Indie Retailers Launching “Vinyl Tuesdays” “Vinyl Tuesday is an initiative set up by Independent retailers to celebrate vinyl releases. Every Tuesday, participating retailers will celebrate by highlighting special-edition, catalog, promotional, and new releases on vinyl. The goal is to maintain and grow physical retail while giving music fans more compelling reasons to support this important part of the music business community…”
“Brooklyn may be saying out with the old and in with the new, but to one veteran record collector, old vinyl records are important to retaining the borough’s culture. Beats In Space artist Tom Noble has opened a vintage record store, Superior Elevation Records, at 100 White Street in Bushwick…”
Zenith Records spinning vinyl in Brunswick: “Zenith Records – the sole surviving vinyl disc manufacturer in Australia – has started running a night shift to meet demand and expects to produce between 250,000 and 300,000 units this financial year…”
Infographic: How Vinyl Records Made Their Comeback
A New Thread-Type Record Cleaning Machine From Pristine Vinyl: “While ultrasonic machines are well in vogue now—and for good reason—there’s still a place for this kind of record cleaner and it can be argued that it is superior to the velvet lip type machine because there’s always a fresh surface contacting the record and zero chance of re-contaminating the record…”
Jam 88.3 and Satchmi release vinyl record compilation to showcase Filipino bands: “…Now, the secret’s out and we’re more than happy to share with everyone what Fresh Fliter Volume 1 is all about…”
Amy Poehler’s ‘Yes Please’ to sell on hot-pink vinyl: “As an attempt to build on millennials’ budding interest in vinyl and other things manual, Harper Collins will sell a recorded version of Yes Please featuring the voices of Poehler, Carol Burnett, Mike Schur and Kathleen Turner…”
