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It was the mid 1970’s in Detroit and the world was changing and auto workers in Detroit were striking when General Motors assembly worker John Zammit came up with the idea for a special automated machine to most efficiently put the outer hardtops on the big Cadillac Cars of the era. According to John’s son Joe, […]

We caught Los Angeles rockers Silversun Pickups at their sold out show at The Observatory in Santa Ana recently and they sounded better than ever. The band is currently touring in support of their brand new record Better Nature and they played plenty of new tunes as well as the classics. Couch Operations Captain, Matt […]

L.A.’s Chicano Batman has taken the indie rock world by quiet storm in the last few months grabbing tons of press and piles of the most coveted support gigs available anywhere.  A quick scroll back on their website calendar shows them on direct tour support of Jack White, playing this year’s Coachella, and currently touring […]

The other day we were watching The View on ABC and were blown away to see 5 time Grammy Nominated Multi Platinum Country Recording Artist Hunter Hayes performing his new song 21 on the show fully rocking a Couch Black & Red Racer X Guitar Strap on his Telecaster. Even cooler is someone instagrammed us […]

Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick rocks Couch?!! We are honored to see multi-platinum power pop god Rick Nielsen with his Vintage Cadillac Hardtop Guitar Strap. He’s so well known for his checkered strap so it’s cool to see that when he was ready for a change he reached for Couch. All we can say is […]

Mountain Goats last night on Seth Meyers! We first blogged these guys maybe 8 years ago when they played on Letterman with the same two guitar straps. Glad to see they (and the straps!) are still going strong! The straps are a Maroon Seatbelt Strap (worn backwards and upside down:-) and a Brown and Orange […]

Weezer was in town recently for a multi-sold-out set of free in-stores at Fingerprints Music in Long Beach. Playing acoustic versions of their brand new songs in a live setting was pretty risky, but hey, these dudes rule and when you’ve got songs- and melodies- and chops- like they do, you’re gonna sound great no […]

We were watching the Spotify Landmark Series on multi-platinum artists Tears For Fears when guitarist Roland Orzabal switched out mid-set to his Gibson Les Paul to play their #1 hit “Shout” when we noticed he had a Couch Plain Black Vegan Guitar Strap on his guitar. We’re honored that Roland uses our straps on one […]

Well you can only go down from here. The other day we were instagrammed this shot of GhostRobotNinjaBear (aka Oscar Albis Rodriguez) performing live on Good Morning America with the entire Sesame Street cast including Grover, Big Bird and Oscar The Grouch. Aw man check out this picture! Oscar plays guitar in A Great Big […]

We finished up summer here at Couch recently by getting involved in helping to create a fun, free, all ages live concert for the kids around LA and Long Beach with Tijuana Panthers. And man it was so fun!!! In celebration of their new release Wayne Interest on Innovative Leisure Records the band decided it wanted […]