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Hasbro Returns to Las Vegas Licensing Expo 2024: Creating Magic Moments with an Impressive Slate of Licensed Consumer Products 21May, 2024 ...

Pet Shop Boys: Smash: The Singles 1985–2020 Parlophone 0190295021962 (6 LP). 2023. Various prods. and engs. plus Andy Baldwin, remastering eng. Performance ***** Sonics **** It's hardly news that pop can be simultaneously intelligent and fun, or that a music single can be both fun entertainment and a significant cultural artefact. Smash is evidence, as if any more were needed, that the Pet Shop Boys are sublimely good at that particular synthesis.

A new building will include space for 36 new record presses, allowing the company to become the largest vinyl record manufacturer by volume in North America.

Vinyl is back, outpacing CD sales for the first time since 1987, and Memphis is at the forefront.

In 2001 I had the pleasure of interview Sam Phillips, the founder of Memphis Record label Sun Records. Sam produced the first records by Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, and Howlin' Wolf.

Memphis Record Pressing is one of the largest manufacturers of vinyl records in the country.

Ray Barretto · Barretto Power It was 1970 when Fania Records released Barretto Power, one of a series of seminal albums by master percussionist and bandleader Ray Barretto. 1970, the beginning of an explosive decade in our planet. A decade of crisis and change, especially in New York. A decade of socioeconomic and cultural challenges for a new Latino generation in the Big Apple. Tropical music, the explosion of the so called salsa movement as a unifying phenomenon was gathering momentum, a...