by Bryan Ekus | Jun 30, 2018 | Latest News, Member News
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...
by Bryan Ekus | May 10, 2018 | Latest News, Member News
Digital 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...
by Bryan Ekus | Apr 21, 2018 | Latest News, Member News
The wrong format is making a resurgence as music fans flocked to indie shops again Saturday for Record Store Day. A grave rock ’n’ roll injustice akin to Vanilla Ice outselling Ice Cube and Christopher Cross topping Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” at the 1981 Grammys,...
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...
