave four-part guitar harmonies

TOOLS OF THE TRADE, PART 5 • The 1959 Blonde Gibson ES-345

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