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“We set out to capture the defining moments that shaped Fender’s legacy”: Historic neck profiles, reverse-engineered pickups – Fender’s Vintera III series promises historically accurate specs and “golden era” tones for all

The third generation of Fender's vintage-inspired lineup is all about the specs

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Yuichiro Yokouchi, founder of one of the world's largest guitar manufacturing companies, dies at age 98

As the founder of one of the leading Japanese guitar manufacturers, FujiGen, Yokouchi changed the landscape of instrument manufacturing

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“A level of historical accuracy previously unseen”: The Fender Vintera III line is here –and sets a new benchmark for its vintage-inspired guitars

Fender ditches its one-size-fits-all approach and drills down into the decades for its most comprehensive lineup to date

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“I thought, ‘That’s the guitar Mike Bloomfield played…’ I just had to buy it”: The mistake that led Robben Ford to buy his first great instrument –and how Miles Davis and Jeff Beck took him to the Strat

As Ford returns with Two Shades of Blue, the Californian guitar legend drops by for a video lesson and to talk all things guitar, from his adventures with big-box jazz models to Strats

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“Time is of the essence”: Joe Bonamassa issues public plea to help session player Mason Stoops recover his stolen vintage guitars

Stoops' 1965 Fender Jazzmaster and 1961 Gretsch Corvette were stolen in the Highland Park neighborhood in Los Angeles

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“With a roomful of classic Fender amps, perhaps surprisingly, it was this Blackstar that was the most-used”: Blackstar TV-10 AH & TV-10 BH heads review

Can this pair of new compact heads from Blackstar – theUS-styled TV-10 AH and its British-counterpart, theTV-10 BH – deliver those classic tones?

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“Own a piece of grunge history”: The backline used on Nirvana’s Bleach tour is to be auctioned off today

The slew of Fender, Marshall, and Ampeg gear powered the tour for the band’s warts n’ all debut album at the turn of the ‘90s

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“I thought it was a bit too bizarre, but you all went crazy for it”: The hottest new guitar gear releases of March 2026 – according to Guitar World readers

The five biggest gear drops of the past four weeks, as voted for by you

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“After hearing the finished track, I thought, ‘Wow, I never knew how busy playing one note could sound’”: The story behind the deceptive bassline on a politically charged ’70s anthem that was later covered by the Red Hot Chili Peppers

George Porter Jr cites this politically charged anthem as one of his favorite Meters basslines

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“Own a piece of grunge history”: Could your next amp be Kurt Cobain’s stage-played Fender Twin? Nirvana’s Bleach-era touring backline goes up for sale

Black and silver panel Fender Twins loaded with JBL speakers – bring yer own Boss DS-1 and you're good to go...

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“It’s an honor to enter this journey”: Mateus Asato confirms he’s joining Fender – and might have given us the first look at his signature guitar

It’s the announcement we’ve all been expecting since Asato left Suhr at the start of the year

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“I was a little uncomfortable, to be honest. I gradually convinced myself that it was okay”: Myles Kennedy on what it was like to play Jeff Buckley’s Telecaster – and how he felt unworthy to play it

Kennedy saluted one of his all-time heroes in 2019 when he performed Hallelujah live in Paris, and it was the first time Buckley's Tele had been played in public since his death in '97

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“On our earlier recordings, we experimented with low tones that only dogs can hear”: Sunn O))) on the challenge of working with 130 guitar tracks and why their live shows are like jumping into a frozen lake

Stephen O'Malley and Greg Anderson on the drone pioneer's Sub Pop debut, the restorative but draining power of volume and the gear behind their sound

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“I don’t have any favorite guitarists from the ’90s. I wasn’t following those trends”: He wrote some of the defining anthems of the decade with Smash Mouth. Now Greg Camp is focusing on his Nashville punk-rock supergroup

Camp started out as a drummer before EVH made him realize the advantages of guitar. The young Carson Daly helped make his band famous. Now he’s powering forward with supergroup The Defiant’s second album

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“Ken, our producer said ‘Look up there lads, look at the stars’. He literally said ‘Look at the stars’”: The fateful circumstances that led to Coldplay’s biggest ever song

Coldplay’s first stab at a euphoric crowd-pleaser was a clear indication that a stadium-filling future awaited

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“Something you’ll hear a lot of is, ‘Oh, you didn’t earn that relicing.’ But people who like it aren't thinking of it like that”: The real reason why relicing is so popular, according to a Fender Custom Shop Masterbuilder

The pre-worn fad is sweeping the guitar community, but why do some deride the concept as ‘stolen valor’?

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Who is the most iconic Fender Telecaster player?

The Telecaster doesn’t get enough credit for its versatility – and in its 75 years of production, it’s found its way into every genre. Let us know who you think is the greatest Tele wrangler of them all

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“The first time Sonic Youth went to England, people hated us: ‘Oh, you’re playing guitar? That’s so old-fashioned’”: Alt-rock icon Kim Gordon on the secret to making great music on bad guitars and why she never saw herself as a bassist

Returning with solo album Play Me – a stinging broadside against the modern age – the alt-rock talisman remembers the bad guitars andrenegade tunings of her ’80s breakout with Sonic Youth

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“We would roll into, say, Portland, and go to the pawn shops. You could find a ’57 Les Paul for $200!” Melissa Etheridge learned more from a grouchy old man who’d lost his fingers than she did at Berklee

The veteran hitmaker charts her evolution from acoustic to electric and back again and explains how she went digital, how she keeps her classic songs fresh, and how her family deal with her incredible guitar collection

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“I can't walk away, so I've come back to do the thing I know how to do best, which is play”: Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival announces 2026 lineup

Now in its seventh edition, the festival is set to take place in Austin, Texas – and features Buddy Guy, Joe Bonamassa, and John Mayer, while Trey Anastasio, Tommy Emmanuel, Julian Lage and Pete Townshend are all making their Crossroads debut

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“Bet you haven’t seen this before”: Prog maestro Josh De La Victoria shows off new multi-scale 7-string S-type – and Misha Mansoor wants one

The custom build gives the classic guitar design an ultra-modern makeover, and it’s hard not to marvel at the results

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Fretting over a safe spot for your cash? Look to the unlikely world of rock ’n’ roll

As a guitar owned by David Gilmour sells for $14.5m, tripling its value in seven years, Chris Blackhurst looks at other memorabilia that could make your investment portfolio comfortably numb

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“It’s the same, loud, high headroom amp but with a more open-sounding clean tone that boasts a little extra life”: Fender Hot Rod Deluxe 30th Anniversary review

Fender celebrates 30 years of the ubiquitous Hot Rod Deluxe with an Anniversary edition that boasts a speaker change and a classy aesthetic

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“You had to know somebody that knew somebody that knew him to get a hold of him”: The amp wizards who shaped the technology we use today, and gave the world great guitar tone

The designs and innovations created by Reinhold Bogner, Paul Rivera, Michael Soldano, and Jose Arredondo have shaped the amps of today, and continue to shape the amps of tomorrow

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The ultimate guide to guitar amps: from vintage vacuum tubes to modeling marvels

Everything you need to know about the tech, tones, and tools that define your sound

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