SoundBank celebrates first anniversary: Musicians, painters, singers, sculptors and music fanatics alike are invited to participate in The Vault Arts Collective’s and the Sound Bank’s anniversary celebrations on Saturday. The Vault Arts Collective will be celebrating their third anniversary and the first anniversary of Cavetone Record’s store, the Sound Bank. It will be hosted at The Vault Arts Collective building at 100 N. Main St. in Tuscola. The Vault Arts Collective is a privately owned collective of independent artists.
DJ Shadow Selling Hundreds of LPs From Personal Collection at Madlib Event, The L.A. event will also feature DJ Shadow rarities, an exclusive “The Sideshow” vinyl, and a “collector’s smorgasbord of 8-Tracks, cassettes, posters, and other oddities”: Every couple of months, Madlib and Rappcats put on a popup shop in Los Angeles for record collectors. The next one takes place September 10 and 11, and it’ll feature hundreds of records from DJ Shadow’s personal collection. (Don’t worry—he has duplicates of everything on sale.) Shadow, who will be at the event, is also selling rarities from his own archives, as well as an exclusive vinyl of his The Mountain Will Fall track “The Sideshow.”
Two signs stolen from Rainbow Records: A Main Street record store was hit by a sign thief twice over the weekend, and police are trying to identify the suspect. According to Newark Police spokesman Cpl. James Spadola, the first theft occurred sometime between 5 and 8 p.m. Saturday outside Rainbow Records at 54 E. Main St. The thief took a banner that was attached to the store’s exterior wall, but caused no damage to the wall. The banner was worth an estimated $100.
It’s the grand vinyl for record lovers with inaugural Garage Days record fair to rock Hobart on Sunday: The first in a planned series of events to be presented by local music supporter Paul Sluyters, Garage Days will feature about 15 stalls, with vinyl from the state’s best music stores and private collections up for grabs. “Records have been making a resurgence the past five years,” Sluyters says. “Listening to a record gives you such a different experience to a download — and in my opinion a better, more memorable one.”
Vinyl fair, by Midlands Records Fairs, to be held in Bromsgrove Hotel & Spa: Vinyl collectors are joining forces in Bromsgrove this month, for the town’s first record fair. The event, organised by Midlands Records Fairs, will take place on Sunday, September 11 at Bromsgrove Hotel & Spa. Huge crowds are expected to descend upon the town on the day, when more than 40 tables worth of vinyl, CDs and memorabilia will be showcased, covering a range of music genres.
Pixies, Courtney Barnett, J Dilla, More Releasing Tapes for Cassette Store Day: The fourth annual Cassette Store Day—the cassette tape alternative to Record Store Day—will take place on October 8 at venues and record shops in the United States, UK, Germany, Japan, and more. The first releases from this year’s event have been announced, with different territories getting different releases. Artists with tapes being released in the U.K. include Courtney Barnett, Pixies, and Gonjasufi; meanwhile, Big Star, the Ramones, J Dilla, and Death Cab for Cutie will have tapes released in the U.S.
Vinyl’s rebound seen in county: As vinyl record sales hit a 28-year high, Blind Pigeon Records recently released two albums on the format for the first time. The locally-owned label has released 50 albums since it was founded in 2000. By the end of 2015, the Backroad Burners released the label’s first vinyl record with “Rock & Roll Ultra,” followed by Gleasons Drift’s self-titled album in May. “Rock & Roll Ultra” was the label’s 45th release and “Gleasons Drift” was its 47th. “Just about everyone is doing vinyl at this point,” Bill Whalen, co-founder of Blind Pigeon Records and member of Gleasons Drift, said Wednesday.
This is the most expensive vinyl ever sold at auction…Ringo Starr’s copy of The Beatles White album has been named the most expensive vinyl record ever to be sold at auction. The first edition of the Fab Four’s ninth album is set to make the Guinness World Records 2017 Edition, after it was sold at Julien’s Auction House for a staggering $790,000 (£522,438). The first pressing of the 1968 chart-topper, which displayed the number, 0000001, was stored by Starr in a vault for 35 years and auctioned by the drummer in near mint condition.