How labels use metrics, research, formulas and instinct to decide which albums get a vinyl release. By Steve Knopper For the past year, hallowed jazz label Blue Note Records has reissued dozens of ...
Vinyl was once the standard for music listening, giving way to cassettes, CDs and digital files over the years, but the past decade-plus has seen a resurgence in the musical format. That said, Jack ...
Want a shot at scoring some records from Back on Black? Read the interview and then check out the contest below! This year marks Back on Black's 10th anniversary. How did you decide to start this ...
Mainstream music’s take-up of the format has led to soaring demand. But beware a trend that drives out indie labels and drives up prices At first, it looked like it might be a momentary revolt against ...
Jack White urged major record labels -- whom he claimed have "more money than God" -- to build their own vinyl pressing plants. “Vinyl records have exploded in the last decade and the demand is ...
Jack White is making a plea to the three major record labels to build their own vinyl pressing plants. In a video released Monday, the Detroit rocker asks Sony Music, Universal Music Group and Warner ...
Hub City Vinyl debuts its first record label release with a live show featuring Phillips Saylor Wisor on March 12 in ...
Sales of vinyl are enjoying a huge resurgence. Long left behind in the audio landscape, music fans are flocking back to records during the pandemic. File this under the category of what's old is new ...
Ahhh, the sweet smell of fresh wax. Vinyl's making headlines quicker than HMV can sell turntables (ie. one a minute over the Christmas period) these days, so we thought the time was right to run down ...
“It’s still a little damp,” Stefan Mitterer warns as he ushers me inside his cozy Berlin flat. The Norwegian DJ accidentally left the hot water in his bathtub gushing full blast while away for a week ...
When Liz Dunster, known to friends as Vinyl Mama, moves through Erika Records’ 65,000-square-foot vinyl pressing plant in Buena Park, she’s usually trailed by Elvis, her little Yorkshire terrier. On a ...