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Nottingham, UK | Record retailer to make return to Nottingham: Music and leisure retailer, Fopp, is to make a return to Nottingham. The new outlet has taken the previous Joules unit on Bridlesmith Gate in a deal brokered by Box Property Consultants. Frankie Labbate, director of Box Property Consultants, stated: “This is a particular deal for Bridlesmith Gate, which proves our preliminary technique of repurposing massive elements of the road with avenue artwork and inventive leasing would breathe life and vibrancy again into the road. “This has in the end has led to quite a lot of lettings and now we’re attracting nationwide retailers once more to this thrilling setting. “We have secured FOPP on correct lease phrases in what was a aggressive bidding scenario and I encourage different landlords to make contact if they’ve vacant properties close by as we have now different thrilling tenants ready within the wings.” Fopp final had a Nottingham retailer within the now derelict Broadmarsh Shopping Centre in Nottingham. It was pressured to shut its doorways in June 2020 as mall proprietor collapsed.

New York, NY | Record Store Crawl 2024: Busload of Vinyl Fans and Quarters of Change Usher in Return of Warner Music Tradition: Billboard’s Retail Track columnist joins NYC crawlers as they go to Academy Records, Rough Trade Records and different spots round city. Warner Music Group’s revived Record Store Crawl returned to New York City final weekend after a five-year absence, full with a bus stuffed with music and vinyl followers—together with Billboard’s Retail Track—that kicked issues off at Tower Records’ Tower Labs area in Brooklyn with a rocking efficiency from 300 Entertainment recording artists Quarters of Change. The crawl’s bus, transporting about 40 music followers, went on to go to Academy Records in Brooklyn, Audio-Technica showroom in decrease Manhattan, Generation Records within the West Village; and eventually, Rough Trade Records up in Rockefeller Center, all on Saturday (May 18).

CA | Vinyl cafés and listening bars are popping up throughout Canada—right here’s the place to search out these hi-fi hangouts: A draw for audiophiles, these spots are setting the scene for intimate gatherings and dance events. There was a time when the way forward for vinyl seemed bleak. As comfort took priority over the listening expertise, music gamers appeared to solely get smaller and audio information extra compressed. But the bodily format has been making a comeback. …Vinyl has been booming in Canada too, with gross sales greater than doubling between 2019 and 2021. And whereas these figures don’t maintain a candle to the billions generated by streaming behemoths, they do say one thing concerning the methods we’re partaking with music — and assist clarify why “listening bars” have been popping up in cities world wide. “We solely play vinyl … we don’t even have the power to play a digital file,” file bar co-owner Jodie Dewald informed CBC Life. At Dewald’s downtown Toronto institution, The Little Jerry, patrons can take heed to recorded music in all its velvety, textured glory because of a customized high-fidelity sound system.

Coatbridge, UK | Coatbridge creator takes a glance again on the vinyl enterprise that offered the music backdrop to our lives: Labelled with Love is a ‘distinctive encyclopaedic and insightful overview of the tradition of file corporations.’ A Lanarkshire creator who wrote about his time touring with Nirvana has launched a brand new “insightful” e-book charting the historical past of file labels. Andy Bollen’s newest providing, Labelled with Love, is a journey via a vinyl file assortment and moments in time spanning a number of a long time—from the jazz age to punk, the Beatles to Britpop, and Ella Fitzgerald to The Ramones. The Coatbridge man’s debut e-book was about his time touring with Kurt Cobain’s band, and he’s gone on to pen a number of since then – primarily as regards to his different love – soccer. The 57-year-old creator’s previously-published work may by no means be described as clichéd although, because it all the time assaults the reader from left-field. Labelled with Love isn’t any totally different in that respect, and appears past the labels to the affect they’d on the lives of the listener.

Melbourne, AU | On the file: Man to face the music after stealing $65k of LPs: A Melbourne music collector has been nabbed by the sleeve after stealing greater than $60,000 (NZD$64,900) value of vinyl records. The 33-year-old North Melbourne man visited CBD digital shops not less than 13 occasions over the previous 4 months and allegedly made off with a handful of LP records, police stated. Unique or fashionable LPs can promote for a whole lot of {dollars} and sometimes recognize in worth over time, particularly when unopened or in mint situation. After figuring out the file thief via CCTV footage, officers and retailer employees labored collectively to catch him within the act at a retailer on La Trobe Street on Wednesday. More than 400 records had been seized in a subsequent raid on his North Melbourne dwelling, together with a small quantity of heroin and marijuana. The man is predicted to be charged on summons, with investigators nonetheless figuring out if file thefts in close by suburbs are linked.

45 rpm singles: ‘Key’ to the way forward for vinyl releases? Think Like a Key launches collection of picture-sleeve vinyl singles. There was a time when singles – seven-inch, 45 rpm. discs with one tune on either side – had been the coin of the realm within the pop world. Fodder for transportable phonographs and jukeboxes alike, singles had been the popular medium for customers of fashionable music. But because the album period started within the mid Nineteen Sixties, the LP supplanted singles because the format of selection. Yet singles by no means utterly went away: they held on – if tenuously – via the CD period. And as music morphed right into a digital, downloadable commodity, singles returned, having fun with a resurgence within the twenty first century in a purely digital format. But with the return of the vinyl album as a well-liked medium for listeners and collectors alike, the standard 45 single has made one thing of a comeback. Helped alongside by scrappy indie labels, the 45 rpm. is as soon as once more taking a spot on the musical panorama.

Sufjan Stevens proclaims twentieth anniversary version of Seven Swans: Sufjan Stevens has introduced a twentieth anniversary reissue of his 2004 album, Seven Swans. It’s out June 21 through Asthmatic Kitty, in two totally different restricted version vinyl editions: zoetrope image disc, silver and cut up coloured vinyl. Its vinyl variations features a bonus flexi-disc that includes two bonus tracks, “I Went Dancing With My Sister” and “Waste of What Your Kids Won’t Have,” which may even be launched with the digital version of the album. Sufjan Stevens’ final album was Javelin, which is featured on our checklist of the 50 Best Albums of 2023.

Drive Home Furiosa: A Mad Max saga’s soundtrack on Mutant Vinyl: Oh what a day, what an excellent day for a Nerdist unique. We have your first have a look at how Mutant will allow you to convey the soundtrack to George Miller’s epic new movie, Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, dwelling on vinyl. And we are able to additionally let you know viewers gained’t have to attend lengthy to get a replica. It is occurring sale on the identical time the movie drives into theaters. The highly-anticipated prequel to Mad Max: Fury Road is lastly right here. As is its soundtrack. Mutant and WaterTower Music have teamed up for the primary bodily media launch of composer Tom Holkenborg’s unimaginable Furiosa rating. (And as somebody who has already seen the movie, I can attest “unimaginable” is definitely an understatement.) Pressed on two separate 140 gram Mutant Webstore unique Color Vinyl (one inexperienced, one other a golden brown), the album will are available a shocking tri-fold jacket. It may even function unique liner notes by Holkenborg and a bundle designed by Mo Shafeek. The attractive art work on the jacket—each in and out—will make this a collector’s merchandise even for followers who don’t have a file participant.