Northfield Record Store Set to Close Their Doors for Good: There will be one less record store open for business when Record Store Day 2017 rolls around on April 22nd. This special day is partially responsible for a recent resurgence in good old vinyl. The Press of Atlantic City is reporting that Tunes located in the Center Point Plaza shopping center on Rt. 9 will be closing its doors for good this Sunday (March 26).
Defend Vinyl’s Graham Jones – “I’d always wanted to open a record shop”: With Defend Vinyl having opened its doors on Smithdown Road, Getintothis’ Paul Higham met with Graham Jones to chat all things record shop related. If there has been much talk of the vinyl revival in recent years then equally Smithdown Road is currently experiencing something of a renaissance, with a number of exciting new businesses opening and thriving in the vibrant south Liverpool thoroughfare. Late in 2016 the twin forces coalesced with the opening of a new record shop catering exclusively to Liverpool’s vinyl enthusiasts, Defend Vinyl.
Sunrise Record Store Coming To Lansdowne Place Mall: Sunrise: Canada’s Record Store has updated their list of locations they’re expanding to, and it now includes Lansdowne Place Mall in Peterborough. Sunrise—which features independent music on CD and vinyl, DVD movies and pop culture toys, games and apparel—made the announcement of updated locations, including LP, on Wednesday (March 22nd). No word yet when exactly it is opening at LP, but new stores start rolling out in April. This is great news for the mall, which recently lost HMV when it went bankrupt and closed its stores across Canada. Part of Sunrise’s success will be capitalizing on the resurgence of vinyl.
Vinyl Records? – Right on!: Among the old buildings of the Herndon Historic District sit the town’s Depot Museum, the Washington and Old Dominion Caboose and the Old Town Hall. Nearby, a new store has opened across the street that sells an invention that would seem to fit in, since it was conceived during the late 1800s. Next to the Roaches in the Attic antique store on Elden Street is a new vinyl record store. While listening to music from the spiral grooves of a vinyl is a timeworn occurrence, the young proprietor of the small store does not consider his wares to be antiquities. Garin Pappas, 23, opened Right On! Records and started selling, buying and exchanging 12-inch albums in a small space on the second floor of 731 Elden St. on Saturday, Nov. 19, 2016. A ribbon cutting and grand opening ceremony took place on Sunday, March 12.
Cocteau Twins’ Simon Raymonde Says He Didn’t Know About His Band’s Record Store Day Reissues: “I have no idea if these pressings are from a digital master or from the original tapes but I can hazard an educated guess. They may indeed even be utterly gorgeous but it does feel odd, having been a significant part of a band that took such care over the sonics and the presentation, that these double album packages may have even been for sale in the shops without our knowledge, had I not stumbled across them when looking through my potential purchases for RSD. But hey, we signed the deal and we are not the first and won’t be the last whose work is exploited in a way that could only be described as callous and disrespectful. No pity required. Just another harsh lesson. If you want control of your masters and avoid such things happening to you then don’t sign stupid deals with majors.”
Louisiana Record Store Day Releases: The Meters, Allen Toussaint And More: Record Store Day will celebrate its 10th anniversary when it returns on Saturday, April 22 with another assortment of special vinyl releases. The party will take place at record stores across the country, where vinyl aficionados will have a chance to score both exclusive and early releases from local establishments. Among those special releases are offerings from a number of New Orleans area artists, including icons like The Meters, Allen Toussaint and John Sinclair. Today we’re taking a look at the Record Store Day releases with ties to South Louisiana
Danny Tyree: Take time to appreciate Capitol Records on its 75th anniversary: In the peak years of my scouring yard sales and junk shops for second-hand, dollar-bin vinyl record albums, I didn’t really focus on company labels. I paid more attention to genres and artists. Still, it’s only fitting that I now shine the spotlight on a single company, since I learned that Capitol Records (the first major West Coast record company) celebrates its 75th anniversary on March 27. Besides the Broadway musical soundtracks, classical recordings, high fidelity jazz sessions and comedy albums (yes, I have a battered copy of Andy Griffith’s 1958 pre-TV “Just For Laughs” album near my bed), Capitol has hosted some real pop/country/rock superstars over the past three-quarters of a century: Nat King Cole, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Frank Sinatra, the Kingston Trio, the Beach Boys, the Beatles, Glen Campbell, Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, Queen, Garth Brooks, Coldplay, Katy Perry, and hundreds more.
