Music Regram: Lucero Hand-Number Limited Edition “Bootleg Vinyl”: “The band noted that each jacket is individually stamped and numbered. The “bootleg” also contains an LP pressed from a random combination of colors, making each package truly unique. One of a kind and custom? Cool! See, not everything in 2015 needs to be digital, now does it?”
Vinyl Records continue to be a part of Modern day life, but why? “From the release of iPods in 2001 to the music streaming service Spotify in 2008 which has had a tremendous increase of interest over the years and also taken over how people listen to music today. With this in mind and with how technology is evolving each year you would think that record players would be none existent but this is not the case.”
Mom-and-pop store offers vinyl, CDs: “Martha Hull and Bob Berberich describe themselves as veterans of the Washington music community whose interest in music propelled them to open Vinyl Acres, a brick-and-mortar business that was not a spare-time endeavor.”
Imagine a world filled with portable record players: ““The Rawman 3000 produces such a big, rich sound, that it only can be compared to a very elaborate and expensive component stereo record player system. Yet, it´s so small that you can take it anywhere you go.” German design agency Rocket & Wink have teased a range of portable record players that seem to good to be true. Don’t get your hopes up though, these players won’t be hitting the market anytime soon.”
Your Tunes 2015: Online music vs. vintage Vinyl: Quality-wise, what’s most popular and why. Popularity-wise, what’s most popular and why. And where do you stand?
Mondo’s making more than posters, and it’s alienating fans: “When Mondo made its first forays into issuing vinyl soundtracks, it started with very small projects, like the 2012 remake of slasher film Maniac and cult Italian horror film The Beyond. There’s a conscious effort to make the album art as high-quality as the prints…”
Eclectic and rare finds at Collingswood record store: “… Inner Groove Records, new to Collingswood’s Haddon Avenue, carries the weird, the rare, the offbeat. His inventory — nearly all vinyl — includes blues, jazz, rock, psychedelia, reggae, folk, even avant garde (where the Leonard Nimoy and Marlene Dietrich albums are filed).”
