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Everyone hates moving, so when Nashville’s Corner Music decided it was time to move its thousands of SKUs from the literal corner location it’s occupied for the last 34 years,…
Dan Van Buskirk, a Vietnam War vet, had always been interested in learning how to play the guitar, but was concerned that his Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) might make…
Hey, modern music naysayers – Fender Guitars has some news for you. “We’ve got more interest in live and recorded music than at any time in history,” Fender CEO Andy…
Whirlwind (whirlwindusa.com), based in Rochester, New York, has been leading the audio interface industry for over 40 years, having built their well-earned reputation on offering some of the most rugged…
Many of you reading this editorial are either currently at or en route to the 2019 National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) Show in Anaheim, California. This year’s gathering is…
Imagine your key manager departed from your MI retail store, and sent out the following email to all his contacts: Dear Friends and Customers, Earlier this month, I resigned as…
Whenever the topic of customer service is discussed, I am unabashedly “old school.” I am one to believe that good service improves the way a person perceives your business and…
It’s January, the point in the year where retailers look both forward and back, trying to predict what’s coming while assessing what’s been. With the implicit caution that YMMV [Your…
We received the following from St. Louis Music (SLM) on Tuesday, January 22: It is with a heavy heart that we announce that Robert E. Lee, a 30 plus year…
Proamp and IQS Strings have shared the roster of artists performing at their booth at Winter NAMM in Anaheim, California this week. Federico Malaman, Andrew Gouche, Andrea Zaccari, Tom Quayle,…
The Amptweaker SwirlPool Jr Tremolo/Vibe pedal is the latest version of the SwirlPool, and has most of the same features shrunk down into a Jr-sized pedal platform. It uses the…
Amptweaker has launched a custom shop and also announced that pedal lovers can order fully custom Double Jr pedals. This system allows the player to choose any two of Amptweaker’s…
