This week sees the release of a 50th anniversary edition of ‘Abbey Road’, vinyl editions of the new Chastity Belt self titled LP & Mudhoney’s ‘Morning In America EP, Sturgill Simpson’s Sound & Fury CD, and a bunch more good stuff.
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The cassette crusade continues! The Boom's Top 10 tapes of 2017
2017 saw yet another uptick in cassette sales according to the number crunching folks at Nielsen Music. Via The Hollywood Reporter. Last year, cassette album sales rose by 35 percent to 174,000 copies sold. In 2016, there were 129,000 sold.