Los Angeles, CA | Amoeba Music Set to Relocate Its Los Angeles Store, Plans to Seek Dispensary Permit: Amoeba Records’ Los Angeles store will move to a new location “within blocks” of its current spot on 6400 Sunset, where it’s been since first opening its doors back in 2001, according to Marc Weinstein, who co-owns the indie record retailer with Dave Prinz. The company also plans to seek a marijuana dispensary permit for the new location. Three nearby properties are being considered within the 20,000 sq. ft. range, two of them along Hollywood Blvd. According to Weinstein, that represents just a 15% smaller retail space than the current building. The official announcement will come within the next few weeks.
South Shields, ENG | Friends unite to open business ventures in South Shields: A group of friends have seen their business dreams turned into a reality after joining forces to revamp a former South Tyneside housing office. Goldie, Jill palmer and Paul Kidney worked flat out for nine weeks to give the old rent place in Charlotte Terrace a new lease of life. One half of the building is now home to Goldie’s music hub and coffee shop while the other half has been turned into The Cask Lounge – a micro bar run by Jill and Paul. The businesses opened to the public simultaneously on May 12. The music hub provides a place for fans of vinyl records to go, with a dedicated media room where they can listen to records or cassette tapes.
‘Hearts Beat Loud’: Nick Offerman & the Filmmakers on Making An Authentic Film About Vinyl & Streaming In 2018: “…There was one night when we were all wrapping up and it was me, Sasha, who plays Rose, and Brett,” reveals Clemons. “And we were in the shop, showing each other songs and albums that we liked. We’d pick up random records and were dancing, and it was cute. Brett was playing us songs from a playlist he made for his wife when they first started dating. I felt like we were still in the movie. It was a sweet bonding experience.” “You have to embrace what’s coming,” explains Haley. “But I think it’s great that we’ve gone back with music, as vinyl has come back in a big way and people are digging analog sound again.”
Clinton Township, MI | The graphic impact of punk on display at Cranbrook: Nothin’ to do and nowhere to go? Don’t let the summer heat make you feel sedated. Running through Oct. 7, Cranbrook Art Museum debuts the exhibition “Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics, 1976-1986,” the largest exhibition of its kind, exploring the unique visual language of the punk movement as it evolved in the United States and the United Kingdom through hundreds of its most memorable graphics — flyers, posters, albums, promotions, and ’zines. Drawn predominantly from the extensive collection of collector Andrew Krivine, “Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die” also includes a nod to the Detroit roots of punk.
Bowling Green, OH | Introducing vinyl to youth: Teens will spin records at the library. Classic vinyl record listening will be rocking and rolling back into the Wood County District Public Library with the Tween/Teen Record Listening Club, a series built in conjunction with Bowling Green State University’s Music Library and Bill Schurk Sound Archives. The first meeting will be June 22. “It’s all part of the summer reading program “Libraries Rock!” theme. Everything this summer is music themed,” Ali Hultz, WCDPL children’s assistant librarian, said. “Even STEM events deal with sound, like our Meet a Musician, where we bring in musicians who will play live.” Dave Lewis, sound archivist, will be teaching a history of sound recording at the first meeting, featuring equipment from Sound Archives
Record Revival: Vinyl popularity, prices spinning to new heights: The clean, crisp sound of vinyl has been music to the ears of many for years. It’s a sound that many say only takes a backseat to live music. “The whole purpose of opening up a shop was that we love music, and we realize that the best music is live music,” Harry of Harry’s Hi-Fi said. “What we’ve always tried to have in our store is equipment that reproduced music as close as you could possibly come to live.” Harry and his wife, Pat, have been running stereo stores since the 1970s. Even during a time when vinyl had a close scrape with death…“Tom Petty and especially David Bowie, all of a sudden people realize ‘oh man, these guys were great, and they passed away and we’re never going to see them again’, and then people just want to buy all the records up,” Harry said.
First vinyl album ever made recreated for 70th anniversary. Composer Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in e minor was the first music to be put on a vinyl album. The first ever vinyl LP ever pressed, Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in e minor, has been recreated to celebrate seven decades of the format. The original master tapes and artwork from the 1948 release have been used in the recreation of the record, which was first revealed to the world by former Columbia Records president Goddard Lieberson. The album features the playing of violinist Nathan Milstein and the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York, conducted by Maestro Bruno Walter.A total of 500 exclusive pressings of the German composer’s violin concerto will be given away for free by retailer HMV in a selection of its stores to mark the anniversary on Saturday.
