The year’s best guitar music

The month’s best guitar music – a hand-picked selection of the finest fretwork on wax

THERE ARE VARYING degrees of guitar hero, but Carlos Santana is a name you’d expect to find near the top of any list. Like Jimi Hendrix, Brian May or Slash, Santana has transcended guitar music and pe

The newly reconfigured band throw open the doors on an expansive sixth album. By Victoria Segal. Illustration by Quinton Winter.

YOU’LL BE FAMILIAR with the New York five-piece the Strokes, renowned since their formation in 1998 for their angular, stripped-down rock singles. While that band remains sporadically active, back in

WHILE MOST DUAL-GUITAR bands tend to have designated roles in terms of what kind of sonic space their members occupy, Momma six-stringers Etta Friedman and Allegra Weingarten enjoy being unrestricted,

SHRED LEGEND ZAKK Wylde was grabbing some downtime when GW connected with him at his home in California not long after he appeared at Ozzy Osbourne’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction. Only hours b