POLL: What now for trade shows?
With costs increasing every year, while other forms of marketing get cheaper and easier, are the days of the big international trade show over? Musikmesse is now largely a consumer…
NAMM Foundation gives out international grants
The NAMM Foundation has announced it will invest $600,000 in funding to 17 music-making programs this year, including four international grants. This year’s list of grant recipients includes community, national and…
Summer NAMM Empowers Industry with 35 Educational Sessions
Summer NAMM provides the ultimate educational experience on what’s working right now in music retail—brick-and-mortar, online and multichannel—July 9-11 in Nashville. NAMM U has curated 35 sessions to help music…
TEC Tracks Amplifies Pro Audio’s Presence at Summer NAMM
TEC Tracks, educational sessions designed to empower the growing audio, production and recording markets, will debut at Summer NAMM in Nashville on July 9-11, 2015. Stationed next to the NAMM…
2015 NAMM Musikmesse Russia and Prolight + Sound NAMM Russia
Russia’s only international music-trade exhibition and its biggest international trade fair for event production technology expands product platforms and professional development opportunities as the show returns to Moscow’s Sokolniki Exhibition…
2015 NASMD Convention – STEAM, not STEM
It's great to see so many familiar faces each year,” says outgoing NASMD president George Quinlan, Jr. “Almost like a family reunion for many of us! We also saw many…
Why Trade Shows Matter
In the summer of 2013 the Music Industries Association of Canada (MIAC) canceled its scheduled September trade show and closed its doors. A forty-one year old fraternity of musical instrument…
NAMM Standards: Setting the Standard – Literally!
Adopting, adapting to, and competing with online commerce has been one of the major hurdles facing traditional brick–and–mortar retailers since the ‘90s. The NAMM Standards committee is comprised of a…
2015 NAMM Top 100 Dealer Awards
NAMM invites music product retailers worldwide to stand up and take a bow as the fifth annual Top 100 Dealer Awards nominations open. Retailers can now enter in seven “Best…
2015 NAMM Best & Worst of Show Awards
Best Intimate Musical GatheringTo say that MMR president/publisher Terry Lowe enjoyed Wednesday night’s D’Addario-hosted Jackson Browne performance at L.A.’s Swing House Studios might be an understatement: “Simply fantastic. To see…
Eight new NAMM Board Members Elected
At its Annual Meeting of Members, held January 24 in Anaheim, NAMM named eight new music industry professionals to its board of directors. The NAMM Board provides leadership, counsel and…
Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak at NAMM Breakfast
Saturday morning at the Anaheim Hilton, Pacific Ballroom. The lights go out. A clip of The Big Bang Theory, Season 4, Episode 65, begins playing on every screen in the…