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Guitar World’s tracks of the month – our editors pick their guitar highlights (opens the original)
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Hello there, and welcome to Guitar World Editors’ Picks – our monthly guide to the guitar tracks that have captured our editors’ attention over the past four weeks or so. With the aid of our Spotify playlist below, we’ve rounded up all our favorite new releases from September and noted our personal highlights – the playing, tones, and songwriting that most set our six-string senses a-tingling. Highlights this month include tortuous drop-tuned riffs from up-and-coming Parisian djent merchants, a
“I said to Billy, ‘We should order one of these, and I’ll play it. It’ll be hilarious.’ Then it went viral. I hate playing that bass. Now I’ve got to play it every night”: Elwood Francis on why he regrets his 17-string bass becoming a ZZ Top staple (opens the original)
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In 2022, ZZ Top guitar tech-turned-bassist Francis Elwood made headlines throughout the guitar press and beyond when he whipped out an almighty 17-string bass guitar with the Texas blues-rock legends. And although Elwood has since admitted he feels uncomfortable in the role he has occupied since Hill’s passing in 2021, his too-many-stringed bass continues the band’s great tradition of wacky instruments (the spinning fur guitars that starred in the Legs video being their most famous examples). In
Every Time I Die guitarist and pro wrestler Andy Williams dies aged 48 (opens the original)
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Former Every Time I Die guitarist turned pro wrestler Andy Williams has died aged 48. Williams was taking part in a tag team wrestling match in Pennsylvania when he collapsed. He later passed away in hospital, according to TMZ. Andy ‘The Butcher’ Williams had been wrestling professionally as part of All-Elite Wrestling for 10 years, but in the music world, he was best known as guitarist for Every Time I Die, one of metalcore’s most innovative and influential forces. Alongside guitarist Jordan Bu
Guitar World Editors’ Picks – our favorite tracks this month: “Who doesn’t like off-kilter, avant-garde, guitar-based pop that not only uses alternate tunings but is also microtonal?” (opens the original)
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Hello there, and welcome to Guitar World Editors’ Picks – our monthly guide to the guitar tracks that have captured our editors' attention over the past four weeks or so. With the aid of our Spotify playlist below, we’ve rounded up all our favorite new releases from August and noted our personal highlights – the playing, tones, and songwriting that most set our six-string (or seven- or eight-string) senses a-tingling. Highlights this month include a tongue-in-cheek single from a certain Rivers C
Sleep Token love them. Progressive guitar heroes worship them. But they imploded spectacularly. This is the story of unsung prog icons Oceansize: “We put ourselves through hell because we knew we were better than everybody else in the music industry” (opens the original)
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Oceansize took their name from a Jane’s Addiction song. Like Jane’s Addiction, they inspired other bands to greatness. They also imploded spectacularly. “Either people wanted to fire other people or they were threatening to quit,” says frontman Mike Vennart. “It became a matter of, ‘If you fire him, I'll stay.’ With me in the middle of it going, ‘What the fuck do I do?’” Prog was a dirty word when five working-class art college students from Manchester formed the band in 1998. Now, it seems like
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