Portland, OR | 10 Million Releases on Discogs! Discogs, the world’s foremost Database, Marketplace, and Community for physical music, surpasses a significant data milestone with the addition of the 10 millionth release to the Discogs Database. The user-built, open-source database, with more than 400,000 Contributors, continues the nearly 18-year mission to build the most extensive and comprehensive music Database and Marketplace in the world. In 2000, Founder and President, Kevin Lewandowski launched the Discogs Database by submitting The Persuader’s 2xLP release Stockholm followed by the launch of the Discogs Marketplace in 2003, establishing an essential resource for record collectors worldwide, and unknowingly setting a cornerstone for the vinyl revival and international cultural experiences like Record Store Day.
Cambridge, UK | Millionaire lottery winner returns to his roots with new record shop: A Haverhill man who won a £148 million jackpot is returning to his roots by re-opening a record shop in the town. Multi-millionaire Adrian Bayford landed the second biggest lottery win in British history in 2012. Bayford, 45, was selling second hand albums from a music shop when he struck lucky on the Euromillions. Eight years on from his life changing win he is opening a new branch of Black Barn Records in Haverhill. The bric-a-brac store sells everything from life-size cutouts of Hollywood legends to signed Beatles memorabilia. Bayford already owns a record store by Cambridge’s Grafton Centre with the same name, which he opened in April 2016, but his newest venture is on the same site as where he used to work.
John Coltrane’s New ‘Lost Album’ Captures a Day in the Life of His Greatest Band: Any newly discovered music from a legend on the order of John Coltrane is an event. But the reason advance buzz has been particularly feverish for Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album, a previously unissued session from March of 1963, is that it comes from the era of his so-called Classic Quartet. Simply put, the group – featuring pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Jimmy Garrison and drummer Elvin Jones – was Coltrane’s greatest band, a unit perfectly poised between hard-edged swing and gravity-defying exploration. And here, suddenly, we have 90 minutes of excellent-sounding material from them that most never knew existed.
Jerry Goldsmith’s The Omen soundtrack released on limited white vinyl: 666 copies, naturally. The original soundtrack for 1976 horror film The Omen is being released on limited white LP, via Varase Sarabande this June. The Omen stars Gregory Peck as an American diplomat who replaces his deceased baby with an orphan whose mother died at birth. Little do they know that this seemingly innocent newborn is actually the Antichrist. Legendary American composer Jerry Goldsmith who also crafted sounds for films including Planet of the Apes, Chinatown, and LA Confidential created its Oscar winning score, which also received a best original song nomination for ‘Ave Satani’ (Hail Satan).
