Vinyl’s resurgence leads to booming business at Birmingham’s oldest record store: 2.1 million vinyl LPs were sold in 2015, a 64% increase over the previous year and the highest amount in 21 years. Combined with HMV’s revelation that they had sold one turntable a minute during the week prior to Christmas, and that over in the US, Amazon’s best-selling audio device was a $50 record player; it is clear that, in the short-term at least, vinyl’s phoenix-esque rise from the ashes shows no sign of slowing down. But how is this affecting the treasure trove that is your local record store?
Huddersfield Town fan John Broscombe donates rare 1930 FA Cup Final 78 vinyl record to the club: It’s a throwback to a bygone age of sportsmanship and this precious vinyl is now in the safekeeping of Huddersfield Town. Football fan John Broscombe, 79, has donated a rare piece of memorabilia to the club’s archive. Appropriately in FA Cup third round week, John presented the club with a 78 gramophone record from Town’s FA Cup Final against Arsenal in 1930.
Sony president’s CES 2016 favorite? A turntable: Here’s what’s cool for Sony at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show, if you can believe it: record players. The old turntable, which Sony sold for years before phasing them out for compact discs (remember them?) is back. Sony has a new, shiny 2016 record player proudly displayed at its huge booth here.
Vinyl And Turntables Are The Future Of Music At CES 2016: There are endless arguments about vinyl, its sound quality, and whether its growth means it’s returning or if it’s a zombie format kept alive by snobs. That last argument may be settled sooner than we think: There are turntables all over this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, including some bids for the high-end connoisseur.
“Q-Tip came to my flat”: Stories from six record dealers: It’s easy to write off dealers as Nick Hornby High Fidelity types – you know, obsessive compulsives that squabble over pressings and chase out customers with bad taste. But as we found out in Utrecht, every seller has a story to tell.
David Gilmour disc wins record cover prize: Now in its 10th year, the prize is organised by Art Vinyl, a company that promotes record covers as art. The winner – art directed by Dave Stansbie from The Creative Corporation – was decided by public vote from nominees that also included Blur’s The Magic Whip and Bjork’s Vulnicura.
Thunder Bay music lovers following international trend to vinyl says record store owner: Thunder Bay, Ont. music lovers are following an international trend towards buying more vinyl according to a local record shop owner…”Vinyl is a reaction to the intangibility of digital music. You want to go back to the biggest thing you can hold, smell and really feel like you own.“
