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Our girlfriend was watching the Season 2 DVD of the popular Showtime television series Californication when she noticed leading character Becca was wearing a Black Victorian Byloos Guitar Strap to hold up her Gibson Les Paul Guitar! We kind of forgot about it though until our new friend Adrian emailed us yesterday to remind us, […]

We had a good time at Couch Booth at NAMM.. In case you don’t know NAMM is this crazy annual music products industry event, kind of like the Comic Can of the guitar world with like 100,000 people roaming through the halls of the Anaheim Convention Center near Disneyland. We saw Viking-Drum Girls with drum […]

4AD Records band The Mountain Goats have a brand new record called All Eternals Deck and were on The David Letterman Show a couple weeks ago to support the record with their song “The Birth of Serpents”. We were excited to see that Mountain Goat songwriter John Darnielle is still wearing his limited edition Army […]

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 […]

We had fun making these “Scurvy” guitar straps for Paul Frank Industries. Sorry they’re not for sale, they were given away at The X Games 2010 as prizes in the Air Guitar and Pancake Throwing Contest. Thanks Paul Frank for asking us to make these straps. We had fun on the project!

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 […]

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 […]