Takamine

When word spread within pro ranks that musical director Jon Batiste and his jazz/funk/pop/fusion group Stay Human had been tagged as the house band for Stephen Colbert’s then-new The Late Show, and that Batiste was in search......Read more

When Ben Allen was 18, his older brother David pulled the pawn shop guitar out of the closet and showed his younger brother the few chords he knew. At the time, young Ben’s hobbies were more of the two-wheeled variety,......Read more

One thing you have to say about Blake Shelton: the guy likes to keep busy. We stole a peek at his to-do list. The first few items were as follows... Help plan wedding. Release new single. Do clever Super Bowl ad w/ Gwen.......Read more

When President Barack Obama gave his farewell address to the nation on January 10, 2017, he walked off the stage to a recording of Bruce Springsteen’s “Land of Hope and Dreams”. It was appropriate that Springsteen himself......Read more