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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Return Expedition • Stanley Jordan — one of GW’s “40 guitarists who changed our world since 1980” — on his brief encounters with Eddie Van Halen, playing two guitars at once and — wait, did he just tease a metal album?

Telescreens • How the NYC rockers channel some potentially spooky inspiration

The Tremolo Beer Gut • Guitarists the Great Nalna and Jengo lead the band on a cinematic sweep through “surf and Western” rock

From the Dann Huff Files... • The session-guitar dynamo explains how producer Mutt Lange lured him into Shania Twain’s orbit in the ‘90s

Led by Vultures • A-list Ozzy and Whitesnake drummer Brian Tichy pulls a Dave Grohl, grabs a guitar and steps out front and center

Nick Heyward • The Haircut One Hundred guitarist on kudos from Paul McCartney, a capo catastrophe and — oh, yeah — that time his entire guitar collection “disappeared into thin air”

Todd Albright • Meet Detroit’s arbiter of the blues

The Cars • Dysentery, zeitgeists and Bartolini pickups! Melodic master Elliot Easton discusses the making of the band’s eternally fresh-sounding 1978 debut

Within You, Without You • Protest the Hero’s Luke Hoskin and Tim MacMillar on the strange — yet oddly endearing — “It takes a village” approach to recording, touring and covering each other’s blazing guitar parts

Cashier • How an Electro-Harmonix Big Muff fuzz — and a killer boost from rapper/singer Frank Ocean — are changing the trajectory of these Louisiana shoegaze/post-hardcore grungers

Blank Generation • 10 killer mid- to late-Seventies punk singles and the guitarists behind ’em

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Black Volt Amplification • He started out as an aspiring brain surgeon and morphed into a session player for Black Eyed Peas and Jack Johnson. But these days Black Volt mastermind Giovanni Loria is arguably best known for building the sustainable guitars and amps used by Aerosmith, the Black Crowes and Muse

Jan Akkerman • At 79, the Dutch master says “life was never boring.” From his apprenticeship in Amsterdam’s red-light district, through the toxic brilliance of prog trailblazers Focus, to cutting heads with B.B. King, this career-spanning interview tells all

RAGGED GLORY • Tracking nose-to-nose with red-hot tubes — and leaving the mistakes in — GA-20’s spit ’n’ grit Chicago blues is the anti-AI. Matt Stubbs and Cody Nilsen talk blues haters, recording with their hero and reclaiming Ibanez from the shredders

SISTER ACT • Fanny blazed a trail for female-fronted rock in the Seventies. But as June and Jean Millington tell GW, it’s only now — after years of misogyny, roadblocks and breakdowns — that they’re getting their flowers

GRAND SLAM • He might be launching a new Wylde Audio Grand Auditorium acoustic — but Zakk Wylde ain’t going soft. Metal’s great berserker tells GW about the power of acoustic guitar, the future for Pantera and why a souped-up cinder block might just be your next electric

THE DARK KNIGHT RISES • Black Sabbath might be buried — but...