Guitar Center is excited to announce the Drum-Off Grand Finals will take place on January 5, 2008 at the Music Box @ Fonda in Hollywood, CA. Now in it's 19th year, Drum-Off continues to bring together thousands of the nation's top undiscovered drummers for the chance to compete for incredible prizes, national recognition and the bragging rights of being crowned Drum-Off Champion.

Orange County punk rock legends The Vandals will once again take their act to the theater of war next month as they head to Southern Asia to play for the armed forces troops deployed in Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.