Bass player Jeff Turmes with Jeff Tweedy of Wilco and Stephen Hodges (Paul McCartney, Billy Corgan, Tom Waits etc). Jeff, who is also featured in this month’s Bass Player Magazine wears a Couch Racer X Strap. Jeff Turmes is legendary blues and roots music side man who has played along legends like Mavis Staples, Tom […]
We recently attended street artist Skullphone’s gallery opening in on Sunset in Echo Park at Shepard Fairey’s “Subliminal Projects” Gallery. Skullphone is known internationally as part of the first wave of 21st Century Wheatpaste Artists, but he seems to have transcended this notorious status into the high-brow international gallery scene sometime after he appeared electronically […]
Angus and Julia Stone’s self produced sophomore release “Down The Way” saw a simultaneous worldwide release. The album debuted at number 1 in their native country, reaching Platinum status and becoming the highest-selling album by an Australian artist in just 2 months. The album also hit number 4 on iTunes France after performing on TV […]
Blondie guitarist Tommy Kessler sent us some pics of the band at the giant Isle Of Wight Festival in England. We are definitely digging that Tommy has a Dark Red Skullphone Guitar Strap on his guitar! When the band finally made it to California a few weeks later we were stoked to see that Tommy was […]
If you’ve been wondering how to install Schaller Strap S Locks it’s a pretty easy installation. Nic here at Couch shows us how to install strap locks in a pretty quick 2 minute video. They work pretty well with Couch Guitar Straps, but on first installation, these wider strap locks tend to require a bit […]
NAMM was a blast! Any time you put about 100,000 random music gear manufactures, musicians, and music fans under one roof over a few days, there’s gonna be some good times. We got to meet tons of cool people like long time David Bowie guitar player Reeves Gabrels who was there performing with his Reverend […]
In case you didn’t know, the best living surf band in the world is Man or Astroman? They’d been a favorite of ours at Couch Guitar Straps for years, so when guitar player Star Crunch contacted us recently about making a special limited edition strap for them to wear and sell on their current tour […]
We are stoked that Couch Guitar Straps’ 80’s Mercedes Strap was just in the March issue of Alternative Press Magazine as one of the best vegan products. On top of that PETA’s youth oriented site PETA2 has nominated the guitar strap for 2010’s PETA2 Libby Awards! The vinyl used to make these guitar straps is […]
If Zoolander were talking about multi-media artist Brock Davis, we’re sure he’d say “he’s so hot right now”. Brock won “Newcomer Of The Year” on the hip indie t-shirt design site threadless.com we users vote for their favorite artist’s work to be made into t-shirts and the artists get up to a couple grand for […]