Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Guitar World

“Once John’s back in the picture, it’s like the other records don’t exist”: Why Josh Klinghoffer feels his Red Hot Chili Peppers contributions have been erased from history

As Klinghoffer embarks on a new era, the former Chili Peppers guitarist reflects on his tenure with the band and why he feels “slight disrespect” towards his legacy

Guitar World

“I will never forget looking across the sound booth in the studio and seeing Paul smiling, and I’m playing guitar to Ringo’s drums”: Ozzy Osbourne producer Andrew Watt on what it was like to play with two Beatles in the studio

Watt waxes lyrical about what it was like to add another legend to his Rolodex of rockstars

Guitar World

“Lenny Kravitz and Prince were doing American Woman. Two of my all-time favorite artists, and there they were, jamming stuff that came out of our heads”: Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings on the Guess Who’s fight to return to the stage

Bachman and Cummings talk favorite songs, cherished guitars and what it means to be back as the Guess Who after years of legal struggles

Guitar World

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

“It felt new and exciting. You don't even have to have gain on the distortion pedal. The vibrations alone make it sound distorted”: How tuning down and jamming Eagles and Skynyrd unlocked the return of Swedish doom heroes Monolord

Neverending finds the venerable Gothenburg trio expand their sound under the supervision of Tool producer Sylvia Massy, adding light and shade to those riffs – and more guitars

Guitar World

“A pedal that leaves players saying, ‘WTF!’”: DOD and Morley team up for the triple threat Wah-ocTo-Fuzz pedal

DOD’s synthy sub-octave circuit and Morley’s wah and fuzz circuits are 2026’s most unexpected power trio

Guitar World

“I’ve been trying to prove myself constantly. When you get billed as some hotshot player, people will stand with their arms crossed as if to say, ‘Prove it’”: How Jared James Nichols took Blues Power to Dave Grohl's Studio 606 and super-sized his sound

On this year’s Louder Than Fate, Nichols is spreading his creative wings, and – with some help from a one-of-one amp made for Jeff Beck – venturing into new musical pastures

Guitar World

“I said, ‘It’s everything I need. Can I borrow it to do my demo?’ They went, ‘Let me ask Ern’”: Steve Morse on how a gear nightmare lead him to Ernie Ball – and the signature guitar of his dreams

Morse has become one of Ernie Ball’s most loyal and high-profile endorsers – and it all started with a broken volume pedal

Guitar World

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

“The focus is on products that completely replicate the exact body design”: Fender is finally speaking out on its cease-and-desist strategy. We reveal the company’s endgame, how it plans to work with rivals and who it’s really going after

Fender might not be declaring war after all – but if its legal campaign succeeds, the guitar market will change forever

Guitar World

“It’s about time!” Wes Borland’s Jackson King V went from factory floor reject to Limp Bizkit icon – now it’s been released as a signature guitar

Borland’s Custom Shop V started out as a left-handed factory reject – and this signature reissue replicates it in all its glory

Guitar World

“He called and said, ‘I don’t like what’s going on with Ritchie Blackmore. I’m looking for an escape’”: That time Ronnie James Dio offered to front ’70s glam-rock outfit The Sweet

Internal disagreements led Dio to very different gig as he sought an escape from Blackmore’s Rainbow, while The Sweet were grappling with their frontman's drinking problems

Guitar World

“It's hard to overstate how influential this album was. It’s the connecting glue between me, Misha and Periphery”: How Adam ‘Nolly’ Getgood went from Sikth super-fan to playing in the band

Former bassist for Periphery, Getgood pinpoints the pickup selection and pick technique he’s been using onstage with Sikth

Guitar World

“We were heavily in debt. Either we go home, and I go work for my dad as a plumbing assistant, or we just say screw everybody”: Alex Lifeson on the Rush “protest record” that saved the band – and won them their independence

How Rush at the brink led to Lifeson, Lee and Peart crafting one of their most commercially successful records

Guitar World

“A great way to break away from the typical blues soloing sound of pentatonic scales”: How to use dominant 7 arpeggios in a blues guitar solo

Because you can't have enough exit ramps from traditional blues phrases, here's how you can use the notes of a dominant 7 chord to spice up your solos

Guitar World

“I was in Norman’s Rare Guitars in LA when I spotted the Les Paul. I played it for hours in the shop”: The unlikely fate of Big Country frontman Stuart Adamson’s ‘Peace in Our Time’ Les Paul

Bruce Watson shares the story of a guitar that encapsulates the time Big Country tried to break America – before they took their Scot rock sound to Moscow

Guitar World

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Guitar World

“No guitar does everything, but this comes dangerously close”: PRS DGT Semi-Hollow review

After testing the water with a limited-edition version, PRS has added David Grissom’s semi-hollow signature to the Core lineup. But are we worthy?

Guitar World

“In the ‘90s I changed my approach entirely. I gave all my guitars with tremolo systems away”: Tyler Bates on creating chaos with Reba Meyers in Marilyn Manson, and the gear he uses to score Hollywood blockbusters

The guitarist and film score composer has had a varied career – but he can’t seem to escape one amp and a “god box” pedal

Guitar World

“I wanted to have the most Steve Vai song possible on the record”: Matteo Mancuso reveals the advice his hero gave him – after they ended up working together

The two virtuosos trade licks on Mancuso’s new song, Solar Wind

Guitar World

“I might even refer to him in my mind, as if we’re still writing together”: Paul McCartney explains how John Lennon is still inspiring his songwriting six decades on

McCartney chats with Paul Mescal, the actor portraying him in the upcoming Beatles four-part biopic, about his songwriting process and upcoming album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Guitar World

6 reasons why Fender won’t win its Stratocaster legal campaign – according to the lawyer who beat them before

Ron Bienstock, the attorney who defeated Fender's previous attempt to trademark the Strat, has been hired to defend a firm hit by recent cease-and-desist letters – and Guitar World has seen a redacted response

Guitar World

“In my older age, I’m thinking, ‘Maybe I shouldn’t have been playing Marshalls for 35 years…’” Why Graham Coxon is questioning his classic Blur guitar rig

The Britpop icon is reassessing his gear choices

Guitar World

“He had an electric guitar, and his mom wouldn’t let him plug into the amp”: David Lee Roth fights tears as he recalls his partnership with Eddie Van Halen

The singer spoke of the touching “full circle” moment that bookmarked their final chapter together

Guitar World

“Would you rather we didn’t listen to customers? That we just hide in our offices and listen to some corporate shirts pontificate on pickup choices?” Guitar Center CEO responds to backlash over the brand’s in-house guitar project

Gabe Dalporto gives his take on why gearheads should contribute their ideas to Guitar Center’s new Guitar Lab initiative

Guitar World

Some gear was designed specifically with Teles in mind – and these amps and pedals work especially well with Fender Telecasters

The world's first mass-produced electric inspired overdrive pedals, brought the best out of Fender's black-panel combos and pairs very nicely with a splash of some spring reverb

Guitar World

EarthQuaker ZEQD-PRE review – the ultimate tube-equipped tone-sculptor for your pedalboard?

EarthQuaker Devices and Dr Z join forces for a tube-based preamp and boost with flexible connectivity

Guitar World

“The idea of a hand-wound Patent Applied For, which you see in the market all the time… if we’re being brutally honest, it’s not a thing”: The mystery of Gibson’s first Patent Applied For humbuckers

Stuart Robson of Sunbear Pickups has spent countless days obsessing over the secrets of the O.G. Gibson humbucker. He says there's something special about the 1957 variant

1 … 12 13 14 15

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the Red Hot Chili Peppers

67 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.