Vinyl Exam

New Zealand Herald - This is great little article.. diary like story of raptress coco solid and her quest to get her latest songs pressed to vinyl.

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The New Zealand Herald - Andy Cuddihy, the the managing engineer at The Vinyl Factory in Marrickville (suburb of Sydney) gives his take on firing up the presses for fresh vinyl runs. if i ever get out to new zealand, i am gonna head out there and watch this happen!

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State Journal Register Springfield, IL - yet another newspaper with an article about local shoppers and shopkeepers finding out that people are still buying vinyl. really makes me wish i lived closer to one of these cities. the city where i live has NOTHING of this sort. every now and then, i will check the thrift stores, but it’s mostly just scratch up old records.

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this is just something interesting and fun that i stumbled across the other day. it’s a 1920’s era recording playing on an old victrola. the music is fun as hell, but even more interesting are the comments about the video. it turns out the that grandson of the guy who plays the whistle on this track found this video also

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WFMU.org - Radio station plays antique vinyl and cylinders weekly. it’s almost kinda weird that you can subscribe to this kind of radio show as a podcast, but yeah, of course i subscribed!

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Marketwatch - while i am not a huge fan of elton john past the seventies, i thought it was cool that best buy will be releasing a 14 track representation of the caesar’s palace shows this october. In addition to the usual DVD and Blu-ray discs, it will also be released on a 3 LP vinyl premium set. once the playlist firms up, i might buy it.

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The Ubyssey - a great article about why, while we own a copy of Houses of the Holy on CD, will still spend years trying to find a clean copy on vinyl. the only thing i don’t wholeheartedly agree with in this article is that i think that even CD’s are dead at this point.

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Ferdinand von Prondzynski, President of Dublin City University wrote an interesting article this morning about buying his first vinyl album in more than 20 years. i thought that this was interesting not only because i am a vinyl dork, but because he chose on of my current favorite albums, A Fine Frenzy’s “One Cell in the Sea.” This album has been in my playlist for a long time, but i have yet to pick up a vinyl copy.

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Retro to Go - now THIS is something that i would love to have. it just seems like the PERFECT way to display and listen to vinyl. the only problem is, i would like to have a room dedicated solely to this thing.

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The Daily Mail - interesting article this morning about one of the things i have been bemoaning about cd’s . the commitment you have to make to listen to a whole cd far outweighs the probable musical value of the cd.

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