Tupac Shakur's H1 Hummer has been sold at auction for $206,531 and for much less than expected. The legendary rapper's vehicle was previously auctioned for $337,144 but the sale didn’t close, so the same less known auction company put it back on the block for its online Pop Culture auction last...
In 1966, Columbia Records launched a new advertising campaign to promote Bob Dylan’s sixth album, Highway 61 Revisited, along with his catalog of already recorded songs. By that time, he had already charted with hits (“Blowin’ in the Wind” and “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright”) in versions performed by Peter....
Brazilian businessman Zero Freitas owns over six million records, a collection which he intends to catalog for public use and transform into a vastly listenable archive. Nearly everyone interested in records will have, at some point heard, the news that there is a Brazilian who owns millions of records. Fewer seem to...
Alex Rodriguez lives in Los Angeles California and manages a record store called The Glass House. He also builds large-scale pop-up record stores for music festivals including Coachella, FYF, and Desert Trip. He travels the United States five to six months each year buying vinyl records. He’s been acquiring vinyl...
Record collectors are always searching in thrift stores, attics, garages, and yard sales for rare gems that may be far more valuable than the sellers know. Some buy boxes of records at estate sales. Collectors often buy records from the families of deceased record collectors. The sellers usually don’t care...
Vinyl Sales Slump Quality Blamed A move to making vinyl records from digital files instead of the original analogue recordings is causing concern in the industry with sales slumping in the first half of 2017. In the first half of 2015, sales of vinyl records jumped 38% compared to the...
The vinyl experience was a major part of music history from roughly the early 1950s through 1991. Once CDs replaced vinyl recordings and led the way to downloading and streaming of digital music files, vinyl analog recording was on its way to disappearing from our lives, seemingly never to be...
At first, though, it sounds really weird and off the wall. But on second thought it makes perfect, Hendrix-type sense to chuck in someone who's a great musician but comes from a different tradition," said Hendrix biographer Charles Shaar Murray. "I regret this never actually took place. ... it would...
When Bob Dylan covered Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” in a concert in Toronto in 1988, not many people had heard the song. Many years later millions had heard it thanks to covers by John Cale and Jeff Buckley. The song became so ubiquitous that hundreds of singers began recording their versions...
