Play De Record Vinyl Series: the home of largest vinyl plant in the world, “If you were to pick through your records right now, there’s a really good possibility that more than a few of them were crafted in the small Czech village of Lodenice…Out of the 9 million records bought in the United States last year, over half of them were from Lodenice…”
Global record release day shift prompts record store response: “…The global change, which will be put into practice July 10, is described by the IFPI as a way for stores to take advantage of the increase in retail traffic and impulse buying that occurs during the weekend. Sales statistics may back up the IFPI’s logic, but A2IM’s Department of Record Stores still wants to offer customers a reason to come to the record store at the beginning of the week—their answer is Vinyl Tuesday…”
Canadian-owned CD/DVD/Vinyl Record retailer coming to North Bay: “Sunrise Records is opening a store at Northgate Shopping Centre…”
London’s Newest Record Shop Might Also be its Most Secret: “Another day, another new record shop opens in South London. OK, so Sacred Grooves has actually been open since March, but surely that just proves how hush-hush they’ve been. With no online presence to speak of and open just one day a week, Sacred Grooves is one of the capital’s best kept secrets and the forth record shop to open in Peckham in the last year…”