TONIGHT! Other Music Second Line Parade & 75 Dollar Bill In-Store Performance: Following 75 Dollar Bill’s in-store performance at 5:30 p.m. (the final in-store performance at Other Music ever!!), the incredible Matana Roberts will lead us on a march from the shop, across 4th Street, down the Bowery, to the Bowery Ballroom on Delancey. We want to celebrate 20 years of New York City music and arts culture with all of you, and we hope that whether or not you have tickets to our farewell show later that evening at the Bowery Ballroom, you will join us for this free event — let’s show NYC that music still matters!
Brighton bucks the trend once again with new record store: WITH record stores across the country closing down, Brighton has once again bucked the trend. Bella Union opened in Ship Street Gardens earlier this month with sales already better than expected. It is thought to be the only music stote in the country selling exclusively the releases of just one record label, also called Bella Union. The label has bands such as Fleet Foxes, Mercury Rev and Flaming Lips on its roster. Owner and label founder Simon Raymonde said the first weeks had been promising.
In Springsteen’s home state, a start-up feeds vinyl’s revival: The past has caught up with the future, or maybe it’s the other way around, on the sweaty factory floor of Independent Record Pressing just off I-295 in Bordentown. Most of the workers there weren’t born when what they’re making today was big. General manager Sean Rutkowski, 46, was, though he came of age in the era of cassettes and CDs. But in a surprising return from near-death, vinyl records are back on the turntable, in demand by recording artists and music consumers alike after years of relegation to flea markets and used-record stores.
Fans of vinyl record music to come together at event in Mumbai: What was once considered a dead format, vinyl records are slowly coming back to the scene with collectors, listeners and DJs finding ways to experience one of the oldest analogue forms of music, again. And starting Sunday, antiSOCIAL, the community space in Khar Social is launching an exclusive meet, titled Drop The Needle, targetting this unique bunch of vinyl fans. First launched in Bengaluru in April this year, Drop the Needle, will act as a common ground for vinyl collectors, listeners and DJs to play, share and even trade music with each other, says Roycin D’Souza of Social, who is heading the Mumbai chapter of the event.
Record Riot brings music lovers together in Jersey City: On a nearly perfect summer afternoon near the Grove Street Path Station in Jersey City, music lovers could be heard talking about obscure bands like Pretty Boy Floyd or combing through boxes of records for unexpected treasures. During Saturday’s Record Riot, all this and more was going on throughout the afternoon. Steve Gritzan, the owner of Iris Records on Brunswick Street in Jersey City, said he organizes similar shows like this in seven cities including Philadelphia and Brooklyn. He said he added Jersey City because it’s “becoming more of a vinyl place.”
How to remake a Blue Note jazz album – in pictures: The vinyl revival continues. Founded in 1978, Music Matters Jazz is dedicated to re-releasing new pressings of historic Blue Note jazz titles. Each of the reissued albums is restored and remastered from the original analogue master tapes
