Category: NEWS
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Diggin’ Sydney 2022 launches this Sunday, April 10
Party Alert! After a two year hiatus, we’re pleased to be back with a fresh Diggin Sydney Vinyl Lovers Tour Guide. The Launch Party for all vinyl junkies is this weekend, Sunday 10th April. 2pm-8pm at Atomic Brewery in Redfern. DIGGIN FACEBOOK PAGE In case you missed our announcements we’re just letting you know we have…
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Diggin’ Sydney 2022 is here!
After a two year hiatus, a party for Sydney record store owners, staff, loved ones, customers and weird hangers-on to FINALLY celebrate the twice-covid-delayed 2022 Diggin’ Sydney Record Store Guide. Atomic Brewery Redfern is very generously hosting us and will be wetting our whistles. Tunes will be provided. Watch this space for more news about…
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Diggin’ Sydney! New Guide coming as soon
The maps are available at all good record stores and all the usual street press outlets or you can find our downloadable PDF here, or simply browse the Store Guide page. Map made possible with the generous assistance of Audio-Technica
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Diggin’ Sydney 2018 – Record Store Day time again!
The new maps are almost compete and will hit the streets early next week – just in time for Record Store Day. Watch this space. Complete web updates next week to coincide with Official Map Release. Map made possible with the generous assistance of Audio Technica
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Global Recordstore Map
It’s getting close to that time 😀 Here’s a site some bod put together of all the stores in the world ! https://recordstores.love/
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Records come round again: Sony to open vinyl factory in Japan
Major label’s Japanese arm to build new vinyl-pressing plant to keep up with growing demand for reissues and new releases on retro format https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/jun/29/sony-to-open-vinyl-pressing-factory-in-japan-records?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_WhatsApp
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Hunger for vinyl means a chronic shortage of pressing machines
FOR young hipsters and middle-aged sentimentalists alike, the resurgence of vinyl is cause for celebration. Since 2010 sales of vinyl records in America have tripled. Britain’s vinyl industry saw its biggest gains for 25 years in 2016. Big supermarkets are extending the amount of space that they allocate to the discs and even the turntables…
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MP WHAT?
Vinyl kills the MP3 industry. So goes the saying plastered to every second record shop wall, printed on slipmats and t-shirts (you probably shouldn’t wear). While we concede that vinyl hasn’t been the only nail in the coffin of the compressed, the news that the creators of the MP3 have written off their own…
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RSD 2017 Was Da Bomb!
Record Store Day 2017 saw the 10th anniversary of the event, which highlights the importance of record vendors in a notoriously competitive industry. This year’s sales prove an exceptional increase on previous years – sales at independent stores boosted 194 percent over the previous week, marking the biggest weekly gain since RSD’s inception. Link