TODAY! Rare Reissue Label Numero Will Host Pop-Up Record Sale in Denver: You’re a Chicago-based indie record label and you’ve discovered that your stockrooms are overflowing. Traditional record stores can’t put all of the releases on display, so the challenge is putting about 300 different pieces of vinyl, each by a largely unknown artist, in front of the eyes of the record-buying public. The Numero Group decided that the best option was to pack up a van and hit the road, setting up pop-up stores in a variety of cities.
Gatefold Record Lounge in Hitchin opens as vinyl fans go ‘La-La For You’: Gatefold Record Lounge in Hermitage Road offers carefully curated new and used vinyl specialising in hip-hop, electronic, rock, as well as spanning a breadth of genres such as funk, soul jazz, reggae and world music styles. The shop also offers direct-trade speciality drinks, from hand-roasted coffee to superb beer from craft breweries across the country. Husband and wife team Jak and Nicola Utley originally dreamt up the idea of Gatefold after moving to Hitchin in 2015. Tired of the rat race and eager pursue their own dreams, they chose to create their dream hang-out and share it with a vibrant town like Hitchin.
New record shop and distributor, Secondhand, opens in Brooklyn: Secondhand Records NYC will open at 1345 Dekalb Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn this Saturday, October 8th. The shop is run by New York native Federico Rojas-Lavado, who worked at the house label and distributor Downtown304 for four years before setting off on his own. He opened it in partnership with Radio Free Brooklyn, and it will house his vinyl stacks as well as a studio and events space. The inventory—which includes new and used records—will run a wide gamut from house, disco and techno to soul, blues and jazz, as well as Latin and African selections.
Plaid Room is the music shop of record for Loveland’s downtown district, And a good excuse to detour off the bike path: LOVELAND, Ohio — It all began with a fake record label. Which became a real record label. Which became a real record store. And that became one of downtown Loveland’s most energetic and beloved new businesses. But let’s start at the beginning. When Plaid Room Records co-owners Terry and Bob Cole were young children in Middletown, their steelworker father instilled in them a love for the sound of music on vinyl.
Halifax Record Fair does a booming trade amid vinyl renaissance, Twice-annual fair attracts hundreds of customers browsing at least 25,000 albums: Dozens of Haligonians took those old records off the shelf and put them up for sale at the latest Halifax Record Fair, as the vinyl resurgence continues. Kevin Beal, who owns Black Buffalo Records and who co-founded the twice-annual fair, said between 400 and 800 people show up at each event to flip through between 25,000 and 50,000 albums…”There’s an ATM on site for a reason,” he said of the event at the Halifax Forum’s Maritime Hall.
Luke Cage’s heavyweight soundtrack is getting a heavyweight vinyl release: Unless you’ve been watching with the sound off, it’s impossible not to get absorbed in the soundtrack for Marvel’s Luke Cage. A collaboration between Adrian Younge (Twelve Reasons To Die) and A Tribe Called Quest’s Ali Shaheed Muhammad, the Luke Cage soundscape slinks through a musical legacy that spans spaghetti westerns, classic R&B, the brassy funk of ’70s blaxploitation, and of course, East Coast hardcore hip-hop…Marvel’s Luke Cage Original Soundtrack 2xLP features artwork by Matthew Woodson and is pressed on heavyweight, 180-gram vinyl in “Power Man Yellow”.
Germany’s Newbilt Machinery tackles the niche for vinyl record presses: Alsdorf, Germany — Newbilt Machinery GmbH & Co. KG is making record pressing machines — a throwback to an earlier age of vinyl that now is booming, thanks to growing demand from music lovers and musicians alike. The machines, which include a compression molding machine fed by an extruder, are the first new commercial presses to make vinyl records in at least 30 years. Detlef Seiffert and Erwin Neubauer, two German engineers who run the Newbilt factory, are something of a throwback themselves. They both worked at the former Warner Music plant serving Europe, just a few blocks away in Alsdorf, west of Cologne. Seiffert started at Warner all the way back in the mid-1970s, when vinyl ruled.
State Library’s big, but little known, vinyl record hoard gets some air time: Do you long to explore radio announcer John Laws’ oeuvre of trucking songs? Do you hanker for the wit of buck tooth country music star Chad Morgan? What about hearing 1980s heart throb Jason Donovan sing 1960s pop? Help is at hand. It’s not well known that the State Library of Victoria has an enormous collection of vinyl records – more than 60,000 – that anyone can order to listen to on turntables on-site…On November 19, for Melbourne Music Week, arts producer, writer and vinyl enthusiast Fiona Scott-Norman will present “the best, worst and weirdest” of this trove at a free event called Vinyl From the Vault.
