【Guitar Photo Exhibition That Pierces the Soul Makes a Permanent Home in Miami! Get Pierced by the Smile of Sister Rosetta Tharpe at the Gibson Gallery】 Pouring a glass of cheap bourbon in the dead of night, dropping the needle onto an old record. The scent of warm amplifier vacuum tubes and a slightly dusty blues melody—this alone should have completed a man's night. But a piece of news arriving all the way from Miami has set my nearly withered heart ablaze. The prestigious Gibson is opening a permanent art gallery inside "Gibson Garage Miami" on September 10, 2026. Titled 'Amplified: Icons Of Music Through The Lens', the inaugural exhibition will feature over 30 iconic photographs capturing music legends through the lens. Released as a symbol of this is a shot of Sister Rosetta Tharpe taken in 1957. It's a picture of her grinning ear-to-ear, cradling a Gibson SG... no, that white, three-pickup beloved machine known back then as a Les Paul Custom. Honestly, the moment I saw this photo alone in my room late at night, I accidentally dropped my glass and stained the carpet with booze. If my wife finds out, it's grounds for her yelling, "What are you doing alone in the middle of the night again?", but I'd love to drown out even that angry voice with her distortion-laced gospel blues. …

【【BREAKING】The "Witch" from the Black Sabbath Cover Drops an AI Rock Opera After 50 Years!? Autumn's Blasting Metal Frenzy News】 Hey, hey, hey! All you headbangers out there, are your ears still ringing nicely!? I'm Johnny Thunderstone, the blasting shock-trooper of JOCOLLA Music News! Today started out with that usual, perfectly healthy, rock-and-roll routine of waking up to a roar loud enough to shove my head straight into a wall of Marshall stacks, then opening the closet to find nothing but black band tees (all with the frontman's face worn down so much you can't even tell who it is). I recently bought yet another distortion pedal, only to be hit with that ice-cold family glare of, "You’ve got the exact same distortion on your board three times, you know," but this mind-blowing news straight from around the globe just blew all that domestic discord right out of the window! Open your ears wide, crank that volume knob up to 11, and listen up! …

【My hips are swinging on their own and I can't get any work done! Bathe your soul in the groove at the birthday celebration of immortal soul titan Otis Redding!】 Hey everyone, how's it going? Still diving deep into a sea of beats tonight? It's Funky Dave Monroe, your resident funk and soul groove addict! Out of nowhere, I have a confession to make. Right now, as I type on my keyboard, I'm grinding my hips intensely. The cafe staff are giving me extremely suspicious looks like, "Isn't the amplitude of that guy's fidgeting a bit abnormal?", but I can't stop. There's no way I'm stopping! That's because September 9th is the birthday of the legendary soul singer the earth is proud of—**Otis Redding**, otherwise known as "Big O"!…

[Roaring Amps and Weeping Pickings! The Night Eric Steckel's New Album 'Sandstorm' Knocked a Middle-Aged Guitarist Off His Feet] Late at night, sipping cheap bourbon, I sometimes wonder: when did the volume of the world's guitars become so "well-behaved"? Digital amps connected to headphone jacks out of fear of disturbing the neighbors. Clever simulators lined up on pedalboards. Of course they're convenient. I don't have the hobby of blasting a Marshall full stack at midnight and having the landlord call the cops on me (though if it's about the time I had to write an apology letter once, that's a different story). But we creatures addicted to the blues will have our joints dry out and squeak unless we occasionally bathe in the raw, stomach-punching roar of a real amp. There is a man who unleashed a fierce sandstorm upon just such a parched, desert-like heart. He is the American blues-rock guitarist, Eric Steckel. Released via SPV Recordings, his new album 'Sandstorm' is simply irresistible. …

[Celebrating 70 Years of the Beastly Drummer to Clapton’s Half-Century Comeback! Blasting Legends Prove That "Rock Has No Retirement"!] Hey hey hey, how’s it going with you and your best friend, the eternal distortion known as ringing ears!? It's your writer Johnny Thunderstone! Ever since my ENT doctor screamed at me to "get away from the amplifier," well over a decade has passed, and 90% of my dresser is still packed with black band tees! To all you rock kids who scream in your hearts every time you fold laundry, "They might all look the same to mom, but they're different!", are you ready?! If you flip through the calendar where the gods of heavy metal and hard rock reside, today's fierce history is getting our blood pumping all over again. Take a trip around the news and you'll see graying legends still blasting ear-splitting noise right on the front lines. Today, I'm gonna slam you with some piping-hot topics that’ll make you want to headbang until your neck bones crack! --- …

