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“There were indeed two distinct colours made for her Eras tour”: Gibson unravels the mystery of Taylor Swift’s ‘pink/purple’ Lover guitar, and says that it would love to release a signature model

"We work with her team, who execute her vision down to the smallest details," says VP of product Mat Koehler

MusicRadar · Sep 5, 2024

LL Cool J: ‘Hip-hop isn’t underdog music any more’

The artist and actor answers your questions about dodging animatronic sharks, hanging out with Al Pacino, his love of Abba and the making of his first album in 11 years

The Guardian - UK · Sep 5, 2024

“I didn’t know Corgan, but I knew he wasn’t the easiest person to work with. I thought, ‘This isn’t going to last but it’ll be interesting’”: Jane’s Addiction’s Eric Avery on his brief stint with the Smashing Pumpkins and what he learned from Billy Corgan

Avery briefly worked with Corgan on what would later become the Pumpkins’ seventh album, Zeitgeist

Guitar World · Sep 5, 2024

Coma Rossi announce English tour dates for October

UK and Germany-based prog duo Coma Rossi released their second album Void earlier this year

Louder · Sep 5, 2024

Floating Points drops 5-hour Boiler Room set

Sam Shepherd performed the marathon set at New York's H0L0 to promote his new album Cascade

MusicRadar · Sep 5, 2024

“It was suggested we try making a Dumble-style clean. They’re so mystical – I’d never played one. You can look at the circuit and still be none the wiser”: The unstoppable rise of Victory Amps – and what comes next

Chief designer Martin Kidd tells how the UK amp firm went from boutique amp beginnings to an expanding portfolio of high-end amps for your backline and pedalboard, championed by the likes of Guthrie Govan, Mastodon, Ritchie Kotzen and Graham Coxon

Guitar World · Sep 5, 2024

“We're witnessing history in the same way that the Beatles changed the music industry in the early 1960s”: Gibson reveals Taylor Swift’s go-to guitars during the Eras tour and hopes for a signature model

Gibson’s Vice President of Product, Mat Koehler, discusses working with Swift’s team to execute her vision, delves into her J-180 love story, addresses the possibility of a signature model, and sets the record straight on the true color of that viral acoustic

Guitar World · Sep 5, 2024

“He felt it was too generic at the time”: Producer Rodney Jerkins on why Michael Jackson turned down the Neptunes songs that eventually went to Justin Timberlake

“If I would have just hopped on the drum set and just started playing, he would have been like, ‘Nah, I did that with Billie Jean’”

MusicRadar · Sep 5, 2024

John Lydon announces massive I Could Be Wrong, I Could Be Right 2025 spoken word tour across the UK and Ireland

Punk legend John Lydon is coming to a town near you next year, "untamed, unscripted and uncensored"

Louder · Sep 5, 2024

“A flood is coming… and most of you will die”: Mastodon tease split release with Lamb Of God

Two icons of 2000s metal will be teaming up for… something, on September 12

Metal Hammer · Sep 5, 2024