Oklahoma City rapper Jabee announces vinyl scavenger hunt: Want to give Jabee Williams’ “Black Future” vinyl a spin? It won’t cost you a dime if you follow the Oklahoma City-based rapper on Instagram or Snapchat. Starting Monday morning around 9, Williams will share photo clues and a rap hinting at a scavenger hunt location in the metro. The first person to arrive at the local business asking for the record will win a free copy. He’ll do it once a day until Oct. 28. His handle is @mynameisjabee on both social media platforms. “I’m trying to do something different and fun,” Williams told The Oklahoman. “It’s my first time doing a real vinyl release, and I’m just excited about it.”
Vinyl record store opens on downtown block undergoing resurgence: MUSKEGON, MI – The renaissance of downtown Muskegon’s Third Street corridor is well underway with the addition of a vinyl record store. Third Coast Vinyl opened on Wednesday, Oct. 12, at 1115 Third St. The store stocks new and used records and other music-related items. “Contrary to what a lot of people might think, they do make new records,” said Paul Pretzer, owner of Third Coast Vinyl…Pretzer chose the Third Street location because he sees potential in the neighborhood. “I wanted to be part of something that I thought was growing,” he said.
Chemical Brothers To Reissue Eight Albums, Duo will put eight old LPs back into print with coloured vinyl reissues: The Chemical Brothers have announced plan to reissue their full album discography on coloured vinyl. They released their eighth album, Born In The Echoes, last year and the reissues will take in every album released until then, starting with 1995’s Exit Planet Dust. They will be pressed on 180-gram vinyl in 2xLP packaging with each record’s sleeve being recreated for the new pressing. They will receive a wide release on December 23 though they can be purchased in the UK from November 18.
The world’s best record shops #042: Music Mania, Ghent: Opened way back in 1969, Music Mania is Belgium’s longest running record shop. But unlike other such institutions where dust has been allowed to settle on the racks, the team of heads and selectors running Music Mania today still keep things fresh. One of those is Ziggy Devriendt aka DJ Nosedrip, whose ear for obscurities belies his modest years. The man behind online radio station and soon-to-be label STROOM.TV, it’s not surprising that Music Mania has retained such a central role in Europe’s young selector scene. In the store you’ll find records from across the spectrum, from jazz, blues and folk, to disco, synth wave, cosmic, Afro-funk and practically every sub-genre in between.
Legacy Recordings Announces Limited Edition Vinyl Exclusives For Record Store Day’s Annual Black Friday Event (Friday, November 25, 2016), New Legacy Vinyl Collectibles include Titles by Bob Dylan, Run-D.M.C., Jimi Hendrix, Alice In Chains, My Little Pony and South Park: Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, announces the label’s line-up of vinyl releases created especially for Record Store Day’s Black Friday 2016, celebrated this year at the nation’s independent record stores on Friday, November 25, 2016. For RSD Black Friday 2016, Legacy continues to cater to connoisseurs of classic sounds delivered old school via these highly collectible releases…
The Coloured Vinyl ‘Stranger Things’ OST Variations Will Make You Drool Like A Demogorgon: On October 28, Netflix’s sci-fi hit Stranger Things will drop the first volume of its acclaimed original score on vinyl – and given the series is set in the ’80s, that can only enhance the experience of listening to the spooky synths and a helping of eerie atmospherics cooked up Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein of US band S U R V I V E. Here’s the cool part: they’ve pressed the soundtrack in a number of colourful variations, which will have you drooling and slobbering like the Demogorgon eyeing up Barb. Which one you get depends which record shop or retailer you hit up, you can get your hands on one of the exclusive designs.
