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Discussing Vinyl Trends With What Hi-Fi?

Discussing Vinyl Trends With What Hi-Fi?

What Hi-Fi? recently asked shop owner Phil some questions about the rising popularity of vinyl with younger shoppers. All signs suggest vinyl is reaching ever-younger audiences. Go into any record shop and the sea of fresh-faced customers rummaging through crates makes this fact obvious. But what are they buying? Are they flocking to new releases from pop artists like the seemingly unstoppable Taylor Swift, or are they after something a little older? Sister Ray owner, Phil Barton, cites the resurgence of genres like hardcore and shoegazing as key factors helping drive vinyl sales, but added that Taylor Swift is the biggest...

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Sister Ray x Evening Standard

Sister Ray x Evening Standard

We're honoured to have received a glowing write-up in Ped Millichamp's article on the best online record shops in the UK: "Sister Ray has been selling music from the heart of Soho for 30 years with the friendliest and most enthusiastic staff.Named after the Velvet Underground track, Sister Ray has survived the twists and turns of the music industry and consumer trends – striding on through the years when the internet signed most other physical retail and record stores’s death certificate.Through sheer determination and commitment to the vinyl format – and by becoming a major force behind ‘Record Store Day’ and the...

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Housekeeping

Housekeeping

A few housekeeping notes in this edition of the blog. Time for some thank yous, farewells and welcomes. I'd like to express my gratitude and whole hearted thanks, along with the rest of the SR Crew to Kit, who sadly moved on yesterday. A  top top fella, who is now pursuing a career in carpentry. We wish him and his Techno collection all the best. Big welcomes to Whitby, who fills in the Kit role handsomely and Connor who will be working alongside John (the geezer with the beard) on the shop floor. Both of them have made their debuts to rave...

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WE RE-OPEN ON MONDAY 12th APRIL

WE RE-OPEN ON MONDAY 12th APRIL

***WE REOPEN ON MONDAY 12th APRIL*** Here's what you need to bring: Wallet/Purse, Mask, Very big reusable bag, sunny smile. Here's what we have for you:    Tons of new stock, deep cleaned shop, lots of one offs, sunny smiles all round.

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An Update From Soho

An Update From Soho

Where has the time gone? Good internet folk we've been working like dogs trying to source/fulfil and then maintain our website. Looks like it's paying off (well we are still here whilst the rest of Soho appear to have disappeared to Cornwall to snaffle crab off-cuts from Rick Stein's Restaurant empire in Padstow). Here's a quick view of the future... Yep, a bit Boris Blank at the moment but we are confident that we can fling open the doors sometime before the death of another rock icon and a politician screwing up a press conference. When we reopen you can...

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