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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READER ART OF THE MONTH

Right-Hand Man • How the Dirty Nil’s Luke Bentham serves up a vulgar display of power

Laura Cox • From screen to stage: How a garage-blues prodigy took her music to the masses

Michael Hampton • The P-Funk veteran takes us inside his latest life stage, a much more mellow place than the frenzied funk days of his past

Northern Lights • In a modern world, Britrock survivors the Charlatans tell us they still believe in albums, studios, amps and moving air

COVER MODELS • GUITARIST GEORGE LYNCH GUITAR 1990 ESP CUSTOM HAJI/WICKED SENSATION GW DATE NOVEMBER 1990 THIS INTERVIEW DECEMBER 2025 PHOTOGRAPHER JONNIE MILES

Sammy Boller • The Detroit instrumental phenom enters spiritual territory with a new, deeply personal EP

Tortoise • Douglas McCombs and Jeff Parker make long-awaited contact with their luxurious new album, Touch

The Sisters of Mercy • Guitarists Wayne Hussey and Gary Marx look back at the U.K. rockers’ darkly compelling 1985 debut, First and Last and Always

ON THE FADERS • Legendary producer David Allen, who has also worked with the Cure, Depeche Mode, the Human League and Neneh Cherry, looks back on First and Last and Always

MY LIFE IN THREE GUITARS Larry McCray • The three guitars the Michigan blues master couldn’t, can’t and won’t go without

The Messthetics • How Anthony Pirog explores uncharted sonic territories

PERSONALITIES Berton Averre • GW catches up with the man behind the brilliant guitar solo on the Knack’s “My Sharona”

LAMB OF GOD • How Mark Morton and Willie Adler revisited past chaos to behold the future

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY • Zakk Wylde waxes lyrical about songwriting, recording, his approach to soloing and “Ozzy’s Song,” a poignant track from the band’s new album

ZAKK’S SINISTER DOUBLE • Guitarist Dario Lorina has become an integral part of BLS, not just on rhythm but as a fellow soloist

EXODUS • Why Gary Holt and Lee Altus refuse to turn their venerable thrash collective into just another legacy act

SIBLING REVELRY • Black Crowes co-founder Rich Robinson explains why he and his brother Chris — a pair of siblings whose relationship went way beyond bickering — are on the creative streak of a lifetime

Stone Free • One drops everything when offered an out-of-the-blue interview with Keith Richards. One also picks up pearls of wisdom about his new ES-355, “ornery” Chuck Berry and what can only be described as, um, guitar lust

Keith Richards: A Life in Guitars • Micawber, Malcolm, Sonny — in the world of Keith Richards, even his guitars are characters. But there’s more to his collection than these famous Teles. Thousands more…

Cort Space G6TR • Cort’s well-spec’d and affordable Strandberg rival capitalizes on the headless guitar renaissance

Martin 0-10E Retro Jason Isbell • A characterful Americana workhorse at a sensible price — with a vibey artist tie-in

Fender Studio Pro 8 • Is this the DAW every guitarist has been waiting for?

JBL BandBox Trio • JBL’s...