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I Rock Cleveland: Inside Gotta Groove Records — Cleveland’s Vinyl Pressing Plant

A HUGE thanks to music blogger extraordinaire Bill Lipold for coming to our grand opening party Saturday.  Some great shots of the equipment.  For all things rock and Cleveland, you should be reading I ROCK CLEVELAND.

I Rock Cleveland: Inside Gotta Groove Records — Cleveland’s Vinyl Pressing Plant.

Test Pressing Video Footage

We had an amazing innaguration party this Saturday at the plant, pictures are coming in via email, I’ll be posting some good ones here and on the Facebook page.  Here’s a short video clip of one pressing coming through the press.  Enjoy!

Questlove has more records than you do.

Great two part chat over at CrateKings.com with ?uestlove of the Roots Crew about masters, his record collection, and a fued with Biz Markie.

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Facts:

  • He has over 60,000 records.
  • He built a special library to hold all of his records.
  • He has spent $3000 – 4000 a month on records since 1993.

Watch it HERE!

Wonderful Vinyl Sonic Art

Artist Christian Marclay does some pretty amazing work with found sounds, oftentimes using scratches, pops and warped records in a way that would make most audiophiles cringe.  He really explores the concept of sound and how it influences us.

Record Shopping in the East Village

Those flat, round, black things with the hole in the middle that your father keeps stacked in his man cave: they’re called vinyl records.

via Local Stop – East Village – Returning to Music’s Old Home – NYTimes.com.

Wikiphonia: A headphone wiki

Great site that I had never heard about.  I like my Sennheiser HD-280’s.  And will probably buy myself a new pair of Grado’s sometime soon.

The only thing that could make this article better is if it were written the “other” Steve Guttenberg.
Go Check Out: Wikiphonia: A headphone wiki | The Audiophiliac – CNET News.

Turn Me Up!

Turn Me Up!™ is a non-profit music industry organization campaigning to give artists back the choice to release more dynamic records.

Go read more about them.

Music 101 – Record listings abbreviations

A great collection of record listing abbreviations for collectors.

Just a little fun reference material for your Monday!

Music 101 – Record listings abbreviations. Just what does RW mean?.

Behind the Artwork

If you aren’t familiar, donewaiting.com is a pretty fantastic music site here in Columbus, OH.  They cover way more than just local music news.

Go and check out their feature “Behind the Artwork” where they discuss the new Times New Viking artwork / record.

Behind the Artwork: Times New Viking’s Born Again Revisited.

Amateur Music Production – DIY Vinyl

Personally, I still have to say that I think we do it better, but these folks are definitely doing it awesome.

Check out a pretty sweet DIY vinyl project.

But, if you want a little more professional job, feel free to check out our pricing.

Amateur Music Production – today and tomorrow.

Custom Record Pressing

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-High quality plating & pressing
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-Custom printed packaging
-Distribution/fulfillment consulting
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