In 2021, sales of vinyl records easily outpaced those of CDs. And purchases weren’t confined to ultra-hip indie music shops. Big-box retailers like Target and Walmart made bank this year selling re-pressings of classic albums, as well as new drops from some of the world’s most successful pop-stars––Olivia Rodgrio, Taylor Swift, Cardi B, et al. If you need more proof …
Go | Tiger Records celebrates two years in biz with new merch and much vinyl
Vinyl shortage be damned: When Tiger Records celebrates an anniversary, the wax is sure to be in plentiful supply. In just 24 months in business, the upstart brick-and-mortar music shop in the heart of Riverside has made a case not just for the viability vinyl records, but for the enterprise of independent music stores, omnino. This weekend, Tiger celebrates two …
The Tables Have Turned on Vinyl
Jacksonville musicians, labels and manufacturers embrace vinyl’s renewed popularity; if only they could get their records on press
The music of LPT is tailor made for vinyl. The Jacksonville-based ten piece performs original son cubano, salsa dura and salsa romántica, mambo, cha-cha-cha and other styles of Afro-Cuban Salsa, a fusion of sounds which, when introduced by Cuban and Puerto Rican musicians in New York in the 1970s, was distributed widely on vinyl records––the preferred format of the day. …