Couch Guitar Straps

Blondie was just in Los Angeles for a show at Club Nokia in LA Live. Before heading out of town the band stopped off at NBC’s The Tonight Show With Jay Leno to play their new single Mother. We were stoked to see Blondie guitar player Tommy Kessler was wearing his Dark Red Skullphone Guitar […]

Thanks go out to Alternative Press for the full page interview with Couch founder Daniel Perkins in the brand new issue of Alternative Press Magazine. We are stoked the guys and gals there at AP put is in their mag, (October issue with members of Blink 182 on the cover). This magazine is huge and […]

A lot of people ask us- a) does your wallet snap get in the way? b) are your wallets designed to be kept in your front or back pocket? The short answer is “no”, and “both” respectively. Pretty much everyone at Couch has a Couch Wallet- some of us use them in our front pocket, […]

Attaching Banjo Straps- Banjo straps have very different ends than guitar straps. Basically guitars usually have “buttons” on each end that allows a strap-end with a keyhole shape to securely fit over each button. To attach a banjo strap, most banjos have only have brackets around the resonator/head area of the banjo so you need […]

We’ve been getting a few emails lately from some pretty big latin artists who wear our straps and we couldn’t be happier. Pictured below is Rick Jeschke Deliz “soundchecking & getting ready to play second show of 3 with HA*ASH (Sony) opening for SHAKIRA, with my Virgin Guadalupe Couch strap! and 50,000+ audience @ show […]

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 […]