Your How-To for Holiday Happiness!

Electrifying Holiday Tunes Throughout the Decades
From its humble lap steel origins, to early archtop introductions in the Jazz Age, to our favorite selections from the golden era of solid-body guitar designs, plus many of today’s most cutting-edge contemporary innovations, CME has housed just about every iteration of the electric guitar, including some of the ones played on your favorite Holiday tunes—and this Holiday Season is no exception!

Whether you’re shopping for a certain someone on your list, or for yourself, find out what CME has in store today!

Shop Fender CME Exclusives
We're keeping our CME Exclusives program rolling with new Fender American Professional II Series Stratocasters, finished in your choice of Lake Placid Blue and Shell Pink, and new Fender Deluxe Series Cables, available in 6" patches and 10' or 15' straight-straight or straight-angled configurations!

Accompany Your Carols!
Add a new tradition this holiday season by singing some carols around the yule log with a new acoustic guitar! Give one and get one for yourself with our Taylor Friends and Family Holiday Gift Event at CME, continuing through January 2, or browse our Acoustic Room for our full selection of Deals and Steals!

Recent Arrivals: The CME Collection
This holiday season is the first time we’ve EVER had so many coveted collectibles and professional player-grade instruments within our under one roof at one time! Acquired alongside the routine, daily activities of our expert vintage and used buying team, The CME Collection augments our entire selection of Vintage & Used gear, giving you the best guitars we have in the bunch, alongside some amazing deals and steals. 

Now to CME: Nord Keyboards
The Chicago Music Exchange welcomes Nord Keyboards to its ever-expanding roster of electronic music brands! For progressive design with world-renowned sound, shop Nord Keyboards at the Chicago Synth Exchange today.

Make Some New Sounds This Holiday Season at The Synth Exchange
While CME was once primarily a store for mostly six- and four-string fanatics, our offering has grown to encompass music-makers of all stripes! Now offering an array of electronic sound-generation machines—including some (like UDO and ASM) that you can't play in-store anywhere else in Chicago—the Synth Exchange has everything both modular and keyboard synthesists love!

Make Music Last a Lifetime With Recording Gear From CME
While holiday memories might last a lifetime, the music people make throughout the season will live on forever if you record it! With an array of pro audio equipment, including microphones, interfaces, grooveboxes, and studio monitors, CME’s got everything you need to record the music you make!