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A lifelong fan of David Bowie, illustrator Helen Green has captured the star’s many reinventions with 29 mini-portraits. The images, which span 50 years from 1964, were put together for Bowie’s 68th birthday this month. […]
Nick Alt anticipated the recent resurgence of vinyl pretty early on. For years, the Los Angeles-based musician and producer (he counts St. Paul Peterson ofPrince‘s bands the Family and the Time as an acquaintance and […]
Matt Felegy, 32, of Berea, Ohio, has more than 2,700 digital downloads on an external hard drive that fits in his pocket. He says no one is impressed with that, but plenty of people are […]
From Keith Moon to John Bonham, they have a reputation for wild behaviour. But, as new film Whiplash suggests, there’s a reason drummers are different There is a story recounted in Whiplash, the electrifying new […]
We posted a couple of handy guides to help you choose a turntable in recent weeks – how about this, courtesy of FACT Magazine, some super-cool looking designs in here… For years, turntable design has […]
Great feature here from The New Statesman discussing a recent BBC Radio 4 article about those long-lost bands that made one (or possibly two) 7″ singles back in the ’70s/’80s before going on to do […]
We’ve just had a wonderful collection of Bowie rarities through the doors, all in pristine condition, here’s a few highlights to whet the appetite….be sure to check eil.com for the full list… […]
As a live DJ, songwriter and producer, Greene, aka Fort Romeau, works exclusively in vinyl. Here, he puts top decks through their paces 2014 was a bumper year for vinyl sales thanks to a new […]
More goodies from our Michael Jackson collection….. More to follow over the next week or so, check eil.com as the collection gets added to the site….
THE JAZZ SINGER is a landmark of American cinema: it was the first full-length Hollywood feature film in which dialogue was spoken as part of the film’s action. Eddie Cantor turned down the lead […]
Remember the golden days of album art? Album art was a medium perfected during the days when big vinyl LPs were the delivery method of choice for recorded music. Because they were large, covers could accommodate […]
With every other means of producing, recording, and sharing music completely democratized and firmly in the hands of anyone with a beat and a dream, the ability to cut your own vinyl record from a […]
Today is the 50th Anniversary of Dylan’s Subterranean Homesick Blues – you may or may not care. Richard Williams of The Guardian argues that this “two-minute, rickety-rackety masterpiece recorded in a single take changed music for ever”…..did […]
’78 Project’ records new artists in a very old way Blues legend Muddy Waters said he heard himself for the first time in 1941. It was when folklorist and ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax recorded him in […]
Interesting take on the continuing ‘vinyl revival’ story from John Mcduling on the Quartz Website – Is there something deeper at the heart of vinyl’s resurgence than ‘better sound’? If you’ve been paying attention […]
My Happiness, a relic of rock ‘n’ roll history, was purchased by an unnamed bidder at Graceland on what would have been his birthday On what would have been the King’s 80th birthday, an acetate […]
Thanks to Greg Moskovitch from the Tone Deaf website for this story…. Has the news of the current vinyl resurgence piqued your interest in the beloved old-school format? Looking to dip your toe into the […]
Electric guitar fanatics, step forward: the original model of the Gibson Les Paul guitar is headed for auction on 19 February in New York. The archetypal “Black Beauty” solid-body guitar, which belonged to lauded guitarist […]
Our warehouse in Kent is open to sellers of Vinyl Records, CDs, Pop & Rock Memorabilia tomorrow, Friday 9th January. Come along between 9:30am and 4pm and let our buyers give you a free, on-the-spot, […]
Thousands more goodies like this are in stock at eil.com
Can the creaking machinery of the few remaining record pressing plants cope? On an industrial estate in Röbel, 90 miles north of Berlin, the vinyl presses at the Optimal factory were grinding and pumping […]
ION Audio has launched a new Bluetooth turntable, the Air LP, at the International CES expo in Las Vegas. Air LP gives audio enthusiasts a fresh twist on the classic turntable with a smooth-operating unit […]
Recording equipment that would have been used by The Beatles at London’s world famous Abbey Road Studios is being used once again to create records on vinyl. Music enthusiast Pete Hutchinson from the Electronic Recording […]
The future of music, industry specialists tell us, is uncertain. People are listening to terrestrial radio less and less, and no one is buying physical copies of albums anymore. Unless, of course, those albums are […]
The Lisa Marie and Hound Dog II, designed by the late singer, are expected to fetch up to $15m at California auction Elvis Presley’s pair of personal jets – one of which has a gilded […]
Here at eil.com we are bringing in the New Year with a…….. Running throughout January you can save up to 75% on a brand new selection of 25,000 rare records, CDs and music memorabilia!!! Click […]
….most stories about vinyl, and its continuing resurgence, centre on Europe and The US, thankfully this great story from the Mid-Day Website about the Bandra Cafe in Mumbai helps redress the balance…. A tiny cafe […]
British acts filled this year’s list of best-selling artist albums. How many of the top 10 did you buy? British acts have filled the top 10 best-selling artist albums in 2014 for the first time, […]
It may be a vanilla-scented LP that is keeping you from finding that Phish or Kanye record in your neighborhood store. Record manufacturers around the country are having a tough time dealing with therevival of […]
PJ Harvey is set to record her ninth album as part of a public art exhibition at Somerset House. The two-time Mercury Prize winner will offer fans access to the four-week creative process of putting […]
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