"If you live to chug, you’ll find a lot to love here": Cort KX500 Baritone review

The hottest bass gear of the month, including the smallest signature bass money can buy

How to make your guitar look and sound more vintage – for very little money

“Amazon got two takedown orders”: Fender has hit 60 firms with cease-and-desists

Adaptable, sampled and revered, Leo Nocentelli shares stories from a session career that began at 13 years old

My favorite headphone amp for guitarists just dropped to its lowest-ever price in Positive Grid's Sparktober sale, along with a budget-friendly FRFR cab

Dumble is officially back: you can now order an Overdrive Special – the amp beloved by John Mayer, Joe Bonamassa and Lowell George

Wishbone Ash’s Andy Powell on his undying love for the Flying V and how his guitar journey began with a packet of Rice Krispies

Eastman Kauffmann Series SC Classic review – individual new design

Guitar World’s tracks of the month – our editors pick their guitar highlights

"It's a bit of an acquired taste, aesthetically": Washburn Scavenger SB4R review

Mick Mars wasn’t even awake when he recorded parts for one of Mötley Crüe’s biggest tunes

Sabaton’s Chris Rörland ends his hunt for his perfect guitar with his first Jackson signature model

Players have asked for it for years. Now, Strymon has put one of its most celebrated tape circuits into a standalone pedal for the first time with the La Brea

Alex Skolnick shares his legato secrets – and how Holdsworth made the technique his own

Eric Clapton, John Mayer, Susan Tedeschi, Joe Bonamassa, Billy Gibbons, Jimmie Vaughan and more to celebrate Buddy Guy's 90th birthday with an unmissable concert: Here's how to watch Buddy's Got The Blues from anywhere

How Eric Clapton felt when he auctioned off his legendary Stratocaster – and why it was ultimately worth it

Is PRS trolling Fender with its Defender Silver Sky collab? Here’s what John Mayer told us

The story of Gary Moore’s ’55 Les Paul Junior – a bargain buy from a Sex Pistol

Jim Adkins on the making of Jimmy Eat World’s Bleed American – and The Middle’s iconic guitar lead

John Mayer announces Sphere residency – featuring three distinct sets and the return of his blues-rock trio

Rick Nielsen’s guitars are going up for auction – including his bonkers five-neck Hamer

Jazz virtuoso Emily Remler has gone unnoticed for far too long – now, one filmmaker is bringing her story to light

Eddie Vedder lets Irish band play his guitar on stage after all their gear was stolen

Why the neck-to-body join has a major impact on the way your acoustic guitar plays and sounds

John Mayer inducts Paul Reed Smith into Guitar Center RockWalk of Fame

Behind the scenes at Well Strung Guitars – Farmingdale, NY's emporium of vintage treasures

Olivia Rodrigo showcases heart-shaped guitar and custom Fender builds on her Unraveled Tour

Meet the Formula 1 engineer who started his own boutique tube amp brand, Woodfield Amplifiers

Cara Delevingne showcases her two-hand tapping chops as she returns to Jimmy Fallon

Bay City Rollers and Middle of the Road guitarist Neil Henderson dead at 73

Laurence Juber on his bass lesson from Paul McCartney and the making of Wings’ 1979 swan song

John Mayer and Derek Trucks trade solos, Marcus King and Joe Bonamassa cover Led Zeppelin at Crossroads 2026

Elwood Francis on the origins of his 17-string bass – and why he regrets it becoming a ZZ Top staple

A degenerative nerve condition forced Amit Dattani to hang up his acoustic. A custom electric guitar saved his playing

“Crazy things happen when we play this song. Someone was crowdsurfing and threw out their prosthetic leg for me to sign”: How Drowning Pool made Bodies

Charlie Starr on why choosing the right guitar for the song makes all the difference

In praise of Gibson's L-00 – the small-bodied acoustic that could

The quintessentially French, impossibility brilliant Pierre Bensusan on the freedom of DADGAD and unpredictable magic of performance

“Truly an amp improver – you’d instantly miss it if you turned it off”: ThorpyFX Kudu review

How Jimmy Fallon’s bassist bonded with Bruce Springsteen over their shared love of 6-string bass

“The most common mistake isthinking it’s an out-of-tune guitar”: What people get wrong about microtonal music

5 ways to make the C chord much more interesting

What Weezer’s Brian Bell has got on his Mason Marangella-built pedalboard

All the guitar gear that caught my eye this week – introducing fresh signature models for Phil Collen and Matteo Mancuso

Tony Levin’s lessons from Steve Vai, Robert Fripp and Peter Gabriel

How Mick Jagger very nearly ended up on a Joe Satriani record – before Satch deleted his performance

“A game-changer? In some ways, absolutely”: Steadfast Stopbar review

How George Thorogood stumbled across the Gibson that became his go-to guitar – a week before his first gig with the Destroyers

Industrial metal pioneer Justin Broadrick on his punk salvation, Phoebe Bridgers collabs and burying Godflesh