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Wondering why your vinyl records are taking so long?

If you’ve never had a vinyl pressed until now, you might get shocked by how long the turnaround time is—usually it’s 8-12 weeks. And there are even times when the pressing plants ship your vinyl records later than the expected time. This might frustrate you, especially if you’re close to your album release date… so […]

How to review your vinyl test pressing the right way

Working together is a must to press a great vinyl record. And that requires you, our dear client, to review your test pressing vinyl records—the right way! In this article, we’ll be discussing this critical steps of the vinyl manufacturing process. Why critical? Well, whatever you do in this step, will decide the quality of […]

20 of the coolest vinyl records that were nominated for grammy’s best record package

With each passing year, vinyl records have been gaining more and more audiences. Musicians have added more and more vinyl versions every music release which hints at the state of the vinyl record market. With an increase in vinyl record supply, artists have begun doing more creative stuff for their own. They customized their vinyl […]

Reddit’s Top 25 Unique Vinyl Records

We checked Reddit for unique vinyl records and it did not fail us! Vinyl records have become one of the most customizable physical audio formats available today. It has gained lots of buzz during the pandemic and since then, musicians have been releasing on the format along with usual digital and CD formats. This article […]

Music Marketing: 20 things we can learn from kpop groups

K-pop has been penetrating the West and the rest of the world for years now. They’ve come to a point where they get to perform and get nominated in big Western award shows like the Grammy Awards with BTS, and the MTV VMAs, with Blackpink. I’m sure you’re wondering how they did it, right? Because […]

VMA Award winning music on vinyl

The VMA’s 2022, was a star-studded award show and was attended by one of the biggest stars in the industry like Taylor Swift, Blackpink, and LL Cool J. There were definitely a lot of awards given out. And so we have made this article compiling a list of the awarded music releases which are available […]

25 of the most awesome vinyl records with Trifold Packaging

There are many reasons why the vinyl record format has been gaining popularity for the past years. It gives a better listening experience with the tactility and high sound quality. But aside from the obvious, the packaging of the format is also a big factor. Vinyl packaging has larger dimensions compared to any other physical […]

Which custom merch items sell the most?

Not all merch items sell. So before you manufacture thousands of them, you have to make sure they won’t just be dumped in your basement to gather dust. How do you know? By checking the numbers. Data. In this blog, we’ll run through a total of ten custom merch items that musicians have tried and […]

12 of the most good-looking vinyl + cassette bundles

Looking for a good-looking vinyl + cassette bundle? Then you’ve come to the right place, coz today, we’ve got twelve of them just to satisfy your need for all things awesome. We’ve been talking about how these two formats have become en vogue again… so it comes as no surprise that these bundles exist! Which […]