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Jacob Collier
Jacob Collier says that the problem with using AI for music making is that “it’s almost too perfect”

By Ben Rogerson Published

“It can't learn a perspective or a sense of humour or an attitude,” he argues

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The legendary luthier Ken Parker in his workshop with one of his groundbreaking archtop designs.
Ken Parker, the visionary luthier behind the Parker Fly, has died, aged 73

By Jonathan Horsley Published

Parker was one of guitar designs great radicals, whose legendary electric, the Parker Fly, became a '90s classic, famously played by the likes of Joni Mitchell, Adrian Belew, David Lynch and more

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Mikael Åkerfeldt with his Martin OM Signature model, playing a few notes with trees in the background.
Mikael Åkerfeldt has played Cobain’s D-18 and holy grail acoustics from the Martin museum but says his new OM beats the lot

By Jonathan Horsley Published

Limited to 74 instruments worldwide, the Opeth frontman's signature model has a truly exquisite three-piece back of Guatemalan rosewood with an East Indian rosewood wedge

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Jacob Collier
Using his signature ‘DAEAD’ tuning, Jacob Collier recorded a 5-string acoustic guitar album in just four days

By Ben Rogerson Published

"I had to work so fast that I couldn’t second-guess anything - I just had to roll with and trust the process," he says

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The new Gibson Murphy Lab Light Aged Acoustics released on 9 September 2025, all lined up in a wood-panneled show room with round windows and a rural landscape outside.
Gibson expands acoustic Murphy Lab collection with five Light Aged classics – including a Nick Lucas 1929 reissue

By Jonathan Horsley Published

Gibson's newest Murphy Lab arrivals include a 1963 Dove, a 1955 J-45, pre and post-war SJ-200s, and a Nick Lucas Special from 1929 in Argentine Grey

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The Epiphone Inspired by Gibson Custom Hummingbird photographed in all its glory, in close-up and against a wheat-coloured rug.
“One of the handsomest guitars around, it plays great, and punches well above its weight in the tone stakes”: Epiphone Inspired By Gibson Custom Hummingbird Deluxe EC review

By Neville Marten Published

Epiphone collaborates with Gibson Custom to come up with one of its tastiest acoustics yet

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Gibson Custom SJ-200 Monarch #100: this stunning one-of-one jumbo is replete with all kinds of rococo flourishes, from the diamond and gold crown inlay on the headstock, to the 14k gold rope binding, Gibson calls it the "ultimate custom" acoustic and not without some justification.
Gibson gives the “King of the Flat-Tops” a whole new meaning with the $99,999 SJ-200 Monarch #100

By Jonathan Horsley Published

Gibson just made its 100th Monarch and this one-of-one jumbo has real gold binding and hardware, actual diamonds, and it might just be the most opulent acoustic guitar it – or anyone – has made

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“We have a business need to become more efficient”: Redundancies loom at struggling acoustic firm

By Will Simpson Published

But MD says “no decisions have been made”

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Epiphone Inspired By Gibson Custom 2025: two men play a board game whole two others jam on Dove and J-45 acoustic guitars
Epiphone resurrects a 1963 Dove and five classic acoustics with help from the Gibson Custom Shop

By Jonathan Horsley Published

Epiphone's partnership with the Gibson Custom Shop just gets better as it adds a Dove, a pair of Hummingbirds, two stunning SJ-200s and a Banner-era J-45 to its Inspired By Gibson Custom series

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Steven Wilson performs live onstage with his custom shop Fender Telecaster. The stage is illuminated in green stage lights.
Steven Wilson reveals the $20 plugin he used on all the guitars on his new space rock epic

By Jonathan Horsley Published

And it turns out it is the same affordable plugin Finneas used on Billie Eilish’s Barbie track, What Was I Made For?

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