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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Riding the No Wave • NYC’s the Wants return with Bastard, a sophomore album that transforms personal tragedy — and yeah, some additional bad luck — into a groundbreaking sonic landscape

Nicolas Meier • This former Jeff Beck collaborator re-recorded the songs he wrote for an unreleased Beck project. The results will likely have you freeway jammin’ in no time

COVER MODELS

Ain’t No Shortcuts to Success • After being named as a member of Fender’s Class of 2024 and lauded as a 2025 Spotify Artist to Watch, Maya Delilah makes good on those promises with her Blue Note Records debut, The Long Way Around

The Eagles • Don Felder takes us inside the making of the manic yacht rockers’ 1979 album, The Long Run

Ty Segall • The always-surprising SoCal garage rocker talks fuzz, SG-based blasphemy and the peculiar benefits of not writing songs on guitar

Deacon Blue • Gregor Philp stows his virtuosity and simply asks, “What does the song want?”

Lari’s Road to Redemption • The Brazillain guitarist on the thrills of her new album — and playing guitar to her newborn son

THE GEAR HUNTER Bare Knuckle Pickups • Tim Mills, the guitarist behind the beloved U.K.-based artisan pickup brand, explains how he got started in the biz and what to expect from his company over the next year

PERSONALITIES Tim Pierce • The session veteran looks back at a golden age of studio work with Bon Jovi, Rick Springfield, Belinda Carlisle and pretty much everyone else

The Prince of Darkness • GW grills The Darkness guitarist Justin Hawkins on just about everything — rehab, farts, breakups, tunings, country music and the band’s new record, an undeniable return to form called — what else? — Dreams on Toast

HERE WE GO! THE CRAZY MUSIC WORLD OF BOB MOULD • In a rare interview, the Hüsker Dü and Sugar mastermind walks us through his entire career, right on up to his brand-new “give the people what they want” record, Here We Go Crazy

Strait Talker • As Brothers in Arms marks its 40th anniversary with an expanded reissue, Mark Knopfler breaks his silence on the songs that ate the Eighties. From his lucky ’83 Les Paul and Fleetwood Mac-inspired soloing to “getting away with murder” at the sessions, this is the Dire Straits legend at his most open in years

DOUBLE TROUBLE • There’s a whole lot more to Greta Van Fleet guitarist Jake Kiszka than Greta Van Fleet, and a big part of it can be heard in Mirador, the globe-trotting riff-meister’s other band. “One-take Jake” talks snarling solos, life beyond Greta and how he teamed up with Chris Turpin, his Mirador brother from another mother

Black Mirador • The ins and outs of Jake Kiszka and Chris Turpin’s new one-off Martin guitars

MORE THAN JAKE • Ida Mae’s Chris Turpin — half of Mirador’s twin-guitar attack — talks Double Dreamers, Dinosaural Cogmeisters and Jake Kiszka’s raw, effervescent energy

WHEN HANOI ROCKED! • Forty years ago — after moving to London to invent the...