New venue and record shop to open in London this September, Spiritland will also be a cafe and a bar: A new venue and record shop is set to open in London in September.Spiritland will be based near King’s Cross and will function as a venue, cafe, bar and record shop. It will also stock high-end audio equipment and has plans to run a radio studio called Spiritland Sound Studio.
Reanimator Records to close downtown: The venue at 344 N. Patterson Ave., near Krankies Coffee, offers a combined record store and event space, including live music, vinyl records, beer and art shows. “We’ve had many shows there over the last four years — bands touring from around the country,” said Shawn Peters, who owns Reanimator Records with his business partner, Anthony Petrovic. At about 400 square feet, Reanimator was established in October 2012 to fill a niche for bands that needed a small venue in Winston-Salem. “Now, there are a couple of other places that do that, so it’s kind of okay for us to bow out for now,” Peters said.
Why Did Eric Church Buy a Vinyl Record Pressing Plant in Germany? Eric Church is still getting asked why he did a surprise release of his “Mr. Misunderstood”album last fall. Some of it we’ve heard before. e was suddenly inspired to record something, and 30 days later he had a new album. What happens next is that it gets sent to the record company and the suits sit on it, discuss it over lunch, and basically do what they have to in order to justify their jobs.
In Tune: Lian records Jakarta’s best-kept secret: Lian is the most famous brand ambassador for the city of Jakarta that you probably don’t know about. CNN Travel said he is “the go-to guy for foreigners who want to discover Indonesian history and the influences behind the country’s modern identity”. “He has a cunning knack of quickly figuring out what you wanted and producing attuned piles of discs,” CNN Travel wrote in 2011. In 2015, CNN included Lian’s shop as one of 10 best shopping destination for travelers, in the same category with New York’s Other Music and Chicago’s Dusty Groove.
Reasons behind the upsurge in vinyl sales: Vinyl records, invented in the 19th century, are quickly regaining their popularity. It isn’t just the classic records that people want; modern mainstream artists are also releasing their songs in vinyl record format. Regarded as the choice of music “purists,” the surge in vinyl record sales is seen by many as the birth of a music sub-culture. Since 2008, the global vinyl records market has grown steadily. Even though it is too early to say whether vinyl records have reclaimed their past glory, there is no denying that this segment of the music industry is sure to continue growing at an impressive rate.
Complex: What Makes This 1971 Vinyl LP So Rare and Collectable? So what makes this self-titled 1971 UK psychedelic LP so damn rare and collectable? Firstly, anything remotely psychedelic gets record collectory types all hot under the collar, recent years have seen music/records in this genre soar in price, so much so that any lightweight ’60s/’70s record containing the merest hint of psychedelia (perhaps the slightest whiff of fuzz guitar, mellotron, freaky lyrics etc) gets hyped to infinity on eBay, cue fevered descriptions like – “crazed pop-sike freakout” or something similar. However, this record is the real deal, so much so that revered acid/psychedelic bible ‘Acid Archives’ described the record as ‘one of the holy trinity of rare British psychedelia’.
