The popularity of vinyl records plays on in Winnipeg: Vinyl lovers flipped through records Sunday to find everything from rock to soul, jazz and more at Rockin’ Richard’s Record and CD sale.
“While focusing on the rise and demise of Tower Records, the fallen retail giant that once billed its flagship location as ‘The Largest Record-Tape Store in the Known World,’ actor-turned-documentarian Colin Hanks also offers glances at the bigger picture of 21st-century recording industry upheavals in ‘All Things Must Pass.’”
Star Tribune music critic Jon Bream parts with his 25,000-piece record collection: “Known around the office as “Bream’s record vault,” the collection has been moved around the Star Tribune’s sprawling headquarters a few times but has been housed for the longest stretch in a dingy, dusty room in the furthest back corner of the building’s basement, where the steel tracks that once guided giant rolls of newspaper toward the printing press still zigzag across the floor.”
Record shop celebrates its 10th anniversary: “Sole proprietor Stuart Smith established Seismic Records in 2005 supplying vinyl and CDs to an expanding customer base in the UK and worldwide.”
“Practical solutions for record storage are few and far between. Vinyl lovers were up in arms when IKEA announced it was discontinuing its Expedit range last year, and though it replaced it with the almost identical Kallax, there’s still a lack of options if you don’t want to battle your local branch on a Saturday afternoon.”
“Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker is presenting 20 Golden Greats,’ an art exhibition at Red Bull Space Paris accompanied by an instrumental soundtrack. The exhibition is composed of vinyl records designed by Cocker, bearing the names of fictional songs credited to labels like RCA Victor and Belter.”
Elton John pays record store surprise visit: “What would you say if Elton John walked into your record store? Sunny Rosen, the mom in the mom-and-pop Wax Trax Records store at 2909 S. Decatur Blvd., put her hand to her mouth in amazement and said, ‘This is so much better than seeing you from the last row in Carnegie Hall in 1971.’”
Death Waltz Records to Open New Vinyl Soundtrack Store in the UK: “…known producing fresh vinyl copies of soundtracks old and new, has announced that they’re opening an actual brick ‘n mortar store in the UK that will be called Transmission Records.”
