Milestones

Tom Waits Middle-period Albums Remastered for Vinyl, CD and Digital Release (2023) | CD Releases, Digital and MP3 Releases, Milestones, Vinyl Releases | Jul 12 - Oct 6, 2023

Personally overseen by Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan, Waits middle-period albums — released on Island Records between 1983 and 1993 — have been newly remastered from the original tapes and will be reissued on vinyl and CD this fall by Island/Universal Music Group. Waits’ transformative breakthrough, Swordfishtrombones (1983), its sprawling sequel, Rain Dogs (1985), and ….

Watch Party Takes Place at First-ever MLB Virtual Ballpark (2023) | Experiences, Milestones, Sports Contests | Jul 8, 2023

Technology company Improbable builds Major League Baseball’s first virtual ballpark, which launches during the MLB All-Star Celebrity Softball Game. Major League Baseball’s introduction of its own virtual world, makes it the first professional sports league to own a virtual world to gather its community from around the globe. The MLB virtual ballpark also joins the ….

Cinefantastique is First Released a Fanzine by its 19-Year-Old Founder (1967) | Launches and Openings, Magazine and Newspaper Publication Dates, Milestones | Apr 16, 1967

Cinefantastique Magazine began as a mimeographed fanzine in 1967, then relaunched as a glossy, offset printed quarterly in 1970 by editor and publisher Frederick S. Clarke, who began producing the original fanzine at the age of 19. Intended as a serious critical review journal of fantasy, horror and sci-fi genre movies, the magazine immediately set ….

First Totally Horror-Themed Issue of Fangoria Hits Newsstands, Saving the Magazine From Ending (1980) | Magazine and Newspaper Publication Dates, Milestones | Aug 1 - Aug 31, 1980

Issue number 7 of Fangoria Magazine was the first issue to exclusively feature horror content. The first 6 issues of the magazine were designed around a “fantasy film” concept and proved to be publishing failures. As described in one history of horror magazines, “The first issue of Fangoria, published in 1979, was an abysmal failure, ….