UK | Biggest ever National Album Day takes place this Saturday, 17th October—this year celebrating music icons: Punk pioneers, The Damned, final Album Champions to be announced. Presented with the support of BBC Radio 2, and with Official Supporters Cherry Red, DP World, Official Charts, PPL, Proper, Trapeze, and the wider label & retail communities. National Album Day, which this year pays tribute to music “Icons” takes place this Saturday, 17th October. Celebrating the art of the album, the day will see a plethora of activities ranging across the UK’s music retail community—instore and online, with more than 85 classic reissues and new releases that will be available for fans and collectors to purchase.
Bristol, UK | Record shop celebrates first birthday with 12 hours of digging and vinyl DJs: ‘Records and things’ shop Hot Wax is marking its one-year milestone with a 12 hour day of activities including a stock drop for zealous crate diggers, an all-vinyl DJ lineup and a first look at the new ‘dance basement.’ Based in the Old Drumbank Studios, the shop is the brainchild of Nathan Worm, one of the trio of DJs behind the notorious Worm Disco Club parties and a promoter who has spent a decade bringing countless artists to Bristol including Shabaka Hutchings, WITCH, Colin Stetson and corto.alto, Jamz Supernova, London Elektricity and Peshay. …“I’m very excited to have a party on Saturday with this great local lineup and to grow the space and stock offering,” Nathan said. “We get tons of nice comments about the shop and the cafe. I’m pretty sure we’re the only record store in Bristol where you can come and relax, hang out with mates over a coffee and take your time digging and listening.”
Charleston, SC | A Charleston record store owner has ALS. His wife is raising awareness with 150 painted rocks. …Most people in Charleston know him as the man behind Record Stop on King Street, someone who readily shared album recommendations, could procure hard-to-find titles and shared stories about the 1969 Woodstock festival and kissing Janis Joplin on the cheek backstage at Madison Square Garden. Berg was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, two years ago. The progressive neurodegenerative disease causes nerve cells to die and lose the ability to trigger specific muscles, which leads to muscle weakness and paralysis. There is no cure. Recently, as Berg’s illness has progressed, he’s stepped away from running Record Stop, and his daughter, Janelle Berg-Gomez, has taken over in his stead.
Las Vegas, NV | The Punk Rock Museum Launches Label: Vinyl Threat Records. The Punk Rock Museum has announced Vinyl Threat Records, an in-house record label showcases bands and artists The Punk Rock Museum loves. he Punk Rock Museum is excited to announce Vinyl Threat Records, our new in-house record label. Vinyl Threat Records showcases bands and artists The Punk Rock Museum loves, beyond its existing TPRM ODs (The Punk Rock Museum’s Original Demos) label. With the addition of Vinyl Threat Records, the museum is able to broaden its reach and release music from a wider range of artists and bands that play an important role in punk’s history and continue to inspire the community today. The museum is partnering with Packaged Sounds, which handles the vinyl pressing for its releases. The partnership is based on a drive for exceptional sound quality and variants that meet the expectations of serious record collectors.
Bury, UK | Blossoms and Tinie Tempah make surprise visits to Bury record shop: It has been a week of famous faces calling into a popular vinyl record store in the heart of Bury town centre. Wax and Beans is an independent online and physical vinyl record shop located on Market Street in Bury town centre. The Grade II-listed building in Bury’s Culture Quarter is known for its extensive range of indie records and its coffee offering. If you have called into the shop over the last week, you may have spotted a few familiar faces. On Wednesday, October 7, Stockport rock band Blossoms made an appearance. In a video posted on social media, Tom Ogden, Charlie Salt, Josh Dewhurst, Joe Donovan and Myles Kellock explained the reason behind their visit. Tom said: “Hello, Blossoms here at Wax and Beans in Bury.”
London, UK | JD Twitch’s Record Collection to be Sold: World Of Echo to sell 20,000 records belonging to the late Optimo lynchpin. The death of Keith McIvor—AKA JD Twitch—a year ago was a huge loss to the music community of which The Quietus is a part, a DJ, figurehead and inspiration to music fans, obsessives, musicians, dancers, artists, writers all over the world. Now, the thousands of records that made him, and that formed the raw materials of his sets with Optimo and beyond, are to be sold. They’ll head off to find new lives in new record collections via a sale at the World Of Echo record shop on Cheshire Street, London, with each vinyl record cleaned, graded and featuring a sticker reading “World of JD Twitch”. The first part of the collection, of between 7,000 and 8,000 releases, will go on sale at the shop from 10am on Saturday 14 November, with the shop devoted to Twitch until Thursday 19. Further sales will take place in 2027. The sale is in person only.
Winnipeg, MB | Manitoba’s largest record sale set for this weekend: Winnipeg is set to become a treasure trove for collectors of vinyl, cassettes and posters. Canada’s second largest record sale is coming to the Caboto Centre on Oct. 18. The Manitoba Music and Record Sale is set to include over 90 tables full of records, CDs and memorabilia. “It’s like a community. We get hundreds of people coming down,” said sale organizer Mike Huen in an interview with Your Morning Winnipeg on Wednesday. “The young people over the last 10 years have embraced physical media and it really started with all the vinyl records.”
Broadview Heights, OH | The Cleveland South Record Riot! Vinyl FUN! Sun Nov 1st at Woodside Event Crnter, Broadview Heights. The Cleveland Record Riot RETURNS! It’s a WONDERFUL vinyl record POP-UP sale! Sun November 3rd at the Woodside Event Center, 5025 Mill Road. Over 15,000 vinyl records in ONE ROOM! Great music and amazing family fun. LPs, CDs and 45s. Dealers from far and wide converge for a giant music sale! All types of music from punk to funk to country to classic rock, hip hop, soul/jazz and more. Dust off that turntable and come on down. DOOR PRIZES TOO! Regular admission starts at 10 AM ($5) with early admission at 9 AM ($15). Don’t miss the BIG VINYL DIG!
Seiko’s Latest Affordable Chronograph Is a Love Letter to Vinyl Records: This subtle display will appeal to physical media enthusiasts without going overboard. …For its latest release, the watchmaker has teamed up with the hit anime Bocchi the Rock!, transforming one of its affordable quartz chronographs into a surprisingly understated tribute to the music-focused series. And with just 300 examples being made, it’s also one of the more exclusive anime watches we’ve seen lately. Vinyl-inspired dials are nothing new in the watch world. Some of the most notable include Raymond Weil’s Beatles collab or the indie brand AndoAndoAndo’s quite-literal depiction of a turntable directly on your wrist.
Dutch turntable maker Miniot reinvented the Wheel. Should vinyl lovers care? Halfway through my conversation with Miniot’s Piet Kolkman at the 2026 Dutch Audio Event, I asked him a half-joking question: “How many of your customers died waiting for their prepaid turntables?” A few, he replied sunnily. In some cases, Miniot had ended up shipping the product to the customers’ children. Yeah, a six-year delay will do that. Kolkman, a talented tinkerer who is in his late 20s and has no education beyond high school, is the engineer behind Miniot, a Dutch turntable maker. In 2016, his father, Peter, a now-60-something designer, came up with an idea for a turntable he called the Wheel.
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