The Royal Wedding will be released on vinyl: The upcoming nuptials will also be the first royal wedding ceremony to ever be streamed, courtesy of the iconic label Decca. A recording of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s upcoming wedding ceremony is set to be released on vinyl. The audio from the royal wedding, which will take place at Windsor Castle on May 19, will also be the first of its kind to be released on streaming services, with Decca behind the recording – which is due to be made available just hours after the ceremony has taken place. As well as a digital version, royal fans will be able to buy a recording of Harry and Meghan’s wedding on vinyl, with a release date yet to be specified.
As Vinyl Surges, a Boutique Pressing Plant Helps Smaller Indies Get an In: Amid the ongoing vinyl resurgence, if a small independent label or indie band goes looking to get LPs pressed by the limited number of plants that exist to meet the demand, the response is typically: “Take a number.” That’s particularly true in the run-up to the semi-annual Record Store Day, when hundreds of exclusive releases get added to an already overtaxed manufacturing system. Enter a new concept: the boutique-level LP pressing plant. Gold Rush Vinyl, a new facility in Austin, Texas, is now catering to those formerly shut-out imprints and acts by pressing small runs ranging from 1,000 units to orders as small as 100 copies, with a speedy turnaround time of four to six weeks.
Vinyl record sales raise £370 for UK based Kenyan charity: British based Kenyan charity, African Children’s Fund, held a vinyl record fair at their shop in Faringdon on Saturday. Collectors could choose from hundreds of records from the 60s, 70s, 80s & 90s in 7″, 12″ and LP formats, from soul to pop and folk to classical starting from just 50p. Shoppers were even entertained by DJ Citizen Cane who set up his decks to spin some tunes outside the store. During the day, over £370 worth of records were sold, with many more donated to help raise funds for the charity’s work in Kenya. The event proved so successful that the charity have organised another in Grove on Saturday 12 May.
Cult Hero record shop is closing its doors for now: Music lovers have voiced their sadness and disappointment that a leading music and film shop is closing its doors. Cult Hero, in North Street, Brighton, will close on Saturday after the landlord sold the premises for the Hannington’s Lane redevelopment. European retail real estate company, Redevco, is revamping a new entrance to The Lanes which means some shops in North Street will be replaced. The shop has been trading for more than a decade having opened originally in Duke Street. Frank Taylor, 35, owner of Cult Hero, said he is looking for alternative sites for his store. He said: “The landlord has made the decision to sell the premises to a development company so there’s nothing we can do.
WUKY’s 5th Annual Vintage Vinyl Sale: Bigger and Better: LEXINGTON, KY — WUKY, the University of Kentucky’s NPR station, is hosting its fifth annual Vintage Vinyl Sale. The Vintage Vinyl Sale has become one of WUKY’s most anticipated events and takes its participants back in time where music was more than popping in some earbuds and jamming to your favorite tunes, it was an event where you gathered around the record player and experienced the raw talent of an artist. The Vintage Vinyl Sale kicks off Wednesday, April 25, at the Habitat for Humanity ReStore on Southland Drive in Lexington with a preview party from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tickets will be available at the door for $20. The public portion of the sale is from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. each day, April 26-28.
KSM Music now offering vinyl records, record player repair service: Guitars hanging from the walls, keyboards resting on stands and music books packed on shelves are just some of the things you can expect to see if you to walk into KSM Music in Logan. But now you can add the faces of some of the most popular artists, from the late Pavarotti to Paul Simon, to that inventory as well. That’s because KSM, at 50 W. 400 North, is selling vinyl records. In the not-too-distant future, it will start selling and repairing record players. “A lot of people come into the store asking us if we have records,” said Kevin Moore, owner of KSM, as one reason the store started selling vinyl. “The other reason is, me being a record collector, I’m always looking for somebody that has records here in the valley, and there is not a lot of opportunity for finding good vinyl.”
Records, daiquiris at Village, Raccoon Records, Doyle’s Daiquiries to open up in Torrido Village: Two shops opening in Torrido Village plan to bring some unique music and liquid beverage options to local residents and visitors. Steve Grisaffe previously owned a record shop along U.S. 90 that closed in 2015. Raccoon Records served as a way for Grisaffe to store his gigantic record collection and sell to interested customers. After the shop closed, Grisaffe has been selling records out of his garage but still had a stream of interested customers looking to buy records that he’s collected over the years. Back in the old place, he even had customers from all over the world who wanted to buy authentic Louisiana swamp pop and local music during Festival International. Grisaffe’s large collection started after Hurricane Katrina when he received thousands of records after an insurance claim. After that, the records have kept coming, and Grisaffe is fine sharing them with the public.
