Vinyl Records Enjoying A Comeback In New Orleans And Nationwide: “‘We’ve been open for about six years, and we sell I’d say on average anywhere between one and two-thousand albums a month,’ says Lefty Parker, Manager of Euclid Records on Chartres Street in the Bywater.”
Vinyl Music Comeback As Sales Increase, Music streaming may be the popular way to listen to music but the humble vinyl is enjoying a quiet resurgence: “Having a vinyl gives you a more tangible relationship with the actual recording, that digital actually can’t.”
‘It’s all about the ritual’: Local vinyl fans talk new love for old medium, “At a time when iPhones and the Internet have made music more accessible than ever, the decade-long boom in vinyl sales might confuse some. And yet, boom it does. For the fourth consecutive year, national vinyl sales reached record highs in 2014, topping 9 million units sold for the first time in 20 years, according to Nielsen Ratings. Since the start of the decade, vinyl sales have increased by over 220 percent…”
Spinning right around: Area record stores benefit from vinyl boom: “‘You can get everything from Merle Haggard to Tupac,‘ he said. ‘Vinyl is important because of the nostalgia of it. People who had a Kiss album in 1977 and gave it away to a thrift store are coming back in here to find that album they had. It’s a revival of the youth.’”
Music Matters: Wilkes keeps the music going at Vinyl, “The coolest person in Chris Wilkes’ world is his older sister, Krista. Growing up, she introduced him to a world of music beyond his radio. In middle school, he dove into her record collection. ‘And it just went from there,’ he said.”
It’s the vinyl countdown… The return of HMV to Workington has been welcomed by music lovers, film fanatics and gaming aficionados across West Cumbria. “I was disappointed when HMV closed and it’s nice to think that they could be successful. They have come back at a good time.“
