by Bryan Ekus | Apr 27, 2018 | Latest News, Member News
Step inside Rainbo Records in Los Angeles with Steve Sheldon to see how vinyl records are made. Vinyl is having a major revival. Thanks to millennial listeners discovering the format fresh, and audiophiles who love the sound quality, the demand for vinyl records is...
by Bryan Ekus | Mar 23, 2018 | Latest News, Member News
Digital music downloads began to outsell physical media since 2012. It took four more years for digital music revenue to surpass those from physical media as well. Then streaming happened, and last year generated more money in the US than all the other formats. Now,...
by Bryan Ekus | Mar 20, 2018 | Latest News, Member News
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...
by Bryan Ekus | Mar 20, 2018 | Latest News, Member News
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...
by Bryan Ekus | Feb 5, 2018 | Latest News, Member News
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...
