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Program Guide YOU’VE GOTTEN EVERYTHING DONE SO FAR. MUSIC recorded. Mastered. Test Pressings made – you’ve made the best choices all along the way, now comes the time for your packaging. Whether you are issuing a new release, or re-issuing a classic from another era – getting the package correct is just as important as everything you have done so far. So why choose Stoughton Printing Company? Is it our flagship Old Style® jackets available in single style or gatefold jackets – our slipcase style or box sets? Is it that we combine the latest in computer software and computer OLD STYLE® Single Jackets press controls with old world craftsmanship? What separates us and our products from the pack? It is our people. We take pride in what we do, we take pride in your project – we make it our own project. We are all music fans as well. The true artisans are our Old Style® machine operators, like OLD STYLE® Gatefold Jackets Maria pictured above. Carefully and skillfully hand-tipping your Old Style® jacket in position. Through this process, we see every single jacket one at a time. There are automated ways to do this, but there is only one way to do it the way jackets were originally done – the Old Style® process. We’ve been at it for 50+ years now – making some of the finest record jackets ever produced. Isn’t that what your project deserves as well? Stoughton Printing Co. Quality Printing & Packaging Since 1964 Specialty Boxed Sets Old Style®, Old Style Tip-On Jackets® and Old Style Gatefold Jackets® are Registered Trademarks of Stoughton Printing Co. 3 SPECIAL THANKS… Making Vinyl 2019 would not have been possible without the help from… Diamond Sponsor Platinum Sponsor Award Sponsors Gold Sponsors Silver Sponsors YOU’VE GOTTEN EVERYTHING DONE SO FAR. MUSIC Bronze Sponsors recorded. Mastered. Test Pressings made – you’ve made the best choices all along the way, now comes the time for your packaging. Whether you are issuing a new release, or re-issuing a classic from another era – getting the package correct is just as important as TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF PHYSICAL MEDIA INNOVATION everything you have done so far. So why choose Stoughton Printing Company? Is it our flagship Old Style® jackets available in single style or gatefold jackets – our slipcase style or box sets? glow Is it that we combine the latest in computer software and computer tronics OLD STYLE® Single Jackets press controls with old world craftsmanship? What separates us and our products from the pack? It is our people. Media Sponsors We take pride in what we do, we take pride in your project – we make it our own project. We are all music fans as well. Record CollecTOR The true artisans are our Old Style® machine operators, like OLD STYLE® Gatefold Jackets Maria pictured above. Carefully and skillfully hand-tipping your Old Style® jacket in position. Through this process, we see every single jacket one at a time. There are automated ways to do this, but there is only one way to do it the way jackets were originally done – the Old Style® process. Listening Room Sponsors DJ Session Sponsors We’ve been at it for 50+ years now – making some of the finest record jackets ever produced. Isn’t that what your project deserves as well? Stoughton Printing Co. Association Sponsors Quality Printing & Packaging Since 1964 Specialty Boxed Sets Old Style®, Old Style Tip-On Jackets® and Old Style Gatefold Jackets® are Registered Trademarks of Stoughton Printing Co. 1”x4” (347 + K) CD DVD VINYL MANUFACTURING A DIVISION OF THE ADS GROUP COPYCATSMEDIA.COM | @COPYCATSMEDIA | EST. 1997 | MPLS, MN 5 Contents 03 SPONSORS 06 MAKING VINYL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 10 MICHAEL DES BARRES’S LOVE LETTER TO VINYL 13 BERNIE GRUNDMAN: LIFETIME MAKING VINYL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD HOLLYWOOD 2019 15 FREMER: DON’T BELEVE THE Produced by NEW VINYL SALES STATS Colonial Purchasing Co-Op LLC 17 ALICE COOPER BAND REUNITES Bryan Ekus FOR IN-STORE LP President & Executive Producer of ‘Making Vinyl’ 21 LISTENING ROOM SCHEDULE Larry Jaffee Conference Chair 23 VINYL JUNKIES’ QUALITY CONTROL SCORING SYSTEM Steve Sheldon, Michael Kurtz, 1”x4” (347 + K) David Hill & Lisa Hresko 25 MAKING VINYL PACKAGING AWARDS Conference Advisors FINALISTS Anna Kida Cover Design 27 SPEAKER BIOS: VINYL INDUSTRY’S BRIGHTEST MINDS Aimee Eaddy, AE3 Media Packaging Awards Coordinator Sylvia Doolittle Making Vinyl Coordinator Darren Stacey AUDIOPHILE LISTENING ROOM Program Guide Designer Please be sure to check out during both days of the conference in Studio 2 an audiophile Anna DePagter, listening room, organized by Musical Malissa Sole & Corey Nester Surroundings Inc., of Oakland, Calif. Social Media SEE PAGE 21 FOR FULL SCHEDULE Produced By Conference Partner Conference Partner CD DVD VINYL MANUFACTURING A DIVISION OF THE ADS