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From Long Live Vinyl He played 28 times for Scotland and made more than 600 appearances during an illustrious professional career that saw him line up for Everton and Chelsea and play in an FA […]
Originally published by FACT The great electronic albums of the 1970s get plenty of kudos – but what of their predecessors? Casual accounts of the history of electronic music tend to point back to familiar […]
The Rolling Stones’ legend is impossible to dispute. From their earliest days as the most committed – and raucous – young group to come out of the British blues boom of the early 60s, to […]
From The Times… Kendrick Lamar, Dusty Springfield, Nick Cave, Blondie: they’re all here, in Culture’s hot list of rock and pop classics… DARK SIDE Blood on the Tracks Bob Dylan (1975) Dylan’s lyrical sophistication and […]
Written by Pete Paphides For Vinyl Factory From Joni Mitchell and Fleetwood Mac to Oasis and Air, Pete Paphides enters the upside world of the pop B-side. First record? It’s the most standard of questions – one […]
From the Chart Company The Vinyl Festival will make its debut in London this September. If you’re partial to collecting your favourite albums and singles on vinyl, then you’re in luck, as two huge events […]
From the Telegraph As I looked around a local shop on Record Store Day last month, it occurred to me that an entire generation (or three) has no idea how to handle vinyl LPs. Lulled […]
Lots of recent news, talk and info about cassettes once again. Today, we read this from the FACT team The portable design concept could be in production soon. The music industry’s shift towards streaming has […]
Can you believe it’s almost time for issue 3? We’re very excited for you to pore through our incredible list of features, so without further ado… In the new issue of Long Live Vinyl we […]
Fans lucky enough to pick up a copy of The Smiths’ Record Store Day vinyl have discovered an anti-trump message etched on its run-out groove. The UK exclusive, limited edition 7-inch reads “Trump will kill […]
It’s record store day 2017, with lots of exclusive vinyl shaped goodies to be had, if you’re out and about and want tell us what you’ve ‘found’, we’d love to see some pictures….. Queues started […]
We’ve had a great collection of vinyl arrive including many Bowie Australian and New Zealand vinyl pressings. Watch the video here and check out a couple of highlights below… Explore the collection here… …Don’t forget, […]
Music and writing are inseparable in the hippest modern novels, from Kerouac to Nick Hornby to Irvine Welsh. It might even be said many such books would not exist without their internal soundtracks. When […]
LaserDiscs [or LazerDisc if you’re in the USA] were a home video format but never managed to gain widespread use in the USA, largely due to high costs for the players and video titles themselves and […]
This issue includes: Record Store Day: Behind the vinyl celebration and our guide to the best ever releases The Trip – Soho: We explore the capital of vinyl shopping Interview – Phil Swern: We meet […]
So the chap above buys a record, a ’90s compilation from Wall Of Sound Records called ‘We Love You….So Love Us’ for the princely sum of $1 (that’s about, errr, £1 in case you were […]
The seventies are often regarded as a mean, dark and turbulent decade, full of discontent and pessimism. The album covers of the burgeoning hard rock, progressive rock, pop and punk scenes that dominated the decade […]
The collective behind iconic sleeves from Pink Floyd to Throbbing Gristle. Vinyl. Album. Cover. Art is a new book collecting all 373 record covers by designers Hipgnosis in one place for the first time. Read […]
Travel back to a more innocent time and enjoy this superb slice of nostalgia as a fresh-faced George Michael and a young Morrissey discuss the merits of Joy Division, Everything But The Girl and the film Breakdance […]
Our Christmas Store is open 24/7 It doesn’t get easier. It’s a tough call knowing what to buy for a mad keen collector but we’re here to help. Check out the categories in our Christmas […]
Time Out produced this article where they saw 5 distinct types of record collector…which one are you? 1. The dad Once upon a time Peter would hang out his bedroom window, smoking joints and blasting rare […]
….Soft Cell’s ‘Tainted Love’ achieved the longest unbroken run on the UK charts when it logged its 43rd week in the Top 100… So how did a cover of an obscure northern soul anthem by […]
Dick’s Picks: More witchcraft related shenanigans from our man Dick as he waxes lyrical about this top-slice of modern acid/folk/psych from Sexwitch…. Sexwitch – a bit rude isn’t it, what’s it all about? Firstly, let’s […]
Dick’s Picks: This week’s choice from our man Dick is this seldom seen slice of late ’60s surrealistic US comedy vinyl from the Firesign Theatre, to skip straight to the website info click here, or […]
Dick’s Picks: For this week’s pick our very own vinyl oracle would like to issue a parental advisory warning, so for those easily offended you’d better switch off now, for anyone else read on to get […]
So what makes this self-titled 1971 UK psychedelic LP so damn rare and collectable? Firstly, anything remotely psychedelic gets record collectory types all hot under the collar, recent years have seen music/records in this genre […]
Dick’s Picks: Dick’s pick this week is the bizarro Italian post-punk curveball that is ‘Crollo Nervoso’ by Magazzini Criminali – their debut longplayer has been described as the ‘first to execute an album length work of […]
….the Rolling Stones began a four week run at the top of the US singles charts with I Can’t Get No (Satisfaction), I couldn’t find a clip of them performing the song in the US […]
Dick’s Picks: Dick is loving this vintage 1969 LP from the mysteriously named 32nd Turnoff, a tasty slice of super cool psychedelic-garage-afro-punk action if ever there was….. 32nd Turnoff – so what do we know? […]
…big hitters at eil towers this week, include THE Abba rarity in the shape of a Swedish only 1979 one-sided 12″ translucent blue vinyl (I’m not making this up!) recorded for their PA Görel Hanser’s birthday party […]
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