With Apple Music, Pandora, and Spotify, I don’t think people will stop customizing their music experience. People will use their creativity to make their own albums that tell a story, and that’s great. However, with the resurgence of vinyl, I hope people take time to really listen, to the ups and downs, to the story that’s told.
Record Store Day has turned into a treasure trove for fans and collectors, with this year promising over 550 releases, special issues, and re-releases.
We're back discussing Prince's unfinished memoir, Bandcamp's new vinyl press-on-demand service, Logic and Eminem's latest team up, Kanye West's Sunday Service, ScHoolboy Q's Crash Talk, and much more.
Three special edition reissues in particular, from The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Gene Clark, deserve special notice.
By the end of 2020 you may be able to cut your own good old-fashioned vinyl records and Phonocut is the device that plans to make it all possible.
The massive archive spans musical genres including classical, pop, rock, and jazz, and contain obscure recordings like an album of music for baton twirlers, and a record of radio’s all-time greatest bloopers.
To celebrate 100 years of Charlie Parker, Craft Records is releasing a four-LP deluxe box set that will kick off year-long celebrations for the renowned musician.
The Apollo plant was only one of two such plants in the world that manufacturers master disc lacquers and accounts for roughly 80% of the global supply.
Almost 22 years ago to the date, CD Baby launched as one of the first online CD stores for independent artists, and now, as physical sales continue to plummet, it's announced that it will be shutting down the store at the end March. A true end of an era.
In the latest hit to the music industry,vinyl only managed to sell the equivalent of 1.52 million albums during the week of March 19, the lowest sales have dropped since the mid-1960s.
COVID-19 and its ensuing pandemic already postponed the annual Record Store Day from its original date, but now it's being pushed again and will be spread across August, September, and October.
Neil Young fans have long been aware that in 1975 he recorded an album titled 'Homegrown', but that it never saw the light of day...until now.
We're back and talking about the tragic news of XXXTENTACION's death at the young of 20 and the need for a mentality change in the culture and community at large. Then we touch on Nas' latest Kanye produced project, 'Nasir', and Beyoncé & Jay-Z's long rumored joint album, 'Everything Is Love.' We give our reactions and opinions and discuss if both projects lived up to the immense hype surrounding them.
The online independent music giant is starting its own vinyl pressing service.
Her show started with a bang: the staccato bass of “Sinner” pulsing through the venue and Leilani’s voice tore through the fog, breaking occasionally with emotion and effort. From there, we were off like a shot.
This good cause is their attempt to raise public awareness about pollution and waste and to hold the music industry accountable for its non-sustainable practices.
Along with the vinyl resurgence, there are more bootlegs around today than any other time in the last 20 years.
Legendary Memphis soul label Stax Records with Vinyl Me, Please are coming with a limited edition vinyl box set of 8 albums featuring iconic artists from the label's storied history.
There are only two known existing vinyl copies of the original withdrawn release of 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan', and one's just been located in Grand Prairie, Texas.
Despite the advent of streaming services and the convenience and popularity of playlists, Deezer has found that there is still a large audience for a carefully curated album.
This is an achievement that's never been done before. The record 100th charting album, curated by the band's archivist David Lemieux, landed at No. 45 this January.
Yuri Suzuki wanted to create a machine that makes it easy and cheap to create your own bespoke record and he did just that. The Easy Record Maker comes with 10 blank discs and can plug into any audio source.
'Workingman’s Dead', one of The Grateful Dead's most influential albums will be getting a remastered reissue on both CD and vinyl and will be appended with a dual live version of the album from 1971.
It turns out that in 1968, “Monk had an opportunity to make a direct contribution by playing the mostly white Palo Alto High School after the most ‘racially tense’ summer of the decade.” But, there's even more to its backstory.