Record Store Day 2012: David Bowie, Paul McCartney, The Misfits And More Release Vinyl
Jumat, 20 April 2012 by Android Blackberry
PORTLAND, Maine -- Think Katy Perry and vinyl, and also a hip-hugging dress may possibly come to thoughts.
The 27-year-old pop artist is amongst musicians going old school - releasing music on pressed vinyl records to assist celebrate Record Shop Day.
Perry, who's too young to have thumbed by way of 45-rpm singles when she was a girl, joins an eclectic mix that incorporates David Bowie, Paul McCartney, the Misfits, White Stripes, the late James Brown plus the Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends with special vinyl releases to celebrate the hometown record shop on Saturday.
All of that vinyl - more than 300 offerings - represents a vibrant spot for the roughly two,000 indie music retailers facing stiff competitors from online music sales and streaming music services.
"There will be fewer retailers, if it wasn't for the resurgence of vinyl," stated Chris Brown from Bull Moose, a chain of 10 retailers in Maine and New Hampshire, who hatched the concept for Record Shop Day.
Now in its fifth year, Record Retailer Day got off to a raucous commence with Metallica in San Francisco in 2008, a year after the idea was tossed out by Brown at a conference of indie retailers.
It really is evolved into an annual occasion that gave an 8 percent sales bump to shops last year and is now being celebrated around the world in nations which includes Brazil, Australia, Romania and Germany.
For a time, it was unclear regardless of whether independent record retailers would survive mega stores like Tower Records, and then the move to on line sales together with the ubiquitous iPod and now the growing recognition on line services like Rhapsody, Pandora and Spotify. Indeed, hundreds of mom-and-pop retailers did shut their doors.
But about two,000 shops stay in small business right now, and also the number has been reasonably stable over the past few years, mentioned Ken Glaser, vice president of sales for Alliance Entertainment, the nation's largest wholesale distributor of compact discs, DVDs and vinyl record albums.
"I nevertheless see a place for a robust indie retailer in each community that may support one. I just think there is still the lure of folks wanting to walk into a retailer and touch and really feel factors and talk to people," mentioned Joel Oberstein, president of Almighty Institute of Music Retail, a industry study firm based in Studio City, Calif.
As of late, vinyl records play an rising role in bringing people today via the doors or music retailers.
It turns out vinyl records never definitely died immediately after the compact disc became dominant just after its 1980s introduction. As of late, a brand new generation of young hipsters is helping to drive demand as well as people that grew up with albums and audio purists who assume vinyl albums nevertheless sound greater than today's digital music.
Last year, vinyl albums sales grew 39 percent, with about 3.9 million albums getting sold, and sales are up about 10 percent so far this year, based on Nielsen Soundscan.
Record Retailer Day last year represented the largest day from the year for vinyl sales.
Perry, for her component, is releasing a 12-inch pink vinyl single "Part of Me" with "Tommie Sunshine's Megasix Smash-Up" on the flipside. Arcade Fire is releasing "Sprawl II" as a 12-inch vinyl single, and Bowie is releasing a 7-inch "Starman" picture disc. McCartney is rereleasing a 7-inch single with "Another Day" and "Oh Woman Oh Why." Two never-before-released James Brown tracks from the upcoming "Live at the Apollo 50th Anniversary" might be released on a single.
Several from the offerings are going to be distinctive pressings.
The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends are releasing a swirly-colored double LP featuring collaborations with a number of artists. White Stripes is releasing a red-and-black single with "Handsprings" and "Red Death at 6:14." The Misfits, a punk band, will release the 1982 "Walk Among Us" on colored vinyl.
David Bakula, senior vice president for analytics at Nielsen, said he thinks there'll generally be room for record stores simply because they cater to hardcore music fans and provide unique formats.
"Thank God you will find nonetheless these music fans available who're interested in supporting these stores and supporting these formats and supporting these bands. You may have an ideal consumer ecosystem there where demand is met by provide," he stated from his workplace in Los Angeles.
At Bull Moose in Portland's Old Port, Pat Markley was thumbing by means of the new and utilised rock CDs Thursday night. He stated he likes shopping at a retailer simply because he gets to hear new music, and since you will find people today to assist if he's trying to find an obscure music titles.
"I could invest hours searching around here - and I've. I've been with my brother and sister and I've annoyed them to no finish," Markley stated.
