Breaking industry news, announcements, and developments from across the music products world.
Sound Service European Music Distribution has acquired the exclusive distribution of Mogees for Germany and Austria. Mogees become established after a successful campaign on Kickstarter. It combines a vibration sensor…
Pentatonic Music Company will cover the whole country and sell a full range of Aquila products through its various distribution channels. www.aquilacorde.com
Guitar Center has announced Boulder, Colorado, native Kate Brady as the winner of the fifth annual Guitar Center Singer-Songwriter artist discovery program. As the winner, Brady will receive a career-boosting package including…
Acclaimed symphonic jazz composer and groundbreaking educator, David Baker, has passed away. With over 70 books and 65 recordings to his credit, Baker’s influence would already have been unquestioned, but…
Tune in to AT&T AUDIENCE Network for: “Ernie Ball: The Pursuit of Tone ‘Buddy Guy’” on Friday, March 25 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT (DIRECTV Ch 239/U-verse Ch 1114). Watch as…
Yamaha Corporation of America (YCA) has announced that Lisa Steele-MacDonald has been appointed as the company’s director of marketing for the Band & Orchestral division. She reports to Garth Gilman,…
Sam Ash Music has had its biggest Taylor Guitar University in the company’s history. 40 members of the Ash team including eight of the regional managers plus EVP Howie Mendelson, National…
Gibson Brands has put its 1.62-acre real estate portfolio near downtown Nashville up for sale. According to The Tennessean, commercial real estate firm CBRE is handling the listing, which includes 1.12 acres…
Sweetwater has filed suit in United States Federal District Court against Hello Music, for copying verbatim a large number of images and copy blocks from Sweetwater’s online pages. According to…
Drum Workshop has inked a deal for worldwide distribution, marketing and artist relations for KickPort International products. DW will take over operations for the line, while manufacturing arrangements will remain…
Long-standing Macclesfield independent Margin Music, has admitted it may not not be around for much longer. The shop has been open for 30 years, but owner Mary Kirkpatrick fears rising costs…
In the first part of this article, we looked at simple personal monitor mixing systems (PMMs for short) that let musicians hear themselves better. Now, we’ll examine the plethora of modular,…
