Record Shop To Open In Aylesbury: An independent record shop is coming to Aylesbury. Second Earth Records will be a pop-up shop in Aylesbury’s Market Square as well as an online store. There’s currently a campaign to raise funds to get the website up and running.
Downtown shops put new spin on vinyl: …Remix isn’t the only store near downtown putting the focus on the low-tech audio format. Another two-in-one shop, Vinyl Arts Bar, is set to open next week on Colonial Drive at the site of a former massage parlor downtown. Vinyl Arts will be an art gallery with pieces from local artists as well as a bar and lounge.
Discovery of rare vinyl record has staff at Huntingdon charity shop in a spin: It is a recording of Memphis Slim at the St George Jazz Club in King’s Lynn in May 1961 and is so rare that it is being donated to the sound archive based at the British Library…Charity shop manager Geoffrey Stalker is unsure how much the record is worth but said the British Library were keen to have it for their collection. He has tracked down the person who donated the record to Oxfam and she is content for the British Library to put it on display.
Scratch The Surface Records opens in Chippenham after surge in demand: Scratch The Surface, spread across two rooms, had it’s official opening on Saturday (Jan 23) with vinyl ranging from the 1920s to the present day and across all genres. The multi-purpose shop, which buys as well as selling records, sits above Phase Patch craft shop on The Causeway and even has an antique and vintage section for customers.
The vinyl record factory that makes your niche music dreams come true: “It doesn’t sound the same on Spotify, all clean and without the crackles,” he says. “Records have been part of my life in one way or another for as long as I remember, so seeing how they are made and visiting the factory that undoubtedly made some of the records in my collection was experiencing the birth of something close to my heart.”
Sweet return of time tested record player and the vinyl disc: The ground floor of Elimu Co-operative House along Tom Mboya Street houses a timeless family business, Melodica Music Stores, which recently began selling record players and vinyl discs in January last year. The sales are strong. “It makes me wonder,” says Abdul Karim. “Most of my regular buyers are the youth in their twenties.”
