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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We Have Lift Off • ON ALBUM NUMBER SEVEN, SWEDISH ROCKERS THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA FACED SOME MAJOR TURBULENCE — BUT THE WIND IS BACK BENEATH THEIR WINGS

Field Music • HOW “GESTURAL THINKING” HAS HELPED PETER BREWIS TRANSCEND INFLUENCES AND FIND HIS OWN UNIQUE LANGUAGE

Jonathan Hultén • THE EX-TRIBULATION GUITARIST GOES DREAM POP ON HIS SOPHOMORE RELEASE

Rough-Cut Diamonds • KING DIAMOND GUITARIST ANDY LAROCQUE ON 40 YEARS OF CREATING EXQUISITELY GHOULISH HORROR-METAL, HIS NEW SIGNATURE SHRED-MACHINE, NEW MUSIC AND MORE

LOST CLASSICS: Dead Kennedys • EAST BAY RAY TAKES US INSIDE THE MAKING OF THE SAN FRAN PUNKS’ CLASSIC 1980 ALBUM, FRESH FRUIT FOR ROTTING VEGETABLES

MY LIFE IN THREE GUITARS: Jimmie Vaughan • THE TRIO OF AXES THAT HAVE MEANT THE MOST TO THE FOUNDING FABULOUS THUNDERBIRD

Bonnie Trash • MEET THE CANADIAN QUARTET TWISTING POST-ROCK WITH GOTHIC NOISE AND AVANT-GARDE SURREALISM

Cradle of Filth • THE BRITISH EXTREME METAL HEROES REVEAL THE GUITAR TONES BEHIND THEIR THEATRICAL METAL MAYHEM

The Fleshtones • KEITH STRENG’S RHYTHMIC GARAGE RIFFS KEEP THE PUNK-ERA LEGENDS VITAL AFTER FIVE NON-STOP DECADES

MY PEDALBOARD ELLIOT EASTON • WHAT THE CARS (AND EMPTY HEARTS) GREAT SEES WHEN HE LOOKS DOWN

This Is Cracker Soul • CRACKER’S JOHNNY HICKMAN ON HIS “MICK AND KEITH” RELATIONSHIP WITH FRONTMAN DAVID LOWERY, THE JOYS OF “BONEHEADED RIFFS” AND THE BAND’S NEW ALTERNATIVE HISTORY COLLECTION

THIRD MAN HARDWARE • With a line of products that range from the Triple Threat, a three-in-one distortion/phaser/echo pedal that you can probably afford after mowing a few lawns, to the Fender Jack White Pano Verb amp, Third Man Hardware aims to inspire guitar players of all skill levels

JIM BABJAK • The Smithereens guitarist talks “A Girl Like You,” New Jersey lore, touring with Tom Petty and his guitar tone’s impact on Nirvana

HANDS OF GLORY • Jim Babjak revisits five classic Smithereens riffs

A SMASHING PUMPKIN • Kiki Wong on her life, gear and technique before and since teaming up with Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan and James Iha in the spring of ’24

GA-20 • GA-20 — everyone’s favorite bass-guitar-free Boston-based blues trio — debut a new guitarist and drummer on their latest EP, Volume 2

A FEAST FOR THE EARS! THE OPULENT GUITAR SCENE OF 1985 • In 1985, the world of guitar playing became a grand banquet, where styles, techniques and sounds from every corner of music collided to create a tasty, revelatory moment in rock history

Aerosmith Done with Mirrors • After a few weird years with replacement guitarists, by the mid Eighties, the Bad Boys from Boston were back and ready to prove themselves. We’ll let Joe Perry explain the rest…

Run-D.M.C. King of Rock • “We were first with blistering, big guitars on rap.” Eddie Martinez looks back on one of his many red-Hamer-packed masterpieces

Stevie Ray Vaughan Soul to Soul •...