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In the fall of 2019, Andy Weber and the three other co-founders of Smashed Plastic, Chicago’s local record pressing plant, arrived at the glitzy Chicago Theatre to meet with Jeff Tweedy, guitarist and ...

Chicago hasn’t had a working vinyl-pressing plant for at least 20 years. The last one was allegedly shut down by the FBI in the 90s for making bootleg 78 RPM records to sell in India. The presses from ...

A group of music-loving young engineers are making fully automatic record pressing machines at Viryl Technologies Corp. in Toronto. “We're all music enthusiasts and we all really love what we are ...