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Hawaii's vinyl album sales are booming in numbers not seen in 30+ years

Vinyl sales have grown rapidly for more than a decade on the mainland -- as well as here in Hawaii. 2021 was the biggest year since 1986 for vinyl record sales, with more than a billion dollars worth of records sold last year.....Read more

Manufacturers struggle to keep pace with vinyl record demand

The arrival of the compact disc nearly killed off record albums, with vinyl pressing machines sold, scrapped, and dismantled by major record labels.....Read more

Reggae in Canada-Johnny Osbourne among acts being celebrated in docuseries

“Well, he is absolutely one of the legends of reggae music but specifically for this series of documentary shorts that we are doing with the National Film Board of Canada,.....Read more

The enigmatic Duke Reid the Trojan

Described on the Trojan Records website as an “enigmatic character”, Arthur ‘Duke’ Reid owned one of the biggest sound systems of the 1950s.....Read more

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