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Vinyl Music Making Comeback in Digital Age Latest evidence: local radio station playing LP albums....

Updated 4:55 PM PST, Thu, Jan 22, 2009....

Andy Chanley, p.m. drive-time jock at 100.3 "The Sound,” spins vinyl records once a week on the station's vintage turntable during "Album Sides Wednesday". ....

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Snap, crackle, pop!....

No, the radio DJ is not eating Rice Krispies on the air. He's playing music on the old format that had largely disappeared a generation ago: the analog vinyl LP. And though it occasionally hisses and crackles and pops (OK, so we exaggerated about the snapping part), it has other endearing qualities that are being rediscovered in the digital age.....

"It actually sounds different," said Andy Chanley, p.m. drive-time jock at 100.3 "The Sound," as he wiped down the next vinyl album he would be spinning.....

He sets aside the digital server and CD player and cranks up the station's vintage turntable during "Album Sides Wednesday" on LA radio's latest iteration of the classic rock format (KSWD calls it "best rock").....

Chanley's playing mostly vintage stuff: the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour ("You say yes, I say no..."), The Stones' Sticky Fingers ("How come ya dance so good?"), Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever ("I'm free...free fallin'"). Format, not content, the main difference from what he plays on his non-vinyl shifts, though he does get special requests from listeners he cannot initially fulfill.....

"We don't have that," Chanley has had to tell more than one listener, only to be delivered a copy with the admonition, "Well, here it is. You should play this!"....

And he does.....

The likable Chanley was still in school (back home in Indiana) in the mid-80's when compact discs heralded the revolutionary switch in music recording from analog to digital. It promised the end of the surface noise created by dragging a diamond stylus through the grooves on vinyl discs. But even then there were purists (or Luddites, depending on your viewpoint), who complained that something was lost in translating music into ones and zeroes; that digital recordings lacked the "warmth" of analog recordings.....

"Whether it's better or worse, that's something a lot of people argue about. It's a preference," Chanley said diplomatically. "We're interested in the experience of hearing the vinyl and hearing the warmth. There IS a difference."....

Warmth or not, vinyl quickly was marginalized as music marched into the digital age. And now in the 21st century, CDs are inexorably being marginalized by digital downloads. But there's been a parallel phenomenon: the renewed interest in vinyl, with some labels repressing classic discs, and some new artists even pushing for small runs of vinyl recordings to be sold along with their digital versions.....

Nearly two million vinyl albums were sold last year, most since Nielsen SoundScan began keeping records in 1991. In the post-Tower-Records economy, vinyl has been a boon to Amoeba Records and other shops tasked with remaining relevant in the download age. In fact, Chanley said his KSWD cohorts rely on Amoeba to fill in gaps in their vinyl collection.....

Even Walmart, now the largest retailer of CDs, also stocks vinyl -- not just classics, but new releases as well.....

Nobody sees vinyl derailing digital's dominance, but Chanley, among others, sees it staking a claim to a viable niche market.....

Snap, crackle, pop!....
 
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/around_town/the_scene/Vinyl-Music-Making-Comeback-in-Digital-Age.html..

LOS ANGELES – The Sound – KSWD-FM – today announced the addition of Andym Chanley as the new afternoon host of 100.3FM The Sound.

Andy is a native of Indiana, and Los Angelenos may remember him as the morning host on the former Channel 103.1 (now Indie 103.1).

Andy will join The Sound on June 2, working with Program Director Dave Beasing.

"As the first deejay on The Sound," Beasing said, "Andy Chanley now secures a place in our history – and future. He's quite possibly the smartest – and nicest –deejay in radio. Of course he belongs on The Sound."

Chanley began his broadcasting career in 1989 while still attending Purdue University. A few years later, he found his way back to Indianapolis where he hosted the morning show at an alternative rock station.

In 1997, Chanley moved across the country in search of creative opportunities in Los Angeles. After two years of mid-days at modern rocker Y-107, he learned the meaning of World Class Rock while hosting the "Music in the Morning" program for two years at AAA outlet Channel 103.1.

In his nearly two-decade career, Chanley has interviewed an alphabet soup of artists, from Tori Amos, James Brown and Johnny Cash all the way to Warren Zevon. In the last seven years, he's lent his voice to countless commercials, TV series, motion pictures, and video games.

"I love radio, but I also love L.A.," Chanley says. "I've held out for the perfect station to materialize here. And it only took seven years."

Of the team Bonneville VP of Programming Greg Solk is building to lead The Sound, Chanley says, "I passed up a chance to work with (Music Director) Haley Jones several years ago -- I'm not making that mistake again. Add in the programming smarts of Dave Beasing and the marketing mind of Sammy Simpson, and this is going to be fun. Greg, Dave, and Sammy talk about ideas and ideals that I've never heard mentioned inside a radio station before. It's finally safe to take your finger off the 'scan' button in Los Angeles."

The Sound (100.3 FM) is all about the best "rock" music ever made. On The Sound you'll hear everything from the geniuses that gave birth to the seminal rock of the '60s and '70s to the ever-evolving offspring of that music, including great stuff that came out last year...or even last week. And, the early response from listening audiences, both over the air and online, has been phenomenal and enthusiastic.