“It’s a genuinely unique instrument – and it always raises a smile”: Nigel Tufnel’s “World on Fire” guitar, used during Spinal Tap’s Live Earth performance, is headed to auction

(Image credit: Brian Rasic/Getty Images, Gardiner Houlgate) When Guitar World asked Spinal Tap’s Nigel Tufnel in an interview last year about his switch to Ernie Ball Music Man guitars, the man with the goes-to-11 Marshall told us, “They’re just really well-made. I can say to the people there, ‘I’m thinkingContinue Reading

The House That A$AP Rocky Built

I’m geeking out because Jadakiss is standing behind me, wearing the navy-blue Supreme x Margiela zip-up, asking someone, “Where the bud at?” Across the sprawling Brooklyn performance space called the Compound Art & Sound Gallery, Jazzy Jeff blends Herbie Hancock’s “Watermelon Man” into Al Green’s “I’m Glad You’re Mine,” theContinue Reading

Logging Project Near Yellowstone Could Threaten Wildlife Habitat and Tourist-Dependent Businesses

A proposed federal logging project in the forests bordering Yellowstone National Park is drawing growing concern from local residents, business owners and conservation advocates who fear it could have lasting impacts on wildlife habitat, recreation and tourism in one of Montana’s most iconic landscapes.  The U.S. Forest Service is usingContinue Reading