The presses will be installed at Third Man Records — not far from where Grammy award-winning co-founder Jack White played his first gigs with The White Stripes. The retail part of the vinyl record ...
The ongoing boom in the popularity of vinyl records has been good for business at Austin's Gold Rush Vinyl pressing plant – so good that the North Austin company has added two new pressing machines.
BORDENTOWN, N.J. — The machines at Independent Record Pressing whirred and hissed as they stamped out a test record. The business's owners waited anxiously for Dave Miller, the plant manager, to ...
Ever wondered why you sometimes have to wait months after an album's launch to get the music on vinyl? It's not necessarily because the label hates vinyl -- in many cases, it's because the decades-old ...
Saturday is Record Store Day, when independent music retailers around the country host parking-lot concerts and sell limited-edition pressings of vinyl records, which have made a small but forceful ...
A Canadian solution to physical music's biggest bottleneck just became even more Canadian. The Toronto startup Viryl Technologies, which announced earlier this year it had designed newly modernized ...
When you think of manufacturing in the US, vinyl records probably isn't the first thing that springs to mind, but the industry has been chugging along as best it can. For decades, pressing plants have ...
The hype around the 21st-century vinyl revival is starting to sound like a broken record. Music sales revenues have plummeted for more than a decade, but every year since 2011, stories have cropped up ...
It’s been a great decade for vinyl: sales have increased for 11 years in a row, and LPs are expected to be a billion-dollar industry in 2017. But the current love-in for analog culture hasn’t been as ...
Chicago hasn’t had a working vinyl-pressing plant for at least 20 years. The last one was allegedly shut down by the FBI in the 90s for making bootleg 78 RPM records to sell in India. The presses from ...