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theartsdesk on Vinyl: Volume 12 - SWANS, Sparks, Edith Piaf and moreWednesday, 16 December 2015
As theartsdesk on Vinyl concludes its first year of existence, vinyl is on the rise. There are justified moans that the boom is being taken over by predictably-curated, low quality, major label reissues aimed at 50-something men, causing the likes... Read more... |
theartsdesk on Vinyl: Volume 11 - Peter Gabriel, Lush and moreThursday, 19 November 2015
Heading into the final straits of 2015, it’s pleasing to read announcements by the BPI (British Phonographic Industry), the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) and Nielsen Soundscan that the year has been the biggest for vinyl sales... Read more... |
theartsdesk on Vinyl: Volume 10 - Fela Kuti, Simple Minds and moreMonday, 19 October 2015
Let’s not get carried away. The news, announced at the end of September, that vinyl sales generated more money than the combined income of Spotify, Vevo and YouTube’s free services sent waves of celebration through the record-loving community. $166... Read more... |
theartsdesk on Vinyl: Volume 9 - Queen, On-U Sound and moreFriday, 18 September 2015
The New York Times recently wrote that, “For the music business over all, vinyl is still a niche product, if an increasingly substantial one.” How substantial is slowly becoming clear with dramatic rises in vinyl consumption over the last year. The... Read more... |
theartsdesk on Vinyl: Volume 8 - Björk, Joy Division and moreThursday, 13 August 2015
In October a special tribute will be paid to the late great DJ Frankie Knuckles, the man who defined house music in the 1980s. A former bank In Chicago, now known as the Stony Island Arts Bank, which houses an archive relating to black culture, will... Read more... |
theartsdesk on Vinyl: Volume 7 - Northern Soul, The Fall and moreFriday, 17 July 2015
One of vinyl’s more controversial corners is the postal subscription club. Sign up to one of these and, for a fee, a number of records are sent to your home. The draw is supposed to be exclusivity of content or simply trusting the taste of a... Read more... |
theartsdesk on Vinyl: Volume 6 - Miles Davis, Giant Sand and moreMonday, 22 June 2015
It's becoming clear that the appeal of vinyl is two-fold. On the one hand there are older buyers who are returning to it as a validation of their own life journey though music and, on the other, there are young enthusiasts whose honeymoon with... Read more... |
theartsdesk on Vinyl: Volume 5Friday, 15 May 2015
The big vinyl storm in the US media over the last month has been a kerfuffle about VNYL, the service that hoped to do for vinyl what Lovefilm used to do for DVDs. The idea, backed by a hefty and successful Kickstarter campaign, was VNYL would send... Read more... |
theartsdesk on Vinyl Volume 4: Motorhead, Adrian Sherwood and moreSunday, 05 April 2015
Record Store Day – 18 April – has been whipping up discord among independent labels. Notably, Sonic Cathedral are boycotting it, instead releasing 365 copies of an EP by Spectres and Lorelle Meets The Obsolete, one a day, over the next year. The... Read more... |
theartsdesk on Vinyl: Volume 3 - Nick Cave, Max Richter, Vessels, and moreFriday, 06 March 2015
Did you know there's a heated debate going on about “hot stampers”? As the resurgence in vinyl continues, there are those who wish to attribute value to their own knowledge and to their vinyl collections. In the e-consumer trenches, where... Read more... |
theartsdesk on Vinyl: Volume 2Saturday, 31 January 2015
Did you know that Jack White’s Lazaretto album sold nearly 87,000 copies on vinyl last year? Sales continue to rise all over with European manufacturing facilities running at full tilt. Given the demand for vinyl has risen 800% in the last decade,... Read more... |
theartsdesk on VinylTuesday, 16 December 2014
Have you been to a record shop lately? Now that our honeymoon with virtual music is revealed as completely lacking romance, record shops are thriving again. And it’s not CDs these shoppers are after. Those have been squeezed off into a far corner... Read more... |
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