Planet of Sound Vinyl Subscription Service
Planet of Sound is one of my favourite local record and audio shops. They stock what they believe to be the 1,000 top vinyl records, but when possible, they will …
Vinyl Junkies
Vinyl Junkies: Adventures In Record Collecting by Brett Milano (2003) There are a variety of reasons to read Brett Milano’s Vinyl Junkies. If you are truly one of those …
Tom Rush
Found this record Hallowe’en evening at one of my thrift store haunts. I wasn’t a huge Tom Rush fan since his peak was a bit before I found a love …
Vinyl Sales Continue to Rise
In the US, retail sales of music continued to grow year over year based on data collected by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). According to the latest RIAA …
Vinyl Pressing on a “Tiny Canadian Island”.
I love the content created by the UK’s The Vinyl Factory, but I did feel a twinge of defensiveness at the reference to Prince Edward Island as a “tiny Canadian …
180 Grams – What Does It Really Mean?
I don’t buy a lot of new vinyl, so I was curious when I got my first 180 gram record (Harrow Fair – Call to Arms). First – what did …
5 Rules for Caring For Your Vinyl
Caring for your vinyl. You can only play one album at a time, so even if you’re listening for hours every day, your albums will spend most of their time …
Black Day In July
July 23, 2017 marks the 50 anniversary of the Detroit Riots of 1967. The riots lasted 5 days and marked one of the worst riots in US history. Detroit is …
Its a Vinyl Prison – and I want to be Locked Up There.
The Blokhuispoort prison in Leeuwarden The Netherlands. It dates back to 1580, but is more famously known as a WWII prison where German occupation forces held prisoners of war. An interesting Canadian …
6 Plus Reasons to Own Your Music
The idea of listening to music that you don’t own isn’t new. It was originally called radio. But you were limited to whatever the stations that you could receive were …