The Music & Sound Retailer: Who was your greatest influence or mentor and why?
Garth Gilman: One of my greatest mentors is Rick Young, who recently retired...
Lee Oskar has the rare distinction of being a big name in both the music and music instrument industries.
In the music industry, Oskar will be forever known ...
String Swing’s history dates back to 1983, when Paul Thieman and Anne Tainter were running a small dairy farm in Elroy, Wis. Thieman, who played guitar in a loc...
At 95 years young, St. Louis Music (SLM) continues to exude impressive strength. Headquartered just minutes away from the Gateway Arch and Busch Stadium, the di...
So much for talk of the electric guitar being dead. Québec, Canada-based Godin Guitars, which counts Guitar Center, Sam Ash, Sweetwater, The Music Zoo, Cream Ci...
What is the biggest concern for independent retailers today? We dig right into that question with this year’s Independent Retailer Roundtable, featuring Jim DeS...
RCF, whose history dates back to 1949, is specifically known for its transducer technology, supplying woofers, midrange units and compression drivers to some of...
As electronic music continues to dance its way to the top of the charts, so too does it remain a strong element of MI sales in stores across the country. The Mu...
Although some successful executives in the music products industry arrive in the MI world by happenstance, our market’s true leaders tend to be the ones who’ve ...
In the MI industry, there are countless hundreds of manufacturers of music-related gear and scores of distributors that specialize in funneling those products t...
