2021: A Guitar Odyssey

Six successful guitarists from completely different backgrounds tackle the state of guitar in 2021, the repercussions of the digital universe, the future of guitar heroes, how to maintain one’s passion and unique voice amid the cacophony, living in the past, magic knobs and more

…And Now For Something Completely Different

Tired of the same old guitar colors, shapes and sizes? While you’re busy social distancing, go online and discover a completely new universe of six-string delights ready to be delivered to your door...

Allman Betts Band

The proud inheritors of the Allman Brothers’ Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts and Berry Oakley prove to be more than chips off the old block

Eddie Van Halen – A Farewell To The King

Chris Gill, who interviewed - Eddie Van Halen 15 times between 1995 and 2016, offers a heartfelt tribute to one of the greatest guitarists the world has ever known

Black Magic Woman

A conversation with ORIANTHI: Her new album, “the biggest guitar gig in the world,” trading licks with ROBBY KRIEGER, marvelling at JEFF BECK — and, oh yeah, gear galore!

Tallah

MEET NU-METAL’S KINGS IN THE MAKING

THUNDER & LIGHTNING

Guitar World celebrates half a century of Thin Lizzy, looking back through the eyes of two key longtime band members: guitarist Scott Gorham and drummer Brian Downey

Malina Moye Means Business

RIGHTEOUS TOURING TIPS FROM A LIFELONG ROAD WARRIOR

5 ALARM FIRE

NEW ROB ZOMBIE ALBUM! NEW LIVE ALBUM! NEW DOCUMENTARY! NEW SOLO ALBUM IN THE WORKS! NEW TRACKS WITH ACE FREHLEY, NIKKI SIXX AND TYLA YAWEH! “I’M ALWAYS TRYING TO KEEP AS BUSY WITH MUSIC AS POSSIBLE,” SAYS JOHN 5 — IN THE UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE YEAR

Jasmine Star

Stevie Ray Vaughan, country, K-Pop, hip-hop – she's soloed over it all on her way to TikTok viraldom

EDDIE VAN HALEN - IN HIS OWN WORDS

IN THIS COLLECTION OF QUOTES — STARTING IN 1981 AND ENDING WITH A 2016 INTERVIEW MAKING ITS FIRST-EVER APPEARANCE IN GUITAR WORLD — EDDIE VAN HALEN DISCUSSES EVERYTHING FROM DEBUSSY TO DAVID LEE ROTH’S FIRST SOLO OUTING, FROM “ERUPTION” TO “SPANKED,” FROM COLLEGE TO CLAPTON, FROM HIS “BLACK SABBATH FUNK” TO HIS BELOVED EVH GUITARS AND AMPS

Sweet Dreams

TAYLOR AD17 BLACKTOP

Lost in Space

EVENTIDE BLACKHOLE

LONDON TEA PARTY

HOW JOE BONAMASSA DECAMPED TO ABBEY ROAD STUDIOS WITH BERNIE MARSDEN AND FORMER CREAM LYRICIST PETE BROWN TO WRITE AND RECORD ROYAL TEA, AN ALBUM THAT’S BURSTING WITH THAT BRITISH BLUES BOOM

The Struts

THE U.K. OUTFIT HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD WITH THE TITLE OF THEIR LATEST RELEASE — STRANGE DAYS, INDEED

TALKIN' 'BOUT LOVE

AN AWESOME ASSEMBLAGE OF EDDIE VAN HALEN’S FRIENDS, CONTEMPORARIES AND ADMIRERS PEN THEIR OWN HEARTFELT TRIBUTES AND PICK THEIR FAVORITE “EDDIE MOMENTS”

Different Shades of Blue

BLUES ACE KIRK FLETCHER TAKES US DEEP INTO THE HEART OF HIS NEWEST RELEASE, THE APTLY TITLED MY BLUES PATHWAY

BLACK and WHITE and ED ALL OVER

EDDIE VAN HALEN WAS DOWN-TO-EARTH AND AS COOL AS F*@K — BUT HE WAS ALSO A GENIUS. THIS IS WHY.

A Steady Diet of Riffing

Ian MacKaye of Fugazi – and now Coriky – talks Hendrix and harnessing what you have

Are You the Guitarist of the Year?

Calling all guitars (and bassists)! It's time to enter the biggest guitar-based talent search of the year! Our star judges include John Petrucci, John Petrucci, John 5, Nita Strauss, Matt Heafy, Molly Tuttle, Lzzy Hale and more

All The Madmen

Fifty years after its release, DAVID BOWIE bassist TONY VISCONTI recounts the making of The Man Who Sold the World — and the rocking influence of guitarist MICK RONSON

High-Performance Boss

Fender Mustang GTX100 Guitar AMP

Triple Threat

Ernie Ball Music Luke III

ROLL THEM BONES

ON SKELETONS, BROTHERS OSBORNE’S BIGGEST AND LOUDEST ALBUM, AMPS RAGE AND SEETHE, HELL IS RAISED — AND THERE’S DAMN NEAR TOO MANY WALLOPING GUITAR SOLOS TO KEEP TRACK OF. BELOW, JOHN AND TJ OSBORNE LET THE SKELETONS OUT OF THE CLOSET

This Wretched Underworld

THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER’S BRANDON ELLIS AND BRIAN ESCHBACH TALK TONE HUNTING, SONGCRAFT AND OPERATING ON THE ODDER END OF THE SPECTRUM

POWER PLAY

Regardless of what fate throws at ’em, you just can’t keep a great band down. In this worldwide exclusive interview, intrepid AC/DC icon Angus Young discusses life after Malcolm and the band’s positively charged new album, POWER UP

Surf Guitar's Next Chapter

SURF-ROCKER MARTIN SCHMIDT TALKS GW THROUGH THE SURF GUITAR BOOK, AN IN-DEPTH LOOK AT THE TONES AND TEXTURES BEHIND THE REVERB-DRENCHED GENRE’S MOST FAMOUS RECORDINGS, GEAR AND GUITAR HEROES

Rookie

PUT ON YOUR JUMPSUITS, HOP IN THE ’79 EL CAMINO AND LET THIS CHICAGO SIX-PIECE WHISK YOU AWAY TO A LAND RULED BY BIG STAR, THE EAGLES, CHEAP TRICK AND TOM PETTY

LOCAL COLOR

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE’S JOHN CIPOLLINA, A BOLD, ORIGINAL AND UNHERALDED STYLIST WHOSE PLAYING ANTICIPATED THE FUTURE OF ROCK

JOHN PETRUCCI REACHES TERMINAL VELOCITY

Dream Theater’s resident lord of the strings uses the lockdown as an opportunity to record some sick instrumentals — with a little help from former bandmate Mike Portnoy