Michael Kurtz
Now firmly established as an important part of the music retail ecosystem, Record Store Day was launched in 2008 as a celebration of the independent record store, as well as a means to boost consumer awareness of the mom-and-pop retailers that were still stocking new vinyl releases even as big music chains like Tower Records were going under. Initially conceived as an annual US event (but now expanded to a twice-yearly international one), RSD introduces hundreds of new limited-edition vinyl reis
Andre Torres
For crate diggers and record collectors of the early 21st century, no magazine was more important and influential than Wax Poetics. Dedicated to covering a wide swath of groove-oriented music that touched upon everything from contemporary hip-hop, jazz and funk to old-school Latin, soul and disco, the magazine connected the dots between past and present with one deep dive after another into records both massively influential and impossibly obscure, as well as the folks who made them and the arti
