Petone pub’s Vinyl Club gets ready to spin for NZ Music Month: “To get more people on board, the vinyl enthusisasts has seized on the fact it is NZ Music Month and is inviting anyone interested in Kiwi music to come down to the Sprig & Fern on Jackson St and hear an eclectic mix this Sunday afternoon/evening. A special guest will be Colin Linwood, an authority on the New Zealand music scene who has a collection of about 30,000 records…”
Cooking Vinyl MD calls for music industry tax breaks: “…The tax breaks that currently exist to help the music industry actually give the tax break to private investors,” he said. “As exists for other creative industries, why not also have a scheme that gives the break directly to music?
QRATES Makes Vinyl Releases Possible For Smaller Bands: “The revival of vinyl demand is obvious, but what’s not so clear for up-and-coming artists is how to get their music on the resurgent format. What QRATES hopes to do is simplify the process by assisting in the funding, pressing and selling of vinyl records…”
This Hardcore Punk Record Is The Most Expensive Item Ever Sold On Discogs: “‘I’m bewildered. I don’t know why that record is worth anything to anybody when it’s not worth anything to the people who created it,’ said Mike ‘Judge’ Ferraro, drummer of straight-edge band Judge, about their curious debut LP Chung King Can Suck It.”
Urban Outfitters Now The World’s Biggest Seller Of Vinyl Records: “It’s notable that Urban Outfitters, a chain that’s worried it’s gotten too young for its 18- to 28-year-old customers in the past year, is such a big seller of an old technology. The people buying vinyl, it turns out, are those who grew up with the ability to download music or stream it on Pandora and Spotify…”
Wax Rax brings new vinyl record storage units to ICFF: “It’s Wax Rax’s second time at the annual ICFF contemporary design trade show at the Javits Center, and the Brooklyn-based handmade vinyl record storage unit manufacturer has two new pieces on display at its exhibition hall booth…”
