Record store employee opens his own shop: Kenny Crum loves music. He loves the people he meets over music. He loves the conversations that spark from the mention of a favorite genre, artist, song or album. After working at five different record stores throughout Florida over the past 20 years, he will officially celebrated the grand opening of his very own store, Steelworker Records, on Sept. 10. “It’s what I enjoy, and somehow it’s become my trade over the years,” Crum said.
Brooklyn Flea Record Fair announces fall 2016 date / vendors: The fall edition of Brooklyn Flea Record Fair will happen Saturday, September 24 at East River Park in Williamsburg (right next to Smorgasburg). There will be over 50 tables, including indie record labels (4AD, Merge, Mute, Domino, Captured Tracks, and more), record stores (Captured Tracks, Academy, and more) and used/collector vendors. Other Music, which closed its NYC store this summer, will be there too, and new vendors this year include Discovery Recordings, Fire Talk, Iron Pier, Siltbreeze, Solid Mfg, Justin Simon (Mesh-Key), Ninja Tune, North End Records, Razor N Tape, Steady Sounds (Richmond Virginia), and Vintage Vinyl (France).
Free Vinyl Record Day—25,000 LPs for free on September 24–25, 2016: 25,000 plus LPs at The Record Parlour, ALL FREE Sept 24th thru 25th, starting at 10:30am and ending when they’re ALL GONE. A 100,000+ Record Collection purchased in July caused a massive mountain of Vinyl Records to accumulate since our last FREE DAY in June. Over 25,000 records across all genres are out for the 1st time. It’s Simple. Spend $20 on anything at The Record Parlour and take up to 100 RECORDS FOR FREE. Please bring your own box or bag. We only do this 2x a year – don’t miss this last one for 2016.
As the vinyl turns: Red Cat Records to open second store: Red Cat Records, a thriving Main Street mainstay since 2002, will make Vancouver record store history in September. They’ll open a second store in the former location of Horses Records, at 2447 East Hastings at Nanaimo. No other indie record store has ever opened a second location in a different neighbourhood in this city. “I was actually eyeing that exact location for a second store before Horses Records scooped it,” says the affable Dave Gowans, who has co-owned Red Cat Records with Lasse Lutick since 2008.
The vinyl revival: Bigsound reflects: So why the renewed interest in vinyl?…Vinyl just doesn’t make sense, yet it is surviving and indeed thriving, but it was a near death experience. “Thank God for dance culture. Without it vinyl would probably have died” says Tim Kelly. “Vinyl is a wonderful, textile experience. It’s not only an emotional investment for music lovers, it’s a work of art. Ultimately it comes down to this, do we want our music to be whitegoods or do we want it to be an experience?”
Record collecting is totally ruthless, says DJ Para: Joe Theobald, aka DJ Captain Wormhole, chats to DJ Para about his extensive record collection: It’s taken a few weeks to achieve but this week I’ve managed it, I’ve actually got round to doing that interview. We’ve had a sit down with none other than DJ Para, aka Ross Burden, aka Swindon’s most conflicted record collector. Ross has about nine thousand records and at this point in his life and he hates them. They take up too much room, too much time, they cost too much money and whilst he is actively culling the stacks, progress is achingly slow.
