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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Guitar World

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Jonas and the Les Paul • It turns out Kevin Jonas — yeah, the guy from the Jonas Brothers — lives and breathes guitar just like the rest of us

COVER MODELS

Car Bomb • Greg Kubacki combines technical wizardry and atmospheric brutality for explosive results

Extra Jimmies • A new Fabulous Thunderbirds box set is bursting with powerful stuff by Jimmie Vaughan & Co. — including an entire unreleased album from 1978

The Velveteers • Demi Demitro, the guitar and voice of this must-see ax-and-drums duo, talks A Million Knives

Lukather Is the Answer • How it took three session-guitar aces to get a soft-rock classic back on the right track

Eric Steckel • Meet the Knaggs Guitars signature artist who grew an international profile by importing metal into the blues

Joyer • Oh, brothers, where art thou? Making loud shoegaze in the basement, probably...

Frankie and the Witch Fingers • Searching for just the right guitar-packed, frenetic workout soundtrack? These chaotic L.A. psych-punk rockers have got ya covered

Lenny Kravitz • Thirty years ago, the soulful rocker recorded Circus, his most guitar-heavy album. Below, he and guitarist Craig Ross take a look back at a suite of songs born of jams, soundchecks and dreams

THE WRECKING CREW • Ian Thornley of Canadian rockers Big Wreck on clashing with producers, the joy of pinch harmonics and the importance of extravagant guitar solos

PERSONALITIES Marcus King • 2025 was the year of the King, thanks to his band’s landmark, guitar-loaded album, Darling Blue

PERSONALITIES Jason Narducy • In 2025, a Chicago alternative-music fixture teamed up with a Hollywood actor to launch a barnstorming R.E.M. tribute tour. This already-rich pageant will only get richer in 2026…

ROBERT FRIPP SEEING RED • In a special, expanded edition of our Lost Classics series, King Crimson guitar icon Robert Fripp — his personal diary open for the first time in 50 years — looks back on the making of 1974’s Red, the album that pushed the U.K. prog-rock greats to their (first) breaking point

MY LIFE IN THREE GUITARS Trio • The guitars that have meant the most to King Crimson founder Robert Fripp

COUNTDOWN TO EXTINCTION • AS MEGADETH PREPARE FOR THEIR FINAL ALBUM RELEASE AND TOUR, DAVE MUSTAINE RECOUNTS SOME MEGA-MEMORIES, THE GHOSTS THAT STILL HAUNT HIM AND, OF COURSE, THE LEAD GUITARISTS HE PLAYED WITH ALONG THE WAY — THE GOOD, THE GREAT AND THE UNHINGED!

WARCHEST • AN ALBUM-BY-ALBUM GUIDE TO MEGADETH’S EXPLOSIVE STUDIO OUTPUT — FROM THEIR 1985 DEBUT TO THEIR 2026 FINALE

THE LAST NOTE • DAVE MUSTAINE TAKES US THROUGH THE INSPIRATIONS BEHIND MEGADETH’S FINAL ALBUM — TRACK BY TRACK — AND REVEALS HIS MOTIVATION FOR RE-RECORDING METALLICA’S “RIDE THE LIGHTNING”

OBEYING THE CALL • TEEMU MÄNTYSAARI ON THE MAKING OF MEGADETH AND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE THE BAND’S FINAL GUITARIST IN A LONG LINE OF GREATS

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