D’Angelico to Sponsor Malibu Guitar Festival 2017
For the second year in a row, D’Angelico Guitars will be the presenting sponsor of Malibu Guitar Festival, May 18 – 21, 2017. Now in its third year, Malibu Guitar…
Read more » July 2017 Guitar World Gear and Lesson Videos
These videos and audio files are bonus content related to the July 2017 issue of Guitar World. For the full range of interviews, features, tabs and more, pick up the…
Read more » Forgotten Guitar: Earliest Known Live Footage of the Jimi Hendrix Experience
In February 1967, three months before the release of their debut studio album, Are You Experienced, the Jimi Hendrix Experience took to the stage in a small club around 30…
Read more »Keith Richards: Why I Hardly Ever Use Effect Pedals
In the ongoing—and always entertaining—”Ask Keith Richards” video series, someone posed a doozy to the legendary Rolling Stones guitarist: “Why do you hardly ever use guitar pedals?” “I aim to get…
Read more » Avenged Sevenfold Cancel Tonight’s Philadelphia Show
Avenged Sevenfold will no longer be opening for Metallica tonight, May 12, in Philadelphia. Guitarist Synyster Gates had to fly back home to his wife who has gone into labor…
Read more »Seether Return with Ferocious New Album, ‘Poison the Parish’
Seether—Shaun Morgan (vocals/guitar), Dale Stewart (bass/vocals) and John Humphrey (drums)—have returned with their seventh full-length studio album, Poison the Parish. The first release via Morgan’s new label imprint, Canine Riot…
Read more »If You Feel Like You’re Not Getting Better at Guitar…
As an online educator with more than 16,000 students to date, I’ve had the opportunity to communicate with every type of guitar player on the planet. While we all have…
Read more »Listen to Los Straitjackets’ Guitar-Packed Nick Lowe Tribute Album
On May 19, Los Straitjackets—aka “America’s Instrumentalists”—will release their latest album, What’s So Funny About Peace, Love and Los Straitjackets, via Yep Roc Records. The album, as its title implies, is a…
Read more » Leslie Feist’s Fierce Fingerpicking
Back in 1996, a potentially career-ending vocal injury forced Leslie Feist, who at the time was touring with Canadian punk-rockers Placebo, off the road, ordered by her doctors to “stop…
Read more »Seven Easy Guitar Chords That Will Make You Sound Better
Jim Lill offers up this great lesson demonstrating “7 Easy Guitar Chords That Will Make You Sound Better.” As Jim notes, “Everybody knows the basics—G, C, D, etc.—but if you…
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