I’m Not Happy With The New Survey That Makes Collecting Vinyl Seem Deeply Unsexy…: Well take if from me, not all vinyl buyers are your weird uncle Nigel. I am a woman with, like, loads of mates and something resembling a pretty decent social life and I’ve been buying vinyl since the age of 12. It all started on holidays to Cornwall with my mum, which would often end up in the local charity shops, where I realised you could pick up the original copies of the 1970s and 1980s tunes me and my mates were downloading like crazy on Napster for 50p a throw.
Vinyl destination: who is actually buying records? YouGov says middle-aged men – not bushy-eyed millenials – are fuelling the record renaissance. We hit the stores of Soho to test their data: Lonely, middle-aged men love vinyl. Before you rush to litter the comments section with gnarly insults under the pseudonym NotAllLonelyMiddleAgedMen, this statement derives from actual data. According to YouGov, the much talked-about record resurgence is driven not by a boom in millennials who want to embrace the novelty of a physical item, but by midlife nostalgia. Those who have recently purchased a vinyl album are most likely to be aged between 45 and 54, apparently.
The vinyl revival with Mark O’Shaughnessy of Bath’s Resolution Records: Vinyl buyers have been revealed as “lonely introverts”, according to a new study by YouGov that looked into the demographics of vinyl buyers in 2016 … This startling news caused the Bath Chronicle’s entertainment editor and record enthusiast Dan Biggane to take a good hard look in the mirror – before wandering down to Resolution Records, Bath’s new independent vinyl record store in Green Park Station, where he talked the vinyl revival with owner Mark O’Shaughnessy.
Central Okanagan retailers celebrate revival of records: All day today, Robbie McIvor will be spinning the vinyl just inside the front doors of London Drugs in West Kelowna. “I’ll start with some of the classics — Van Morrison, Paul Simon and Phil Collins — because they always sound so good on the turntable,” said the 24-year-old assistant manager of the store’s audio-video department. “And then I’ll play some Adele because she has the bestselling album on vinyl right now, and then I’ll take requests, which means we’ll probably have to put some Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift on.” Why is London Drugs setting up a DJ booth and spinning records?
Vinyl Records Now the Fastest Growing Music Segment: Despite an explosion in digital album sales, vinyl records are now the fastest growing music segment. For the first six months of 2016 alone, Vinyl LP sales were up 39 per cent in Canada over last year, according to Nielsen Canada’s 2016 Mid-Year Music Canada Report. Canadian retailer, London Drugs, was one of the first to recognize this bright spot in the music business and has steadily expanded its collection to between 400-500 titles at any given time. The chain has become a go-to for vinyl enthusiasts in Western Canada and nationally through its ecommerce site, LondonDrugs.com, where several hundred additional titles are available.
The world’s best record shops #032: Oye Records, Berlin: Run by Delfonic, Berlin’s hardest working DJ, and disco head Tinko, Oye began life nestled in the basement of a house in the heart of Prenzlauerberg has since spread its wing to Kreuzkölln where an outpost flies the flag south of the river. In recent years, the store has become central to the city’s new analogue house scene; something of a community centre for upstart producers like Max Graef and Glenn Astro with a hand in burgeoning label Money $ex that’s making waves all the way to Japan.
Downtown Randall Brown: Gimme that ol’ Elder Magick: Technology marches ever forward, as an old saying goes. Often, we end up working to overcome the ease and convenience of some forward-thinking innovations…This return to old ways doesn’t bother folks like Michael Ottinger. He decided a few years ago to ditch a multitude of CDs and rebuild his music collection on vinyl with just his favorite stuff. The move kicked in his do-it-yourself, punk-rock spirit and he decided to start a record label — Elder Magick Records — with his best friend James Cox of Jersey City, N.J.
