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The bands you need to see at Mad Cool 2025
From Weezer to PVRIS to Refused and beyond... here are our picks of the bands you need to see at Mad Cool this year. It's gonna be a hot one!
The Youtube guitar hero really goes IN on it.
Remember last year when we got very excited about the existence of a 17 string guitar that Jared Hines had had made?
Turns out there was a fair amount of internet drama that came of that: Dines paid $1200 to a guy by the name of Nicholas Olson of Olson Guitarworks for a 17-string guitar. Olson then ordered the guitar from a luthier in China called Musoo Guitars, for a just $400. The internet KICKED OFF and everyone got mad at everyone, it was a whole thing.
Turns out Jared Hines didn't take it that well either: