Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, the world leader in guitars and music equipment, is hiring its first Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) to lead the compan...
Casio America, Inc., has announced that it will be a sponsor of the 10th annual ASCAP ‘I Create Music’ EXPO, the premier national conference for songwriters...
Synchrony Financial, a consumer financial services company, has announced a new, multi-year agreement with Guitar Center to provide a private label credit p...
A few times a year, The Retailer presents “roundtable-style” articles that focus on particular segments of interest within the music products industry. Becaus...
Since April is The Retailer’s annual Guitar Issue, we set out a couple of months ago to book a fitting executive for this month’s “Five Minutes With” intervie...
Yamaha Corp. of America (YCA) is forming the Professional Audio division to provide a stronger, more unified presence in the live sound, recording and sound-i...
Brothers Gow has done over 500 live shows since the quintet was formed in Flagstaff, Arizona in late 2007, and it’s safe to say that no two performances hav...
In some corners of the music products industry, people bemoan the fact that many of the most iconic companies in the musical instrument space—you know the laund...
Over the course of the 29 years they have been bestowed, Music & Sound Awards have been called everything from “the Oscars of the music products industry” t...
IK Multimedia’s iRig 2, winner of the Best in CES 2015 award, is now available. iRig 2 is the new and improved version of the iRig guitar interface. It has powe...
I am the Editor of The Music & Sound Retailer, the most widely read trade publication serving the music products market. I am a lifelong writer and editor, working for Testa Communications, publisher of The Retailer, for more than 10 years.