【Your Hips Will Step on Their Own! Hayley Williams Uncorks a "Treasure Trove of Groove" and Triggers a Floor-Killing Rare Track Fest on Her New Tour's Opening Night】 Hey! What's up, funk junkies and beat addicts of the universe? Still selling your soul to the bassline and busting out mysterious dance steps every time you get stuck at a red light? Well, the author here literally just experienced the internal funk halting right in front of a convenience store register, almost sending a pack of silken tofu flying onto the floor with a funky flick of the wrist! Safe! The tofu is fine! Anyway, an agitated author is currently clacking away at the keyboard in a frantic 16-beat rhythm, on the verge of fainting, because some blockbuster news just dropped! Hayley Williams, the frontwoman of Paramore and queen of all earthly steps, has gone and done it! Right on local time, she kicked off her brand-new solo tour, "The Hayley Williams Show," in Palm Beach, Florida, in glorious fashion! She breathed exquisite new life into long-sealed tracks from her past, instantly dropping a funk bomb in the form of live debuts, which is just too much to handle! …

【Haunted by the ghost of Jimmy Page, youth, gather for the 12-bar! Rozedale guitarist Charlie Fabert talks about the future of blues-rock】 Pouring a cheap bourbon into a glass late at night, I drop the needle onto an old blues record. Just listening to the "hiss" of hum noise leaking from the amp feels like it melts away a little bit of the daily sediment pooling in my stomach. The world is overflowing with fast-tempo programmed beats, but the heartbeat of this old guy beats around 70 BPM, moving only in sync with the pentatonic scale. News that smells like top-shelf smoke drifted in to me, a self-admitted dinosaur. Charlie Fabert, the talented guitarist of the French band Rozedale, appeared on "The Blues Rock Show," the flagship interview program of music media outlet Blues Rock Review, where he passionately discussed his guitar journey, his idol Jimmy Page, and the difficult challenge of "how to draw young listeners into blues-rock." A young talent worrying about the gritty future of the blues while bathing in a French breeze. Well, I guess I'll just have to refill my glass and listen closely. …

[Loud roars that make your ears rejoice, a must-listen news for all metalheads! From Spiritbox dropping a new track to the re-evaluation of Yngwie Malmsteen, all the way to pitch-black doom by former Type O Negative members, a massive earthquake!] Hey hey hey, do you have enough icing patches for your neck!? It's your resident rock-idiot writer Johnny Thunderstone! I'm sure I'm not the only one who mistook the swaying of this morning's packed train for a sign of a Wall of Death, and braced myself while gripping the strap. To all my beloved headbangers who use the high-pitched "ringing" of their tinnitus as a substitute for standard 440Hz A-note tuning, I am once again delivering top-tier news that will send adrenaline straight through your veins! --- …

[Hips That Just Won't Quit! A Deep-Groove Urgent Dispatch for All Humanity—From a Tribute to Indomitable Drum Beats to Underground Exploding Percussion] Hey-hey-hey! How are you doing, funky soulmates across the universe? It's Funky Dave Monroe! This is just your writer, who once again mindlessly started tapping out a 16-beat offbeat back-beat to the electronic "cha-la-la-la-la" chime at the supermarket self-checkout, making the clerk seriously look at me and ask, "Sir, are you okay?" Look, it's not my fault, okay? My right foot and hips just automatically start pumping out snares and ghost notes! Fresh, red-hot, unmissable news has arrived from all over the world to shake the hearts of us beat-addicts. There are moments of quiet sorrow, and moments where a wall of sound threatens to rip your head right off your shoulders. But they all share just one thing—a "beat" that makes your soul shake! So clean out your ears and let's check it out with some funk! …

[Will the floor collapse or will we go to heaven? The gritty, "living blues" soul defended by Sean “Bad” Apple] Pouring cheap bourbon down my throat late at night, I sometimes find myself wondering: where exactly did my life go wrong to turn me into this melancholy, blues-addicted old guy? Yet, out there in the world is a lovable man even more hopelessly possessed by this troublesome music than I am, someone actually running himself ragged trying to "save the blues." His name is Sean “Bad” Apple. He’s the guy who emerged from a small country town in Pennsylvania and keeps on making gritty, authentic sounds at his own joint, the Bad Apple Blues Club. ### The night the building swayed sideways—that was the place closest to heaven …