Tish Ciravolo has founded the first company that makes guitars expressly for women and girls, reports USA Today. Daisy Rock is still a small player in the roughly $1.6 billion market for “fretted instruments,” as measured by industry trade group NAMM. The company is private and doesn’t provide financials, but says it has sold 150,000 […]
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The ukulele, that four-stringed instrument that brings to mind kitschy Hawaiian grass-skirt performances and Tiny Tim, is suddenly hip, according to The NY Daily News. Roger Greenawalt credits the ukulele’s increased following to something he has dubbed the “Aloha Zen” effect. “It really transforms your mind,” says the 47-year-old, who first picked up the instrument
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AppScout: It’s a battle of the sexes at Nielsen. On the heels of data that showed women flocking to celebrity and horoscope sites, Nielsen said that women also make up the majority of visitors to music sites. “Whether checking on rapper Fabolous’ health scare or Alicia Keys love life, women are far more likely to
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Lansing State Journal: Cheryl Miller and Heather Lewis are moms who want their kids to learn something in every situation – even in the car on the way to after-school activities. But when they bought educational CDs to play on the way to skating and drum lessons, the women found them lacking. “They all sounded
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CNNMoney: Video game developer Harmonix just launched the wildly anticipated The Beatles: Rock Band, uniting one of the most popular video game franchises ever made with history’s biggest rock band. The collaboration is the work of a 320-employee company now owned by MTV. But it wasn’t so long ago that Harmonix’ founders — Alex Rigopulos
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Washington Post: Les Paul, 94, a Grammy Award-winning guitar virtuoso and inventor of the solid-body electric guitar who helped bring his instrument to the forefront of jazz and rock-and-roll performance, died today at a hospital in White Plains, N.Y. He had pneumonia. Paul first came to prominence for his fast and flashy jazz-guitar style, which
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San Jose Mercury News: For some time, Smiley Kai had been talking with two potential partners about opening a ukulele store – yes, a ukulele store – in San Jose’s Japantown. But last year, when the economy started tanking, the partners, worried about how such a venture would do in a recession, backed out. That
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Springwise: Much the way Webkinz pets are more than just stuffed animals, so t-shirts can be more than just t-shirts when they forge links to the online world. The conversation-starters offered by Reactee, Shyno and Augme are one type of example; now bringing a new purpose to such connections comes The Music Tee, a shirt
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Inc.: TakeLessons.com, an online service that connects music students with its instructors in more than 400 U.S. cities, is having a very good year. The company enjoyed increased same-city sales ranging from 12 percent to 28 percent each quarter of 2008 versus 2007, and 2009 looks even stronger, says CEO and founder Steven Cox. Thanks
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Scranton Times Tribune: An Embassy Vinyl customer could be a 50-year-old looking for a Doobie Brothers LP, a 20-something hipster looking for an old punk 45, or a teen looking for a used CD cheaper than dollar downloads of every song. In an age where YouTube, Dizzler and iTunes have all but replaced LPs, 45s
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