Guitar Center location on Sunset Boulevard. The bill is coming due for the country’s largest musical instrument retailer – and a couple of credit rating agencies are worried about its ability to pay.

Marc Pritcher sat at the electric piano with his back to the patrons milling around the Guitar Center, unaware of the audience slowly gathering behind him. Most mornings, the 66-year-old talent ...

Electric guitars, for sale, hang from the walls inside the Guitar Center store on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood. The country’s largest music retailer has been losing money in the past four years, with ...

Justin Alvarado perched on a stool, softly strumming an electric guitar and ignoring the teenager who jammed just feet away. Alvarado, 19, comes to Guitar Center’s Sherman Oaks, California store every ...

This summer, a pair of independent musicians — Baltimore’s Danny Greenwald and Brooklyn’s Noah Wall — released new albums online. This is not exactly notable, and on the surface there is little ...