WAX.fm – my vinyl record website and it’s coverage around the web

Vinyl is back!

Around 10 weeks ago I published a new website: http://wax.fm which aims help you “find your favorite albums on vinyl both online and in the real world”. With just a little bit of promotion on a few social media outlets, primarily Twitter (follow @wax_fm), I have been quite happy with the initial coverage and traffic from around the world.

Record guru Robert Benson published an interview with me a few weeks ago. There has been blog coverage in Japan, Italy, Germany, Brazil and many web mentions closer to my neck of the woods.

I’ve got a lot more features and improvements that I plan to add to the site … just need to balance it with lots of other things on my plate! People seem to really like the feature that allows them to find record stores “in the real world” in their city. This feature is something that I intend to continue to improve by making the data richer and adding features to let users rate, review and comment on stores.

Oh, and check out my silly video blogs at http://blog.wax.fm. I plan on doing more of those … so subscribe and stay tuned.

For the technically inclined, the site is built with Ruby on Rails, hosted on Amazon EC2 and uses Amazon S3 liberally. The logo was “crowd-sourced” using Chicago’s crowdSPRING.

Thanks to all who have kindly supported, linked to and written about the site!

Here’s one of the many YouTube videos featured on the site showing folks playing records:

Rock! Now, go buy yourself a copy of Radiohead’s OK Computer on vinyl, you know you want to!