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NAMM 2025 live report: rolling news from the world's biggest music-making gear show
By MusicRadar Team last updated
All the hottest new guitars, synths, drums and other gear as it's announced
NAMM 2025: Harley Benton’s dual humbucker S-style is here – it’s not just Blink fans who’ll love it
By Jonathan Horsley published
First impressions? Blink-182 fans are going to love it but with two humbuckers, splittable coils and stainless steel frets it is a very different beast to Tom DeLonge’s single-pickup powerhouse
NAMM 2025: StudioLogic’s new SL mk2 MIDI keyboards promise tight control of both the Numa Player 2 software and your favourite DAW
By Daniel Griffiths published
Another step forward for hardware/software integration?
“I used it to show people that the way they were portraying me wasn’t breaking me”: How Taylor Swift created a self-empowering pop classic
By Neil Crossley published
"I had more fun writing it than any song I’d written before”
Melbourne Instruments' new desktop device could revolutionise studio software and hardware control
By Andy Jones published
ROTO Control is cool, compact, and uses motorised controllers to tame your gear and plugins
NAMM 2025: Gibson launches 1955 NAMM Commemorative Edition Les Paul in five custom-colours
By Jonathan Horsley published
Thanks to Joe Bonamassa, you'll all be familiar with Copper Iridescent, but how about a P-90 loaded Custom Shop LP in Samoa Beige, Nugget Gold, Viceroy Brown and Platinum?
NAMM 2025: Roland V-Stage serves up legendary, pro-keyboard sounds in two new premium-priced packages
By Daniel Griffiths published
We get up close – on video – with Roland's two new live performance powerhouses
Behringer's BX1 synth might well be the biggest surprise of NAMM 2025
By Andy Jones published
The biggest surprise is how much it adds to the original
Hands-on with Korg's first ever synth as it comes back to life as the MiniKorg 700Sm
By Daniel Griffiths published
Live from the NAMM show 2025 we get a guided tour of Korg's latest fan-pleasing mini-fication
NAMM 2025: “I’ve honestly never felt a smoother neck in my life”: Cory Wong feels the humbucker heat as the funk guitar virtuoso and Ernie Ball Music Man team up for StingRay II and StingRay II Deluxe
By Jonathan Horsley published
Wong is still a paid-up member of the Stratocaster club but says he has been on the hunt for humbucker-equipped guitar for years and this is the one
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