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In December 2007 Hal Leonard Corporation added GuitarInstructor.com to it's publishing quiver and Jeff Schroedl took the lead to help launch the company's guitar instruction website.

TASCAM announces an update to its best-selling combination CD & Cassette recorder, the CC-222SLmkII. The new model includes a pitch control for the CD as well as the one for the cassette, making it more useful ...

Taylor Swift will perform a sold-out concert at London's King's College on Wednesday night , marking her first European performance.

Recording stars Mary J. Blige and Robin Thicke are to kick off their "Love-Soul Tour" later this month in Virginia Beach, Va., Interscope Records said.

TASCAM's best-selling 24-track / 24-bit workstation has been upgraded to the 2488neo.

NILES, Ill., Sept. 3 IL-Shure-CEA-trade Mark Karnes , Executive Director, Global Marketing Leads CEA Discussion about Free Trade at Shure's Niles Headquarters NILES , IL , September 4, 2008 NILES, Ill.

Sample News Group has purchased three daily newspapers from GateHouse Media Inc.

Ernie Ball is proud to announce the arrival of new Titanium Reinforced coated Electric Strings.

"Beethoven's Symphonies: A Guided Tour" by John Bell Young includes a compact disc that contains one movement from each of the great master composer's nine symphonies, performed by such orchestras as Stockholm ...

Billy Currington will release his third effort, Little Bit of Everything, on Oct.

Music by Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, the Doors, Janis Joplin and Deep Purple, among others, will be performed live by the Mystical Orchestra as part of "Flashback -- the Classic Rock Experience." ...

There's another Smiths greatest-hits album in the works; we'd say something about painting a vulgar picture, but that joke isn't funny anymore.

Caption: Bob Dylan performing live at Optimus Alive 2008 in Passeio Maritimo de Alges Lisbon, Portugal .... BOB DYLAN has endorsed a new line of harmonicas.

Marion "Suge" Knight has been released from a Las Vegas jail. The founder of bankrupt Death Row Records posted $19,000 bail Wednesday and promised to appear in Las Vegas Justice Court on Sept.

The Smiths will be the subject of yet another compilation in the fall in the form of "Hang the DJ: The Very Best of the Smiths." The set is due Oct.

Activision Publishing secured partnerships with a wide variety of companies, including Ampeg, Audio-Technica, EMG Pickups, Ernie Ball, Evans Drumheads, Guitar Center, Krank Amplification, Mackie, Marshall, ...

The employee-owned Omaha World-Herald Co. has bought two small Nebraska papers, The Grand Island Independent and The York News-Times, from GateHouse Media Inc.

Once again showing that their thumb is firmly pressed on the the heart beat of rock and roll Ernie Ball is teaming up with Guitar Center and Slash to bring you a once in a lifetime event.

Line 6, Inc. introduces JM4 Looper, the only looping stompbox that combines a complete palette of vivid guitar sounds and explosive jam tracks performed by world-class studio musicians.

After undergoing renovations for more than a year, the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles will open its doors Oct.