Record Collecting Advice
As the BBC 6 Music festival begins, broadcaster and DJ Gilles Peterson looks at why Bristol has produced such a wealth of underground sounds BBC Radio 6 Music decamps to Bristol this weekend for its […]
What if there was a dating app that provided potential matches based on musical listening preferences? Now there is: On today’s episode, Rock It Out! Blog host Sami Jarroush chats with Julian Keenaghan, one of the […]
Elvis Costello’s ‘Detour’ live set from the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall is out now If you want to fill in the gaps in your Elvis Costello collection on vinyl or CD, then why not explore the […]
After 40 years in the 45s business, ‘Crazy’ Jerry Weber has decided to pack it in. The man behindJerry’s Records is selling his 750,000-strong collection of 7″s for total of $75,000. That’s 10 cents each. […]
Only in Hollywood. Pre-digital entertainment mecca The Record Parlour has uncovered an unprecedented, lifetime collection of OST vinyl. It’s the largest collection of vinyl soundtracks they’ve ever encountered and likely one of the biggest of […]
“It’s become a nightmare now.” Veteran Australian record collector Trevor Cowling is having second thoughts about his lifetime collection of records. The former radio music director, 74, has been searching for a single buyer to […]
….big hitters through the doors this week at eil towers , include the monster rare 1969 US promo David Bowie ‘Man Of Words’ LP, a tasty Japanese only Quiet Riot/Randy Rhoads 1978 LP, another Japanese pressed beauty in […]
Musician’s old bedroom at 23 Brook Street has been restored as part of permanent exhibition launching on Wednesday The London room where Jimi Hendrix slept, entertained and played records so loudly his two giant speakers […]
Deep Purple’s rock classics ‘In Rock’ and ‘Fireball’ are both reissued on vinyl on Feb 12th. If you want to fill in the gaps in your Deep Purple collection on vinyl, then why not explore […]
Modernised record presses coming right up. Vinyl sales keep peaking but so do lead times at pressing plants. A key problem is that to open a new plant or to expand capacity in an existing […]
Suzanne Vega‘s 2012 concert at London’s Barbican celebrated 25 years of her second album Solitude Standing. This is released on vinyl for the first time this week. If you’re only just discovering Suzanne Vega on […]
This year vinyl sales will top more than two million for the first time in 30 years – bringing an industry back from what once seemed certain death. In 2004, just 200,000 new records were […]
We’re liking the look of this top new Sky TV series from Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger and Terence Winter, airing on February 15th – Described as a, ‘ride through the sex and drug-addled music business […]
Sir Elton released his 33rd (yes 33rd!) studio album yesterday entitled ‘Wonderful Crazy Night’, by way of fanfare we thought we’d celebrate with our current top 3 Elton John items currently in stock – to […]
Despite our world being transformed by digital – from how we listen to music, to the films we watch and the social media we use – the analogue is making a comeback. For a new […]
Harking back to the year we started doing this ‘collectable’ thing (30 years ago this year!) we have a couple of interesting original studio acetates landing on our desk from Frankie Goes To Hollywood:- […]
The original draft lyrics to the Radiohead song Airbag, written by Thom Yorke on the inside cover of a copy of William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience, are to go on sale. The book also includes […]
The Smiths are a band that need no introduction. The uplifting pop melodies that provided the soundtrack to Morrissey’s tales of love, desperation, and social commentary stole the hearts of music fans in the ’80s, […]
The story is as follows; in 1963 an English exchange student (Roger Wallis) wrote the arrangements of the Beatles songs on the above EP, when the Beatles came to Sweden in July 1964 the band […]
….big hitters through the doors this week at eil towers , include the monster rare French only Cure Shake Dog Shake promo 7″, a tasty Canadian promo only live LP from blues legend Stevie Ray Vaughan, Oasis ‘Definitely […]
Dick’s Picks: This week Dick has cast his eye (and ear?) back to 1973 with this sun-kissed and ever-so-slightly-funky Californian delight from much underrated U.S. singer-songwriter Ned Doheny…. Ned who? For years he was the kind […]
……after using music from the Italian movie maestros classic ’60s/’70s soundtracks, Quentin Tarantino has finally gone the whole hog and had Ennio Morricone score the soundtrack to his latest film ‘The Hateful Eight’ – we […]
While many in the music world have been panicking in recent years about low sales due to the rise of streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music, one segment of the industry is still setting record […]
….with Motown’s legendary Paris 1965 concert finally reissued in its entirety for the first time we thought we’d show off some of our finest vinyl, CDs and all things Motown related, see below for the […]
The long-standing fan theory appears to now have finally been confirmed. Though Sonic the Hedgehog fans have long been studying and dissecting the similarities between Michael Jackson’s music and the tunes featured in the 1994 game […]
…..this live double pack, recorded in 1990, captures the new romantic popsters running through many of their considerable tally of UK hits, from To Cut A Long Story Short to Through The Barricades. If you’re […]
Funding your next vinyl release just got easier QRATES has launched a new service named Store Delivery that provides artists and labels with the option to distribute their records directly from the production plant to […]
…their 2003 Greatest Hits set gets a limited coloured vinyl release, out February 23rd….. …can’t wait ’til then? Find RHCPs vinyl, CDs, memorabilia and more at eil.com – here’s a few to whet the appetite…
Michael Bonner Uncut Magazine New TV soundtrack is her most substantial work for 20 years After the chaos of the last few weeks, it’s gratifying to finally come across some good news. While not entirely […]
Play and display. If part of the fun of buying vinyl is the artwork, then why stack them away? Amsterdam-based design studio Spitsberg have sought to provide a platform for your shy records to shine, […]
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