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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Was Paul McCartney the Beatles’ greatest guitar hero?

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Peripheral Vision • After burning the playbook and facing his demons on Periphery’s jet-black new concept album, Mark Holcomb tells us he owes a big apology to his guitar tech

COVER MODELS

Loathe • Liverpool’s heavy mob on recording their new album while burning rubber — and regretting the magic guitar that didn’t make the sessions

Ace of Hearts • Mike Campbell — the late Tom Petty’s right-hand man and a former Fleetwood Mac hired gun — tells us about channeling the Beach Boys, snatching songs from his dreams and chasing joy over dollars

Young Man Blues • Raiding the Foos’ gear vault and jamming with the ghost of Gary Moore, roots master Jared James Nichols presents the rip-it-up new record that “I never had the guts to do before”

The José Way • José Arredondo modified amps for some of guitar’s biggest stars. The Friedman Jose amp pays tribute to this elusive legend and makes his formerly secret mods available to everyone

Squier’s Hard Truth • Buried by his “malevolent” record label in ’93, Tell The Truth is the lost classic that Billy Squier hopes could bring him back from the dead

Laura Chavez • Playing renegade roots on a beat-to-hell Strat, the Californian sessioner is demanding her rightful place in the spotlight

Blood on the Tracks • Saluting his fallen father — while surrendering his bag of tricks to producer Dave Cobb — Duane Betts’ new album reclaims that famous surname for himself

INQUIRER Micki Free • From “annoying” first riffs and teenage stage-fails to the boutique electric he’d save from a fire, the Grammy-winning veteran opens his heart and gigbag

SHOP OPEN TALK Well Strung Guitars

Still Showing Us the Way • Fifty years after Frampton Comes Alive! and 16 since his last studio album, Peter Frampton returns with Carry the Light

LIGHTS, CAMERA, FRAMPTON! • How Frampton documentary director Rob Arthur helped the iconic guitarist come alive on the big screen

SCREAMING LIFE • From Soundgarden’s chaotic birth to the shattering loss of Chris Cornell, Kim Thayil’s new autobiography burns with conflicting emotions. The guitarist met GW to reflect on riffs, rifts — and the soon-to-be-released sessions with his late frontman

arrival • THEY ARE THE BUZZ BAND OF 2026 — A PERFECT STORM OF WACKY AND WEIRD, WITH A CREATIVE AND TECHNICAL FLAIR THAT NEEDS TO BE SEEN TO BE BELIEVED. IT’S ANGINE DE POITRINE’S WORLD; WE’RE JUST LIVING IN IT.

McCartney on Six Strings • He’s one of the most celebrated bassists in rock history. But throughout the Beatles years, the guitar remained Paul McCartney’s secret obsession.

Take This Pair of Strings and Learn to Fly • Examining Paul McCartney’s “two-finger” magic as heard in the Beatles’ “Blackbird”

Earning Your Wings • Need a crash course in guitar badassery? Welcome to McCartney University. Behold the best and brightest six-string performances from Sir Paul’s entire post-Beatles studio catalog (starring a McCartney, a McCullough, a McCulloch and a McIntosh).

Paul Is Gear • The guitars that have shaped McCartney’s sound...