Lidl is selling a £50 turntable for vinyl music lovers: The vinyl revival shows no sign of slowing down – and budget supermarket Lidl is the latest to take advantage. The German retailer, which operates multiple stores across Birmingham and throughout the surrounding region, is looking to tap into the renaissance of turntables. The supermarket has released an ION record player – just in time for Christmas. The £50 all-in-one playback system includes a built-in speaker and amp, so you don’t need to plug your deck into separate audio equipment – although you can if you want to. There’s also a USB port, so you can “rip” your old records to digital format.
The Vinyl Exam, Jacknife records and Tapes: The most interesting words on the storefront for Jacknife Records and Tapes are definitely ….and tapes. Being a child of the cassette era, I at once find the nostalgia for cassettes charming and slightly idiotic – on one hand cassettes are cool, portable and memorable, on the other hand they sound like garbage, break and warp easily and pair up with battery-draining portable players (which always gets left out of the nostalgic journeys through people’s minds). Those caveats aside, I do find myself buying more and more cassettes, as anyone who collects music from 1980s and 1990s would…
Q-Tip Offers a Tour of His Record Collection and Home Studio: With the new (and final) A Tribe Called Quest arriving this evening and few details surrounding the album being available at the moment (despite our damndest efforts collect them,) you may be a little overwhelmed by the lack of information out there. But before the full reveal arrives, Tribe’s own Q-Tip has offered a glimpse into his home studio and the massive trove of vinyl rarities housed there, in a candid segment with CBS this morning. You see the board (used to record tracks for The Ramones) the chalkboard (where autographs from Andre 3000, Kanye West and more accumulate) and, of course, shelf after shelf of vinyl treasures, with Tip even flaunting some very rare test pressings.
Gavin’s in a spin as his new record shop opens for business: The needle has dropped at the Feel The Groove record shop. Music fans were treated to live sets from a string of performers as the store marked its grand opening. The doors opened early as Pulse FM broadcast its breakfast show live from Causeyside Street. And it got the seal of approval from Paisley’s biggest music export. Owner Gavin Simpson, 47, told how soul man Paolo Nutini dropped in to check out racks of vinyl. He told the Paisley Daily Express: “He was walking by when he stopped to have a look and wish us well. “He was great and was saying it was so important that a record shop was kept in the town.
