Daytona, FL | Rock Hits Hard Place, but Millennials Make the Difference: …Along with all of this, vintage clothing and memorabilia such as vinyl record sales have been on the rise over the last few years. A 2015 Time magazine article notes that, “According to data by Nielsen Soundscan, more than 9.2 million vinyl records were sold in the U.S. last year, marking a 52 percent increase over the year before.” And the trade industry Bible, Billboard, reports that sales were 14.32 million 2017, a rise of 9 percent. The previous one-year high, registered in 2016, was 13.1 million. In fact, 2017 marks the twelfth straight year of growth in vinyl album sales. The format continues to increase in sales as more new and classic albums are issued on vinyl, along with promotion from retailers like Amazon, Urban Outfitters and Barnes & Noble, as well as annual vinyl-oriented celebrations like Record Store Day.
The Villages, FL | Villager was national record holder for her enormous collection of records: It all began back in 1963, when she was 13 years old her mother gave her two 45 rpm records – an Elvis Presley and a Don Gibson. Fast forward nearly 60 years and Cheryl Rehermann would have the largest private collection of records in the United States; well over 100,000 records. “My mother had a big console record player with a radio – a big, big, wide thing. I started listening to albums and enjoying the covers and reading the liner note. And then it just grew from there.” It was the time of folk artists such as Leonard Cohen, Peter Paul and Mary, The Byrds and, of course, Bob Dylan. “I was interested in all of the folk artists for their social and political messages. I liked that I was considered a rebel. Women burning their bras, and the Vietnam War, and that kind of thing.”
Sioux City, IA | THE REGULARS: Back in the day, record stores were popular draws for music lovers: …Back in the 1970s there were plenty of record stores around – the Record Roost, Slow Motion at the KD Stockyards Station, Budget Tapes and Records, the Audio Emporium at Indian Hills and, of course, the granddaddy of them all, Uncle John’s. But Uncle John’s was an experience as much as a record store (not the Jimi Hendrix type). Like countless Siouxlanders, I loved spending a long afternoon in the store walking around on those creaky wooden floors, inhaling the incense and reviewing the huge inventory of vinyl in a laid-back atmosphere. Paul Chelsted’s mural of rock icons and the always friendly and knowledgeable staff helped build the business with people from all walks of life gathering at the store, some traveling many miles. The music was the glue that brought so many people together.
‘Deadwax’ Review: A Sinister Series with Killer Sound: …The story follows Etta (Mindhunter’s Hannah Gross), an underground vinyl collector and hunter who is hired by die-hard waxheads to track down the rarest records ever pressed. Sneaking into people’s homes at night and accessing confidential files, she has no limits to the lengths she’ll go to in order to snag what she wants. On her most recent heist, she comes across an exceptionally unique vinyl that is notorious within collector circles. Part of the key series by sound engineer maestro Lyle M. Litton, it is one of only three pressings in existence and leads to a record that is said to have not only captured the sound of Litton’s soul leaving his body as he died, but also kills anyone who listens to it. Identified by strange markings etched into the record’s deadwax–the space between the label and the grooves–the vinyl contains a mythic reputation until police connect it to a series of deaths.
