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Celebrate While We Incinerate

Malevitus has never sounded weirder or more beautiful.

MARCUS KING GOES SOLO

THE 23-YEAR-OLD “AMERICAN MUSICIAN” TOOK SOME TIME OFF FROM THE MARCUS KING BAND TO RECORD EL DORADO WITH THE BLACK KEYS’ DAN AUERBACH. BUT FEAR NOT — HIS TELETASTER AND ES-335 WERE ASKED TO TAG ALONG

Milwaukee's Best?

ON THEIR NEW ALBUM, TEN THOUSAND WATTS, THE ALTERED FIVE BLUES BAND’S JEFF SCHROEDL SERVES UP SOME OF MODERN BLUES’ MOST SATISFYING LICKS

Let There Be Darkness!

HOW DO YOU “DELIGHT, BEGUILE AND OFFEND” THOUSANDS OF ED SHEERAN FANS? JUST ASK JUSTIN AND DAN HAWKINS OF U.K. RIFF-MASTERS THE DARKNESS

SKY HIGH

WITH THEIR SIXTH STUDIO ALBUM, WALK THE SKY, ALTER BRIDGE CONTINUE REACHING NEW HEIGHTS AS ONE OF THE LEADING PURVEYORS OF AMERICAN ROCK. MARK TREMONTI AND MYLES KENNEDY GIVE GUITAR WORLD THE SCOOP ON WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE AT THE TOP OF THEIR GAME AFTER 16 YEARS TOGETHER

Nili Brosh: From Concept to Reality

HER NEW RECORD, SPECTRUM, IS A CONCEPT ALBUM THAT WORKS JUST AS WELL FORWARDS AS BACKWARDS, OR AT THE MERCY OF THE “SHUFFLE” BUTTON

DO THE MONKEY!

TONY IOMMI takes you inside his new signature guitar, an extremely limited replica of his classic-era BLACK SABBATH axe, a cherry red 1964 Gibson SG Special known as the THE MONKEY. The Godfather of Metal also discusses the horde of new riffs he’s stockpiling, the prospect of new music (with or without BRIAN MAY) — and a recent airport encounter with ROBERT PLANT

Cave In's Heartbreaker

SINGER/GUITARIST STEPHEN BRODSKY TAKES YOU INSIDE THE BOSTON ROCKERS’ BITTERSWEET MASTERPIECE, FINAL TRANSMISSION

Bumblefoot to the MMaXX

RON “BUMBLEFOOT” THAL EXPLAINS WHY SONS OF APOLLO’S NEW ALBUM — MMXX — LETS HIM TAP INTO HIS “INNER ALLAN HOLDSWORTH”

John Paul & George's Guitar Revolution

Fifty years ago, amid the Beatles’ noxious breakup, John Lennon and Paul McCartney took six-string matters into their own hands just as George Harrison was reinventing himself as a slide guitar deity. Below, Guitar World drops in on 1970, a truly unique year in Beatles history.

Winter Of Sam

Sam Bean has played bass in a lot of spooky bands—the Antichrist Imperium, the Senseless, the Berzerker, and Mithras among them—but Werewolves may be his most demanding yet, he tells us

Travelling Man

While his main band Megadeth is enjoying a break, bassist David Ellefson has plenty to keep him occupied. We catch up with the bassist who can’t be stopped...

Piano Man

Leon Lee Dorsey returns with MonkTime, an accomplished new album of Thelonious Monk compositions. Joel McIver hears how Dorsey paid tribute to the jazz icon

Miked Up

Jazz maestro and record label owner Michael Janisch digs deep

Heavy Weather

How does a classic band, two decades past its biggest sales, suddenly start selling out shows and achieving major success? Let’s ask Andrew Levy of the acid jazz legends, Brand New Heavies

Charli Says

Fast-rising bassist Vicky Warwick considers the way forward

BROTHERS BEYOND

Are the Wooten Brothers the most accomplished musical family in history? After a sit-down with Victor Wooten and his siblings, Ellen O’Reilly makes that very case

SIMS Enfield Lionheart Standard Air 4 and 5

A newly-designed Enfield Lionheart, they said... Do we want to take a look? Of course we do, says Mike Brooks

Squier - Classic Vibe '60s Jazz

‘Not another Jazz’, you may be thinking. Well, looks can be deceiving, as Mike Brooks discovers

Going To California

The Winter NAMM Show is the biggest, loudest event since that meteor wiped out the dinosaurs a while back. Joel McIver heads west, and returns with tales of the bass gear that will be kicking off the new decade...

Tone Temple Pilots

We recently caught up with Stone Temple Pilots’ DEAN and ROBERT DeLEO — and their luthier extraordinaire, BRUCE NELSON — to dissect the venerable rockers’ tonal recipe

POP ART

LADY GAGA GUITARIST TIM STEWART — WHO’S ALSO PLIED HIS TRADE WITH RHIANNA, JENNIFER LOPEZ, JANET JACKSON, MARIAH CAREY, MILEY CYRUS, ADAM LAMBERT AND THE AMERICAN IDOL HOUSE BAND — DISCUSSES LIFE IN A HIGH-PROFILE BACKING BAND AND OFFERS SOME SOLID GIG-LANDING ADVICE BY JOE BOSSO, PHOTOS BY KYLE MURPHY

Gamechanger Audio Plasma Pedal

This hypnotic distortion pedal is pure witchcraft. Actually it’s xenon, but it’s much the same thing, says the editor

FLOWER POWER

In this exclusive interview, STEVE VAI takes you inside his brand-new signature guitar, the Ibanez PIA

Everybody's Gotta Live

Mac Miller’s posthumous album consolidates his musical identities into a unified whole.

VARSITY SPIRIT

A major new player has entered into the marching arts activity. See how Varsity Spirit, known for cheerleading apparel, competitions, and camps, has already made an impact to elevate the student experience.

THE AMBULANCE ARENA

Know how and why to activate the Emergency Medical Service for your event.

KEEP IN TOUCH

Group management tools help band directors communicate information, share photos, videos, and files, and even manage finances at their fingertips.

Captain Of Her Own Destiny

During my first season of high school marching band as a freshman trumpet player at Clear Creek High School in League City, Texas, I hardly noticed the four girls twirling flags at the back of the field.

Vandegrift High School

When Mozart composed “The Magic Flute,” he likely didn’t envision a 386-member marching band and dance company performing the famous opera.