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The Official Charts Company is launching new Top 40s for singles and albums, signalling that the vinyl revival is well under way When BBC Music went looking for a TV ident last year, they settled […]
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Ahead of Record Store Day 2015, we meet the Indian independent with the wax factor. Lazy, long afternoons spent listening to vinyl, talking to other record enthusiasts and having endless conversations about the glories of […]
The UK’s first weekly vinyl chart has been launched by the Official Charts Company as sales of vinyl albums and singles continue to soar. Despite predictions that CDs – then MP3s and streaming – would […]
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I was a 19-year-old student at Columbia University in New York when I first met Lou Reed in 1968. I was chatting with Lincoln, a friend of his who had been his college roommate at […]
Metallica are only a quarter of the way into making their new album, according to guitarist Kirk Hammett. The metal giants are currently in the early stages of what will be the follow-up to 2008’s […]
Kickstarter campaign to revolutionise vinyl record storage, looks good…watch the clip here
The Telegraph pick the best covers of songs that shine a new light on the originals, from Jimi Hendrix to the Happy Mondays, there’s a few goodies in here but surely they’ve missed a few? […]
DIG BABY DIG. Cratedigger is the first music streaming site that lets you discover new and old record releases from Cassette to 45s by artist or label. Backed by Discog’s 5.5 million releases and […]
Our Kent offices are open again this Friday, the 10th April 2015 plus next week we’ll be in Soho, Central London on Saturday the 18th April [Record Store Day] for all sellers of mint condition vinyl records, […]
Experiential shops and mixing old and new key to success 8th April 2015: The rate of independent record shop openings is on the rise as more than 40 new shops have opened in UK […]
We pick the best covers of songs that shine a new light on the originals, from Jimi Hendrix to the Happy Mondays By Neil McCormick, Helen Brown, Bernadette McNulty, Thomas H Green at the Telegraph […]
Don McLean has finally revealed the meaning of his song American Pie. But will conspiracy theorists ever abandon these interpretations? Forty-four years after American Pie was released, Don McLean has finally revealed what those […]
Dual Analog. A bunch of game addicts have pimped up a PS One; as well as reading dusty copies of Tekken 3, ISS Pro Evolution and Lara Croft Tomb Raider II just like the good […]
Our professional team of buyers have a busy April lined up! Our Kent offices are open again this Friday, the 10th April 2015 and we’ll be in Soho, Central London on Saturday the 18th April [Record Store […]
……Secret 7” is an annual event that combines music and art for a good cause…. We take 7 tracks from 7 of the best-known musicians around and press each one 100 times to 7” vinyl. […]
Cited as his 100th album, Dance Me This, recorded before the artist’s death in 1993, is to be released this summer Dance Me This, the last album Frank Zappa recorded before his death in 1993, […]
SPEED Down The Road Ultra rare legendary 1980 UK Speed Records blue label with silver print vinyl 7″ single which also includes the track ‘Man On The Street’ – featuring Bruce Dickinson [known as ‘Bruce […]
Since it’s inception in 2007, Record Store Day has become a holiday of sorts among the music buying public. Not only has it caught on with vinyl enthusiasts, it’s flourished, going from the few and […]
Our professional team of buyers have a busy April lined up! Our Kent offices are open again next Friday, the 10th April 2015 and we’ll be in Soho, Central London on Saturday the 18th April [Record […]
More top notch goodies through the doors at Eil Towers this week – look out for a mega-rare copy of ex-Yes guitarist Peter Banks’s Flash LP, a Japanese only 17CD Bruce Springsteen boxset, a Bjork […]
Some of the biggest names in entertainment have re-launched the music subscription service Tidal, which they are billing as the first artist-owned platform for music and video. At an event in New York on Monday, […]
Our friends at the VinylPress.com recently featured EIL as part of their blog….. I recently got the chance to talk with Robert Croydon, one of the founders of EIL-Esprit, a well known UK-based purveyor of […]
……and you thought you liked ‘digging in the crates’….! Have a look at the incredible Voodoo Funk website which shows you the lengths some collectors will go to to source rare music… Read more on […]
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…love this question posed on the Vinyl Factory website (see below for some of their responses), it would have to be God Save The Queen on A&M for me…..what about you? You can read the […]
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Are cassettes making a comeback? Well, no. Not really. It is true that Disney recently went out of its way to release the Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack on cassette tape, and that, relatively, the […]
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