Random music news for Friday, July 10, 2026
Here’s your phrase for today: “transient lunar phenomena.” Discuss. Once you’re done, move on to music news for July 10, 2026. BONUS: Hiring a person like this do to something weird your funeral
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Ongoing History Daily: Facts about vinyl everyone should know (part 4)
If you have a stereo set-up at home, you’ll know that there’s a special input for your turntable labelled “phono.” You can’t just plug it into, say, an auxiliary input. If you can
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A vinyl record features a continuous groove that begins on the outer edge and spirals in toward the label. How long is that groove? It depends on how much music is on the
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Last time, I talked about how the weight of a vinyl doesn’t necessarily impact the quality of how it sounds. Okay, so what about rotational speed? Some people swear that 45 RPM records
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If you’re into vinyl, let me give you some extra knowledge. First of all, you’ve probably heard about 180-gram records, which tells you the amount of vinyl used in a record. The heavier
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It’s the weekly Canadian CD and vinyl sales report. We’ll look at streaming, too. (02 July 2026)
The last sales/streaming report of the first half of 2026 has arrived via Luminate. Here’s where we are at the six month mark., Streaming numbers:
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A vinyl emoji? There’s a campaign to create one.
I rarely use emojis in my emails/texts because I’m overwhelmed by the sheer number of them. Certainly there’s an emoji for everything already, right? Well, no. Believe it or not, there isn’t an
Read MoreThis is your weekly Canadian CD and vinyl sales report (28 May 2026)
There are some declines in Canadian CD and vinyl sales this week, but just wait until all the numbers from the simultaneous release of Drake’s three new albums are factored in next week.
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This new organization wants to promote high-quality recycled vinyl
Vinyl records are forever. Throw out a 45 or LP, and it’ll sit in a landfill until the Sun goes nova. And now that vinyl is almost in its third decade of resurrection,
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Random music news for Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Was that Trump assassination attempt real or staged? You can probably guess what the internet thinks. Music news for April 29, 2026, on the other hand, is 100% real. BONUS: A robot prostate
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Let’s get deep into vinyl with an electron microscope
As more and more people discover the glories of vinyl, there are questions about how this old, OLD-school technology really works. How does the stylus-and-groove process really work? To find out, we need
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