Gibson Guitar, the world’s premier musical instrument manufacturer and home of the cherished Les Paul guitar model along with the Gibson Foundation has announced a very special tribute to the late, great Les Paul to be held at the historic Ryman Auditorium, former home to the Grand Ole Opry, in Nashville on Thursday, November 19, 2009. The tribute concert program will be free to the many fans of Les Paul and Gibson Guitar. Les Paul, the innovator and inventor who passed away at 94 years of age this past August was known throughout the world as the man who created multi-track recording and the father of the electric guitar. Many musicians pay homage to Les Paul and credit their careers and musicianship directly to him.

Slash was in the Gibson Guitar Showroom in Central London to announce the forthcoming European release of his debut solo album, “Slash”, which is scheduled for release Spring 2010. Slash is photographed with his signature Gibson Les Paul Standard Goldtop.

Gibson Guitar were proud supporters of “Helping The Heart of Music” a celebration marking the 75th Anniversary of the PRS for Music Members Benevolent Fund, held at the Royal Albert Hall in London. A host of stars performed on the famous Royal Albert Hall stage which saw a very special headline set by 70’s super group The Faces. The Faces were one of the best loved, most influential, British bands of all time. They evolved from the Small Faces in 1969 after Stevie Marriott left to form Humble Pie.

Friday night (Oct. 23) New Jersey natives and folk-punk rockers The Gaslight Anthem delivered a blistering set at Nashville’s Mercy Lounge. Opening their show with the song “High Lonesome,” singer Brian Fallon sent the capacity crowd into a frenzy with the Counting Crows quoted lyric “Maria came from Nashville with a suitcase in her hand.” Gaslight followed with about 18 more fist-pumping songs of blue-collar heartbreak, performing nearly every song from their critically acclaimed sophomore release The ’59 Sound.

Tim McGraw has launched his new album, Southern Voice, released on October 20, 2009, with a series of national television appearances. On Oct 12th he performed on "Late Show with David Letterman" and played an exclusive "Live on Letterman" webcast concert from the Ed Sullivan Theater and on Friday, October 16th, McGraw returned to the "Late Show" for a performance and an interview with Letterman.

Upcoming four-piece, Stereo Decade, will be embarking on a unique tour this October. Between Monday 19th and Friday 30th October they will visit Teenage Cancer Trust’s 10 units around the UK, playing acoustic gigs for the young patients during the day. By night they’ll be playing venues in each city including two special gigs at Manchester Hard Rock on 20th Oct supporting Jersey Budd, and Shepherds Bush Empire supporting The Rileys. Each gig will raise money for Teenage Cancer Trust.

Shortstack, the new Aussie Rock sensation, dropped into Channel 7's Sunrise national breakfast program last week to perform the brand new single.

A lot has been written about how singer-songwriter Butch Walker’s house burnt down in 2007’s California wildfires or how he’s co-written and produced songs with Avril Lavigne and Pink. As if these facts were the most compelling things about him. This level of interest is akin to asking Einstein why he wore his hair like that; sure, it’s interesting on some level but it won’t get you anywhere close to the theory of relativity.

Grammy Award-winning hard rock band Wolfmother was featured as the house band for the entire week on FUEL TV’s “The Daily Habit.” You can catch the footage here: www.fuel.tv/music.

The Gibson Amphitheater was home to the 2009 MTV Premios where stars from both American and Latin Entertainment came together for an exciting night of awards and performances.