Vinyl lives! 10 great record stores for a musical treasure hunt: At a time when smartphone users can access hundreds of thousands of songs in an instant, stores selling music on vinyl are still flourishing. “There is the excitement of the hunt and chase. You just don’t know what’s going to come next when you flip through records,” says Amanda Petrusich, author of Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World’s Rarest 78 RPM Records (Scribner, $16). “Going to a record store is a physical experience in a way that acquiring music online is not.”
A New Spin on Vinyl Records: On the surface, the vinyl revival is a welcome bright spot for a beleaguered recording industry. On the flip side, there’s a pressing problem – literally. Only a handful of record-pressing plants remain in operation, and they must cope with aging, difficult-to-service machinery, a shortage of skilled labor, and a raw materials supply controlled by a single company. But in the meantime, additive manufacturing technology has advanced to a level of precision that could create interesting possibilities for this niche application.
We’ve Passed Peak Vinyl – Here Comes The Collapse: So vinyl has gone from comprising nearly 9 percent of physical album sales in 2015 to nearly 12 percent in 2016. BUT — as much as it pains me to say it — that’s not the important figure here. In fact, that statistic is basically useless to us. See, vinyl’s overall share of the “physical” market is pretty irrelevant, because its increase in that regard has less to do with the growth of vinyl than it does the decline of CDs. The thing to focus on here is that “38 percent” figure. If we want to get a feel for the viability of vinyl going forward, we have to isolate that data; we have to compare apples to apples.
Death Waltz Records unveil long-awaited Twin Peaks vinyl reissue: Angelo Badalamenti’s beloved score makes its long overdue return to vinyl next month. Death Waltz have finally revealed the first look at the the Twin Peaks soundtrack vinyl reissue. Originally announced in 2014, it — and a Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me soundtrack reissue — will finally be released later this year. More details will be unveiled on August 8, but fans can check out the artwork today (on, coincidentally, Laura Palmer’s birthday). It will be available on Death Waltz’s site August 10, before heading to physical retailers September 9.
