Vinyl: the old school medium that will never die: I don’t know about you, but I grew up in a time where vinyl music was at its peak. These days, the focus is on digital music and streaming technology. As you can imagine, plenty of people prefer such formats due to convenience benefits. But, just because vinyl is an old analog technology doesn’t mean it’s dead. In fact, far from it! Those records are an old-school medium used for decades. In fact, they date back to the 19th century! You would think that, given how we live in a digital age, vinyl would be long gone. What might surprise some people is that there’s plenty of life left in vinyl records! Here’s why you should enjoy your favorite music artists on vinyl:
New vinyl record store to offer massive collection: A longtime Sioux Falls storefront soon will be home to a business selling what many thought was a product of the past just a few short years ago. Crosstown Vinyl, a business specializing in used vinyl phonograph records, will occupy a building at 826 E. 11th St. that once housed Family Vacuum. In addition to vinyl records, the store will sell vintage turntables and home stereo equipment, musical instruments and music-related books and magazines.
Death Waltz Brings Classic Twin Peaks Score to Vinyl: That’s right, Death Waltz and Tal Miller dragged the Warner archives and cut brand new vinyl masters for the Twin Peaks soundtrack and then worked with Rainbo to press the record on 180g vinyl for the best possible sound quality. The record comes housed inside a 425gsm gatefold sleeve featuring lyrics and liner notes by composer Angelo Badalamenti and the cover image by Sam Smith comes approved by director David Lynch himself. The gatefold sleeve is housed within a bespoke die cut outer jacket designed by Mondo’s Jay Shaw featuring super subtle white spot varnish text. The whole affair is finished with a top loading obi strip & pressed on “Damn fine coffee” vinyl.
Reader letter: Delighted by the great vinyl comeback: Re the Derek James feature ‘Why Eric is still in the groove after 30 years of classic vinyl’. I think it’s great that vinyl has made a comeback and obviously that’s good news for Eric White in his Magdalen Street shop. During my teenage years in the 1980s I started off buying vinyl and I’ve never thought anything can really beat it. Vinyl has such a unique sound in my view. There’s a ‘warmth’ to it that you just don’t get with the digital sound reproduction of compact discs.
