Random music news for Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Unless you’re in somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere, you’re happy to see January done for another year. I know I
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Record Stores
This documentary on vinyl and record stores will make you feel all misty
Wax Tailor, a French hip hop artist on tour in the US, decided to make a documentary on independent record
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Ongoing History Daily: The original record collectors, part 3
Here’s one more story about how women, not men, were the original record collectors when recorded music first became available
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There’s a new 12-part doc on record shops coming
If you’re the kind of person who loves to root around in record shops, a new 12-part documentary entitled Behind
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Ongoing History Daily: The effect of streaming music
When streaming started to take off more than a decade ago, skeptics said it would never work. After more than
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I really, really miss old-school stores. Let me count the ways.
[This was my column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] One night while trying something other than endlessly doomscrolling for stories about
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Random music news for Thursday, July 1, 2021
Expecting to die one day? Go to Mars! On that cheery note, here’s just news for July 1, 2021. Is
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Ongoing History Daily: The longbox, part 2
A major complaint of record stores in the early 80s was the cost of installing new shelving to display this
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Ongoing History Daily: The longbox, part 1
Back in the early 80s, the recorded music industry was suffering. The disco bubble had burst. Record sales were in
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This is the Thing, a comedy set in a Canadian record store is now available
There’s something about the environment of a record store that makes it a natural setting for a comedy. This is
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 920: The history of the record store
Before we begin, I am very aware that there are many people who have never, ever set foot in a
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