Glasgow, UK | Missing Records to launch new Glasgow city centre store this week: The iconic second-hand vinyl specialists are moving on to bigger and better things. Missing Records will swing open the doors to its brand new shop this week. As reported by Glasgow Live last month, the iconic independent record store is taking on a bigger premises. The new shop will have more stock for customers to check out, including hundreds of second hand CDs, DVDs, Vinyl and collectables, as well as new artwork in the building to continue the legacy of the popular designs seen in the Argyle Street shop. The second-hand vinyl specialists are heading back to where the music started in Oswald Street, which is the site of their original venture back in 1984. And the official opening of the new 51 Oswald Street store (next to Barrhead Travel) will be Wednesday, August 21.
Smart to make the LP disc climate friendly: Interest in the vinyl record is steadily increasing, but the material pvc is hardly environmentally friendly. Now the industry is looking for light and lantern for other materials. “We’re trying to pull our straw to the pile to save the world,” says Pedro Ferreira at Spinroad Vinyl Factory. After living a secluded existence in the 1990s and early 2000s, interest in the vinyl record is now increasing. For a period, the format was mainly kept alive by smaller indie companies and dance music producers, but today more and more new albums are released in at least a limited LP edition and even the music industry’s giants have started to take an interest in the vinyl record again. That’s good news for those who kept their vinyl collections – and for newly started vinyl factories like Spinroad in Lindome outside Gothenburg. However, the panels are made of the plastic Polyvinyl chloride (pvc), which is not very environmentally friendly. But no good alternative is currently available, according to Spinroads CEO Pedro Ferreira.
Dallas, TX | People from all over the world visit this Dallas record store: JFK aficionados get a look at a notorious phone: From London to Papua New Guinea, JFK aficionados have been traveling to Top Ten Records to get a look at a notorious phone. Top Ten Records can’t be more than 800 square feet, but somehow Dallas’ longest-running record shop has welcomed some of pop culture’s biggest names over the years. Most have to do with music, but one notable name does not. “The Jackson Five have come through and according to lore, Selena was here too. We also have a photo with the owner and Stevie Ray Vaughan,” said Lily Taylor, Top Ten Records’ operations manager…But there’s another group of people who come to Top Ten Records and many travel from across the world. They aren’t in Oak Cliff to buy a record. Instead, they’re looking for a phone. “We have the phone that Officer J.D. Tippit used before he was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald,” Mike Polk said, the former longtime owner of Top Ten Records.
These Vintage Vinyl Record Carrying Cases Will Take You Back in Time: In this day and age, all of our music is accessed online. For those who still have their vinyl records, I’m sure you remember what you kept your vinyl albums in. Some of you might currently use a storage cabinet, record shelf, display stand, record rack, or a magazine rack, but you should protect your music in a carrying case. Now, think back to the good ole days. If you had a carrying case, you were probably the DJ at all of your high school and college parties. It’s crazy now that someone just needs Bluetooth or an aux cord to be the person providing all the music at a party. If you need a place for your vinyl records, it’s time for a new LP record carrying case.
TT | Low turnout disappoints star at premiere of Charlie’s Records film: The poor turnout at the Trinidad and Tobago premiere of Charlie’s Records disappointed the star of the documentary Rawlston Charles. Charles, the legendary owner of the popular New York record store, said the film’s premiere at the Tribeca film festival earlier this year attracted a sold-out crowd of mainly non-West Indians and they had to add a second night. Looking around at the many empty chairs at screen three at the Academy of the Performing Arts where the movie was screened as part of the Carifesta edition of the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival, he thanked those who turned out, stating that is a film for Trinidad and Tobago. Charles was speaking at a question and answer segment following the premiere of the film which was made by his daughter, WNBA star Tina Charles. The film chronicles his life, from his days in Delaford, Tobago where he was born and grew up to establishing his famous record store, record label and recording studio on Fulton Avenue in Brooklyn.
Couple on Woodstock album cover is still together: The couple immortalized on the cover of 1970’s Woodstock triple-vinyl soundtrack album revealed that they only found out their picture had been taken when they saw the LP sleeve. Nick and Bobbi Ercoline, both 20, were snapped by Life photographer Burk Uzzle on Sunday, Aug. 18, 1969, three months after they’d started dating and two years before they married. Five decades later, they remain together. In a recent interview, they told how they identified themselves as they listened to the LP for the first time in May 1970 with a group of friends. “We were passing the jacket around when someone pointed out the staff with the orange and yellow butterfly,” Nick told AARP. “That belonged to Herbie, a guy from Huntington Beach, Calif. He was lost and having a bad trip, and we hooked arms with him until he was clear-headed. Then we saw the blanket. Oh my lord, that’s us!”
INXS to finally release rare ‘Dekadance’ compilation on vinyl: Almost 35 years after it was first unleashed, the rare INXS remix compilation Dekadance is finally set to receive a widespread vinyl release. Back in 1984, Sydney rock icons INXS released their fourth studio album, The Swing. Featuring classic singles like ‘Original Sin’, ‘I Send A Message’, and ‘Burn For You’, to name a few’, the record was a major success, hitting the top of the Kent Music Report and paving the way for the good things still to come from the band. The following year, INXS released Dekadance, a special compilation featuring remixes from the record, courtesy of Nile Rodgers, Mark Opitz, Jenny Morris, Andrew Farriss, and Nick Launay. This special edition was predominantly issued on cassette at the time, with six different editions featuring individual images of the band on the cover, designed to serve as pieces of a puzzle if they were all brought together.
