Dugdale to sponsor Vinyl Congress, Brighton may 15-16: Leading independent PVC compounder Dugdale Ltd, is back in Brighton again, this year as a Gold Sponsor of a new vinyl music event. On May 15-16, Dugdale will support the Vinyl World Congress; the leading international B2B summit dedicated to the manufacturing of the Vinyl Record Industry. Vinyl World Congress attracts technical leaders and industry executives from around the world in order to illuminate what is driving demand in today’s Record Vinyl Manufacturing industry. The Brighton event brings together the various industry partners within the Vinyl Record supply chain. Attendees include major and indie record labels, investors, Vinyl Manufacturers, Vinyl manufacturing machine suppliers, Turntable manufacturers, maintenance services, PVC suppliers, packaging and distribution services, resellers, suppliers and trade missions such as UKTI.
How the ‘Vinyl Revival’ is boosting sales for Albany area record stores: We don’t tend to turn back to any technology we’ve once deemed “obsolete.” But vinyl records have broken that trend, by going through a boom over the past decade or so. For 12 straight years, vinyl sales have grown, according to Billboard, as part of a phenomenon dubbed the “Vinyl Revival.” And companies — like Sony, which announced last year it would start making vinyl again for the first time in nearly three decades — don’t see the revival ending anytime soon. We talked to two record stores in the Albany, New York, area about how they’ve experienced the revival and what changes they’ve seen in the industry.
Anthony Albanese Hands Over Record Store Ambassadorship: Anthony Albanese MP and 2017 Ambassador for Record Store Day Australia has officially passed to baton to 2018 ambassadors Michael Chugg, Amber Lawrence and Dan Sultan. The 11th annual Record Store Day will take place across Australia on 21 April 2018. The day is a celebration of the culture of collecting music and an opportunity for fans to add some rare releases to their collections. Anthony Albanese, the former deputy Prime Minister of Australia and current member for Grayndler, was a huge supporter of the Australian music industry and fan of Australian music.“MUSIC is a part of us,” he said in 2017. “Like literature, it speaks to us about who we are, where we have been and how we understand our journey through life. It’s one of our key forms of expression. “That is why independent record stores have a very special place in our culture, a place that will be celebrated on International Record Store Day on Saturday.”
Rhino Records announces “30” exclusive vinyl for Record Store day 2018: Rhino, the catalog division of Warner Music Group, is announcing its most ambitious collection of vinyl to date for Record Store Day 2018 with a wide variety of titles from WMG’s labels including Atlantic, Elektra, Parlophone, Sire, Warner Bros. Records, and 679 Recordings. This year’s not-to-miss list includes 30 limited edition 12-inch, 10-inch, and 7-inch vinyl releases from the world’s most respected and celebrated artists. Some highlights include Led Zeppelin’s first-ever Record Store Day release and Cheech And Chong’s marijuana-shaped picture disc, complete with a scratch n’ sniff sticker to name a few!
Discogs’ Best Records of 1968: Fifty years ago, the world was in the midst of turbulent times. A war raged as heavy on hearts as rebellion weighed on the backs of students protesting throughout the US, France, Poland, Germany, Italy and several other countries. The year also begat some incredible music, from The Rolling Stones‘ Beggars Banquet to The Jimi Hendrix Experience‘s Electric Ladyland. The year could have easily defined the decade had it not been for perhaps the greatest year of music in the 20th century: 1967. Beginning with the best albums of 1968, this Best Of The Decades series features a variety of writers thick with opinion, championing their choice for Best Of The ‘8s from 1968 through 2008. So let’s get started with the year the first humans orbited the moon…
