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.

Forty years at the Crossroads • VOL. 47 | NO. 13 | HOLIDAY 2026

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Shake, Rattle & Roll • Forget the clean tones of Alabama Shakes’ 2012 debut — Brittany Howard and Heath Fogg talk GW through a third album of “crazy fuzz,” psychedelia and amps stabbed with screwdrivers

Eddie 9V • The Atlantan guitarist on amp disagreements with Dan Auerbach and recording with blues legend Sean Costello’s prized ’53 goldtop

No Angel • How did Billy Morrison go from a dying addict to the best-connected man on the L.A. scene? In his most candid interview yet, the Billy Idol sideman — and best friend to Ozzy — relives the treacherous path to his star-studded new solo album

Gollylagging • The sometimes katana-wielding band on their new album, Real Life

Revolving Doors • Shortly before his death, Steve Cropper revisited the rumor that the Beatles almost tracked Revolver in Memphis with the Stax band. GW met Cropper’s friend and fellow sessioner, Scott Ward, to sort fact from fiction

The Animeros • The Austin trio’s widescreen Latin grooves have already caught Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye. Could Quentin Tarantino be next?

Boston Marathon • Barry Goudreau boarded a rocket ship in the mid-Seventies with AOR giants Boston. Now, he shares the full 50-year odyssey, from the battle to get signed, through his fiery “Long Time” solo, to the rivalry with Tom Scholz that blew up the band

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Ovation Guitars • Acoustic guitars being manufactured in a helicopter factory might sound a little far-fetched, but that’s exactly how Ovation got started. This is the story behind one of the most radical design overhauls in the history of guitar making

NEW YORK groove • Whether they play smooth jazz or scalded metal, New York state’s all-time greatest guitarists prove there’s something in the water on the East Coast. Here, we salute 33 of the superstars and cult heroes from the music scene that never sleeps

BAD apples • Fifty years after Ramones, GW assembles survivors and students of NYC’s punk scene for a round-table on anger-fueled gigs, revved-up Marshalls and keeping the rebel spirit alive. 1-2-3-4!

ALWAYS with Me, ALWAYS with You • Steve Vai and Joe Satriani’s half-century bond has been their lifeline through the rock ‘n’ roll storm. Now, as they release their first joint album, the shred gods invite GW to an unguarded fly-on-the-wall conversation taking in ego, AI, auctions, relics, gig rituals — and the reason they can never truly be friends…

DEVIL'S Highway • A spooky blues fantasy penned by a high-school dropout, 1986’s Crossroads made guitar players of the VCR generation. Ralph Macchio, Steve Vai, Arlen Roth and screenwriter John Fusco tell GW about faking chops, getting thrown off-set — and why they snubbed Jimmy Page for Satan’s guitarist

Epiphone Marcus King El Dorado • Epiphone revives its early 1970s Japanese-made model in the form of a very special signature edition

Steadfast Stopbar • If you have a guitar with a stopbar tailpiece, this changes everything

Steelyjam Delta Junior • Is...