Fargen Amplification Announces Relaunch of Custom Shop with Accessories and Hot Mods
Fargen Amplification recently announced an expansion of its Custom Shop, including new Hot Mods Do-It-Yourself (DIY) kits, and a high-end guitar accessories line. Fargen has designed and performed many amplifier modifications…
Reverend Horton Heat Endorses Radial
Jim Heath, aka Reverend Horton Heat.Almost 3 decades ago, Jim Heath was the sound guy for a couple of venues in Dallas, Texas. Then, one propitious night he stepped on…
Reunion Blues Welcomes Duff McKagan’s ‘Loaded’ To Artist Line-Up
Duff McKagan credit Fab FernandezGig bag and instrument case maker Reunion Blues officially welcomed Duff McKagan’s Loaded to their growing family of artists. Led by former Guns N’ Roses bassist…
Hot Licks Guitar Shop Raises Thousands to Combat Breast Cancer
Hot Lick’s Co-Owner Cyn McDermott (center) with the Mike Starkey Band, which performed at their blues fundraiser.Hot Licks Guitar Shop of Waldorf, MD, held a fundraiser for Susan G. Komen…
Workers at Vegas GC Vote to Unionize
On Friday, November 1, employees at a Las Vegas Guitar Center store voted 15 to 5 in favor of unionization. If the federal labor board ratifies the election, this would…
Korg USA Expands Sales Force in Canada
Korg USA has expanded its sales force to be able to provide the same premium service to Canadian retailers as it does in the U.S. market. Joining existing West Coast…
GAMA Joins MEPR
The members of GAMA have decided to join the Music Education Policy Roundtable (MEPR), which advocates to make music education a key focal point and discussion topic among elected officials…
New Trends in Consumer Showrooming Habits
It’s probably been years since you first noticed customers wandering through your aisles with their eyes fixed on their smartphone, checking out alternate offers for merch that’s sitting right there…
MI SalesTrak Celebrates 10th Anniversary
Jim Hirschberg of SalesTrakBefore Clark Johnson and Jim Hirschberg brought the practice of using objective retail sales data to the MI industry, decisions were ultimately just guesswork. But 10 years…
Drum Dealers Take a Beatdown
MMR recently sent out a survey to over 1,000 subscribers to get some feedback on the state of the drum and percussion retail market and… the results are not pretty.…
Drum Center of Portsmouth
Shane Kinney is the owner of Drum Center of Portsmouth."The boutique area is our main focus, and that’s where we do a lot of our business,” Shane Kinney says of…
Gene Joly of Musician’s Friend
Gene Joly.In early September, Gene Joly – previously Guitar Center’s executive vice president of stores – was named president of GC’s Musician’s Friend (MF) division. In the short weeks since,…