Community Day: Vinyl Revival: A trend from the past is proving it’s not just a one-hit-wonder. Vinyl records are back, and one HHS teacher brought them to students at the Second Annual Hershey High School Community Day. Students in the vinyl revival session learned about vinyl collecting, record art, and the future of records at HHS. Matthew Swavely, HHS physics teacher, started the session to provide interested students with a way of getting into vinyl collecting. “I’m not gonna talk too much because the fun part is actually listening to the music,” he said at the start of the first session.
The world’s best record shops #040: Rush Hour, Amsterdam: Earlier this year, Rush Hour moved to a new and larger shopfront just a few doors down from Spuistraat 98 to Spuistraat 116. ““We wanted to move for a while, but it wasn’t easy to find something suitable,” said Antal at the time. “We even checked for buildings in the outskirts. To find such a beautiful space in the same street is quite unreal to us.” The flawless and now expanded stock spans the spectrum but is especially alive with electronic 12”s and LPs as well funk, soul and jazz sounds, old and new, from across the globe.
Vinyl Revolution record show sets sights on St. Paul’s: Nearly a year in the making, it’s prime time for turntables in the village. The Vinyl Revolution Record Show arrives in Garden City for a one-day celebration of music genres at Cluett Hall on the St. Paul’s campus on Sunday, October 16 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $4. Over 50 dealer tables will be set up by vendors from all over the East Coast, presenting thousands of rare and collectible vinyl records for sale.
Vinalysts will spin you away: A supergroup of DJs, The Vinylists, will be providing entertainment at the Edenvale City Improvement District Festival Lights and Street carnival. “Their fabulous set is played entirely off vinyl records and their repertoire includes classic rock, pop and house. They are not to be missed,” said Ms Katy Young, the public relations officer and events coordinator for ECID. According to the DJs, their contrasting styles act as a sorbet to cleanse the musical palate. “People who enjoy the one hour rock set, end up enjoying it even more after a pumping hour of house music and vice versa for the house fans,” said the group.
The rebirth of vinyl: Being There Records helps local bands join the movement: Many thought the revival of vinyl records would be a quiet, uninspired resurgence; however, the opposite has proven true…So more of you are buying records. Fantastic, but when you’re at Waterloo or Breakaway Records flipping through stacks, trying to find that golden oldie or maybe it’s that new track by a Grammy winning artists, are you thinking about your favorite local bands? Probably not. Why is it that local, emerging talent has been excluded from vinyl culture, almost entirely?
