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HBO's new show about rock and roll in the 1970s, Vinyl has unveiled the tracklist for the first volume of songs that will appear on the series' soundtrack. In addition to the first batch of music that features the likes of Sturgill Simpson, Ty Taylor, Otis Redding and the show's fictional band Nasty Bits, there will be shorter EPs released weekly with music from each episode. -
Move Over Vinyl: Listen to the Rolling Stones on the World’s First Concrete Record
Move over vinyl; concrete records are here at last. German engineer Ricardo Kocadag has developed what Thump is reporting to be the world's first functioning concrete record, cut with the Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction." -
Columbia House to Relaunch as Vinyl Delivery Service
Columbia House, the legendary mail order brand, is staging its comeback only a few months after its parent company, Filmed Entertainment, Inc., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, effectively ending the brand's 50-year run of bringing the masses large quantities of albums and later movies for as little as a dollar--or so we thought. Under new ownership, the brand is set to relaunch as a vinyl record delivery service. -
Vinyl Records Get Their Own Stock Market, Thanks to Discogs and RBMA
Discogs and Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA) have teamed up for Vinyl Marketwatch, a new site that tracks vinyl record prices. Described on the new project's website as "an collaborative ongoing experiment" between the two companies, the Vinyl Marketwatch is like a tongue-in-cheek stock exchange for vinyl aficionados. -
Discogs Leads Vinyl Boom, Exceeds 43 Million in Sales for 2015
Discogs, the online vinyl and CD marketplace, celebrates its 15th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, the site has shared some propriety information regarding its role within the US vinyl boom with Billboard: so far in 2015 the site has exceeded $43.5 million in sales. To translate that figure into terms we audiophiles prefer, that's 2.5 million records, half a million CDs and 50,000 cassette tapes. Furthermore, as Resident Advisor reports, the figures reflect an industry-wide increase in vinyl sales, with the stats in the US at their highest in 25 years. -
VNYL Will Deliver Three LPs to Subscribers Monthly, Netflix-Style, with Option to Buy
Digital music be damned, vinyl is on a comeback. Plenty of reports published previously in Music Times have shed light on the continuing growth of the vinyl format among music listeners and a new company is looking to take advantage of it, by sending subscribers several records a month in the mail, much like how Netflix previously specialized in sending DVD's through the mail. The company, VNYL, just reached its Kickstarter goal this week. -
Daft Punk to Re-Release 'Alive 1997,' 'Alive 2007' as Vinyls [TRACKLIST]
Daft Punk is getting ready to give two of its live albums the vinyl treatment. The "Get Lucky" duo plans to reissue "Alive 1997" and "Alive 2007" as vinyl LPs along with a few extras. According to Modern Vinyl, the "1997" live album was last pressed in 2001, while "2007" was never put out as a vinyl record. The version of "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" on the latter album earned the duo a Grammy in 2009 for Best Dance Recording. Check out the full tracklist below. "1997" was recorded at a live gig in Birmingham, England. "2007" was recorded at a show in the French duo's native Paris. No word on a U.S. release date, but it is slated to drop Dec. 19 in France, Consequence of Sound noted. -
Cream Career-Spanning Box Set Will Be Released in November [TRACKLIST]
Although Cream's career was brief, it spawned four impressive albums that will be released in a specialty box set this November. -
'Guardians of the Galaxy' Soundtrack to Get Deluxe Vinyl Makeover [TRACKLIST]
The soundtrack for the summer blockbuster "Guardians of the Galaxy" was a surprise hit after it climbed the charts with a roster of all previously released material from the era of vinyl LPs. It's no wonder then that the album is getting the royal treatment with a special deluxe vinyl edition from poster company MONDO. -
New 'Billboard' Report Says Amazon Is Top Seller Of Vinyl, Not Urban Outfitters
Remember when Urban Outfitters said it was the top seller of vinyl in the world? Well, according to a new report by 'Billboard,' that claim is not true. -
Music Sales Down Five Percent Compared To 2013, Vinyl Sales Up
The music industry sales numbers for the first half of 2014 have been released and they show that the business is still suffering. -
Record Industry's Retro Savior? Vinyl Purchases Are Quickly Increasing
In a new report from the Recording Industry Association of America, we get a lot of the same old sad news: album sales are down, digital downloads are down ... everything is down. Everything, that is, except vinyl sales. -
Whole Foods Capitalized on Vinyl Trend by Offering 12-Inch Records of Daft Punk, The Rolling Stones, and More
Whole Foods is already the hip place to buy food that's free of cruelty and genetic modification. So the question from a business perspective become, what products does the company try to stock next to appeal to its average customer. The answer seems to be vinyl records. Whole Foods announced this week that it would be stocking a select number of 12-inch LPs in a trial run at five of its California locations.
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