Oxfam Penarth’s bumper record collection!: The third record promotion organised by the Oxfam shop in Penarth will start on Tuesday, October 11 at 10.30am and will be the biggest yet. The first two promotions were extremely well attended and over £2,500 raised for Oxfam’s work at home and abroad. On sale will be 270 collectible rock, pop, folk and jazz LPs, ranging from Kiss to the BBC Radiophonic Workshop…Jayne Luxton the shop manager, said: “After the success of our last two promotions, when we raised over £ 2,500, I am looking forward to this year’s promotion especially as we have the largest number of LPs on sale.
Expanding to Carbondale: Joe’s Records expanding its media store to University Mall: MARION — Records, CDs, DVDs, cassettes and any type of media that is worth having will soon be coming to Carbondale. Joe’s Records, with stores in Marion and throughout Indiana and Kentucky, will be expanding into University Mall in Carbondale. The company will be going through a rebranding effort to rename the business Hard Copies, according to Josh Stockinger, part owner of the company.
Iconic Independent Record Store Going To Pot…Literally: As music sales continue to decline, one iconic independent music store is eyeing a new model for expansion: marijuana sales. Amoeba Records’ flagship location in Berkeley, California, which opened in 1990, was just approved to become the city of Berkeley’s fifth cannabis dispensary. Billboard reports that the store will convert its jazz section into a 3,000-square-foot dispensary. Called Berkeley Compassionate Care Collective, the new addition will have its own storefront.
Vinyl resurgence boosts independent record stores: BETHEL — Vinyl is back in a big way, and local record stores and consignment shops are stocked up to meet the demand. The resurgence of records started with a trickle in the early 2000s, said John Konrad, owner of Johnny’s record store in Darien, as the black discs started to fight back against digitally produced CDs and mp3s. “The industry was bleeding,” Konrad said of independent music stores. “This stopped the bleeding.” Konrad said records were basically phased out of the music scene from about 1988 to 2004.
With Vinyl, the Musician Tycho Establishes a Physical Presence: In the age of the surprise digital album, what about the vinyl fans? That has become one of the stranger puzzles in the music industry, as more musicians orchestrate special releases with online services, while at the same time sales of vinyl LPs have come to represent an increasingly important chunk of those artists’ income. Scott Hansen, who records spacey electronic rock under the name Tycho, has come up with one solution. Tycho’s new album, “Epoch,” was released online on Friday. Following a pattern laid out by stars like Beyoncé, Kanye West and Frank Ocean, it arrived with no advance notice.
Setting the record straight on spin – why vinyl sales are on the rise: It is one of the greatest comebacks in music history. During a period of declining music sales, the vinyl record trade grew for the eighth consecutive year in 2015 with more than two million LPs sold in the UK. That’s the most vinyl records sold since 1994, and, according to the Official Charts Company, 2016 looks like being another record year with sales up 61% during the first quarter. However, while people might be shelling out for old-school records, that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re actually listening to them.
