Vinyl in the Sun: Inside the First Solar-Powered Record Pressing Plant

At the crossroads of an intense creative period and a personal tragedy, Dave Newell found himself stuck with an idea he couldn’t shake: What if he opened a record pressing plant? This was back in 2021. Newell was grieving the death of his father, pondering what the next few decades of his own life might look like, and trying to figure out what to do with the tons of music he’d made over the past year. Since the early 2000s, Newell had traversed the rap underground, releasing music under the...