Bob Taylor on CITES

The 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP) to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) took place in Johannesburg, South Africa, from September 24 to October 4, 2016. At the conference, the CITES...

Reverb.com’s David Kalt

Reverb.com founder and CEO David Kalt came to MI retail with the same passion for music and guitars that most in the business do, but leavened with a tech entrepreneur’s instincts. Kalt, who was co-founder and CEO of online brokerage optionsXpress, which he took...

The First Note

Interview with NAMM’s Joe Lamond by Dan Daley   Joe Lamond is a numbers guy — besides leading the National Association of Music Merchants as President and CEO for the past 15 years, guiding its constituency of more than 10,000 manufacturers and retailers of...

Guitars in the Classroom on the Today Show

Jason Mraz became the new Arts Ambassador at Luther Burbank Elementary, one of three Guitars in the Classroom schools in San Diego. The Today Show reported on Mraz’s involvement in the school and how arts integration is turning some of the worst performing...