Austin's Gold Rush Vinyl Doubles Record Manufacturing Capacity

Pressing plant expands machinery to meet steady demand

"...The ongoing boom in the popularity of vinyl records has been good for business at Austin's Gold..."

Feb. 17, 2023 Music Feature by Chad Swiatecki

Playback: Start the Presses – Gold Rush Vinyl

Austin’s first major record press opens, and more music news

"...park, something unprecedented is happening. Tiny black pellets of polyvinyl chloride are being melted into gooey biscuits, flattened between..."

April 20, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Faster Than Sound: Pure X Reconciles With Austin

Local rock group returns after six years, Gold Rush Vinyl checks in, and Threadgill’s closes permanently.

"...It just took forever.” Industry Update: Caren Kelleher of Gold Rush Vinyl..."

April 24, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Waterloo Records Owner John Kunz Saves His 42-Year-Old Baby – By Selling It

With new partners in tow, the pioneering record store moves up Lamar

"...made it through the pandemic by the grace of vinyl suddenly spinning and surging throughout social distancing. Meanwhile, team..."

Jan. 3, 2025 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Long Waits at Record Pressing Plants Hinder Austin's Independent Record Labels

Production crisis disrupts the flow of local releases

"...chain catastrophe can crimp independent labels that rely on vinyl manufacturing for much of their revenue...."

Nov. 12, 2021 Music Feature by Chad Swiatecki

Playback: Bombs, Beto, and the Biggest Music Stories of 2018

“Playback” recaps the news, trends, and controversies of the year. Outrage level: high.

"...Austin's first-ever commercial record pressing plant. Opened in March, Gold Rush Vinyl changed the game locally by giving Austin..."

Dec. 14, 2018 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Urban Heat's Darkwave Road Map for Uncertain Times

Spaceflight-deluxified Wellness pushes beyond post-punk pastiche

"...Heat will release a deluxe version of Wellness on vinyl, which contains the EP's six original songs plus four..."

Feb. 10, 2023 Music Feature by Nayeli Portillo

Spaceflight Records' Nonprofit Clears for Takeoff

An ambitious vision for debt-free record deals attracts notable music industry interest

"...sourced heavyweights like …Trail of Dead, Heartless Bastards, and Golden Dawn Arkestra for skyline-backed sets off Lady Bird Lake...."

April 22, 2022 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

The Riverboat Gamblers' Something to Crow About Turns 20

The album that made Austin's apex punks earns anniversary vinyl remaster

"...20th anniversary edition, pressed in three different colors of vinyl, on August 18 via the band's own GFFG Records...."

Aug. 11, 2023 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

New Austin Music Worth Your Bandwidth This Week

Dallas Acid blows some bubbles, KUTX remembers the Armadillo, and more music for the moment

"...sheen akin to brass. Pressed to wax locally at Gold Rush Vinyl, boutique touches – Lado A and Lado..."

Aug. 14, 2020 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Faster Than Sound: Body Rock Turns 10

Riders Against the Storm and Chorizo Funk’s decade-built dance institution endures, Monday City music meetings, and more

"...• Caren Kelleher, founder and president of Gold Rush Vinyl, on a possible collaboration with the city:..."

Feb. 7, 2020 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Jim Eno Launches Project Traction for Women Music Producers

The Spoon drummer co-produced songs with eight women and nonbinary artists at his Public Hi-Fi studio

"..."Project Traction: Fighting the Gender Gap in Music." With Gold Rush Vinyl founder Caren Kelleher and Bunkhouse founder Liz..."

Feb. 25, 2022 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Broadcasts Vol. 26

"...from the past year of in-house performances, local manufacturers Gold Rush Vinyl pressed up a double-vinyl set with 20..."

Nov. 30, 2018 Music Review by Rachel Rascoe

Faster Than Sound: Unbounded Agency for the Underrepresented

Anita Obasi’s parties make space for queer artistry, Jay Wile’s croon tricks fans of Frank Ocean, and more recommendations for KVRX Fest

"...new Spotlight Series, a team effort between Austin pressers Gold Rush Vinyl and his own Public Hi-Fi Studio...."

