Radial Headload Guitar Amplifier Attenuator
The Headload is a guitar amplifier attenuator that allows the artist to reduce the volume levels on stage while driving the amp hard for the desired tone. The 100 percent…
Boss ME-80 Guitar Multi-Effects
The ME-80 Guitar Multiple Effects is a floor-based tone processor with a knob-driven interface for intuitive, stompbox-style control. Featuring a large selection of flagship-quality effects and COSM amps, eight multifunction…
Electro-Harmonix Lumberjack Logarithmic Overdrive
On a standard overdrive pedal, distortion goes up linearly in direct response to the guitarist’s volume and playing dynamics. EHX's new Lumberjack’s response is logarithmic and the change between two…
Music Nomad String Fuel
MusicNomad String Fuel allows guitar players to clean and lubricate their strings in one swipe. The ergonomically shaped device includes a dense wool pad impregnated with a blend of refined…
Kanile’a Islander GL6 ‘Guitarlele’
The Islander GL6 features an Acacia front, back, and sides; rosewood fretboard and bridge, and open chrome tuners and is outfitted with custom GL6 string set. It’s lightweight and portable…
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…
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…
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…
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…