Discogs has acquired the world’s biggest vinyl centric event: In what comes as good news to all vinyl-fanatics and wax-heads, online vinyl marketplace Discogs has acquired the world’s biggest vinyl event, Crate Diggers. The online monolith has explained in a statement on their website that they aim to connect music collectors across the world not only via the web but also through the events that Crate Diggers have created.
Graveface marks 5 years in Starland, Ryan Graveface on business and community in Savannah’s hippest neighborhood: Five years ago, I was leaving the Savannah Record Fair with a gaggle of fellow vinyl lovers…After years of touring and pressing albums, Ryan Graveface felt an attraction to Savannah’s dripping moss, spectral shadows, and sordid history. So he moved the label’s headquarters right here and opened up a retail shop.
The new plastic £5 note can actually play a vinyl record – and here’s how it’s done: An incredible video has emerged of a man playing a vinyl record – using just a plastic five pound note. The footage, shot on Monday in Norwich, begins with the man holding the new polymer-based note by one of its corners. He then lowers it to a turntable, holding it steady against the surface of the vinyl record. The note acts like a needle on an old-fashioned record player and starts playing the record – which on this occasion was the aptly chosen 1970s hit from ABBA called ‘Money, Money, money’.
Vinyl expert says record collection found in flooded basement was once worth £1m, The remnants of George Davenport’s incredible collection was cleared away from a building in Newton Heath last week: A vinyl expert says the remnants of a record collection found in a flooded basement was once the biggest in the country, worth around £1 million. George Davenport had hundreds of thousands of records stored in his ‘library’ shop in Newton Heath but much of the collection suffered severe water damage. Lifelong music collector George – who ran Pandemonium Records in Manchester city centre during the 1970s and 80s – won a court case against his former landlord after flooding ruined the records.
Boutique Vinyl for the Musical Masses: The old saw says it best: It’s an ill wind that doesn’t blow somebody some good. In the immediate aftermath of the first compact discs and then their inevitable digital format, MP3s, delivering super-portable, clean-sounding music untethered from any need to store them on shelves or in milk crates, clarion cries rang forth: Vinyl was dead, cassettes were dead. And, ultimately, the music industry as we knew it was dead, or would be soon.
What We Can Learn From Tim Kaine’s Favorite Album, Our Democratic VP nominee’s favorite music says so much: Tim Kaine has said publicly that Let It Be by the Replacements is one of his favorite albums. A man who has strong opinions on “Sixteen Blue” could soon be the second-most powerful person in America. This election season never ceases to surprise. Granted, like anything any politician says, this could be nothing but pandering. But I doubt it. First off, he made this statement during an interview on an R&B radio station in Virginia, an area and a format where few would be swayed by his choice.
