Wax Record Fair

Wax Record Fair, is an event concept entity and joint venture between Capitol Music Group, Caroline Records, Harvest Records and co-founders Jeff Bowers and Andrew Rossiter, which is focused on vinyl, music retail and lifestyle consumer goods. The inaugural event was held at the iconic Capitol Records Tower, in Hollywood, California- October 24th and 25th, 2015. More than 100 record labels, record stores, music distributors and music hardware companies were represented- with special sponsorship consideration from DTS, Record Store Day and Crosley Turntables. The event hosted more than event 'walk up' attendees. The average spend per attendee was estimated at $150.00 a person. Special attendees included Blue Note President Don Was, Grammy winning mastering engineer Bernie Grundman, and art directors Josh Kosh (The Beatles, ELO); Andy Engel (Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jackson); Josh Van Hamersveld (The Beatles, Rolling Stones). “The Caroline team couldn’t be more excited about the vinyl renaissance and what it’s doing for the independent artist, label and record store community. As a co-founder of WAX, our primary motive is to continue fostering the relationship between all those integral in the record community and bring that passion and discovery to this iconic venue for the general public to share, celebrate and consume,” said Matt Sawin, VP at Caroline. Jeff Bowers of Federal Prism Records who co founded WAX with his Capitol Music Group partners, is one of the principals credited with building the international Record Store Day phenomenon. “Without Jeff Bower’s enthusiasm and passion for music in general, and vinyl in specific, we would not have been able to launch Record Store Day,” said RSD co-founder Michael Kurtz in a statement. “In doing so, Jeff helped the indie record store community take vinyl sales from a few thousand dollars the first year to millions by the seventh year.” -Billboard 9/16/2014