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Meet Record Store Owners Across the World – Without Leaving Home
No two independent record stores are the same, and there’s a vast expanse out there to explore. No one knows this better than Guillaume Ruffat; world traveller, record collector and blogger of Record Stor(i)es [Pro tip: Record Stor(i)es blog is in French, but if you’re using Google Chrome you can right-click to translate all content […]
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Zero Seller Fees In Gearogs Marketplace, Better Payment Options And Site Features
The Gearogs marketplace has been heating up, with new pieces of equipment added to the database and listed for sale daily! If you’re not already familiar with Gearogs, it’s just like Discogs, but for gear. You can add your turntable, synth, mixer, or any other gear to the database, or buy and sell from the […]
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Essential Wax with Japanese Breakfast
Essential Wax series is an intimate look into the record collections of some of the world’s most beloved artists. Hear from the creators of some of your favorite records about the records that had a big impact on them and in turn influenced their work. Japanese Breakfast, aka Little Big League‘s Michelle Zauner wrote her debut solo album, […]
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Top 10 Rarest Reggae Record Sales Of All Time
We’re celebrating Studio One’s release of Freddie McKay’s ‘Picture On The Wall: Deluxe Edition’ with the top selling records on the site of all time under the Reggae genre banner. This Top 10 encompasses a few different styles with a lot of emphasis on earlier ones like Rocksteady and Ska. I’m not exactly a reggae expert, so […]
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Discogs’ Favorite Summer Anthems: Staff Picks
9 months out of the year (or 10 or 11, depending on where we are) we’re longing for the sun and all the goodness that summer brings. Now that it’s finally hit, you can bet your butts we’re throwing on some tunes and partying like there’s no wintery tomorrow. To celebrate the return of the sun, we’re […]
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5 Records 5 Stories: Ron Morelli Talks About His Collection
Discogs is teaming up with Boiler Room to bring you 5 Records 5 Stories – the follow up to From The Counter which sees a vinyl-spinning DJs take the decks at independent record stores across Europe. While From The Counter gets crowds dancing and hanging out in their local record stores, 5 Records 5 Stories takes us […]
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Discogs Engineering Updates, June 15 – June 28 2017
Website Features We wrapped up the recommendations experiment we mentioned back in May and are now showing recommendations at the bottom of seller store profiles whenever possible! Started a new experiment: password strength indicators. Our XML dumps for releases now include the label ID for each release. The Discogs API now includes User-Agent in its […]
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Tapes Are Still Awful And You Should Continue To Ignore Them
Science has proven most people have already bailed by now to go leave an angry comment. Go laugh at them for not reading the article. You could be making tapes and selling/gifting/trading them right now. Tapes are so cheap C30s are about $0.90 each for a 25 pack shipped to your door. If you’re crafty […]
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Essential Wax with Broken Social Scene
Essential Wax series is an intimate look into the record collections of some of the world’s most beloved artists. Hear from the creators of some of your favorite records about the records that had a big impact on them and in turn influenced their work. If you’re not already a fan of Broken Social Scene do yourself a favor and […]
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Our 10 Favorite George Michael Songs
Today, the 25th of June, marks George Michael‘s birthday, and exactly 6 months since the world lost this multi-talented singer, songwriter, musician and producer. Reflecting on his career, my colleague Shannon and I realised we were both in our early teens when “Faith” was released and were heavily influenced by his music. We also feel George […]
