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Gibson Bets Big on Latin Music in Miami: Its Largest Garage Opens With 600 Guitars, Latino Stars and Live Performances

Gibson Garage Miami opens in Wynwood with nearly 600 guitars, Latin music stars, live concerts and the first permanent Gibson Gallery in the U.S.

Latin Times

“After I stopped touring with Ian Brown, people would ask him, ‘Where’s that Asian Jimi Hendrix that plays with you?’” From the Stone Roses to Paul Weller, poverty to ’59 Les Pauls, Aziz Ibraham shares his remarkable story

The Manchester-born guitarist and composer landed his dream gig with The Stone Roses in 1996, then everything changed

Guitar World

"I thought it was only for heavy riffs": I traded my ES-335 for a baritone guitar for a month and fell under its spell – here's 5 reasons why I think every traditional guitarist should try a baritone

I challenged my preconceived ideas about this long-scale, low-tuned guitar, and what I learned has me looking at the baritone differently

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Gibson recreates Billy Gibbons’ Pearly Gates Les Paul – and you’ll have to meet the ZZ Top legend in person if you want one

30 painstaking replicas are being sold exclusively through a private event at Gibson Garage Nashville

Guitar World

“His effects are bonkers in the best way possible”: The pedal with the onboard amp, speaker and microphone, Gibson baritones, the Fender Custom Shop George Harrison Bass VI and more – this is MusicRadar's guitar gear roundup, the August 2026 edit

We take a look back at the gear highlights from August, featuring new signature models from Epiphone and PRS, Death By Audio and Grainger FX's wild collab and more

MusicRadar

“I've got somewhere between 80 and 90 guitars and I'd say 75 percent of them are Les Pauls. It seems ridiculous - but they all have a unique purpose”: Slash on his enduring devotion to the Gibson Les Paul

In this archive interview, GN'R’s riff merchant shared how Les Pauls thoroughly dominated his guitar collection, and their unique endurance on the road

MusicRadar

“Compares well with instruments costing at least twice as much”: Epiphone Marcus King Dorado review

Epiphone revives its early 1970s Japanese-made El Dorado acoustic in the form of a very special Marcus King limited-edition

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My pick of the best guitar gear launched this week: holy grail tube tones, Sleep Token’s debut signature collab and a guitar that might be a bass

All the big new drops from PRS Guitars, Charvel, Jackson, Gibson, Friedman Amplification and much more

Guitar World

Guitar Hero’s spiritual successor is stacked with iconic tracks – but some big hitters are missing

Stage Tour comes from the makers of the cultural smash and is set to release on December 10

Guitar World

Gibson launches its first baritone in a decade – and it’s got all-new pickups

The latest entry to the revived Victory line takes Gibson further into extended-range territory

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“My favorite bass needs to be retired, but it plays so good and has this unmistakable sound. So I gave it to Spector and said, ‘Let’s get close to that’”: How Rex Brown’s new signature bass channels his punchiest Pantera era

The metal icon explains how his labor-of-love Euro4 bass – painted to imitate a desert sunset – bottles his pummelling Far Beyond Driven period

Guitar World

“He said, ‘The thing was made wrong in the first place!’ I joked, ‘Let me see you build a vibrato contraption that works!’” How Merle Travis pushed Paul Bigsby to one-up Gibson with his iconic vibrato

The country guitar giant was possibly the first to ever try out the game-changing piece of guitar hardware, and its invention was born out of a challenge he set for his friend

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“A lot of people might think it was ruined, but I think it’s like 10 times cooler because of that”: King Tuff on his beloved butchered Gibson SG and the world’s most embarrassing Uber journey

The inimitable Kyle Thomas – aka King Tuff – checks in for a confessional interview documenting misadventures with the electric guitar

Guitar World

“You’re an unknown – then all of a sudden 10 million people have seen you”: How Sawyer Hill went from playing in Arkansas garage bands to touring arenas with Yungblud

He started on a $100 Epiphone and auditioned for his first band with Stairway to Heaven. Now Gibson are sending him guitars and he’s touring with rock’s next great hope. How did Sawyer Hill get here?

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“I found a 1968 Gibson on eBay and took a chance. The neck has snapped three times, but it's still the best bass I've ever played”: How a battle-scarred vintage Gibson survived three broken necks to power a Mercury Prize-nominated jazz collective

Bassist Stan Woodward talks eBay finds, music theory, and the rapid rise of the Geordie Greep-backed jazz outfit

Guitar World

Joe Bonamassa reveals how many Gibson and Epiphone signature models he’s sold – and it’s a lot: “They weren’t expecting to sell those kinds of guitars that fast”

The reigning king of signatures has come a long way – the initial run of his first model was limited to 300

Guitar World

"Most definitely a show-stopper": Epiphone Lzzy Hale Explorer Custom review

A stage-ready Explorer that is sure to appeal to more than Hale's horde of fans

Guitar World

“At this price point, there is no room for anything other than excellence, and despite a few niggles, that is what this guitar delivers”: Gibson ES-335 ‘50s review

Harking back to the golden age of guitar innovation, Gibson promises to deliver stellar vintage tones with this authentically spec’d 335

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“We didn’t recognize him immediately – honestly thought it was James McCartney for a minute”: How a vintage guitar store in Malta landed Lewis Capaldi a rare Gibson acoustic

The guitar boutique’s co-founder, Andrew Francica, recounts the time that the Scottish superstar randomly walked into his store before a festival appearance

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“I’ve tested my fair share of import guitars – this Hawk flies above the rest”: Washburn Hawk review

There’s plenty to love about this refreshed reissue of Washburn's original Hawk guitar

Guitar World

Chris Shiflett plays Randy Rhoads’ Gibson ‘Quiet Riot’ Les Paul with Foo Fighters

He also got to play a host of other iconic guitars before the show

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Why do PRS Guitars have a 25-inch scale length? Paul Reed Smith explains

The iconic guitar builder sought to differentiate himself from the likes of Fender and Gibson… and overhauled the specs of his early designs to do so

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“Every artist that has played it goes crazy about it – it has been owned by two legends for a reason”: Up close with the Les Paul Custom that both Paul Kossoff and Eric Clapton owned

Dubbed the ‘Fretless Wonder’, the Les Paul Custom waltzed onto the scene in 1954. This particular mid-’50s model found its way into the hands of two guitar heroes

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“We were making a $10,000 guitar and selling it for $3,000”: From Chet Atkins to the Acoustasonic – the surprising history of hybrid acoustic-electric guitars

Sonic expansion or evolutionary dead-end? The acoustic-electric has undergone a radical reinvention over the years

Guitar World

“I thought I’d died and gone to heaven. It was like seeing an instrument from outer space. I said to myself, ‘That’s the future – that’s what I want’": The story of Eric Clapton’s Cream guitars

Beyond the tales of Clapton’s lost ’Bursts, the guitarist reached for a variety of instruments during his tenure in Cream, from the iconic ‘Fool’ SG to a mid-’60s ES-335

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