Former Peavey designer joins Blackstar team
Blackstar Amplification has announced the addition of Paul Stevens to their team as the new senior design engineer. Stevens has worked in MI for nearly a quarter of a century,…
POLL RESULTS: Should MI brands diversify?
With some of the industry's heavyweight brands venturing outside of their core markets into consumer electronics and home audio, we asked whether such diversification was a good and perhaps necessary…
New agency beefs up Guild PR and marketing
Expect a PR and marketing assault from the continually rejuvenating Guild Guitars, which has just taken on Omelet as its first PR and marketing agency. “Guild is more than just…
SABIAN Announces 2015 PASIC Scholarship Winner
SABIAN congratulates Liam Robbins of St. Johns, Newfoundland, winner of the 2015 SABIAN/PASIC Scholarship. In his second year at Memorial University, the fluently-bilingual Robbins has won a number of academic…
Stevens Joins Blackstar as Senior Design Engineer
Blackstar Amplification has announced the addition of Paul Stevens to their team as the new senior design engineer. Stevens has worked in MI for nearly a quarter of a century,…
D'Addario and 92Y Launch New On-Demand Series
Since 2008 Benjamin Verdery has talked guitar with some of the instrument's finest players, as part of 92Y's celebrated Art of the Guitar concert series, which he directs. Now some…
D’Addario Launches Players Circle
D’Addario has just launched Players Circle, the only customer rewards program in the musical instrument accessories sphere. The online rewards program is the digital evolution of a concept Jim D’Addario,…
Chauvet Enlivens European Elvis Event
Elvis Presley has been gone for the best part of four decades, but his legend is very much still alive. As one of the most successful artists of all time,…
NEW POLL: Can manufacturing return from the Far East?
The news that Spanish guitar specialist Manuel Rodriguez is bringing back at least some of its production to its homeland, prompted us to ask whether the days of Chinese dominance of…
MIA Awards deadline tomorrow
Self-nominations for the MIA Awards close tomorrow, Friday 21st August. All categories can be entered via the Awards website at www.miamusicawards.com, apart from the Future Publishing ones, which need to be emailed to paulmc@mia.org.uk.Here are…
Timber Tones adds two to growing pick range
Timber Tones has added to its range of quirky tone-wood plectrums with two new new lines (totalling eight plectrums) which have been Laser etched on one side with four Images…
Manuel Rodriguez plans Spanish manufacturing increase
Spanish classical guitar specialist Manuel Rodriguez III has been telling CNN that he is bringing guitar production back from China to Spain. The eponymous boss told the US news network the…