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Paula Will Have You Put on Your ...ATHERTON
Smooth jazz saxtress, flutist, vocalist, and 2024 Smooth Jazz Artist of the Year Nominee Paula Atherton's latest creation, “Dancin’ Shoes,” is her 7th album and it does not disappoint.
The Light Of Day
Peter White's latest album is a testament to his unique talent and innovative spirit.
Yellowjackets
The quartet's storied career well into their 5th decade marks this 27th album.
Paul Taylor
In quintessential fashion, incomparable, billboard charttopping saxophonist Paul Taylor delivers a musical gift once again to fans and lovers of Smooth Jazz with a new album.
Yasmin Williams
A FOLK GUITAR VIRTUOSO BRANCHES OUT ON HER THIRD ALBUM, ACADIA
Seven Stringer
Spiritbox guitarist Mike Stringer dispels the illusion of the band’s overnight success” while being stoked about their new album and playing to massive crowds
Martial Artists
COBRA KAI COMPOSERS ZACH ROBINSON AND LEO BIRENBERG TALK GEAR, SEASON 6 AND HOW THEY CONSCRIPTED TOSIN ABASI, CHARLIE ROBBINS AND POLYPHIA'S TIM HENSON INTO THEIR MUSICAL DOJO
CIRCLING BACK
From an incomplete Gregg Allman track to appearances by former ABB bandmate Derek Trucks, Warren Haynes’ gripping new album oozes with Allman Brothers Band mojo
MY PEDALBOARD STEVE HACKETT
WHAT THE PROG-ROCK ICON SEES WHEN HE LOOKS DOWN
GEORGE'S OTHER MASTERPIECE
Living in the Material World, George Harrison's 1973 follow-up to All Things Must Pass, is a moveable feast that's ripe for rediscovery. Dhani Harrison dissects the making of the original album and producing the new 50th-anniversary box set
BUCK DHARMA
Blue Oyster Cult co-founder Donald Buck Dharma” Roeser revegls how the classic Reaper” riff come about ond the secret recipe to his beloved CheeseBerger guitar
PEAVEY
Now celebrating six decades in the music business, Peavey offers something for every kind of player. CEO Courtland Gray looks back on the company’s most beloved products, including gear designed with Eddie Van Halen
Spiral XP
SHOEGAZE SUPERFAN MAX KEYES EMBRACES OPEN TUNINGS, PITCH BENDS AND MORE ON HIS LATEST ENDEAVOR
LOST CLASSICS: X
BILLY ZOOM RECOUNTS THE MAKING OF THE ICONIC L.A. PUNKS’ 1982 MAJOR-LABEL DEBUT, UNDER THE BIG BLACK SUN
Neon Nightmare
HOW SPIRIT ADRIFT'S NATE GARRETT CREATED A BRILLIANT ONE-MAN HOMAGE TO TYPE O NEGATIVE
Times' New Roman
ON ALBUM NUMBER FIVE, JINJER GUITARIST ROMAN IBRAMKHALILOV IS LAYING DOWN SOME OF THE HARDEST-SWINGING RIFFS OF HIS CAREER
DREAM ON
Forty years into their career, Dream Theater have received a vital transfusion via the return of original drummer Mike Portnoy. John Petrucci takes you inside the reunion - and the band's new album
SONS OF ANARCHY
IN YEARS PAST, when we journalists started an interview by asking, \"Who inspired you to pick up the guitar?\" the answer was often some combination of Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page and Eddie Van Halen.
Out For Blood
Alice in Chains mainstay Jerry Cantrell explains why (and how) he swerved into “a much more aggressive lane” for his new solo outing, I Want Blood. Plus Al hysteria, misplaced G&L guitars and Jeff Beck’s bag...
Blown Away
Jeff Beck's landmark Blow by Blow dramatically transformed the future for instrumental electric guitar music. Fifty years later, it still remains an inspirational force
Surf Noir
STOMPING GARAGE AND SURF SOUNDS COLLIDE ON JD MCPHERSON'S LATEST LONG PLAYER, NITE OWLS
IF GUITAR GOD IS A WOMAN
With renewed confidence and a slew of new guitar-forward songs, Larkin Poe's Rebecca and Megan Lovell are upping the ante of their blues-rock sound once again on seventh album Bloom
Queen Diamond
TETRARCH CO-FOUNDER DIAMOND ROWE DISCUSSESHER HISTORY-MAKING SIGNATURE JACKSON PRO SERIES GUITAR.\"AND IT ALL COMES FROM JUST BEING DIAMOND\"
TAKE NO PRISONERS
In this exclusive excerpt from Dreaming Japanese, Marty Friedman's new autobiography (co-written by frequent GW contributor Jon Wiederhorn), the ace guitarist details his auditions with Ozzy, Megadeth and - what's this about Madonna?
MAGNIFICENT
Tearing up the blueprint with an octave G string, Johnny Marr's new seven-string Martin signature model is a distillation of all the British icon's most rebellious opinions on acoustic (and yes, there's also a six-string version)
Xotic XSS Super S-Style electric guitar
AS FUNNY AS this sounds, when a brand sends me a new guitar model outfitted with only one pickup, I say to myself, “That’s bold.” Releasing a spartan guitar like the Xotic XSS Super S-Style seems like such a throwback to a time when a guy with the initials EVH changed the entire guitar-world landscape by playing guitar with a solitary humbucker and making every guitarist around the globe realize that might be all we need.
1950-69, 1986-PRESENT FENDER ESQUIRE
IT’S PRETTY DAMN cool that the very first commercially produced solidbody electric guitar, the Fender Esquire, can still kick serious butt today; you can’t say that about too many 75-year-olds. Many guitarists often forget that the Esquire came before the Telecaster and that a two-pickup version of the Esquire, which came a few months after the single-pickup version, was essentially the first Broadcaster/Nocaster/ Telecaster. But here I’m just going to focus on the single-pickup version.
Caparison Dellinger-JSM V2
WAY BACK IN the dark ages (a.k.a. the Eighties), there were two distinct types of guitar shredders who occupied opposite sides of the spectrum: the hard rock player whose weapon of choice was a super Strat versus the country picker who inevitably opted for a Telecaster.
Tallon Electric "The Noise"
UNLESS YOU’VE BEEN living under a rock, you’ll know that collaborative pedals between artists and manufacturers are all the rage now.
TC Electronic Plethora X1 TonePrint Loader
JUDGING BY THE abundance of effects that the TC Electronic Plethora X1 TonePrint Loader makes available to guitarists, it is obvious that TC knows what it means to have a plethora. Just the same, if having too much of a good thing brings you joy, then TC Electronic's Plethora will bring much delight with its many desirable and stellar-sounding effects - each offering a wealth of options.