LM Releases Cabin Fever Series Straps
LM “Cabin Fever” straps feature comfortable plaid flannel on one side with leather on the other, making for a stylish reversible strap. No wood fire needed.lmstraps.com
PMC International Drum Month Programs
The Percussion Marketing Council (PMC) is encouraging want-to-be drummers to visit their local participating music retailer during International Drum Month (May 2014) to get a free bag of cool stuff…
Celebrate Make Music Day on June 21
Make Music Day presents the industry with an ideal opportunity to create more music makers and reach new customers. Held on June 21st, Make Music Day is part of the…
Korg USA Key Note Awards
Korg USA has announced the winners of its 2013 Korg USA Key Note Awards. As part of the company’s ongoing commitment to encourage and support its dealer network, this annual…
Ashly Audio Appoints Van Der Logt as New Sales Manager
Spurred by growing demand in foreign markets, Ashly Audio has appointed industry veteran Mike van der Logt of 4M4You, to serve as its sales manager for Europe, the Middle East,…
Gruhn Guitars Offers Earliest Known Strat
Gruhn Guitars currently has for sale what is being described as the earliest known 1954 Fender Stratocaster (serial number 0100) with original “poodle” style hard case for $250,000. This is an…
GC Responds to Reports of Ares Management Takeover from Bain
In a February 28, 2014 article in The Wall Street Journal, the publication reported that, “Ares Management LLC, which owns the majority of the music retailer's debt, is in advanced…
7 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Workforce (Or, How to Treat Employees Like a Band)
Having employee headaches? Think things aren’t running quite as well as they should, but you can’t quite put your finger on what’s wrong? Maybe looking at your team in a…
It’s Enough to Make You Wanna Uke
What a lot of noise – literal and figurative – from such a tiny instrument! Within the pages of MMR and elsewhere throughout the MI industry, one of the hot…
Guitars Get Wired
The future once looked like a high tech playground for computer engineers and quick-witted space travelers. Spock and Chekov commanded spaceships with obscure, touch-sensitive control panels and NASA scientists navigated…
Craze May Be Over, But Uke Sales Are Still Going Strong
From “Tiny Bubbles” to “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” to “Hey, Soul Sister,” the ukulele has been a mainstay in American popular music for decades. The recent ukulele resurgence was fueled…
Takuya Nakata, President of Yamaha Corporation
In May of 2013, Takuya “Tak” Nakata succeeded Mitsuru Umemura as president and representative director of Yamaha Corporation, Japan. Since 2010 Nakata had held the reigns of Yamaha Corporation of…