Author: Adam Harkus

  • A Musician’s Guide to Living and Touring Abroad in 2026 (Visas, Taxes, Golden Visas & CBI)

    Picture this: a mid-level touring act lands a 20-date European run, the biggest opportunity of their career. Three weeks before departure, the US O-1 visa renewal delays cascade, the European promoter gets cold feet, and the entire tour collapses. Not because the music wasn’t good enough. Because the paperwork wasn’t. In 2026, the musicians who… Read more

  • Best MLM Software 2025: Top Companies Compared & How to Choose the Right Platform

    By Kaminska Snizhana — Marketing Specialist, FlawlessMLM | July 11, 2025 I’ve spent the last three years analyzing over 400 MLM software deployments across 90 countries. In that time, I’ve watched companies waste six figures on the wrong platform — and I’ve watched others scale to 140,000 users on a system built from day one… Read more

  • Is Guitar Music Dead?

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    Have we lost interest in the real guitar heroes, and is guitar music as we know it dead? When was the last time you heard a decent guitar solo? Before you ask, is guitar music dead? Ask yourself this one. For me, the closest to anything approaching something ear-catching isn’t even a solo, it’s the… Read more

  • Epiphone Les Paul Junior Review: Love at Second Sight?

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    The Epiphone Les Paul Junior, and indeed the whole Inspired By Gibson Epiphone line-up looks impressive on paper. But does it live up to the hype? I’m going to split this review into two parts. Part one is my first impressions of the Epiphone Les Paul Junior back in 2020 when I picked it up… Read more

    Epiphone Les Paul Junior Review: Love at Second Sight?
  • Personalizing Your Guitar with Laser Engraving: What Every Player Should Know

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    By Marcus Webb Every guitarist eventually hits that moment where their instrument starts feeling less like “a guitar” and more like “my guitar.” Maybe you’ve swapped pickups, rewired the controls, or slapped a few stickers on the case. But there’s another route to making your axe truly one-of-a-kind that a lot of players haven’t fully… Read more

  • How to develop scales on the guitar

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    One of the first things to do when you want to master the jazz language is to learn scales and modes. You have to memorise the fingerings, memorise  their names, how they are built. You must be able to make the difference between different scales and modes as the major scale, the dorian mode, the… Read more