How much longer can the vinyl boom last? There are questions.
[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
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Records
Confused about the sizes and speeds of different records? Let me explain.
[This was my weekly column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] There are some things we don’t really question: the sun coming up in the east; American politics will continue to be dysfunctional; and the
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Human voices are the new bootleg records
[This was my column for GlobalNews.ca. – AC] n early 1969, Ken and Dub, two music fans from Los Angeles, found themselves in possession of some unreleased Bob Dylan songs recorded in 1967
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What can you do with 15,000 78 RPM records? Give them away.
I often get emails from people looking to unload record collections. Can I hook them up with a dealer who might buy everything? Since I do have a couple of those connections, I
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Ongoing History Daily: The first two-sided record
This is for people who are still into vinyl. Here’s the question: what was the first record to have music on both sides? For the answer, we must go back to 1904, just
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Ongoing History Daily: Dirty and risque records through the decades
Some may complain about the lyrical content of today’s music, but this is nothing new. Almost from the moment we had the technology to record audio, we’ve had dirty and risqué records. Starting
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Ongoing History Daily: The psychology of collecting music
If you collect physical music—CDs, vinyl, tapes, whatever—have you ever asked yourself why you do it? There could be several reasons. It could be that you like being able to hold your music
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There’s a new site for vinyl lovers: Vinyl.com
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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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 985: MVV (Most Valuable Vinyl)
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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Love vinyl? Check out this video on how records reproduce music in stereo
I’m a big nerd when it comes to the technology behind music. This video (via Boing Boing) explains how dragging a needle through a groove pressed into a piece of plastic results in
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The Ongoing History of New Music, episode 975: More vinyl stories
At the dawn of the 21st century, vinyl was dead, dead, dead. We were all going digital and the general consensus was that we were going digital so there was no point in
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