Tower Records founder Russ Solomon remembers the charm of the record store: “Once considered an agora where musical minds meet, meld, and share their favorite tunes, record stores are scarce today. In many cases, the ones that are still open still thrive off of a dedicated clientele who have also retained the love of shopping for music at a brick-and-mortar store.”
Burglars in Mold target UK’s smallest record shop: “A record shop that was officially named the smallest in the UK has been targeted by thieves. VOD Music on New Street in Mold was broken into overnight (October 11-12) after a brick was thrown through the window.”
Clock Tower Records to celebrate anniversary: “Clock Tower Records is celebrating four years in business in Grass Valley. The store, located at 130 W. Main St., will commemorate the anniversary on Oct. 14. The store will be open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. that day; there will be a Grass Valley Chamber of Commerce ribbon-cutting at 5:30 p.m., and acoustic live music from 5-7 p.m.
The revival of vinyl: “’Vinyl is about 95 percent of my sales anymore,’ John Fleming, owner of Ear Candy Music, said. ‘It’s crazy to me. I never would have thought that they would account for most of my business.’ Fleming opened Ear Candy on Sept. 21, 1997. He said in 18 years, however, he has never had a better summer than this one.”
The doomed effort to make videos go vinyl: “Few people even remember that such a medium as vinyl movies existed, but for a brief, doomed period in the early 1980s, home video was available on CEDs. While CED players were not released to consumers until 1981, the development of the system dates back to the 1960s. The idea was that they could encode sound and video information to a vinyl disc if they could only get the grooves small enough.”
