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With the likes of The Who and Lionel Richie performing at this year’s festival, we had a look to see if acts are getting older Glastonbury performers have been getting older over the last 20 […]
Somerset House exhibition The Jam: About the Young Idea honours Paul Weller’s punk-mod band Paul Weller says he is “honoured” by a new exhibition celebrating the history of the Jam, which opens tomorrow at […]
Gramovox are a design company that “reimagines vintage audio design with modern technology”, they’ve just launched a Kickstarter campaign to get funding for this ‘Floating High-Performance Vertical Turntable’, watch the clip below and then have […]
Sebastian Scotney reports on the festivals in Europe and in North America that are making significant efforts to programme UK jazz For those of us who follow the UK jazz scene closely, it always […]
Legoland Windsor’s painstakingly faithful recreation of the festival site includes portable toilets, real Worthy Farm mud and Kim Kardashian There are less than 24 hours until the gates of Glastonbury open to its 175,000 attendees, […]
This week our resident vinyl guru ‘Mr A’ spills the beans on this intriguing slice of ’60s pop-art from the hugely collectable artist Ernest Trova… Okay, I hear you ask, pop-art all very nice but […]
Five Years 1969-1973 will contain everything Bowie released in that phase of his career David Bowie has announced the first in a series of career-spanning box sets. Five Years 1969-1963 will contain all the music […]
One for the visually rather than the tangibly inclined, Roy Harpaz’s new vertical turntable may not have the tactility of dropping the needle onto a record, but it does pack a load of different features […]
The much-bootlegged 1968 track is getting a proper home as the band bring their reissue series to a close in July. Listen now! IT WAS RECORDED for their first album, dropped, forgotten and inevitably bootlegged, […]
If you’re looking for a landmark by which to gauge how much the world has changed during the last 40 years, take note: The album cover for the Sex Pistols‘ first (and only) studio album […]
Find out more on the Iron Maiden website Looking for anything Iron Maiden related? Be sure to check eil.com for a huge range of vinyl, imports, rarities, merchandise and more, for full list click here
Could Wax Stacks be the new generation of record storage? IKEA may have dominated the world of vinyl storage for as long as we can remember, but with the ubiquitous Expedit now a thing of […]
A new music mixtape, pressed on limited edition vinyl, packaged in original art & put in your mailbox. Every month. Find out more here
The famous recording sessions will be recreated in a special concert at the Royal Albert Hall Between 1962 and 1969, The Beatles recorded some of their best-known albums at London’s Abbey Road Studios, including […]
……some incredible finds through the doors this week, including an autographed copy of cult Brit ’60s R&B act The Artwoods, we’ve also gone a little vintage-fashion crazy with, not only a mega-rare Bob Dylan dress, but also […]
Foreign music fans visiting the UK for gigs and festivals boosted the economy by £3.1bn in 2014, a report says. The report by industry body UK Music said foreign visitors spent an average of £751 […]
Sleeping Bag records co-founder and Arthur Russell collaborator launches Kickstarter campaign for new record pressing plant in the heart of New York City. Music industry impresario Will Socolov is building a new record pressing plant […]
This survey of one hundred and ninety stores from five continents might be the most exhaustive celebration of record stores ever published. After six years spent travelling the world documenting almost two hundred record stores […]
Having every major music market in the world adopt Friday as release day sounds sensible – until you remember that you can hear almost every major release early anyway Although it’s probably not a subtle […]
Ken Kessler gets an audio epiphany at Munich’s High End Show, sampling one of the best systems he’s ever heard Two things have re-energised the desire for “proper” separates hi-fi systems, both of which have […]
Last month, a first edition of Hank Mobley’s mythical Blue Note LP was sold on eBay for £7,300 to become one of the most expensive jazz records of all time. Tucked away in the sale […]
James Last, one of the most popular band leaders of the post-war period, has died in Florida Big band leader James Last has died aged 86 at his home in Palm Beach, Florida. The […]
Kinks Klassics In Stock Here’s a few choice highlights, for more Klassic Kinks click here Find more Klassic Kinks Kollectables (enough already) here
…..surely one of the saddest things you’ll ever hear….. Shoppers may soon be flourishing credit cards featuring the word ‘bollocks’, as Virgin Money harnesses legendary punk band’s aesthetic They railed against consumerism, but the Sex […]
When Anita Sethi moved into her flat, she discovered the owner had left behind a turntable and a treasure trove of vinyl. In the first of a new series about her exploration of the collection, […]
Captain Sensible and The Damned to mark 40 years since first UK punk-rock single, New Rose, with a concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall in May 2016 The Damned are to mark the 40th […]
Legendary rock group Led Zeppelin are to unveil previously unheard tracks recorded with Indian musicians during a visit to Mumbai more than four decades ago. Sidharth Bhatia recalls the band’s visit to India’s entertainment capital […]
The former White Stripes frontman plans to open a new retail and office space in the area he went to school Jack White has announced plans to open a new branch of his Third Man […]
With vinyl sales in the UK at a 20 year high, rejuvenated high street retailer HMV has lined up a bunch of exclusive releases and special offers as it tries to assert itself as a […]
Surely nobody can sit through a four-day, 24-hour psychedelic jam session? Then again, there are worse things out there to listen to. Here are other trainspotter-ish recordings to test your musical mettle Well at least […]
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