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Random music news for Tuesday, June 19, 2019

June 19, 2018June 18, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Apple, Bruce Springsteen, Firefly Festival, Guitar, HomePod, Jac Holzman, Mahan Esfahani, Mick Jagger, Radio, Record Collecting, Ringtones, Transport for London, Tube Map, World Cup, Yvette Horner

If there’s one cool non-football thing about the World Cup, it’s our quadriennial instruction in vexillology. Back to music news

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The First Annual Toronto Vinyl Summit is TONIGHT. Don’t miss it! Win a turntable!

May 8, 2018May 10, 2018 Alan Cross 1 Comment Fluance, Paradigm, Record Collecting, Vinyl

Sales of new vinyl in Canada are up over 50% from this time last year. Meanwhile, the traffic in used vinyl

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Random music news for Wednesday, April 18, 2018

April 18, 2018April 17, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments 4/20, Alexa, Apple, Beyonce, Coachella, Copyright, Ed Sheeran, Eminem, Fyre Festival, Mariah Carey, Morrissey, Mozart, R. Kelly, Record Collecting, Social Media, Stylophone, Tyga, Usher

I did not know this about April 18, 2018. Let’s move on to the music news for the day. Alexa

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What kind of record collector are you?

April 15, 2018April 14, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Record Collecting, Vinyl

With the First Annual Toronto Vinyl Summit coming up at The Rec Room on May 9 (I’m a co-founder plus

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Toronto Downtown Record Show

March 17, 2018March 16, 2018 Elisa 0 Comments Record Collecting, Toronto Downtown Record Show

[Elisa F G looks at the upcoming spring edition of the Downtown Record Show in Toronto. I’d be there, but

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Another look at the vinyl comeback

March 8, 2018March 7, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Record Collecting, Vinyl

[A look at the vinyl resurrection by Jess Water. – AC] Vinyl has been going since 1948 but never left

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Here’s how to collect vinyl when you’re too rich to bother going to a record store

March 1, 2018March 1, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Better Records, Record Collecting, Vinyl

The Robb Report is the magazine for the one-percenters, a publication that focuses on nothing but conspicuous consumption. Are you a Russian

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Are you into weird (and I mean REALLY weird) vinyl? Then read this.

February 10, 2018February 9, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Designer Vinyl, Record Collecting, Vinyl, Weird

Sure, anyone can collect basic black round vinyl records. But if you really want to get your vinyl freak on,

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This eBay Listing for the Sale of a Record Collection is Right Out of High-Fidelity

January 10, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments High Fidelity, John Cussack, Nick Hornby, Record Collecting

All record collecting nerds consider the novel/movie High Fidelity to be closer to a documentary than anything else. The book

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See If This Strikes Any Chords: “Why I Still Buy Music in the Age of Spotify”

January 4, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Record Collecting, Vinyl

How much physical music did you buy last year? A couple of CDs? A few pieces of vinyl? When speaking

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Does the Rise of Streaming Mean the End of Record Collecting?

December 30, 2017December 30, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Record Collecting, Streaming

No. There will always be knobs like me who insist on acquiring and owning certain LPs, singles and CDs. But

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