Roger Waters Rails Against the Powers That Be and Asks, 'Is This the Life...
Roger Waters Rails Against the Powers That Be and Asks, 'Is This the Life We Really Want?'
In 1979, the British songwriter wrote The Wall,...
Review: Fractal Audio AX8 Multieffects Unit
Review: Fractal Audio AX8 Multieffects Unit
PLATINUM AWARD
Considering that the Fractal Audio AX8 is packed with enough amp and speaker cabinet models and multieffects capability...
311’s Tim Mahoney Demos the Ernie Ball Ambient Delay and Expression Overdrive Pedals
311’s Tim Mahoney Demos the Ernie Ball Ambient Delay and Expression Overdrive Pedals
Ernie Ball recently invited 311 guitarist Tim Mahoney to demo the company’s...
Review: KHDK Electronics Abyss Pedal
Review: KHDK Electronics Abyss Pedal
The KHDK Electronics Abyss is a brand-new bass overdrive that provides warm, tube-like boost and a subtle crunchy overdrive.
The Abyss...
Review: Line 6 Variax Shuriken Guitar
Review: Line 6 Variax Shuriken Guitar
GOLD AWARD
I probably didn’t have my morning cup of coffee when I first received news about the Line 6...
Review: Martin Guitar D-15M Streetmaster and 000-15M Streetmaster
Review: Martin Guitar D-15M Streetmaster and 000-15M Streetmaster
Made for working musicians, Martin Guitar introduces two new models in their solid mahogany 15 Series line...
Review: Gretsch Guitars G6128T-53 Vintage Select '53 Duo Jet
Review: Gretsch Guitars G6128T-53 Vintage Select '53 Duo Jet
Some of the most highly regarded Gretsch guitar models were the ones released during the Fifties...
Review: Neunaber Iconoclast Speaker Emulator
Review: Neunaber Iconoclast Speaker Emulator
GOLD AWARD
When Neunaber audio effects named their new speaker emulator “Iconoclast,” they knew that they had produced a truly game-changing...
The Five Weirdest Guitar Pedals
The Five Weirdest Guitar Pedals
Steve "Samurai Guitarist" Onotera has posted another great video, this time relating to gear. In it, Steve takes a look...
Jon Schaffer Discusses Iced Earth's Latest, 'Incorruptible'
Jon Schaffer Discusses Iced Earth's Latest, 'Incorruptible'
“I just want to give you a head’s up, dude. I’m deep in the country here in Germany,...
Expanding Blues-Scale Licks with the Major Third
Expanding Blues-Scale Licks with the Major Third
In our previous two lessons, we investigated a variety of ways in which to include the major third...
Wheely Guitars Unveils Guitar for Wheelchair-Bound Players
Wheely Guitars Unveils Guitar for Wheelchair-Bound Players
The Wheely is the world's first and only guitar specifically designed and built to be played in a...
A Simple Trick to Creating More Tasty Rhythms
A Simple Trick to Creating More Tasty Rhythms
I’ve never understood why one would skin a cat, I just know there’s more than one to...
Daisy Rock hits back at St Vincent claim
Daisy Rock hits back at St Vincent claim
Daisy Rock, the US guitar brand aimed at female players, has hit back at a claim that...
Hagstrom offers tools for ghouls
Hagstrom offers tools for ghouls
Sweden’s Hagstrom has teamed-up with Swedish band Ghost to produce the Fantomen (Swedish for ‘The Phantom’) guitar.
The new model features...
Duvell 7 Elite joins the collection
Duvell 7 Elite joins the collection
Avid WA player and collector Andrew Milne has added an awesome customised Mayones Duvell 7 Elite to his growing...
Top 10 Essential Vintage Rockabilly Guitar Solos
Top 10 Essential Vintage Rockabilly Guitar Solos
This past January (during the 2017 Winter NAMM Show), I walked out of the Observatory—a concert venue in...
Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen on Buying Guitars, Making Guitar Picks and Playing Great Solos
Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen on Buying Guitars, Making Guitar Picks and Playing Great Solos
When it comes to Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame inductees,...
Neil Young Details Lost 1976 Album, 'Hitchhiker'
Neil Young Details Lost 1976 Album, 'Hitchhiker'
Over the course of his now half-century long career, the always-prolific Neil Young has amassed a series of...
Hear Ronnie Montrose's "Color Blind," Featuring Sammy Hagar and Steve Lukather
Hear Ronnie Montrose's "Color Blind," Featuring Sammy Hagar and Steve Lukather
Before his death in 2012 at age 64, Ronnie Montrose began recording an album...
Vernon Reid Talks New Living Colour Album, 'Shade'
Vernon Reid Talks New Living Colour Album, 'Shade'
A few songs into Living Colour’s Shade, their first album in eight years, we hear the voice...
Performing Fluid Arpeggios Using Two-Hand Tapping
Performing Fluid Arpeggios Using Two-Hand Tapping
Hello everyone, and welcome to my new Guitar World instructional column! Over the course of these columns I will...
'Metalocalypse' Warrior Brendon Small Unleashes Second Galaktikon Album
'Metalocalypse' Warrior Brendon Small Unleashes Second Galaktikon Album
When Brendon Small released his first Galaktikon album in April 2012, he was frantically writing music and...
Cooper Carter Demos Ernie Ball Music Man Cutlass HSS Guitar
Cooper Carter Demos Ernie Ball Music Man Cutlass HSS Guitar
Ernie Ball Music Man recently introduced the Cutlass model in a HSS pickup configuration, and...
Eight Questions with Riverdogs' Vivian Campbell
Eight Questions with Riverdogs' Vivian Campbell
Guitarist Vivian Campbell—of Riverdogs and Def Leppard fame—recently sat down for the "eight questions" treatment. It went a little...
