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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Video: How records are made at Jack White’s Detroit pressing plant
Not only does Jack White sell vinyl through is Third Man Records, but the company also presses its own records. Here are how things work at Third Man’s plant in Detroit.
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Love vinyl? Here’s a short doc on the vinyl revolution.
If you’re caught up in the vinyl revolution, take 30 minutes to view this Canadian documentary on the subject. Full disclosure: I’m in it.
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Are you protecting your vinyl records properly? Watch this video.
On one hand, vinyl is made from non-biodegradable polyvinyl chloride. Left alone, a record will last forever. But that doesn’t mean the music will survive. Vinyl does take some care and maintenance. Are
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We have the first bioplastic vinyl record
The good news: The most durable form of music storage is the vinyl record. Kept away from heat, polyvinyl chloride takes eons to degrade. That band news: old records take eons to degrade,
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