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Selection Section: 9 Key Records From Steven Wilson’s Collection
Selection Section flips through the treasured collections of some of our favorite bands, musicians, DJs and producers. This week we’re joined by Steven Wilson. Steven Wilson is probably best known as founding member and mastermind of UK outfit, Porcupine Tree. Porcupine Tree started out as a pseudonym for Wilson’s solo output before morphing into a Grammy […]
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Crate Diggers Portland: Dig In With Seller Andy Mehos
Discogs sponsored Crate Diggers Record Fair comes back home for its fourth event in Portland, hot on the heels of its Canadian debut in the great cities of Montreal and Toronto! Crate Diggers is the ultimate event for record collectors, vinyl junkies, and music fans, taking place on August 26th, 2017 at White Owl Social Club. The day begins with a record […]
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More Data! Discogs Mid-Year Database Highlights Addendum
On the heels of our Mid-Year Marketplace Analysis and Database Highlights, I wanted to share some more tidbits that may be more interesting to the contributor crowd submitting to the Discogs database. Some of these range from pretty basic to esoteric. It’s my hope that you’ll find some of these to be as interesting as […]
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The Complete Guide On How To Use The Discogs Dashboard
If you haven’t yet discovered the joys of the Dashboard feature in Discogs, you’re for a treat. Shorten the steps it takes to go between checking on your orders, purchases, Collection and Wantlist by having all the options in front of you. The dashboard is a fully customizable homepage that enables you to see orders, […]
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Essential Wax with Buzz Osborne of Melvins
Melvins’ Buzz Osborne is a superhero. Before Nirvana. Before Soundgarden. Before Tool. Before Slipknot. Before Mastodon. There was Buzz and Melvins. Godfathers of Grunge. From their EP debut in 1986 ‘Melvins,’ to this year’s ‘A Walk With Love & Death,’ Buzz has created, destroyed, toured, and lived at a furious pace. Now twenty-five albums in, […]
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Discogs Engineering Updates, July 13th – 26th
Website Features Began an initial beta rollout of our newest “Tracks” feature to a select group of users; will gather feedback and plan for the next phase of rolling out to more users (so stay tuned!) Added new BAOI options for release submissions Deprecated saving pagination and layout preferences in a cookie for logged out […]
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Music Sales in 2017: Discogs Mid-Year Marketplace Analysis & Database Highlights
Can you believe we’re already past the midpoint of 2017? That means it’s time for us to crack open our books and reveal the data we’ve collected from the Discogs Database and Marketplace for a better look at music sales in 2017 and Discogs’ growth. And, once again, we’re comparing some of our numbers to the […]
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Discogs Set-Ups: Check Out Our Turntables And Audio Gear
To celebrate the launch of the Gearogs Marketplace, and just for a little insight into what we do with all those records we’re buying, this month’s staff picks is exclusively and unashamedly about audio gear. We’re talking turntables, speakers, amps, mixers, right through to samplers, drum machines and effect pedals. Maybe it’s all the time […]
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Discogs How To: What To Do If Your Order Hasn’t Arrived
There’s nothing quite like the excitement of waiting for your Discogs order to arrive, but too long a wait can turn anticipation into anxiety. Nervous glances between the mailbox and calendar probably aren’t going to expedite the arrival of your records, CDs, or tapes, but hopefully the following tips will! What can you do if […]
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Forbidden Confession: Submitting VHS Tapes To Discogs Over Vinyl
About two weeks ago, I spent some vacation time following up a lead. It’s not uncommon for me to use vacation time for database contribution purposes. It’s definitely uncommon for me to not involve submitting records to the Discogs database. I was promised over a thousand music video VHS tapes out of a collection that […]
