From Fleetwood Mac to the Stone Roses: Record collectors in East Kilbride rush to buy new vinyl releases from Sainsbury’s: The best-selling vinyl in East Kilbride has been revealed. After bringing back the format last month to sell alongside CDs, bosses at Sainsbury’s in Kingsgate Retail Park have revealed that Fleetwood Mac’s classic album ‘Rumours’ has been the best-seller. The top record is closely followed by The Beatles records ‘Abbey Road’ and ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’, and then The Stone Roses’ self-titled debut.
Australia is opening a new vinyl pressing plant this year: If the vinyl boom is about to go bust then it’s news to Roundabout Records. As FACT Magazine reports, the Adelaide-based recording studio and record pressing facility are set to open Australia’s newest vinyl pressing plant later this year. Roundabout Records is currently a smaller-scale operation led by Adelaide Hills resident Colin Forster. Forster’s Hills-based facilities are small-scale but full-service, offering everything from recording and mastering to pressing.
Music fans giving vinyl albums a spin again: Vinyl isn’t just the name of a new series on HBO. In fact, not only are those old records you have stored in the closet desirable and a little more valuable than you thought, so is that vintage turntable the albums are stacked on. And while classic albums by Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Foreigner and Boston are the hardest to keep in stock for Chad Bledsoe at Chad’s Records inside Winder Binder on the North Shore, the vinyl version of Adele’s 2015 release “25” outsold all of them by a wide margin worldwide.
Mondo label shows how they made their liquid-filled ‘Aliens’ vinyl: Get this. Mondo, the franchising production company that focuses on the production of movie-related posters, toys and soundtracks, have given a behind-the-scenes look into the making of their quite revolutionary new product: the liquid filled vinyl record made especially for the re-release of the soundtrack to horror movie Aliens. Interesting fact: each copy of that liquid-filled vinyl release took over an hour to make. Mondo dropped the news of their newest release last week, which is to be a 75-copy only special edition of James Horner’s Aliens soundtrack, filled with green blood of the infamous xenomorph. The special edition vinyl was released today on Alien Day.
For the Record: Vinyl Isn’t Going Anywhere: Evidence of the permanence of the record player can be seen across many different Boulder County businesses, who are not only surviving, but are growing in numbers and popularity; places like Bart’s Record Shop, Albums on the Hill, and Absolute Vinyl, are just a few of the commercial staples in the Boulder Community that offer an escape from the hectic stresses of the everyday, and a plunge into decades of human expression; for the curious and adventurous ear, Boulder is an excellent place to begin exploring the joys of vinyl.
History of vinyl traced in new panel discussion at ICA: To coincide with its celebration of the art of PiL, the ICA is hosting a panel discussion on ‘The Rise, Fall and Rise of Vinyl Records’. The esteemed panel of speakers includes Peter Saville, Adrian Shaughnessy and our very own Sean Bidder. Chaired by Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy of Classic Album Sundays, the event promises to trace the influence that vinyl cover design has had on popular culture, what differentiates vinyl from alternative formats, and why there is a resurgence amongst the download generation.
