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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Weapons of Mass Destruction • HOW ALIEN WEAPONRY CAME UP WITH THE CONCEPT OF MIXING THEIR MĀORI BACKGROUND WITH HARD-HITTING RIFFS

Winona Fighter • ON THE NASHVILLE BAND’S DEBUT ALBUM, GUITARISTS COCO KINNON AND DAN FUSON SPECIALIZE IN GRUNGY POP HOOKS AND BRASH LEADS

Dutch Interior • ON THEIR THIRD ALBUM, THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA-BASED INDIE ROCKERS REFINE THEIR SOUND WHILE HONORING THE MUSICAL BOND THAT BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER

LOST CLASSICS: Sonic Youth • NYC NOISE-ROCK PIONEER THURSTON MOORE RECALLS THE MAKING OF 1987’S SISTER AND HIS LATEST ALBUM, 2024’S FLOW CRITICAL LUCIDITY

Robin Nolan • HOW A GYPSY JAZZ BUSKER BECAME A FRIEND, INTERPRETER AND COLLABORATOR OF GEORGE HARRISON

MY PEDALBOARD KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD • WHAT THE MODERN BLUES-ROCK ICON SEES WHEN HE LOOKS DOWN

Dark Chapel • DARIO LORIA — WHO HAS SPLIT BLACK LABEL SOCIETY’S GUITAR DUTIES WITH ZAKK WYLDE SINCE 2014 — DELIVERS SOME SERIOUS FUEL-INJECTED MOTO-METAL FURY ON SPIRIT IN THE GLASS

The Frst • SINGER-GUITARIST MIKEI GRAY HAS A SECRET WEAPON — A GUITAR MADE OUT OF AN OLD BUICK HUBCAP, OF COURSE

FIVE QUESTIONS CAMILLA SPERATI • THE ON-THE-RISE ROMAN GUITARIST IS HELPING TO PUT FUSION BACK ON THE MAP

Ricky Warwick • HOW OLD FRIENDS (AND GUITARS) HELPED TURN THE THIN LIZZY SINGER’S NEW SOLO RECORD INTO A SONIC TOUR-DE-FORCE

Funkwrench Blues • THIS SAN FRAN BASS PLAYER HAS A KNACK FOR GETTING TOP-SHELF GUITARISTS — INCLUDING VERNON REID, OZ NOY, GRANT GREEN JR. AND JAZZER MIKE STERN — TO PLAY ON HIS NONSTROP STREAM OF SPOTIFY MASTERPIECES

COVER MODELS

Divine Intervention • SIX-STRING-SAVANT JASON RICHARDSON ON THE NEW ALL THAT REMAINS ALBUM, DUAL GUITAR SOLOS, USING MUSIC THEORY AND IMPROVISATION (HIS ALLEGED ACHILLE’S HEEL)

LIEBER GUITARS • The story of Tom Lieber, the aspiring guitar builder who wouldn’t take no for an answer and ended up making prized instruments for the Grateful Dead

BRIAN RAY • From playing the “Monster Mash” with Bobby Pickett at 17 to touring the world with Paul McCartney, Brian Ray has had a career like no other

RIFFER MADNESS • How Deafheaven brought back the heavy on Lonely People with Power

PERMANENT WAVZ • Envy of None guitarist Alex Lifeson brings his prodigious chops back to the forefront on the band’s sophomore release, Stygian Wavz. Plus, a new Rush box set, hangin’ with Geddy Lee, Lerxst gear and more

45 YEARS OF BACK IN BLACK Black to the Future • The death of AC/DC frontman Bon Scott in February 1980 looked like it might’ve also dealt a fatal blow to the band. But then they got a new singer and made a career-rejuvenating record that became the biggest-selling rock album of all time — Back in Black

How the “Bells” Tolled • A quick guide to Angus Young’s Back in Black-era gear, as heard on “Hells Bells”

Solid Gold • In 1965, Eric Clapton and Michael Bloomfield unwittingly saved the archetypal Les Paul Standard from total extinction. The...