Claremont, CA | Record Stores, Childhood Memories, Nostalgia – Rhino Records in The Village Is Closing Its Doors and Relocating: Rhino Records, a beloved Village record store since 1974, is closing its doors and relocating due to rising rent prices within the Village. Its in-house video rental store, Video Paradiso, is also moving. Both will be in a Montclair location by July 1st, the exact location TBA. Rhino’s closing follows on the heels of the Candlelight Pavilion’s final performance in March and the upcoming shuttering of the Laemmle 5 movie theater. According to the Claremont-Courier, live music venue, Hip Kitty closed in 2015, leaving The Press as the only live music venue in the area. Due to COVID-19, The Press now sits abandoned with paper over its windows, unclear if it will ever open its doors again.
Nashville, TN | Walker Hayes To Open Four-Story Applebee’s Bar & Grill In Former Ernest Tubb Record Shop: Can’t say we didn’t all see this one coming… If you’ve been to Nashville lately you know that lower Broadway has turned into a cesspool of tourist bars owned by country artists. Alan Jackson has one that’s great, but other than that most of them are pretty much all the same cookie-cutter bars owned by big hospitality corporations that throw in a country song or two every couple of hours between “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” and Journey covers. Garth Brooks also appears to be making moves towards opening up his own bar on Broadway too, after we uncovered records that seem to indicate he bought the old Paradise Park building after talking about wanting to open his own “dive bar” in Nashville.
US | Jack White announces indie record store ’Fear of the Dawn’ listening parties: Jack White has announced a series of listening parties to mark the release of his new solo album, Fear of he Dawn. The events will take place in independent record stores across the country this Friday, April 8, the same day Fear of the Dawn drops. In addition to hearing the record, you’ll also be able to pick up various exclusive Fear of the Dawn-related items. If you want and advanced listen of Fear of the Dawn, you can tune into White’s Twilight Receiver program. If you go to TwilightReceiver.com on your mobile device and bring it outside before sunrise each morning, you’ll be able to hear snippets of three previously unreleased tunes from the record. White himself will be celebrating Fear of the Dawn‘s arrival with the launch of his Supply Issues tour, which kicks off Friday with a hometown show in Detroit.
Shoreditch, UK | New exhibition explores language and vinyl records: Tim Fishlock is not your usual artist. Despite being a painter, Fishlock swears that music is the ultimate arm form, and his new exhibit “Paradise Version,” explores the triumphs and limitations of how the human language describes and adversities music. On display at the Hang-Up Gallery from 25 March through 29 April, “Paradise Vision” features 16 paintings that reflect Fishlock’s love of record collecting. In particular, Fishlock implements a combination of color and text to explore the unique vernacular used to describe music. Fascinated by the descriptions of records on online record shops and the techniques they use to try to market the music, Fishlock takes excerpts of these descriptions and immortalizes the words through acrylic gouache and screen printing. For example, one record by Reggie Grantham and The New Generation is described as “1985 North Carolina boogie/ gospel/ electro banger.” These words inspired the piece BOOGIE BANGER.
AU | How to get your music album pressed to a vinyl record in Australia: Having your albums on vinyl is undoubtedly worth it in the immediate and in the long run. Custom vinyl pressing in Australia is getting popular again in 2022, with the highest vinyl record sales. No wonder audiophiles love the old-fashioned way to listen to music rather than online streaming services on their smartphones. Producing vinyl records in Australia is not more straightforward than you think; musicians and engineers work together to release their favourite albums on vinyl. While there are a lot of excellent pressing plants still operating around the world, Impress vinyl in Australia predominantly worked with music industry giants to small local businesses in pressing their music on vinyl. Whatsoever the case may be, if you’re here, you’re probably looking for information on how to press a record. Here are some known tips for making the process fast and effortless.
Canandaigua, NY | A night of musical memories planned at Ontario County Historical Society: The powerful, influential jazz of Miles and ‘Trane. The harmonies of the Fab Four. The English blues-rock roar of Zeppelin. That’s just a sampling of what visitors to the Ontario County Historical Society Museum may hear April 9 while they get a close-up look at some of the musical tech of yesteryear. They’ll hear it on vinyl, of course. That’s the point, after all. The Retro Vinyl Record Night, set for 5 to 8 p.m. is the first of four special public evenings planned at the Historical Society on Canandaigua’s North Main Street over the course of the year, with further evenings planned to focus on films, video games and board games. For the April 9 event, the society, for that night only, will bring out some of its musical artifacts to display, such as a circa-1903 Edison Home Phonograph, a Victrola, vintage radios and assorted musical instruments. “The idea is just to get more people in here, to get people to see we are doing stuff, we are creating projects,” said Cody Grabhorn, historical society executive director. He said it’s also planned to attract a different, broader and perhaps younger audience than the museum normally sees — though, as he noted, vinyl records have appeal for everyone.
Ellensburg, WA | When back in the day is today, PUNCH and Pickerel unite for special pop-up exhibition at the Fire House Gallery: Sometimes life just needs to spin at 33 1/3 with the volume on 10. The PUNCH artist group is going to give art and music fans a chance to feel the noise with its April collaboration with Mark Pickerel for a very special pop-up exhibition at the Fire House Gallery. “PUNCH Projects offers something for all the music aficionados, dedicating this one to all the record collectors, cassette-heads, 8-trackers and CD babies out there,” PUNCH member Justin Gibbens said. PUNCH will be collaborating with Pickerel for a pop-up exhibition that promises a stroll down memory lane back to a time when collecting and consuming music was a thing, Gibbens said. PUNCH Projects has invited Pickerel to present a curated selection of record store merchandise and paraphernalia he has amassed from his decades in the business.
