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.

Guitar World

In appreciation of David Bowie, the Ozzy of glam and art rock

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DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH

Ziggy Plays Guitar • Grammy-winning bandleader Ziggy Marley on developing a groove, the status of his father’s famous Les Paul Special and — best of all? — the “higher vibrations” of recording at 432Hz

Cut Worms • Max Clarke on surrendering control — and trying not to smash Jeff Tweedy’s most expensive guitar

Robert Jon & the Wreck • All aboard the time machine with California’s self-confessed “Seventies rock nerds,” channeling giants from the Allmans to Van Halen

Thrown for a Loop • I saw Angine de Poitrine live — and witnessed the greatest polka-dot guitar hero since Buddy Guy and Randy Rhoads

LOST CLASSICS The Pretenders • Shattered by drugs and reeling from loss, 1984’s Learning to Crawl saw the Pretenders come back swinging. Robbie McIntosh reflects on a modern classic that saw him cast as “the guy who ruined the band”

Fender Bender • Tearing up the blueprint with modded controls and renegade pickups, nothing is sacred on Ariel Posen’s new signature Strat. “It made me rethink myself,” he tells us

High Fade • They’ve terrorized Nashville — now the Scottish funk-rockers are taking second album Twice As Nice to the streets

Man of Steel • Rescued from the vaults, this lost interview with Elliott Randall sheds new light on the “craziness” of Steely Dan’s first sessions — and the disaster behind his classic “Reelin’ In the Years” solo

Joyce Manor • Killing the gain made the emo-punks’ new album kick harder than ever; now they’re hijacking the Billboard charts on their own terms

My Pedalboard: Kiki Wong • What the Smashing Pumpkins shredder sees when she looks down

Descendents: Caught Speeding • Downpicking like demons on all six strings, the Descendents tore through L.A.’s Eighties underground and launched a thousand punks-in-waiting. We caught up with guitarist Stephen Egerton

SHOP OPEN TALK Russo Music • 619 LAKE AVE., ASBURY PARK, NJ 1989 ARENA DRIVE, HAMILTON TOWNSHIP, NJ 1004 SPRING GARDEN ST., PHILADELPHIA, PA RUSSOMUSIC.COM

THE GEAR HUNTER Positive Grid • From lightbulb moments to the Amp Intelligence tech that turns cellphone snaps into sound, the Californian amp-builders tell GW about their wild 15-year ride

NINE LIVES • Brian Setzer feared he might never play again after a crippling autoimmune disease. Now, the restored Stray Cats frontman tells us about trading his Gretsch for a Flying V, the abuse of supporting SRV — and why shredders need the blues

GUITAR IN THE KEY OF NYC • New York City’s guitar scene ain’t dead — it was just hungover on the J train. GW takes its hometown’s pulse with 15 on-the-rise (and/or already-risen) artists who prove there’s life after CBGB

SCHOOL'S OUT • Not just any 22-year-old could fill Nita Strauss’s shoes in Alice Cooper’s band. In this three-way GW exclusive, Coop’s longtime sidemen reveal how wonderkid Anna Cara scored shock-rock’s biggest gig

ZIGGY PLAYED GUITAR • He also got a lot of amazing guitarists to play alongside him. Ten years after David Bowie left us, we ask Adrian...