The San Fernando manufacturer, which was sold to industry giant Fender Musical Instrument Corp. in June, is closing its inventory sale Saturday. Nick Carr likes his music gear to be old school, which explains why he was groping in a box for a vintage guitar effects pedal during a liquidation sale at the Groove Tubes factory in San Fernando this week.

Much as music-themed reality shows have swept television, music-themed videogames are multiplying so quickly editors are being forced to come up with games that sing to new audiences.

MySpace, the popular online social network owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, could develop a digital music player in the future, pitting it against Apple Inc’s hot-selling iPod.

Kendra Kassebaum, who is currently playing the curly locked Glinda in the Broadway production of Wicked, has been cast in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s gala concert reading of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s Tony Award-winning A Little Night Music, which will be presented Jan. 12, 2009, at the Nokia Theatre Times Square.

The music of Carl Nielsen - exuberant, inventive and puckishly off-kilter - was a particular enthusiasm of Herbert Blomstedt throughout his days as the San Francisco Symphony’s music director. It remains a calling card, as his Symphony concert Thursday…

Japan’s Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Donkey Kong and global best-seller Super Mario Bros, releases his Wii Music in Europe next week, his latest work in 30 years of inventive videogame design for Nint

Mayor Greg Nickels’ Seattle City of Music campaign rocks. The music industry is huge in Seattle and City Hall can help grown a valued economic niche even bigger.

Rev. Bronder, a monk of St. Vincent Archabbey and longtime music professor at St. Vincent College in Unity, died Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008. He was 66.