Breaking industry news, announcements, and developments from across the music products world.
“Overall, the Fly-In was memorable on several levels,” notes NAMM Foundation executive director, Mary Luehrsen, regarding this year’s trip to Washington D.C. “We were thrilled with the number of new…
The annual meeting of the Music Publishers Association (MPA) took place in New York City on Friday, June 19th. A highlight of the day’s events included the presentation of awards.…
Strengthening a percussion portfolio that already includes Gibraltar, Latin Percussion, Remo, Toca, Vater, and Vic Firth, KMC Music (www.kmcmusic.com) has announced that it has been appointed to serve as the…
As a music education advocate and strategist, I find the spring school budget season my most worrisome time of the year, because this is when districts lay out budget proposals…
We’ve talked about the return to the notion of craft in this space. Whether it’s beer or cupcakes or bacon, or Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000 hours that musicians have been taking…
“It’s varied over time, but right now our typical customer is, in fact, a music student taking band or orchestra in school and the parents thereof,” explains Bronstein Music’s Rich…
There’s a famous saying by Alexander Graham Bell – “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we…
JHS has made major strides internationally with its Vintage and Fret King brands, appointing a US distributor in the form of RBI Music in Texas. The firm is now the official…
Fast-expanding Rosetti continues to add to its growing distribution line-up, bringing Ritter bags into the fold across the UK and Ireland. Ritter produces bags for a variety of instruments including…
Beginning on July 20 at the Sam Ash location in Canoga Park, California, guitarist, composer and author Jennifer Batten will embark on a 26-city tour that includes a full demonstration…
The new MOD102+ kit expands on the same all analog vacuum tube classic American circuit design combined with a British style Class A output section as the Original MOD102 with…
Jensen Musical Instrument Speakers has announced a new addition to the Jensen Jet series, the 12” Nighthawk. The Nighthawk’s sound is warm, smooth and open with strong, throaty note definition which is complemented…
