Dept. 10 AMPED 1 – Blackstar’s 100 Watt Amp At Your Feet
Blackstar expands its Dept 10 series with AMPED 1, a professional 100 Watt guitar amp in a compact pedal format. The feature-packed AMPED 1 turns any pedalboard, modeler, or multi-effector…
Fender CEO Andy Mooney Pens Open Letter to Advocate for Music + Arts Education
Fender CEO Andy Mooney is sharing an open letter advocating for Prop 28. The bill, which is on California’s November 2022 ballot, will provide additional funding for arts and music…
Guitar Center Partners with Southwest Airlines to Surprise Passengers with Ukuleles and In-Flight Lessons
[caption id="attachment_82874" align="alignleft" width="460"] Guitar Center Lessons instructors taught passengers to play “Hello Aloha, How are you?” on their new ukuleles on the Southwest Airlines® flight from Long Beach to…
Fender Custom Shop to Release Replica of Jerry Garcia's 'Alligator' Strat
Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) and the Fender Custom Shop (FCS) have announced the launch of the Jerry Garcia Alligator Stratocaster® guitar in celebration of Garcia’s 80th Birthday. This Masterbuilt,…
Music Nomad’s Humitar ONE - Acoustic Guitar Humidifier & Hygrometer
If you are going to have one, this is the ONE. Protecting your acoustic guitar just got easier with the Humitar ONE, an all-in-ONE humidifier and hygrometer. Music Nomad, the…
Silvertone Guitars and Jackson Audio Team Up for Classic 1484 Twin Twelve Pedal
Silvertone Guitars, manufacturer of wholly unique and widely affordable electric and acoustic guitars since 1940, and Jackson Audio, one of the most innovative and customer-oriented guitar electronics companies operating today,…
Gibson Gives Receives Donation Valued at $1 Million from Hikma In Response to the Opioid Overdose Crisis
Last year, Gibson Gives — the purpose-driven charitable arm of the iconic American instrument brand Gibson —launched TEMPO — Training and Empowering Musicians to Prevent Overdose. The TEMPO program works with…
Roland Unveils SPD-SX PRO Sampling Pad
Roland announces the SPD-SX PRO Sampling Pad, the new flagship model in the long-running SPD series. Born of user feedback fueled by extensive road testing of the touring-standard SPD-SX, this…
SWG Events Specify MLA Compact for Spectacular Hampton Court Palace Festival
Having routinely specified Martin Audio’s MLA Compact PA for festival shows where sensitive offsite noise has been an issue—along with the smaller MLA Mini on corporate events—Bristol based SWG Events…
Donner Electric Guitars Brought '90s Rock Vibe to Private Policy NYFW Show
[caption id="attachment_82833" align="alignleft" width="460"] Donner X Private Policy NYFW2023 show look with Donner DST-152 Electric Guitar (Photo credit: Guanyu Liu)[/caption] Donner, a leading manufacturer of innovative and feature-rich musical instruments,…
PRS Guitars Announces 2023 PRS Pulse Artist Roster
PRS Guitars has announced the full roster of 2023 PRS Pulse Artists, a group that is making waves in local music scenes around the world and in the online guitar…
Fender Custom Shop Introduces Johnny A. Signature Strat
Born John Antonopoulos in Malden, Mass., Johnny A. first got the guitar bug when he saw the Beatles in Boston at age 13. Taking the stage name “Johnny A.”, he…