Dealer news, store openings, sales trends, and business strategies for music retailers.
[caption id="attachment_76086" align="alignleft" width="460"] Andy Schlosser[/caption] Cardinal Percussion, official U.S. distributor of multiple prestigious drum/percussion brands and owner of Attack Drumheads, Wuhan Cymbals & Gongs, Lug Lock drum accessories, and…
Ashdown Engineering announces the appointment of Filling Distribution, a French-based, pan-European distributor of musical instruments, to handle its retail strategy across Europe. A new beginning for Ashdown, the appointment means…
The Audio Engineering Society is pleased to welcome Sean Martin to the staff as AES international sales manager, underscoring AES’s momentum as industry recovery begins to allow events and business…
The team at the Framus Custom Shop in Markneukirchen, Germany presents another signature model for Wolf Hoffmann and shows what German guitar making is capable of. The WH-1 Bionic Snake…
Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) and the Fender Custom Shop have announced the Limited Edition Mike McCready 1960 Stratocaster® in the artist’s first-time collaboration with the iconic guitar brand. The…
[caption id="attachment_75700" align="alignnone" width="460"] Young musician in wheelchair playing synthesizer at home[/caption] At the risk of repeating ourselves, there’s only so much time a person can spend binge-watching television or…
[caption id="attachment_75680" align="alignnone" width="460"] Abstract shot of a DJ using a digital controller[/caption] It’ll probably come as a surprise to nobody that the majority (93.3 percent) of those who participated…
Music connects communities! Just about everyone would agree with that in the abstract. All playlists are, after all, filled with songs that have an undeniable power to cross boundaries and…
[caption id="attachment_75284" align="alignleft" width="460"] Students from Upperman High School in Baxter, TN, holding their new guitars, the result of a grant from the Guitar Center Music Foundation, who drew from…
Despite – or, perhaps, because of – the pandemic and related lockdowns et cetera, many dealers and suppliers of fretted instruments (including ukuleles) reported very robust sales in 2020. What…
Lugging your guitar to lessons, practices, shows, or the studio requires a sturdy and reliable conveyance. While many of those activities listed have been limited or put on indefinite hold…
Much of the story of a life can be told in music. The songs that lift the spirit in joy and comfort it in sorrow, resonate through the years that…
