Breaking industry news, announcements, and developments from across the music products world.
String maker, GHS Corporation has appointed Gold Music SRL as its new distributor in Italy for GHS Strings and Accessories and Rocktron Guitar products. Since 2001 Gold Music has grown rapidly expanding the brands it…
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Celestion will be a sponsor of the second annual John Petrucci’s Guitar Universe, a four-day and night summer shred event to be held August 6 to 10 2018 at the Glen Cove Mansion…
From April 17 through 19, Dayton Public Schools (DPS) celebrated the rebirth of its long-dormant instrumental music program, with Yamaha Corporation of America on hand to help make it happen.…
Music & Arts has announced the opening of their 166th location in the U.S. with the acquisition of DND Music in Chesapeake, Virginia. DND Music has served the community as a…
St. Louis Music (SLM) has announced the winners of its Q1 “Spend $1000 Win $1000” promotion. Launched in January, the "Spend $1000 Win $1000" promotion rewarded dealers that spent $1000…
This issue’s dealer poll – sent to just over 300 MI retailers – on the topic of hollow body electric guitars provided both some expected results, as well as a…
Opinions differ wildly, depending on who you speak to as to the relative success of this year’s Musikmesse gathering in Frankfurt. But while it’s inarguable that exhibitor numbers were down,…
In the 16-plus years I’ve been on staff at MMR there have been periodic rumors of Guitar Center’s imminent demise. Some of the reports and predictions have seemed more credible…
At CMC we talk obsessively, but we don’t always talk exclusively about music. Sometimes, out of a random discussion, a pearl of wisdom will grace a conversation, and so the…
Hindsight is usually more revealing than foresight, so when I reread a listing of topics I wanted to explore in my November debut 2017 MMR column, I was surprised to…
Art and commerce have been uneasy bedfellows for centuries, and it hasn’t been getting any easier lately. The great composers of the classical era had to balance following their muse…
