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Is it Safe to Play Picture Disc Vinyl Records on Your Turntable?

According to music retailer The Sound of Vinyl, a picture disc may have a "bit of extra noise in the signal" depending on when it was manufactured. As technology to create picture discs has improved ...
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Know Why Vinyl Records Stay Collectible

Vinyl records have endured every format that threatened to replace them. CDs would make them obsolete in the eighties, ...

Zelda Breath of the Wild Soundtrack is on vinyl but the price will shock you

Let the sounds of Hyrule capture your wonder with a collection of vinyl discs that cost a pretty penny to say the least ...
The Dartmouth

Hoffman-Carr: Bring Back CDs

Tucked away on the second floor of the Berry Library, the Jones Media Center is a valuable tool for campus creatives. Students can borrow production equipment, book an editing suite or even record a ...

These eight rare CDs could be worth 'thousands' as people urged to check albums

First launched in 1984, "Now That's What I Call Music 4" was the inaugural Now album released on CD, with only 500 copies ...
Whiskey Riff

On This Day In 2015, Eric Church Surprised Fans – And Upset His Label – By Mailing Out A Brand New, Unannounced Album, “Mr. Misunderstood”

On this day in 2015, Eric Church fans were shocked back in 2015 when a surprise album, Mr. Misunderstood, showed up in their mailbox. Not only were they surprised to receive a physical CD of the new ...
New Haven Independent

Grails, Put Your Records On

Spotify and Apple Music aren’t stopping a local polymath from opening a new record store downtown. More than 20 people filled that warmly lit store — called Grails, and located at 1020 Chapel St. — on ...

The album cover that turned Josh Homme into a revolutionary

Josh Homme has always been a student of the game, but there's one album cover in particular that set him on the path to ...

Q&A: The Crane Wives' Emilee Petersmark and Ben Zito on the band's evolution, community and the Decemberists

The Crane Wives’ upcoming fall tour feels about the same as always to the band, even with no fresh album to promote. With a ...

Boris’ ‘Pink’ Still Simmers and Boils 20 Years Later

Though Boris has been steadily releasing albums since 1996, there will always be a before and after Pink for the band. Formed in Tokyo in 1992, Boris has released 29 studio albums, 14 EPs, and seven ...
BBC

Vinyl boom is 'lifeline' says music shop owner

A music shop owner has said the surge in people buying physical-format music like vinyl has a been "lifeline". Raymond Stewart, of Stewart's Music Shop in Dungannon in County Tyrone, said they had ...

Full list of HMV stores opening after iconic high street store makes a comeback

Now Retail Week has reported HMV is set to open in Peterborough, in Cambridgeshire, Cork in Ireland and the Hague in the Netherlands. Both the Peterborough and Cork stores are due to open before the ...