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Unlocking vinyl treasure at Tyrone record fair
Vinyl lovers, young and old, are in for a musical treat as Stewart’s Music Shop in Dungannon, one of the oldest independent music stores in Ireland, opens its doors for its first record fair.
Taylor Swift set to have biggest vinyl sales in 2022, says record industry
The US singer-songwriter’s tenth studio album Midnights, released in October, has broken a string of records.
Biggest selling vinyl album of the year so far revealed
The Overload by Yard Act won praise for its tuneful take on post-punk and witty lyrics.
Ian McCulloch on the Bunnymen, U2, Liverpool FC and hypnotism
HI MAC, the first four Bunnymen albums are being re-released on vinyl today after being unavailable for many years.
Noise Annoys: Nirvana's Live & Loud on vinyl, Belfast rocks for choice and Mclusky do Belfast/Dublin
IF YOU grew up loving Nirvana during their 1990s heyday, chances are you whiled away many a Saturday afternoon trawling independent record shops for exorbitantly priced bootleg CDs – I'm thinking of you, Hector's House – featuring illicitly recorded live shows and/or rare tracks.
Artist creates stunning portraits with coloured pencils on second-hand vinyls
Melissa Cotton, from Adelaide, draws portraits from Bowie to Prince on records.
For the record . . . let's consider some radical remedial action for city centre
IN March it was reported that sales of vinyl records and CDs had, for the first time since 2011, overtaken those of digital music and streaming.
First vinyl album ever made recreated for 70th anniversary
Composer Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in e minor was the first music to be put on a vinyl album.
Special event: Bangor Vinyl Day at Bending Sound Records
AS SOME of you will doubtless already be aware, tomorrow is Record Store Day – the annual frantic scramble where music enthusiasts are encouraged to shell out extortionate amounts of money on one-off seven-inch singles and coloured vinyl LPs.