This is a story about retro-tech. My 10-year-old calls it vintage. We all know vinyl is making a comeback. I’m not talking about car seats, and that’s a good thing. When I was a kid, we had an ’80s Caprice Classic station wagon with maroon vinyl seats, and they could tear your skin off if Read More...
When the Los Angeles-based indie rock group Sure Sure left home for a nationwide tour last month, the band members didn’t think to take a lot of CDs with them. Instead, they pressed their full-length debut on vinyl, selling it alongside T-shirts and a small number of older CDs they’d printed for an EP last Read More...
Even though digital is on the upswing, physical is still performing relatively well on a global basis — if not in the U.S. market, where CD sales were down 18.5 percent last year. But things are about to get worse here, if some of the noise coming out of the big-box retailers comes to fruition. Read More...
With some observers predicting that the continued growth of streaming-media delivery will lead to the death of physical media, a TWICE interview with representatives of the Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) offered a very different story. Click here for full story Read More...
CD Baby’s parent company, AVL Digital Group, has taken a major step in expanding beyond artist-driven services and into B2B services with the acquisition of AudioMicro and its AdRev and DashGo divisions. Bringing AudioMicro into the fold means CD Baby will now be able to offer AdRev’s Content ID technology for YouTube videos and DashGo’s API Read More...
By the end of the month, one of Lackawanna County’s biggest employers for years will close its doors for good. Former employees of Specialty Records and WEA Manufacturing want to make sure the company won’t soon be forgotten. People who used to work there got together for a reunion on Saturday to celebrate the Read More...
Read moreDigital downloading has clearly had an impact on DVD, CD and video game packaging Tony Corbin finds out how pack designers and manufacturers have responded If video killed the radio star back in the 1980s, some might have predicted that the internet would kill multimedia packaging in this decade, although that would be a far Read More...
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