Look at that headline. Now if I add in the name “Gwyneth Paltrow,” things may become a little clearer. Paltrow, who followers know is interested in the smell of her lady bits, once
Read MoreWay back in the 1990s, a young Detroit guitar player named Jack Gillis (soon to be rechristened Jack White) worked as an apprentice upholsterer by day with a fellow musician named Brian Muldoon.
Read MoreVinyl has been having a moment since Record Store Day first began in 2008. Since then, some classic records–LPs that were major sellers in the day of vinyl–have seen sales skyrocketed. Every vinyl
Read MoreIn the pre-CD era, there were all kinds of attempts to make vinyl sound as good as it could. That included things like direct-to-direct recording (time consuming and technically limiting) and something called
Read MoreLuminate, the company that monitors everything about how we consume music, reports this week that vinyl is still on a tear in Canada. Without counting the sales of used records and any transactions
Read MoreA million years ago when I was in university and shopping for music at places like Krazy Kelly’s on Portage Avenue in Winnipeg, I remember being shocked at seeing a new single album
Read MoreThe ARChive of Contemporary Music is a New York City non-profit that has one of the largest vinyl collections in the world. There are at least three million record on its shelves. That
Read MoreThe BBC literally (and I’m using that word correctly) has kilometres of shelving for its recorded music collection, something that dates back at least a hundred years. And in a situation familiar to
Read MoreThe proper name for vinyl is “polyvinyl chloride” (PVC.) It’s plastic and plastic is forever. That can create an ecological issue for record collectors. But what if vinyl could be made eco-friendly? Let’s
Read More[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] I know exactly how many single compact discs I bought this year: Zero. None. The only new CDs to enter my collection came as
Read MoreThis. Cool no? (Via Matt)
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