The cassette, a once-useful and now completely irrelevant music format, refuses to die. It’s not that people are buying them to play, though; they’re collectibles and tchotchkes and merch. Goldin, a marketplace for
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I probably dip into Discogs.com a dozen times a week both professional and personal missions. It really is one of the great databases of releases on vinyl, tape, and compact discs. Occasionally, though,
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One of the weirdest music genres I’ve ever encountered doesn’t involve music at all. These are “silent” records, which are exactly that: periods of silence that are given a title but don’t actually
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Jaxsta is an Australia-based company that spends a lot of time with music analytics and metadata. Their latest venture is a Discogs.com competitor they called Vinyl.com. (Yeah, I know. How much did they
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[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] I recently did some spring cleaning in the home office which involved asking if everything on my shelves of music memorabilia still sparked joy.
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[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] Last weekend, I spent a couple of hours at the semi-annual Downtown Record Show in Toronto. I brought along my usual amount of gambling
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Times are good for vinyl. The format was all but dead until some desperate independent record store owners in Baltimore invented Record Store Day in 2008. Since then we’ve seen double-digit increases in
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Record Store Day, the annual celebration of all things vinyl and the indie record store’s biggest day, is coming up as usual on the third Saturday in April. Here’s a partial list of
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[A heads-up on the Toronto Downtown Record Show by Elisa FG. – AC] Make like a cassette and rewind with me for a minute, or shake your CD-playing Walkman and skip back to
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…Our Lady Peace. Record Store Day is on the horizon–Saturday, April 23–and as has become practice, organizers have named an artist to position of RSD Ambassador. Raine Maida had this to say: “We’ve
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In the Olden Days, vinyl record presses were big, stinky, dangerous things. Today they still involved hot non-biodegradable polyvinyl chloride, but they’re a lot more clean and cool. Check out these South Korean
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