American Music Tourism, MAIN Event Ticketing and HITS Acts Return to Senate

The revived bills target issues like ticketing bots, music tourism and indie musicians. Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images The American Music Tourism Act, Mitigating Automated Internet Networks (MAIN) for Event Ticketing Act, and Helping Independent Tracks Succeed (HITS) Act have all been re-introduced to the Senate. Recently, theContinue Reading

Guide: Xbox Developer Direct 2025: Event Date, Start Times & Where To Watch The Showcase

We’re getting VERY close now! It’s almost time for the Xbox Developer Direct! Yep, the 2025 edition of Microsoft’s dev-focused showcase returns this Thursday, with multiple titles confirmed for the show already. In this guide, we’re going to tell you everything you need to know about the Xbox Developer DirectContinue Reading

“Friends texted me saying, ‘I wish Taylor Swift would dance to my music.’ I’m like, ‘Put a good song out and she actually might!’” Justin Hawkins on the Darkness going viral, the return of virtuosic playing – and why he finally switched fr

If you picture Justin Hawkins from The Darkness in your mind’s eye, you most probably see him holding a Les Paul Custom of some sort – Alpine White, Ebony, or maybe even one of the limited-run Sparkleburst signatures in blue, silver, red, gold and pink from the band’s early years.Continue Reading

“His rhythm playing is tight and in tune in a way that’s rare, and his intonation is stunning”: Joe Satriani and Steve Vai have detailed the full SatchVai Band lineup – and Pete Thorn is handling rhythm guitar

Ever since it was announced last December that guitar heroes and longtime friends Joe Satriani and Steve Vai would be forming a band together – the first time they’ve ever done so – the main question on everyone’s lips has centered around who will fill out the group. Today, thatContinue Reading

Travis Scott Announces Halftime Show At College Football Playoff National Championship Game

Image Image Credit Andreas Rentz / Staff via Getty Images Image Size landscape-medium Travis Scott is launching his next music era a lot earlier than anticipated. On Monday (Jan. 20), the Houston rapper revealed he’ll debut the long-awaited “4X4” live at the College Football Playoff National Championship. Set to kickContinue Reading

Donald Trump’s First Orders of Business: Immigration, Gender, Drilling, and J6 Pardons

Newly minted President Donald Trump signed several sweeping executive orders on Monday evening, including dropping out of the Paris climate agreement, requiring all federal workers to go back to in-person work, and rolling back dozens of Biden-era initiatives. Joined by his and Vice President JD Vance’s families on the CapitalContinue Reading

“A less idiosyncratic, more intuitive but still distinctly handsome machine. It plays and feels like a much more modern proposition”: Gretsch Professional Series Hollow Body Tennessean review

Guitar World Verdict The Tennessean of 2024 is an altogether less idiosyncratic, more intuitive but still distinctly handsome machine. That it’s beautifully built, plays and feels like a much more modern proposition, and supplies all manner of brilliant sounds from shimmering cleans to snarling driven tones is testament to theContinue Reading

“I rediscovered the glorious bottom-end of the Fender… I feel far more fluid playing the Jazz Bass than I ever did on the Rickenbacker”: Geddy Lee went on a tonal quest and broke all the bass rules to make Rush sound huge

Geddy Lee is the rare type of bass player whose combination of talents creates a fiercely original voice. His vocal shriek is unmistakable; his bass guitar countermelodies, soaring and adventurous; his tone, in-your-face. Combining his skill set with guitar alchemist Alex Lifeson’s sonic concoctions and drum god Neil Peart’s downrightContinue Reading