A few weeks back, it was announced that the record industry had decided that from August, all albums around the globe will be released on Fridays. Well, some of the record industry had decided. For independent record stores in North America and the UK, though, the shift from Mondays and Tuesdays, respectively, doesn’t make much sense…
By now you’re likely aware of the big resurgence in vinyl sales that’s taken place in recent years. But who are these rabid record consumers pushing the needle in one small corner of the declining music industry? Largely, music fans under 35…
Two UK indie labels have attacked the concept of Record Store Day, decrying it as “certainly not beneficial to small labels”…Although clear that they are against neither record stores themselves or the original intentions of Record Store Day, they take aim at what the current incarnation.
DJ Stephanie Hirst has given her backing to a struggling Barnsley Record Shop for fear of it going the way of legendary town centre store Casa Disco.
Record Store Aims to Revive Cambodia’s Pop Past: The first record store in the country since the Khmer Rouge-era to specialize in Southeast Asian vinyl has opened in Kampot City, stocking a selection of psychedelic records in an effort to spur a 1960s pop revival.
Canberra’s Generation Y falls in love with vinyl records: Dynomite Records owner Phil Place said appreciation of sound quality and having a tactile product to call your own were two reasons his vinyl sales had risen by about 25 per cent last year.
The discovery of rare Maori records in Wellington has brought tears to the eyes of the singers’ descendants, some of whom have no original copies…A copy of New Zealand’s first commercial recordings sat for decades, tucked away for safekeeping until a similar find was made in Wellington.
