Editor’s Note: “Front And Center” is brought to you by the Women’s International Music Network (The WiMN). The interviews showcase accomplished women who work i...
Being in the music industry tends to be a feel-good life. We get up each day, visit with musicians and talk to great people, and we are usually tagged, at one t...
I think anyone who knows me at all knows that I have an internal drive always to improve anything of which I’m a part. I’m never satisfied with the status q...
So much has been written about MAP policies—both pros and cons—that it would take more time to read it all than to binge watch the entire run of “Game of Th...
Lately, there have been a number of articles published that examine what it takes to develop a successful lessons component within your business. Personally...
Every day, we are exposed to ever-growing amounts of media. I’ve touched on this when talking about various mobile and Internet technologies and their impac...
It was two years ago that The Music & Sound Retailer last spoke with Nick Marocco. At the time, Marocco was the Owner of Bluesairmen Guitars, where he and...
One thing that any regular reader of this column knows is that I’m often dismayed by the many market opportunities we seem to ignore or marginalize in our quest...
By the time this article is published, I will be celebrating my one-year anniversary at Hartland Music. For most of my career, I’ve been on the wholesale side o...
I have recently read about an emerging retail model that’s commonly referred to as an “unstore.” It goes something like this: A brand or a retailer sets up a st...