One Offs

Gibson will be introducing its Les Paul Robot Guitar in December – the world’s first self-tuning guitar that even has six preset nonstandard tunings …

Researchers who looked at bestselling songs of different genres from 2005 found 37 percent of the top country tunes featured references to drugs or alcohol, compared with 14 percent of rock songs, according to HealthDay News …

Uncle Kracker, accused of getting into a scuffle with a woman in a North Carolina nightclub after allegedly putting his hand up her dress, says he struck the woman after she hit him but denies the sexual assault …

Britney Spears’ Blackout started off strong, debuting at No. 2 on Nielsen SoundScan’s top albums chart, then dropped 72 percent, selling 89,000 copies the next week …

Jon Bon Jovi got caught up in the rumor mill that he could one day run for governor of New Jersey, according to the New York Post – presumably only because he lives in Red Bank and because his PR contact is Ken Sunshine, who did press for ex-NYC Mayor David Dinkins …

The Nashville Predators were planning to announce a deal between Metro Nashville and investors who want to buy the team November 14th, but the announcement was called off at the last minute.