Vinylism

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What does the wild popularity of Cash for Clunkers tell us about how to solve our other problems?

A recent comment about cast albums that have not yet been transferred to CD brought forth several requests for a discussion on this topic.

LOS ANGELES — The 45s, the 78s, the vinyl LPs, the CDs are all spinning to a halt, and you can push the stop button on those old cylinder recorders.

The Fortune sides display the stew of influences that have continued to emerge throughout Andre Williams' career. Including singles released as a solo artist and with groups the Five Dollars, the Don Juans and others, there's straight doo-wop, crooners, jump R'B, weird near-novelty numbers and risque semi-spoken diatribes in the vein of the infamous "Jail Bait."

A top story from this week. Electric Tickle Machine's debut album, Blew It Again

Unusual covers and creative mashups highlight this week's list.

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Topic is the oldest independent label in Britain, if not the world. Not bad for a Marxist party offshoot that was started in a basement Tony Engle is not a man much given to hyperbole, which is unusual in a record label boss. In fact, after 36 years in the job, he's still not entirely sure that he should be running a record label at all: he worries that the whole business of recording the kind ...

DUBLIN----Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "2009 Worldwide Record, CD, Tape Production Industry Report" report to their offering.