{"id":11070,"date":"2020-11-14T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11070"},"modified":"2020-11-19T15:37:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T22:37:03","slug":"tower-records-reborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/11\/14\/tower-records-reborn\/","title":{"rendered":"Tower Records Reborn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2020\/11\/tower-records-returns-as-online-project-selling-vinyl-cassettes-cds-1234615682\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Deadline<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Iconic Tower Records Returns As Website Selling Vinyl, Cassettes, CDs<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/author\/bruceharingdeadline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bruce Haring<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Tower.jpg?w=681&amp;h=383&amp;crop=1\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><em>YouTube<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most iconic retailers in entertainment has returned in a new incarnation.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/tower-records\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tower Records<\/a>, which closed its stores 14 years ago and declared bankruptcy, today announced it has come back as an online service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.towerrecords.com\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tower Records<\/a>&nbsp;has online events, the return of its Tower Pulse! magazine, a merchandise section, and, of course, music, music, music, including vinyl and cassette selections in various genres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Founded in Sacramento in 1960 as a section in a drug store, the chain grew to an international success behind the savvy of the late\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/russ-solomon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Russ Solomon<\/a>, who was memorialized in a 2015 film,\u00a0<em>All Things Must Pass<\/em>, which studied the chain\u2019s rise and eventual demise, save for a giant store in Tokyo that retained the name and remains open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2020\/11\/tower-records-returns-as-online-project-selling-vinyl-cassettes-cds-1234615682\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Deadline<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Deadline Iconic Tower Records Returns As Website Selling Vinyl, Cassettes, CDs By\u00a0Bruce Haring One of the most iconic retailers in entertainment has returned in a new incarnation.\u00a0Tower Records, which closed its stores 14 years ago and declared bankruptcy, today announced it has come back as an online service. The new&nbsp;Tower Records&nbsp;has online events, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}