May 10, 2019 Music Column by Rachel Rascoe

Journey Through the Past

Down the digital rabbit hole of the Neil Young Archives Vol. 1

"...the camera in a videotape log for "Heart of Gold" on Disc 8 – North Country (1971-1972), the last..."

Aug. 7, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Playback: David Ramirez’s Lost Art

David Ramirez’s America, HAAM Benefit Day, and the reverend of Austin music

"...granted. In covering 2,200 local musicians – and always rushing to the aid of those with catastrophic ailments –..."

Sept. 8, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

I Built My Girlfriend's iPod

Stranded on a desert island? At least you have your iPodSolar.

"...money: Aretha, Diana, Roberta. Nina Simone (Baltimore), Anita Baker, Santigold, and the 2-CD encore Bad Girls deluxe edition by..."

Sept. 11, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

SXSW Film Releases Full Feature Lineup

Slate includes everyone from Wes Anderson to the Zellners

"...and their brotherhood. Cast: Jeremy Sisto, David Walton, Joshua Rush, J.K. Simmons, Amy Smart (World Premiere) (SXsports screening)..."

Jan. 30, 2014 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Playback: “Hastily Prepared” Ordinances Head to City Council

Revised drafts of Agent of Change and OMV permitting head to Council, but again, live music interests raise alarms

"...Problem is, in today's cap city land gold rush, the post-hippie, comfort-food-'n'-music establishment's continued existence amongst some..."

June 9, 2017 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Father John Misty

"...a Companion") to the petroleum it takes to press vinyl records ("Now I'm Learning To Love the War"). Fear..."

May 11, 2012 Music Review by Austin Powell

Sacred and Profane

J. Tillman's brush with death

"...Vacilando Territory Blues, issued earlier this year on Western Vinyl, ventures into heady terrain, staggered with dry-creek-bed ambience and..."

Sept. 18, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Western Vinyl

Thursday

"...Western Vinyl..."

March 20, 2009 Music Review by Austin Powell

Off the Record

The Sword and Metallica ride the lightning at Ozzfest, while Kanye West and Hope for Heroes lend a helping hand to U.S. veterans

"...mining the darker moments of Neil Young's After the Gold Rush. "The desert was our main muse," Coy concedes...."

Aug. 15, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Off the Record

Blaze's blues strike a chord with the SXSW Film 09 and dropping out for the Black Angels' Psych Fest 2

"...18, 7pm, at the Austin Convention Center. After the Gold Rush: Cinema-Speak..."

March 13, 2009 Music Column by Austin Powell

Balmorhea

"...BalmorheaLive at Sint-Elisabethkerk (Western Vinyl)..."

Oct. 7, 2011 Music Review by Austin Powell

Dancing About Architecture

Joey Ramone is dead

"...it seems likely that his most recent slab o' vinyl will be his last for the local indie. Rykodisc/Palm..."

April 20, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

How Not to Be an Artist

Advice on how to be an artist

"...estate sale – $5! Perfect! – and bought some gold spray paint at Hobby Lobby. I'd have to find..."

March 20, 2015 Arts Feature by Adam Sultan

Estate Sale Roundup: May 29-31

Get your loot while the sun shines – we're estate sailin'.

"...this weekend: Black fabric sofa, loveseat, and chair with gold trim; two black and gold side tables; black and..."

May 29, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris

Estate Sale Roundup: June 12-15

If you don't have a truck, shop small and stuff the trunk

"...French fireplace screen; antique marble-topped carved entry table; black vinyl chair; two twin-sized beds with frames; Panasonic Blu-Ray deck;..."

June 12, 2014 Design Post by Anne Harris

Reissues

"...Beavis and Butt-head, the Buttholes (or "something-something Surfers," as Rush Limbaugh prefers to call them) have always made it..."

July 28, 1995 Music Feature

1   2     NEXT ›    2 »