Bellingham, WA | Black Noise Records: Two downtown Bellingham businesses have break-ins within minutes. The front doors of both stores had been smashed in early-morning incident. Two downtown Bellingham businesses are facing thousands of dollars in repair costs after the stores were broken into within a matter of minutes of each other early Monday morning, Sept. 23. Mitch Kramer, owner of FixCO, a phone and computer repair shop on Commercial Street; and Nico Sanchez, owner of Black Noise Records, a record store on Bay Street, said they arrived at their stores to find an ugly surprise. Both of the stores front doors had been smashed, and while the suspect was unable to fully break into FixCO, the suspect did break into Black Noise Records and made off with a few items. The break-ins occurred around 4 a.m., Kramer said. …“Luckily he didn’t take too much stuff,” Sanchez said. “It’s been an unfortunate situation that people would choose to do that to local and small businesses like mine and Mitch’s.”
Ketchum, WA | Experience the Boom: New record store opens in Ketchum: COVID-19 pandemic helped vinyl sales surge, owner says. Mike Pitts prefers the sound of music on vinyl to any other. So it’s fitting that he owns a record store, called Sonic Boom Records, based in Seattle, and has just opened a new location in Ketchum. Pitts grew up in southwest Washington and moved to Seattle as a young adult. Pitts said his wife, Molly, encouraged him to buy Sonic Boom Records, a well-known record store, in 2016. His family also had a condo in Ketchum for many years, and he loved coming to spend time here so much that his family made the move full-time five years ago. Sonic Boom’s Ketchum location opened in July at 360 Leadville Ave. It is open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesdays through Saturdays, and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sundays. Pitts said he wants the space to be a place for anyone to come hang out, talk about music and listen to things they might not have heard before.
Newtown, CT | Friends Of Edmond Town Hall To Offer 2nd ‘Record Riot’ In Newtown: The Friends of Edmond Town Hall’s 2nd Newtown Record Riot will take place on Sunday, Oct. 6. After a successful 2023 Newtown Record Riot-when over 350 people attended to dig for music-the Friends of Edmond Town Hall are thrilled to run it back with promoter Record Riots this fall. The 2nd Newtown Record Riot takes place on Sunday, October 6, 2024, at 9:30 AM (Early Birds 8:30 AM) until 4:30 PM in the Edmond Town Hall gym, 45 Main Street in Newtown, CT. …Come shop at over 40 tables of LPs, CDs, 45s and more. Dealers from all over New England and beyond. Meet new music friends, find that special LP that you’ve been looking for. All types of music: punk, funk, country, classical, blues rock, hip hop and more. $5.00 regular admission starts at 9:30 AM, with early admission kicking off at 8:30 AM ($10).
Austin, TX | Headliners brings together UT music community with record and CD exchange: The sound of conversation and vinyl records flowed from the Texas Union East Patio on Wednesday night. Headliners, an organization under Campus Events and Entertainment, hosted their first-ever record exchange. Music collectors mingled on the patio, exchanging records and CDs. Peyton Wade, the Headliners chair and a psychology sophomore, said she started collecting vinyl recently, but her love for music runs deep. “I love live music more than most things,” Wade said. “When I saw there was a committee on campus that (hosts) and (creates) live music on campus, (I thought), ‘This is something I want to be a part of.’” Wade said she hopes the event fosters meaningful conversations between music lovers and brings together the music community at UT. She said Headliners brought their own collection of used vinyl and CDs for swapping with attendees.
Audio-Technica Introduces AT-LP8X Turntable: The new turntable incorporates the company’s AT-L10 removeable headshell and it includes feature such as anti-skating and tracking force adjustments. Audio-Technica has just announced the introduction of its new AT-LP8X Semi-Automatic Direct Drive Turntable. The AT-LP8X is the company’s new flagship turntable and the global residential and commercial audio company emphasizes, it is its first-ever semi-automatic model. Audio-Technica points out that its new turntable is designed to deliver high levels of vinyl record playback, performance with features including a VM95 Series cartridge (included), as well as an adjustable VTA (vertical tracking angle); a newly-designed motor, and additional refinements.
My Favorite Affordable Turntable Just Got a Serious Hi-Fi Upgrade: The Austrian hi-fi maker’s new affordable turntable is still a stone-cold stunner. I’ve owned Pro-Ject’s T1 turntable for the last several years and absolutely love it. It’s a gorgeous belt-drive turntable — primarily thanks to its signature tempered glass platter — that’s both affordable yet high-end. And it’s an excellent first step for those just getting into vinyl. …Pro-Ject has given several of its turntables an “Evo” or “Evolution” upgrade in recent years. Just this summer, for example, it introduced the Debut Evo 2, an upgraded version of its popular Debut Carbon Evo (and Debut Carbon before it). And now it’s doing the same thing with the T1. Like those others, the T1 Evo maintains mostly the same design as its predecessor, the T1—including the same precision-machined chassis, one-piece aluminum tonearm, and signature high-mass tempered glass platter—but boasts a few key hardware upgrades.
King Crimson announce Red 50th Anniversary Edition: DGM & Panegyric are presenting the 50th anniversary edition of the King Crimson classic album Red. A 2 Blu-ray + 2 CD edition features completely new Dolby Atmos, 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio Surround & Stereo mixes by Steven Wilson taking the music to new levels of clarity & power. Red was one of the earliest mixes undertaken by Steven Wilson in 2009 & King Crimson was the first of a number of classic bands & artists to be mixed by Steven so it’s entirely appropriate that he return, some 15 years later, to take the album into the Dolby Atmos era. …Also featured are a complete album’s worth of Elemental Mixes by long-time King Crimson producer (& band manager) David Singleton—using the original multi-track recordings to present a very different audio picture of the album, with greater separation of instruments & utilizing many recorded elements recorded for, but not included in, the original mixes.
Jenny Lewis’ ‘The Voyager’ celebrates ten years with sea blue vinyl edition: Jenny Lewis is set to unleash a tenth anniversary reissue of her 2014 album, The Voyager. The album’s new edition will be available on 25 October and it will be pressed on sea blue vinyl. This new tenth anniversary vinyl edition features key tracks such as Just One Of The Guys, The Voyager, She’s Not Me and more. This is the former Rilo Kiley frontwoman’s third solo album – following on from 2006’s Rabbit Fur Coat and 2008’s Acid Tongue – and it documents her struggle to cope following the death of her estranged father in 2010 and the subsequent break-up of Rilo Kiley. It debuted at No.9 on North America’s Billboard 200 on its initial release in July 2014.
Stevie Nicks, Foreigner, The Doobie Brothers albums to be reissued on vinyl for Rhino Rocktober: Albums by artists including Stevie Nicks, Deep Purple, The Doobie Brothers and Foreigner are being reissued on vinyl in celebration of Rhino’s Rocktober campaign. Among the titles getting the reissue treatment are Nicks’ In Your Dreams, Deep Purple’s Machine Head, The Doobie Brothers’ Toulouse Street and What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits and Foreigner’s Head Games. Also available will be albums by Black Sabbath, Devo, Fleetwood Mac, INXS, The Stooges, Stone Temple Pilots, Third Eye Blind, Twisted Sister, Whitesnake, Ronnie Wood, Ramones, Velvet Underground, The Cars, The Monkees, Foghat and Yes. Rhino’s Rocktober begins Oct. 4, and will also feature releases on Oct. 18 and Oct. 25.
