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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Hit the Ground Runnin’ • Jacob Deraps’ passion for Eddie Van Halen has taken his YouTube channel halfway to 100,000 subs. Might as well jump… to hit Subscribe

INQUIRER Steve Howe • The Yes, Asia and GTR legend explains why drinking and playing guitar are “stupidly incompatible”

Taz • School’s out for good ol’ Brandon Niederauer, a guitarist nicknamed after a famously insane cartoon marsupial

Getting Killed in Detroit • Geese’s Emily Green talks vintage guitars, practice routines and selling out

The Revstar Revolution • How Cardinal Black guitarist Chris Buck completely nailed his brand-new signature Yamaha Revstar

Music from “The Younger” • Bands formed by rock stars’ kids rarely work out — but this one does. Say hello to Evan Stanley and Nick Simmons, whose dads you might just recognize, despite all that Kiss makeup

Steve Cropper (1941–2025) • On December 3, we lost an M.G., a Blues Brother and a truly humble guitarist with one of the most impressive session-work resumes in history

THE GEAR HUNTER Taylor Guitars • Andy Powers — dedicated luthier, Taylor CEO and self-declared “Geppetto” — talks Gold Label guitars, urban-harvested wood, Action Control necks and where the company is headed in 2026 and beyond

The Everyman • Brazil’s Mateus Asato — named one of Guitar World’s 20 greatest guitarists of the decade back in 2019 — is finally releasing his debut album. As expected, it’s a thing of beauty.

Solar, So Good... So Hot! • Ola Englund does it all, playing with Swedish thrashers the Haunted, running his Solar Guitars brand and starring in a successful YouTube channel. Behold the guitarist who never stops.

Look What the Cat Dragged In! • A very Guitar World guide to some of the most significant guitar albums of 1986

RUN-D.M.C. FEAT. AEROSMITH “Walk This Way” • In '86, the ingenious blending of rock and hip-hop resulted in anything but a novelty hit. Joe Perry explains...

THE BANGLES Different Light • Vicki Peterson on the California girls’ hit second album, an intoxicating blend of Sixties pop smarts and Eighties sheen

BILLY IDOL Whiplash Smile • After the Wedding: Steve Stevens remembers the early days of true international stardom

THE CHAMELEONS Strange Times • The Chameleons’ third album might be the greatest British record you’ve never heard

DAG NASTY Can I Say • Brian Baker of cult hardcore practitioners Dag Nasty takes us back to the bad old D.C. days

DAVID LEE ROTH Eat ’Em and Smile • Steve Vai pays affectionate tribute to his first truly high-profile gig — and remembers the pressure of following in the footsteps of a certain guitar maestro

EUROPE The Final Countdown • John Norum on the album that put Sweden on the rock ’n’ roll map

THE FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS Tuff Enuff • London was calling for Jimmie Vaughan in 1986, where album sessions alongside Dave Edmunds led to a classic LP

THE FEELIES The Good Earth • Feelies guitarist Glenn Mercer...