Beloved Nashville record shop is headed east: Grimey’s New & Preloved Music, a nearly 20-year-old Nashville record store, plans to move across town this fall. According to a news release, Grimey’s will consolidate the inventories of both its main location and neighboring Grimey’s Too in its new home at 1060 East Trinity Lane, formerly the home of Point of Mercy Church. Both stores are currently located on Eighth Avenue South, in neighboring buildings. Grimey’s Too’s home, 1702 8th Ave. S., has been sold, according to the release, and that store will close at the end of May. Grimey’s 1604 Eighth Ave. S. home has been on the market for more than two years but has yet to sell, and the record store will continue to operate there until November.
New Stellarton record shop features technical flair: Stellarton’s downtown just got a little more musical with the addition of Ohm-N Audio – a store owned by a man with a great enthusiasm for anything related to music and sound. Dennis Balesdent, owner of Ohm-N Audio, said he was looking to provide something he thought the area needed, and felt he was the right guy to do so. Balesdent said he knew he found a calling when 25 years ago he was asked to fix his grandmother’s speakers and he got “hooked on speaker design and getting things to sound real.” That appreciation for the technical nuances of sound was one of many ways Balesdent pursued a love of music and musical technology. Before opening his business on Foord Street, Balesdent worked as an online retailer of records – but the purview of Ohm-N Audio goes far beyond just record sales.
So Retro: Vinyl records keep on spinning: Step inside Rainbo Records in Los Angeles to see how vinyl records are made. Vinyl is having a major revival. Thanks to millennial listeners discovering the format fresh, and audiophiles who love the sound quality, the demand for vinyl records is growing. Rainbo Records in Los Angeles is one of several record makers across the US that’s stepping up to meet demand from a new generation of listeners. The company has has been pressing records since 1939, with some machines over 40 years old. Rainbo produces around 23,000 records a day and runs the plant 24 hours a day, 5 days a week. Watch the video to learn how Rainbo Records makes vinyl and how little the manufacturing process has changed…
Brooklyn record store Black Gold brings its vinyl, oddities and coffee to SoHo: For years, we’ve been mourning the loss of great neighborhood record stores like Greenwich’s Other Music, Bleecker Street Records and Rebel Rebel — all which shuttered in 2016 — but one Brooklyn-based shop is ready to fill the void. Carroll Gardens’ Black Gold celebrated the opening of its SoHo location inside the Artists and Fleas market on Broadway in February. Taking after its Brooklyn shop, Black Gold’s corner of Artists and Fleas still serves up Brooklyn-roasted coffee next to its taxidermied animal heads and vinyl (ranging from hip-hop and punk rock to gospel, jazz and swing), but now there’s a new clientele.
Love of records enduring for Kelowna vinyl fan, John Gowland’s record collection dates back to 1950s: John Gowland’s love affair with vinyl records began when he was a teenager. And it continues today as the 69-year-old Kelowna resident boasts a collection of 9,000 albums in his home. “I still have some, maybe 200 or 300, that I bought when I was a teenager but over the years I’ve continued to add to my collection,” Gowland said. That is no easy task today with the digital revolution of the music recording industry that has seen vinyl records passed by by music buyers for CDs and then online downloading. “You have to get out there and hustle at yard sales, thrift stores, anywhere where you think records might be available. They are harder to get now,” he said.
Vinyl Revolution Record Show Unites Long Island Classic Music Fans Who ‘Have Never Given Up on Vinyl’: On Sunday, April 8th, old and new fans of vinyl alike attended the bi-annual Vinyl Revolution Record Show during its return to Long Island. According to vendor John Gorlewski, attendees are “kind of a cross section of people who are old enough to have never given up on vinyl as a format in the first place, and younger people who are too young to remember what it was like when records were ruling the world.” The event, which was held at Cluett Hall in Garden City, featured 60 dealer tables ran by passionate music fans from all over the east coast. “I live in Connecticut, and do record shows up in Connecticut, but some of the bigger and more well-attended shows in New York City, I’ll come out and do. This is one of them. It’s a pretty good crowd, there’s a lot of good dealers out here, and it’s a good, well-organized event,” said Gorlewski.
Now the Electric Fetus has its own Lego set, too: Apparently the new way to emphasize you’re a Minnesota music institution is to get your own Lego set. Following the lead of First Avenue, Minneapolis’ most venerable record shop the Electric Fetus just began stocking the “Fetus Girl” mini-figure, a blonde musichead with her own record crate. Adding to the cool factor, her collection features LPs by all Minnesota acts: Atmosphere, Babes in Toyland, Charlie Parr, Bob Dylan, Hippo Campus and Sonny Knight & the Lakers. The minifigure is based on a poster print by well-known local artist Adam Turman. She’s being sold for $25 along with a limited-edition Brickmania retro turntable with the Electric Fetus logo on it, which sells for $35. Each set can also be ordered online via ElectricFetus.com.
Kellogg’s spins playable record made of Chocolate Frosted Flakes: As part of its latest campaign, Kellogg’s Chocolate Frosted Flakes is releasing an edible and playable record made from cereal that features the new release “Hello” from boy band PrettyMuch, a news release announced. PrettyMuch is also debuting a new music video for “Hello” on its YouTube channel that features Tony the Tiger, the brand’s mascot. The song is available for download on iTunes. The record was created with layers of Chocolate Frosted Flakes and milk and dark chocolate, with a silhouette of Tony the Tiger made from the cereal. The limited-edition record was pressed in a 3-D printed mold to create grooves so it’s playable.
