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NEW WORLD MAN

RUSH LEGEND ALEX LIFESON REEMERGES WITH A NEW BAND, NEW MUSIC AND A NEW, SCALED-DOWN APPROACH TO SERVING THE SONG.

FIRESTORM “We never, ever, ever expected it to get that type of response.

BODY COUNT’S ICE-T AND ERNIE C LOOK BACK ON THE MAKING OF — AND REACTION TO — THEIR POLARIZING SELF-TITLED 1992 DEBUT ALBUM

Big Wreck, Version 7.1

IAN THORNLEY TALKS 7.1, THE FIRST OF A TRIO OF NEW EPs, PLUS SUHR GEAR, THE BAND’S NEW RHYTHM GUITARIST AND THE CONSTANT STRUGGLE TO KEEP STUFF SIMPLE

The Player You Get

FENDER ACOUSTASONIC PLAYER TELECASTER

Going Through Phases

STRYMON ZELZAH MULTIDIMENSIONAL PHASER

A Green New DL

LINE 6 DL4 MKII DELAY AND LOOPER

The Sky's the Limit

PRS Guitars SE Silver Sky

Unleashed

Glenn tipton looks back at 50 years of Triumph and Tragedy in Judas Priest

All This and War of the Worlds, Pt. II

For his latest solo album, Symphony x Shredder Michael Romeo returns to the H.G. Wells of inspiration

Cobra Kai: Settling the Score

How Leo Birenberg and Zach Robinson — composers on Netflix’s blockbuster series, Cobra Kai — craft the perfect (not to mention badass!) eighties-style score

Playing Those Mind Games

VOLBEAT’S MICHAEL POULSEN AND ROB CAGGIANO ON THE PENT-UP ENERGY AND FALSE STARTS THAT LED TO THEIR BACK-TO-BASICS NEW ALBUM, SERVANT OF THE MIND

INTERGALACTIC SATCH

SUPREME SHREDDER JOE SATRIANI CHALLENGED HIMSELF TO CREATE A “NEW STANDARD” FOR INSTRUMENTAL GUITAR ALBUMS TO BE MEASURED AGAINST. THE RESULT? THE ELEPHANTS OF MARS, AN UNDENIABLY CINEMATIC NEW ALBUM RECORDED WITHOUT CREATIVE BARRIERS — OR PHYSICAL AMPLIFIERS

THE BOWMAN COMETH

AN ODE TO EDDIE PHILLIPS OF THE CREATION.

EASTMAN NEW TRADITIONAL STYLE

EASTMAN CELEBRATES 30 YEARS OF BRINGING TRUE HANDCRAFTED STRINGED INSTRUMENTS TO THE MASSES

FREE FOR ALL

JAZZ/FUSION GREAT JOHN McLAUGHLIN on his liberating new album, his recent run-in with the law and his spiritual connection to pretty much everything and everyone

Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar

After two serious surgeries that affected his ability to play guitar, Steve Vai could have simply packed it in. Instead, he gave himself some familiar-sounding advice and emerged with his most dazzling new album in years. (And yes, we asked him about that triple-neck guitar!)

Sound and Vision

EMERALD VIRTUO

Buzz Bin - LD Systems

Maui 5 Go 100

Synth City

Boss SY-200 Synthesizer

True Value

Squier contemporary Stratocaster Special HT and Paranormal Toronado

When Frank Zappa Shut Up 'n Stopped Playing Guitar

Zappa’s on-again, off-again love affair with his guitar

“The Thrill Is Gone”

B.B. King | Live in cook county jail, 1971 | Guitarist: B.B. King

Symphonies of Destruction

LOST SYMPHONY FOUNDER BENNY GOODMAN TELLS US HOW HE ROPED IN GUITAR LEGENDS EN MASSE FOR HIS LATEST INSTRUMENTAL ESCAPADES

QUAD RAPHONIC

SLASH DETAILS THE MAKING OF 4, HIS HIGH ENERGY, LIVE-IN-A LEGENDARY-NASHVILLESTUDIO NEW ALBUM WITH MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS - AND FILLS US IN ON NEW GUNS N' ROSES MUSIC AND MORE

Top Models

TAYLOR AD27E FLAMETOP AND AD22E

ORDER FROM CHAOS

Three albums into their reunion phase, The Nightmare of Being finds Swedish death metalers At the Gates addressing their legacy while pushing off into wild new horizons

Discipline

Robert Fripp's 20 greatest guitar moments

GUITAR SHOPPING WITH SLASH

THAT TIME SLASH AND GW’S RICHARD BIENSTOCK SPENT A LOVELY AFTERNOON BROWSING — AND BUYING! — AT NORMAN’S RARE GUITARS IN TARZANA, CALIFORNIA

FAR BEYOND DRIVEN

NO MATTER WHAT KIND OF MUSIC YOU’RE INTO, THERE’S AN OVERDRIV PEDAL (OR TWO) FOR YOU. IN THIS ISS WE ROUND UP EIGHT OF OUR FAVORIT

Joanne Shaw Taylor

"With Joe Bonamassa at the helm, the heralded british guitarist tackles 11 awesomely obscure blues gems by Little Milton, Magic Sam, Albert King and more"