Retrofit establishes itself as local vinyl hub: Residing on Gaines Street between a barbershop and a boutique, what Retrofit may lack in square feet, it makes up in a vast selection of new, old, unique, obscure, popular and avant-garde music. Since opening in 2011, Retro Fit has greatly increased its inventory and filled out the majority of the walls with posters and record displays.
Vinyl is back and free for all, courtesy of iZotope: iZotope is re-releasing its very first plugin, Vinyl, for free. This is in celebration of its 15th birthday…Vinyl is the perfect plugin for all things gritty, old and lo-fi, emulating many characteristics of old record players and the records themselves. The plugin has been updated to support modern operating systems and some extra new features have been thrown in, too.
Northern Spy partners with the Ravi Shankar Foundation to make you actually check out Record Store Day 2016: …now and then a gem pops up in the mix of which not even I, filled with a sufficient dosage of serotonin, can resist the consumption. Record Store Day 2016 has announced such a gem: In Hollywood, 1971, a double LP of renowned sitar master Ravi Shankar’s 1971 live performance in Hollywood. The performance is said to be what jumpstarted Shankar’s famous Concert for Bangladesh, which would popularize the common concept of the benefit concert.
Design your own fully customisable record shelves to fit 12″s and 7″s: The options here could be a game changer for record collectors with spaces not suited to IKEA’s rigid blocks, not least because there are currently very few storage units available that can accommodate 12″s and 7″s. Hell, you could even make your own 10″ section.
New record show joining Port Townsend festival calendar: Organizers of the inaugural Port Townsend Record Show are hoping to make it an annual event, joining the local festival landscape along with such events as Strange Brewfest. “I’d like to do this every year, on the first Saturday in March,” said Jim Overly, who with Quimper Sound co-owner Mark Hering is organizing the event. “We can even do it twice a year if it catches on.”
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