E.K. Blessing Announces New Initiatives
E.K. Blessing is expanding its product line and introducing a unique dealer service program, while shifting some production to established manufacturing partners. The result of this strategic shift in production…
Journey Instruments Overhead Carbon Fiber Acoustic
Journey's new Overhead Travel Guitars collapse down to carry-on luggage size. All of Journey Instruments models come with a patented removable neck, an extra deep Manzer wedge design, an under-bridge…
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…
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…
Yamaha TRBX304 Bass
The four-string TRBX304 and TRBX504, along with the five-string TRBX305 and TRBX505 feature a five-piece maple/mahogany neck along with balanced and lightweight solid Mahogany bodies. The 500-level basses are equipped…
PMC International Drum Month Programs
The Percussion Marketing Council (PMC) is encouraging want-to-be drummers to visit their local participating music retailer during International Drum Month (May 2014) to get a free bag of cool stuff…
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…
Korg USA Key Note Awards
Korg USA has announced the winners of its 2013 Korg USA Key Note Awards. As part of the company’s ongoing commitment to encourage and support its dealer network, this annual…
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…
7 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Workforce (Or, How to Treat Employees Like a Band)
Having employee headaches? Think things aren’t running quite as well as they should, but you can’t quite put your finger on what’s wrong? Maybe looking at your team in…
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…