In rotation: 2/22/17

This Utah record store just cracked a ‘must-visit’ list: The Travel Channel this week named Randy’s Record Shop in Salt Lake City as one of the top “must visit American record stores” in the country. According to the Travel Channel, vinyl records are under something of a resurgence in recent years, with album-seekers on the hunt for rare and popular old records. Randy’s Record Shop, 157 E. 900 South, made the list. “Walking inside Randy’s is like taking a time machine back to how a vintage used record store used to look in the 20th century and what’s not to like about that?”

‘Traditional’ record shop opens its doors, Customers have said a new record shop in Town is a blast from the past and a suitable replacement for old high-street hubs: Located in Fountain Street, the store was formerly a pop-up shop selling leftover LPs to raise money for Headway Guernsey. Now, however, it has opened as a full-time music hub selling a huge range of records and CDs. Collectors will also be welcome to come and sell their own items or buy, or have their collections valued. Vaughan Davies, the owner of Vinyl Vaughan’s Record Boutique, said the shop had totally evolved from when it was totally dedicated to raising money for charity.

Artist Spotlight: Hand Drawn’s Crusade To Bring Back Vinyl: We hate to sound like a broken record, but vinyl is back. Last year vinyl album sales grew 10 percent, topping an 11-year streak of positive growth. That’s great news for one North Texas record label that’s hoping to become major player in the resurgence of vinyl. Up in Addison there’s a giant packaging facility – it’s about the size of two Home Depots squished together. It’s filled with rows of boxes stacked floor to ceiling. In one corner sit two brand-spanking-new vinyl record presses, each about the size of a pickup. They’re the first record presses built and installed in the United States in more than 30 years.

Sony Music has installed a record cutting lathe in its Tokyo studio: Sony Music has installed a cutting lathe in its state-of-the-art Tokyo studio, Musicman-Net reports. The industry standard Neumann VMS70 lathe joins the studio’s 12-strong mastering suite and will allow Sony to cut its own lacquers and master discs on site. It has been installed on the same floor as its recording studio, to open the possibility of cutting lacquers from live recordings in real time – a process popularised recently by Jack White’s Third Man Records among others. The move feeds into the country’s already resurgent vinyl industry and marks a major return to the format for one of its most powerful players. According to Musicman-Net, Sony hopes to use its expertise in CD manufacturing to cut a more advanced analogue sound.

Why Vinyl’s Comeback Might Be The Death Of Music: With the death of a mom and pop record store, there was nowhere to hang out anymore. For those of us who spent hours trolling through milk crates and boxes for albums, a record store closing down was like boarding up the local Y. We’d search under the cabinets for records that might not have been priced yet, or search the 99 cent bins hoping the record store owner didn’t know that the obscure record he was throwing in with the used Men at Work ‘Cargo’ was actually an early THROBBING GRISTLE pressing. Crates, Bins, 7”s lost in the 12” section. A full day would be spent, riding my skateboard to nearby stores, or hopping on the Long Island railroad for the far away shops, and trying to sift through it all…

Jack Cannon: Savouring music, books and films without a computer has its benefits: When listening to a vinyl record, one tends to listen to an album in its entirety – who can be bothered to get up and manually move the needle, after all? Yet the process of selecting an album, pulling the LP out of its sleeve, placing it on the turntable and delicately setting the needle on to the opening track to be greeted by the heartwarming crackle is an experience in itself. Another advantage of owning records is the ability to fully appreciate the artwork of albums. Often album artwork becomes as iconic as the music itself: the pulses of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures or Andy Warhol’s banana art on The Velvet Underground’s debut album. Looking at album covers whilst listening to the music fully completes the experience of an album.

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