National Education Music Company (NEMC) recently completed its third annual Music is Life contest by presenting the winning performance group, The Reading Int...
Alfred Music has received the Paul Revere Award for Graphic Excellence in the category of “Book Design in Popular Folios” for a recently released songbook, Jo...
Hal Leonard Corp. has reached an agreement with QSC Audio Products, LLC, to distribute all of its mixers, power amplifiers and speakers throughout the United ...
In the wake of an economy that’s been turbulent since 2008, music products retailers like you have begun to emphasize products like picks, strings, sticks, bags...
The dealers that compose the music products industry have really embraced lighting products over the past several years, recognizing that not only can lights dr...
We Proudly Present Part Two Of Our Most Popular Annual Feature
In last month’s issue, I mentioned that the response The Retailer received to its solicitation...
Summer NAMM Will Give You The Key… And Here’s Why
Well, it’s official: summer has finally come! For most of us, the season’s arrival evokes images of basebal...
D’Addario has announced that John D’Addario Jr., Vice Chairman of D’Addario & Co., Inc., accepted the Koblenz Lifetime Achievement Award on behalf of hi...
Delegates meet with Speaker of the House John Boehner.
NAMM’s DC Fly-In allows members to evangelize NAMM’s vision of a world in which every child has a dee...
GearFest visitors crowd around the “DealZone.”
Sweetwater Sound has reported that GearFest 2014 was a bigger success than ever, breaking every record establ...
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.
