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“Is this the next ‘Moderne’? Time will tell”: Gibson had a secret offset prototype hidden in its private room at NAMM 2026 – meet the Atomic Age

We sat down with the unlikely retro-futuristic concept guitar and brand-new body shape

Guitar World · Jan 23

“Johnny Marr got hit with a pint straight away. After the show we said, ‘That guitar is too fancy for touring with us!’” Stolen offsets, iconic bandmates and Coco Chanel’s advice – how the Cribs learned to be the best versions of themselves

Ryan and Gary Jarman remember Steve Albini as much nicer than you’d think, share the crazy story of a missing Mustang, and tell us how a Tube Screamer can make a guitar sound like a synth

Guitar World · Jan 23

“He said, ‘I have to play on this. Give me a track’”: How three session-guitar aces and an inspired intervention from a “wunderkind” Steve Lukather saved a ‘70s soft-rock classic

England Dan and John Ford Coley's Love Is the Answer might not sound like the guitar track of nightmares but it took a lot of guitar talent to get it onto tape

Guitar World · Jan 23

“Venture into a world of alternate tunings and non-guitar sounds to break new musical ground”: Strandberg collaborates with Jamstik for the Chameleon – an ergonomic, software-controlling MIDI guitar

An ergonomic-focused Starndberg at its core, it comes loaded with a high-performance MIDI pickup for a new world of sounds

Guitar World · Jan 22

“Experience what happens when 50 years of pickup expertise meets modern active technology”: Seymour Duncan goes toe-to-toe with Fishman with its triple-voiced MortalCoil active pickups

Offering three distinct voices in one package and promising fast, dynamic response and long battery life, these might be SD’s most modern pickups yet

Guitar World · Jan 22

“I just couldn’t believe I was gonna be on a George Harrison record. He’d been listening to what the T-Birds had been doing”: Jimmie Vaughan on longevity, Strats and recording the Porky’s Revenge soundtrack – with a Beatle

A new Fabulous Thunderbirds box set is bursting with powerful stuff by Jimmie Vaughan & Co. – including an entire unreleased album from 1978. Here, Vaughan talks T-Birds and Strats and Fender amps, and tells us what flips his switch

Guitar World · Jan 22

“If you got the Ibanez catalog that year, it was Reb Beach, Steve Vai and Joe Satriani on the first three pages. They said, ‘Whatever shape you want’”: Reb Beach on the story of his ’90s Ibanez signature guitar – and the mystery behind its sequel

The year is 1990 and Reb Beach is on the cover of Guitar World with his Ibanez WRB-3, a super-cool weird shape electric. But what happened to the WRB-1?

Guitar World · Jan 22

“I know how much both the band and the fans will be wanting to see him back up there where he belongs”: Why Mick Box is missing Uriah Heep's farewell shows

His stand-in has the founding member’s blessing, but is left joking about “existential panic” and “very big boots” to fill

Guitar World · Jan 22

“Experience the dynamic sensation of an amp moving air”: Blackstar takes on the Fender Tone Master Pro, unveiling a high-powered floor modeler series with “insane versatility”

Packed with tone-sculpting features and a focused amp collection for electrics, acoustic, and bass, the British amp firm is bringing its firepower to the modeler market via the new ID:X Digital Floorboard series

Guitar World · Jan 22

“Whether it’s mounted on your pedalboard or standing at the heart of your shrine, this pedal is a torch held high for rock ’n’ roll”: Jim Dunlop drops an Iron Maiden Killers edition of its Cry Baby wah

Emblazoned with the album’s unmistakable art, the pedal celebrates the band’s gritty beginnings

Guitar World · Jan 22