Breaking industry news, announcements, and developments from across the music products world.
In late March, the NAMM Foundation recognized 623 school districts in 41 states as among the Best Communities for Music Education (BCME). Now in its 20th year, the program honors…
Make Music Day, the annual global celebration of music occurring on the summer solstice, returns this year on Friday, June 21 with over 5,000 free outdoor concerts, music lessons, jam…
While China continues to fight back against its slowing economy with significant tax cuts and ambitious growth targets, a number of the country’s markets are still drawing more and more…
The Arts and Sciences Auditorium on the campus of University of Wyoming (UW), or “U-Dub,” as insiders call it, recently installed a brand new L-Acoustics Kara sound system. UW’s new…
Coinciding with its 40th anniversary year, Genelec has recently announced the founding of the Genelec Dr. Ilpo Martikainen Audio Visionary Scholarship, offered annually to U.S. graduate students in the field of audio engineering who…
D’Addario is sponsoring Recycle and Restring events in music stores nationwide this April. Players are invited to bring friends, bandmates, and their old strings to participating dealers to recycle and…
Eric Clapton has announced the fifth installment of the Crossroads Guitar Festival, which will take place September 20 and 21 in Dallas, Texas. Clapton will gather the past, present and…
JBL Professional by Harman and UK distributor Sound Technology have launched the new Series 104 compact powered reference monitors. The monitors draw from seven decades of JBL Professional engineering to…
Native Instruments has launched Noire, a new Kontakt instrument that captures the signature grand piano sound of composer and pianist Nils Frahm. The instrument – which includes both pure and…
Framus has launched a new Devin Townsend custom shop seven string electric guitar. The Framus Stormbender 7 String is a Devin Townsend Masterbuilt Custom Shop Signature model is equipped with…
Solid State Logic and UK distributor Sound Technology have launched the SiX desktop mixer, for use in the studio, in post-production, on stage, and for podcasting. SiX offers big console…
Audio-Technica has extended its distribution partnership with Belgian installation audio manufacturer Apart Audio to include Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, to take effect from April 2019. Audio-Technica has…
