Rare vinyl hidden inside a sofa by Jack White discovered in Detroit: During the early days of the White Stripes, White teamed up with musician friend Brian Muldoon to form The Upholsterers. Both former upholsterers, the pair then hid 100 copies of their song ‘Your Furniture Was Always Dead … I Was Just Afraid To Tell You’ in reupholstered furniture around Detroit in 2004. Those 100 copies have remained hidden until now. Two separate people have recently contacted White’s Third Man Records label after discovering copies of the record.
At Joe’s Record Paradise, the music goes round and round: You may have heard that vinyl is coming back, as hipster bands clamor to have their music released on the groovy discs. But at places like Joe’s Record Paradise, vinyl never went away. You can buy an LP there for as a little as a buck — a dozen songs or more for the cost of a single iTunes download — or hand over many times that for a rare jazz or R&B record. That record will have a physical presence — album art, liner notes, perhaps the ballpoint pen scrawl of a previous owner — that your pristine digital download lacks. On the downside, it will be harder to move. Oh, one record is easy enough to move, but …
Juno Temple: ‘Kurt Cobain’s Voice Changed My Blood Temperature’: I am, yeah. I really only listen to vinyl in my home, I don’t really listen to music on my iPhone. But I did get given this amazing device, which was a wrap gift from Martin Scorsese — it’s a gramophone that you put your phone in, so your music from your phone plays through the gramophone. That’s changed my life…I’m trying to think of the vinyl I’ve been playing a lot recently… I’ve been playing the Modern Lovers and Iggy Pop a lot…
Full Circle Records leaving Holland, merging with store in Grandville: Holland’s one and only record store is packing up the vinyl and moving east. The Full Circle Records has been at 212 College Ave. for about a dozen years, but Saturday, Feb. 27, will be its last day in downtown Holland when it consolidates with parent store The Corner Record Shop in Grandville. “It’s been a blast turning people onto new music,” Manager Jon Van Oss said. “We absolutely love this town. It just made fiscal sense to consolidate.”
‘A message in the music’ An exhibit aims to bring attention to social justice issues through album artwork: “Dust + Dignity” is an upcoming music and art exhibition where 100 album cover artwork will be displayed with the intention of starting a dialogue about social justice and injustices. The exhibit will debut March 4 at the Painted Bride Art Center and run through the end of the month. “We gave five DJs the task of selecting 20 different album covers from their personal collections that evoke social justice, and that’s all we said,” said Bruce Campbell, an organization and DJ known as DJ Junior.
Magic of music helps business gamble pay off for Redditch’s Vintage Trax: A massive gamble by Redditch businesswoman Ros Sidaway to move her record shop out of the town centre to Headless Cross has paid off – thanks to the magic of music. Now, 12 months on, retro record specialists Vintage Trax, on Birchfield Road, is preparing to celebrate its first birthday as the popularity of vinyl records continues to grow. And it’s not just Redditch people who are supporting the shop. Customers are coming from as far afield as Bromsgrove, Droitwich, Alcester, Stratford, and Birmingham to ‘dig through the crates’ of preloved LPs and 7”/12” singles encompassing most music genres.
Hundreds Hunt for Vinyl At Eugene Record Show: It was a packed house at the Eugene Record Show on Sunday. The turnout was in the hundreds with music lovers hunting down the perfect piece of vinyl. At the event, there were 99 tables of records and vendors from all over Oregon, California, Washington, and Pennsylvania. Vendors and music lovers sold and traded pieces of vinyl, cassettes and CD’s. Music lovers said searching for the right record holds meaning.
