DaisyRock, the self proclaimed “Girls Guitar Company” have announced two new models, the Green Daze (above) and the Cherry Bomb Burst (below). I don’t know about you but, with this move away from the pink and glitter, these look like two rather fine rock machines, suitable for any gender. From the press release: “Daisy Rock Girl Guitars, the original girl-guitar company, proudly releases the Stardust Elite Rebel Standard available in Cherry Bomb Burst finish, the newest member of Daisy Rock’s…

Straight off the press at Gibson.com: Applications Environment and Store for 3rd Party Developers 3rd Party App Store We are only using about 20% of the power of the Pure-Analog™ Engine. This leaves enormous possibilities for future enhancements without any hardware changes. The entire Firebird X system is designed to a new Gibson standard which will allow other companies to develop hardware and applications that can integrate with any guitar that uses this standard, including the Firebird X. Gibson will…

From the press release: C.F. Martin & Co. is proud to announce the introduction of two new Custom Artist Edition guitars: the Martin JSO! Sing Out Pete Seeger (6-string) and the Martin J12SO! Sing Out Pete Seeger (12-string). The guitars mark the 60th anniversary of Sing Out!, the magazine, songbook publisher and syndicator of traditional music radio shows that Seeger helped found in 1950. To mark this milestone, no more than 120 of these guitars are being built, signed by…

For over forty years Orange amps has pushed back the boundaries of guitar amp technology and at NAMM 2011 the company are to announce a worldwide exclusive distribution agreement for DIVO Tube Sync®, a “truly revolutionary” new guitar amp technology. The new technology automatically adjusts the bias of the output power tubes to ensure their full potential is realised. It monitors the amp’s performance and will isolate faulty tube failures, by running them at half power until the tubes can…

From their press release: “Kemper GmbH announce the new Kemper Profiling Amplifier to be unveiled at the NAMM Show 2011 in Los Angeles. The Kemper Profiling Amplifier is an entirely new concept for guitar amplification in the digital domain. Following the radical idea that every guitar player should be able to bring his personal sound of the tube amp setup he owns into a versatile, comfortable and most important reproducible format: The Kemper Profiling Amplifier “learns” the sonic behavior of…

Hollywood, Fla. (Vocus) December 13, 2010 In celebration of the grand opening of Winner’s Way Parking Garage on December 15, the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino will create an unprecedented and spectacular ceremonial guitar smash of 2,400 acoustic guitars, which are not “musician quality.” The event will be documented and recorded for the Guinness Book of World Records as the “World’s Largest Guitar Smash,” with a representative of the Guinness Book on site to observe and certify the event. The…

Here’s what Epiphone have to say about their new Joe Bonamassa signature Les Paul. …Joe Bonamassa has brought searing electric blues-rock back to its American roots, and helped to redefine the genre in the process. The effort has won him top honors on countless “guitarist of the year” polls, and #1 status on the Billboard Blues chart–and through it all, a Les Paul has remained Bonamassa’s go-to guitar. Of his beloved instrument, Bonamassa has said, “For me to be myself,…

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Dec. 7, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Seymour Duncan announces the debut of Liberator™, the first universal Solderless Pickup Change System for guitar and bass. Liberator is a bare-wire Lockdown system integrated with a high-quality volume pot. With a Liberator-equipped volume pot installed, changing pickups no longer requires heating up a soldering gun—you only need a mini screwdriver. Since Liberator doesn’t require proprietary connectors, it works with nearly any manufacturer’s passive pickups. Pickups play a key role in defining…

Mumbling something about “Getting the band back together”, Two Old Hippies founders, Tom and Molly Bedell, along with Breedlove’s Kim Breedlove and “Crazy” Pete Newport have announced that they are joining forces to create “The World’s Coolest Guitar Company.” This confirms Breedlove is indeed joining the Two Old Hippies family. The synergy in the merger is immediately obvious; both Two Old Hippies Tom Bedell and Breedlove’s Kim Breedlove are products of the ‘60s, and the spirit of Peace, Love and…

Adara Claphan, 10, is not only learning to play guitar herself—she also is raising money so that poor children in Nicaragua will have guitars to play. One of the guitars she is sponsoring is the 100th to be donated through HeartStrings, a program of Wichita nonprofit Trees for Life International—bringing the count halfway to the overall goal of 200 guitars. Adara, a fifth grader at a public school in Wichita, was inspired when she visited the Trees for Life office…