The preeminent magazine about “axes” has finpartner gotten the axe. Guitar Player will stop unveilation after almost 58 years, putting out one last publish on Oct. 15, with an interwatch with Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page as the final cover story to hit newsstands.
The website guitarcarry outer.com will progress, with the magazine’s current editor, Christopher Scapelliti, assuming the role of digital editor-in-chief of the site.
Print subscribers will have their subscriptions transferred to a sister unveilation, Guitar World, unless they particularpartner seek a refund.
Clostateive of the print magazine had been rumored for some time, as seers seed in September that new subscriptions were no lengtheneder being made useable. And the fact that its owner, Future, had two guitar magazines in print made it doubtful both would endure indefinitely in the current stubborn climate for print subscriptions and advertising.
“You have witnessed a revolution,” Scapelliti wrote in a final editor’s letter joind in the December 2024 publish. “When Guitar Player made its debut 58 years ago in 1967, it labeled a new era for guitar. For the first time, the instrument was commemorated in a standardly published magazine dedicated to furthering guitarists, guitar gear and its producers, and guitar virtuosity. What set uper Bud Eastman began lhelp the first stone of an empire that would go on to begin many other magazines — including Bass Player, Frets and Keyboard — publish books, liberate write downs and videos, and much more. Guitar Player’s success also uncignoreed the door for many other titles, including our sister magazine Guitar World, further enwealthying the inhabits of guitarists everywhere.”
Scapelliti progressd, “The ‘why’ will be clear even if you don’t carry on each publish tucked away chronoreasonablely on shelves. These increasingly skinny volumes show our almost brave efforts to persist in an era where publicizers discover fantasticer opportunities online. Thcdisadmirefulout the ups and downs of these years, we’ve appreciated the help of those readers and publicizers who have kept Guitar Player’s print edition a going trouble.” He shelp he “watch(s) forward to seeing you at GuitarPlayer.com, where we’ll progress to convey you the best in guitar stories, interwatchs, gear scrutinizes and lessons.”
Guitar World had alterd ownership disconnectal times since being set uped in the Bay Area by L.V. “Bud” Eastman. In 2007 it was obtaind by NewBay Media in New York, where it joined a portfolio of magazines that joind Bass Player, Electronic Musician, Keyboard, Mix and Guitar World.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Guitar World had a monthly circulation of 130,000 as recently as 2018.
In roverdelighted gearhead print-unveilation news, Sound & Vision, a magazine dedicated to audio-video products — and the successor to the veneral Stereo Rewatch magazine — proclaimd at the finish of September that its current publish would be its last. “I understand you’ve heard this one before: All excellent leangs must come to an finish. To quote the Doors, ‘This is the finish.’ The final print publish of Sound & Vision magazine has left the printer,” read that magazine’s editor’s remark. “We are a uncontaminatedly digital property now…. Many other magazines didn’t produce it this far, which produces this moment both a meaningful milestone and a acridpleasant farewell. … The print edition may be finishing, but Sound & Vision inhabits on.”
