Monday, December 8th, 2008
Long thought of as a relic, vinyl is making a comeback on turntables – and as fashion accessories.
Wrecords by Monkey turns old records into bracelets, earrings and key chains. Company founders Patrick “Monkey” Chirico and Brian Farrell met at as students at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and stared recycling records in 2004.
Their urban-inspired, environmentally friendly fashions, produced in a Bushwick studio, can now be found in 20 states and as far away as Japan.
Friday, June 13th, 2008
CD sales continue to plummet. Digital downloads are rapidly climbing. And an old musical format is steadily making a comeback.
Audiophiles in search of that warm, grainy sound are getting into the vinyl groove again.
Last year, 990,000 records were sold — a 15 percent increase from 2006, according to the Nielsen SoundScan.
Brooklynphono, a small mom-and-pop vinyl record manufacturing company in Sunset Park, is profiting from this nostalgic musical resurgence. In 2001, husband-and-wife team Thomas Bernich and Fern Vernon-Bernich established a plant on 42nd Street where they press vinyl for independent artists and New York City-based record labels for $1 a record.
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