GROUP COPYCATSMEDIA.COM | @COPYCATSMEDIA | EST. 1997 | MPLS, MN 6 MAKING VINYL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS DAY ONE (MONDAY, OCT. 14) REGISTRATION OPENS AT 8:30 AM 10:50 – 11:00 am CONFERENCE STARTS AT 9:00 AM Tech Spotlight: TBA 9:00 – 9:10 am 11:00 – 11:30 am NETWORKING BREAK Welcome: Bryan Ekus & Larry Jaffee, Making Vinyl 11:30 – 11:50 am 9:10 – 9:30 am Jampol Artist Management: We Manage Legends Michael Des Barres: The Magic of Vinyl Jeff Jampol explains what the vinyl comeback has meant to An all-around entertainer, Musician/DJ/Actor Michael Des managing the estates of legends, such as The Doors, Janis Barres is a European Marquis, raised in England and living Joplin, Otis Redding, The Ramones, John Lee Hooker, the in Los Angeles. As the host of Little Steven’s Underground Mamas and Papas, Charlie Parker, and Peter Tosh. Garage on SiriusXM Radio Channel 21, he is heard by more Speaker: Jeff Jampol, JAM Inc. than 6 million listeners, five days a week (5 am-8 am and 11:50 am – 12:30 pm 9 pm-midnight PT). He has appeared in over 150 hours of Bootstrap or Outside Funding to Jump on the Vinyl American television (MacGyver) and more than 40 feature Bandwagon? films, and has sold over 7 million albums as both a recording Launching a startup is hard enough, but raising enough artist and songwriter. His latest single, “Crackle and Hiss” on money for vinyl pressing or mastering services comes with Wicked Cool Records, is about the magic of vinyl. its own challenges. Hear how you get past the first year and 9:30 – 9:50 am figure out financing needs for future growth. Bandcamp: Bridging the Digital with Physical Moderator: Larry Jaffee, Making Vinyl Bandcamp started as a digital platform for independent Panelists: Dan Lauricella & Remi Foulon, New Orleans musicians. Ten years later, it is now offering news records, Record Press; Caren Kelleher, Gold Rush Vinyl; Gudmundur as well as downloads and the musicians who sell physical Ørn Isfeld, RPM Records ApS; Piper Payne, Infrasonic Sound goods make 10 times the money than those who do not, 12:30 – 12:50 pm says Andrew Jervis, its head of artist and label relations. Straight Out of New Orleans: Label Owner/Artist Lilli Lewis Speaker: Andrew Jervis, Bandcamp For 25 years, Red Hot Louisiana Records has been releasing 9:50 – 10:05 am albums on CD and LP from local musicians from the Big Easy, Physical Media Sales By the Numbers including such luminaries as Cyril Neville. Besides managing David Bakula, Nielsen Music’s Head of Analytics & Insights, the label, singer/pianist Lilli Lewis somehow finds time to oversees the research company’s global music industry record and put out her own records. analytics, label and major brand relationships in the U.S. and Speaker: Lilli Lewis, Red Hot Louisiana Records Canada. We find out the latest physical media trends. 12:50 – 2:00 pm LUNCH 10:05 – 10:50 am 2:00 – 2:45 pm The State of the Business How Vinyl Figures in the Overall Release Strategy More than a dozen years into the format comeback There’s no question vinyl is a growing revenue stream for nobody expected, has the revival plateaued? Our diverse indie labels. To what extent, does physical factor in digital panel including representatives from retail, manufacturing, album rollouts, and any difference between that thinking for distribution and an indie label in what they observing in the new releases and reissues? What are indie labels hearing in trenches. regard to QC? Moderator: Michael Fremer, Analog Planet Moderator: Lisa Hresko, A2IM. Panelists: Felicia Risolo, Panelists: Michael Kurtz, Record Store Day; Dean Tabaac, Epitaph/-Anti; Joe Abajian, Fat Beats; Lindsay Scharpiro, Amped Distribution; Liz Dunster, Erika Records; Rosie Mom + Pop Lopez, Tommy Boy Records; Justin Kristal, Copycats Media 7 MAKING VINYL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS DAY ONE (MONDAY, OCT. 14) 2:45 – 3:30 pm 4:55 – 5:20 pm Vinyl: More Sustainable Than You Think Blue Note Records: 80 Years Old Yes, a record’s primary consumable may be derived from a The vast jazz catalog of Blue Note Records has been fossil fuel, but today’s record is not like yesteryear’s from the spruced up for the “Tone Poet” and 80th anniversary series. perspective of raw materials including lead-free PVC and Series producer Joe Harley explains the thinking that goes recycled paper. Hear from the environmental-minded record into which LPs are selected for mastering directly from the label, pressing plant, PVC supplier, a printing firm, and a original analog master tapes by engineer Kevin Gray (who professor who has proven that digital music leaves a bigger will share the session with Joe) at his facility called Cohearent carbon footprint than physical media. Mastering. Moderator: Sarah Murray, Music + Sustainability Speakers: Joe Harley, Blue Note & Kevin Gray, Cohearent Consultant.
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