Manchester’s best vinyl record shops – your essential guide: “Vinyl records are undergoing something of a resurgence but Manchester has always had love for the humble medium. The boom has been helped by things like Record Store Day and Vinyl Record Day but it is a year-round business for this city.”
In praise of vinyl records: “Yes, I know vinyl is hip again, but pretty much every LP I own is older — sometimes MUCH older — than the interns in the CNN Digital newsroom. Believe me, I don’t keep those albums because they’re suddenly fashionable.”
Frankie Knuckles Record Collection Donated To Stony Island Arts Bank: “Sadly no longer with us, the Chicago artist’s record collection is set to stay – entirely intact – in his hometown. The vinyl hoard will be donated to Stony Island Arts Bank, a former bank on the city’s south side which has been transformed into a cultural nexus.”
Vinyl Set Focuses on The Replacements’ Early Years: “If you love the sound of the early days of The Replacements and feel like a vinyl record is the only way to hear the legendarily unruly rock group, a new four-album set has your name written on it: The Twin/Tone Years.”
‘Insane’ Rent in Logan Square Pushes Record Store to Avondale: “Logan Square’s Bucket O’ Blood Books and Records closed up shop at its original Milwaukee Avenue location last week after the owners were unable to find affordable rents in the neighborhood. The shop has moved into an expanded space in Avondale near Kuma’s Corner and the Beer Temple.”
One for the Ages: Wine and Vinyl, “Just as wine, with all its unique taste characteristics, reflects the place and time it comes from, vinyl music is also the physical manifestation of different time periods. And like the former, vinyl records also get better with age.“
