Breaking industry news, announcements, and developments from across the music products world.
The role of the signature artist-model guitar in MI retail has changed along with the culture of the guitar. For years, the artist’s name was the main or even the…
Born out of a retail and repair shop founded by John Packer in England in 1974, John Packer Ltd. is now a worldwide-force in the design and manufacture of brass…
The widely reported decline in electric guitar sales has been attributed to a number of things, from how the hyper-masculine image that electric guitars have projected since the 1980s has…
In Victoria Wasylak’s excellent profile of Lexington, Massachusetts’ guitar dealer, The Music Emporium (page 64), co-owner Joe Caruso says of the Boston areas’ Guitar Center locations: “They didn’t put us…
Making financial decisions has never been easy for business owners. When given a choice, the tyranny of the urgent usually wins over the severity of the important. Imagine there are…
Heil Sound has announced the appointment of Jerry Lynch as U.S. sales manager. A long-time employee of Heil Sound, Jerry will be responsible for all matters related to daily as well…
Italia Guitars has unveiled a number of new models including a new addition to the popular Jeffrey Foskett Signature Series of electric guitars - the Italia JFQ. Available in Two-Tone…
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Music festivals Wet Electric and Band Splash recently used a versatile lighting rig supplied by Creative BackStage that featured CHAUVET Professional Maverick, Rogue, and STRIKE fixtures. “We designed the rig…
On Monday, May 21, 2018, the D'Addario Foundation hosted the Long Island Lesson Program's end-of-year recital at the D'Addario & Co Factory in Farmingdale, New York. Through the newly founded…
JHS has launched a Beginner Bundle for plastic trombone range, pBone. Distributed exclusively in the UK and ROI by JHS, pBone Beginner Bundles include a black padded bag, made from rip-resistant fabric with GripEZE handles…
Pigtronix has brought back its Philosopher's Tone series of custom shop compressor/sustainer/distortion effects pedals in micro form, as the Philosopher's Tone Germanium Gold Micro. Distributed ub the UK by JHS, the pedal takes…
