Vortex Records to close after nearly 40 years: One of Toronto’s oldest record stores is set to close in the new year, as Vortex Records announced yesterday that owner Bert Myers is retiring. The shop, currently in operation out of a second floor space near Yonge and Eglinton, has been in business for nearly 40 years, at one time boasting a variety of locations around the city.
Wait, Is Streaming Actually Encouraging Record Sales? Survey Says ‘Yeah… Maybe’: Perhaps more significantly, 69 percent of the survey respondents either agreed or strongly agreed with the statement: “I stream to discover music and see what’s popular, but when I come across something I love, I like to buy it.”
There’s a vinyl gold mine in Toronto’s library stacks: Organizers of Vinyl 101 hope it was the first in a series of events that will not only educate music lovers on listening the analog way but illuminate the public on the library’s impressive hold of vinyl LPs.
‘This Record Belongs To …’ introduces kids to the joys of music on vinyl, complete with turntable: Their triple-whammy package includes the “This Record Belongs To …” record and illustrated book along with a custom-made by Jack White’s Third Man record label. The aim: to introduce entertainment-overloaded, iPad-addicted kids to active listening, vinyl records and the lessons within the grooves.
Frank’s Record Collection Shop tucked away in downtown Harlingen: Looking at Ramirez, he’s any music lover’s modern-day medicine man. He has the classic rock star look. And he has the songs to help music lovers looking for a vinyl record to take home to spin on the turntable and get lost in the music of their favorite artist with headphones or house speakers.
