Month: February 2014
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VINYL WINS
The Australian Recording Industry Association [ARIA] have this morning released their wholesale figures for 2013. They paint a grim picture, with a sales slump having undone the resurgence of 2012 and 2011. The wholesale total of $351,619,000 is the lowest since digital sales were first recorded in 2005. Read On
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SAVE THE EXPEDIT
Very. Bad. News. For a generation now, IKEA’s square build bookshelf has been the storage unit of choice for vinyl fanatics, taking advantage of the happy coincidence that each unit is the perfect height and depth for 12″ vinyl. Now, however, the monolithic Swedish home store have announced that they will be discontinuing their ‘iconic’…
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Chuck D : Official Record Store Day 2014 Ambassador
Bring Tha Noise – Chuck D is our main man this year. Since being founded in 2007 to help heighten the awareness of independent music stores around the world, RSD has boasted numerous rock star ambassadors to help spread the word, including Eagles of Death Metal singer Jesse Hughes (2009), Queens of the Stone Age…