If You’re Looking For Vinyl Records In New Jersey, Here’s Where To Go: Whether you’re looking to find a new album or to start your own collection these five record stores are the place to go. It’s time to dust off your turntables and turn the volume as high as it can go. But of course they also CDs if that’s more your style….Open since 1979, Vintage Vinyl has not only been selling music to the masses but they have been inviting musicians to perform on their stage. With a large selection of vinyl and CDs, you will always leave with something new to listen to. All you have to do is walk through their white stands to see pictures of every musician that has played there.
Recycled Records in Monterey is up for sale. One of only a handful of music stores in Monterey County is up for sale. Six years after buying Recycled Records in New Monterey, owner Sean McCann says it’s time for him to move on to be closer to his family in Arizona where his mother lives and his son recently moved. “Business is decent here,” he says. “(Though) it is a tough grind being a shop owner.” McCann listed the business for sale on Friday, May 11 and has already had some interest. He hopes to sell by September. The asking price is $100,000, or best offer. The shop, which has been a record store since 1975, carries new and used vinyl, CDs, DVDs and a variety of stereo equipment.
Longtime Clawson record shop in tune with demand for vinyl: Todd Fundaro has been in the record business long enough to see vinyl record sales fade and then return to throw CD sales out on their ear. “Vinyl isn’t coming back,” he said. “It is back.” Fundaro, 55, owner of Flipside Records in Clawson, started working for the business when his father opened it in 1983. He started off cleaning records and vacuuming the floors and later bought the store from his dad. The city’s Downtown Development Authority has just honored him with a plaque commemorating 35 years in business at 41 E. 14 Mile Road.
What Artists Get Wrong With Their Vinyl Releases: A Conversation with Masterdisk’s Scott Hull: “There’s been so much written about the limitations of vinyl that I think people get the misconception that vinyl is somehow fragile and not a robust format,” Hull says. “I get sent these mixed/mastered projects to try to cut them, and I’m seeing all sorts of issues with them and it’s usually too late to do much about them.” Hull reached out to Reverb to address these misconceptions. He’s here to explain why a competent mastering and cutting engineer can do more with the format than you may think. Keep reading to hear directly from Hull on what you can and can’t do with your vinyl release.
Pabst Wax is a portable recording studio that lets you cut a track straight to vinyl: The vinyl revival is now so well-established that we should probably consider the format fully revived, but you probably haven’t considered the possibility of using it as a recording medium. However, if you head along to the Dot to Dot festival over the bank holiday weekend you’ll get the chance to do precisely that. The Pabst Wax pop-up studio will enable musicians to record a track straight to vinyl, with equipment from the likes of Orange Amps, Schecter Guitars, Martin Guitars, MXR Pedals and Sabian Cymbals set up ready to be played. The studio will be appearing at the following locations:
Cape Cod man’s record collection now part of Library of Congress: Chip Bishop was like a lot of American kids who grew up in the 1950s and ’60s; he had a thing for rock ’n roll. But unlike a lot of American kids he didn’t just consume the hits of the day and move on. He collected records, lots of them, and he treasured them. The records and the music on them were an important part of his life and, now, even though he has died, his collection lives on at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. Bishop, who lived much of his life in Dennis with his wife Jane Nichols Bishop and their family, died at age 71 in 2016. The year before he died, however, he donated his collection to the Library of Congress. In the thousands of 45 RPM records he owned can be found the sound of a generation.
Palo Alto: Feeling groovy, MOAH celebrates record players throughout history: The voices echo through the years — eerie, but surprisingly clear — the strains of “Aloha Oe” by Toots Paka’s Hawaiians, sung and played more than a century ago and captured on a cylinder, one of the oldest means of recording music. At the Museum of American Heritage’s (MOAH) current exhibition, “In the Groove: A History of Record Players,” visitors can encounter a variety of models of phonographs, gramophones, jukeboxes and turntables, learn about the history of the technology, and even select songs to spin — including, with the help of a docent, the hauntingly present “Aloha Oe” recording from so long ago.
