Gibson Brands Sponsor the Institute Guitar Scholarship
The Institute of Contemporary Music Performance has announced that Gibson Brands will be sponsoring two of eight scholarships available for students hoping to join its intensive one year Higher Diploma…
Green Guitars
At the end of the day, people will buy an instrument because it sounds good and performs well,” says Blackbird Guitars founder Joseph Luttwak. That’s the challenge facing a wide…
The New Face of Boutique
In a market like today’s guitar industry, sometimes starting small can be a newcomer’s best move. Seattle musician and guitar collector Frank Gross opened his boutique, Thunder Road Guitars, with…
Gibson’s ‘Government Series’ Commemorates Fed’s Raids
As presumably most everyone in the industry knows, back in August of 2011, agents from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service confiscated wood from Gibson's Tennessee facilities – the second…
Playing Guitar is for the Birds
An… unusual new art and sound exhibit at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem (Mass.) features 70 zebra finches "playing" fourteen Gibson guitars and electric basses set up around a…
Wrong Direction? Sorry, Chief – No Direction Yet
One Direction for the MI industry?Last January, MMR’s longtime publisher Sid Davis wrote in his editorial column about the floppy-haired moppets in One Direction, the Simon Cowell-created boy band phenomenon.…
Ken Stanton Music Celebrates 65th Anniversary
Zack and Kenny Stanton of Ken Stanton’s Music. In the mid 1990s, the MARS superstores were opening at a fast and frantic pace, causing some independent dealers to close up…
21st Annual Dealers’ Choice Awards
While 2012 seemed to possibly be ushering in a new era, as Yamaha’s AvantGrand was the top vote-getter in the “Product of the Year” category after first ending the previous…
#50DEALERS – WYOMING: Mammoth Music
Mammoth Music Riverton Bernard Masson, Owner Business this year: Up significantly. New brands or lines you took on in 2013 with success? Marshall, Casio, Yamaha, Samson, Woodsong, Oscar Schmidt,…
#50DEALERS – RHODE ISLAND: Ross Music
Ross Music Warwick Dave Ross, Owner Outlook for 2014? Things are getting better and better each year so we look forward to that continuing to happen. They do seem…
#50DEALERS – MASSACHUSETTS: Downtown Sounds
Downtown Sounds Northampton Joe Blumenthal, Owner New brands or lines you took on in 2013 with success? I started selling TC effects, and have done reasonably well with them, especially…
#50DEALERS – KENTUCKY: Wilcutt Guitars
Wilcutt Guitars Lexington Bob Wilcutt, Owner New lines or brands you’ve taken on with success this year? We already have the major lines – Fender, Martin, Taylor, and so on…