Beyonce and Taylor Swift may have been the big winners at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, taking home most of the night’s big prizes, but several Gibson acts also triumphed at the marathon ceremony.

Steven Tyler’s representatives are stepping up their efforts to prevent the other members of Aerosmith from recruiting a new singer, according to a report by Billboard.

Paramore will kick off a spring tour on April 26 in Knoxville, Tennessee. The 13-date trek will see the band hitting select cities across the country with a stop at the Bamboozle Festival at the Meadowlands in New Jersey on May 1 before wrapping up on May 16 at the Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

Zakk Wylde and the spirit of Les Paul came together in superb fashion this past Monday night at Manhattan’s Iridium jazz club — the venue where the late great Paul performed a weekly show with his Trio right up until the time of his death.

In the March issue of Guitar Edge, Alice in Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell and vocalist William DuVall open up about their favorite guitars (Les Pauls!), their tone secrets and the first Alice in Chains album since the death of lead singer Layne Staley in 2002.

The Black Eyed Peas’ Will.i.am told Billboard this week that he and Slash have paired to remix a version of the classic Who song “My Generation.” All proceeds from the song, to be played during Super Bowl XLIV on Feb. 7, will benefit the earthquake relief efforts in Haiti.

Dental records have confirmed that the human remains discovered Tuesday in a Charlottesville, VA hayfield are those of Morgan Harrington, a Virginia Tech student who went missing during a Metallica concert on Oct. 17, 2009.

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Gibson Guitar Corp. is one of many manufacturers and organizations in the Musical Instrument Industry that has been named a party to approximately 30 lawsuits that claim they conspired to artificially increase and fix the prices of musical instruments. These lawsuits stemmed from an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission that lasted several years and was not pursued by the FTC after they concluded the investigation.

Though System Of A Down bassist Shavo Odadjian recently hinted that the band might soon reunite (Tweeting, “Are u guys ready for System?” on Jan. 11), frontman Serj Tankian snuffed out those rumors during a recent Billboard interview.