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Little Angels’ Wayward Son Returns
Cast your mind back to 1987, British rock was just about to hit a rough patch with grunge just on the horizon, there were a few bands still trying to keep the flame alive, one […]
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Movie Stars to Pop Stars
Film stars as pop stars: 5 fans rated, 5 they slated From the BBC Website, written by Fraser McAlpine. Autobiographical rock and pop films are tricky beasts to get right. It’s hard to find an actor […]
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On this day in 1986….
…..it was reported that RCA Records had dropped country artist John Denver from its roster after he released the single, ‘(Let Us begin) What Are We Making Weapons For’……why would they do that I hear […]
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Quo’s Famed NEC show due for re release
From udiscovermusic.com Famed 1982 Status Quo Show For CD, LP Revival The celebrated show by Status Quo at the NEC Arena in Birmingham, England, which became one of the most talked-about gigs in their history, is to […]
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Ten Strange Excuses For Cancelling A Concert
From the BBC Website, written by Fraser McAlpine. With the kind of money involved in staging large concerts, and the potential disappointment to fans, cancelling a show is a decision no performer takes lightly. This week, Justin […]
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* NOW CANCELLED * The Vinyl Festival: London, 23-24th Sept 2017
The organisers of Vinyl Festival announce: “Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances we’ve had to make the difficult decision to cancel the Vinyl Festival due to take place on 23rd and 24th September . It’s been […]
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Watch a little girl replace Lars Ulrich on stage with Metallica
From NME The band pulled Kendalynn out of the crowd in Detroit and sat her behind the drumkit Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich was replaced by a little girl at a recent gig. The band performed […]
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Grateful Dead ‘Long Strange Trip’: limited edition 6LP vinyl package out now
Out now and exclusive to Amazon is this 6LP Grateful Dead vinyl boxset, all material it taken from the new documentary ‘Long Strange Trip’. It’s a mixture of studio and live recordings and is strictly […]
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Are They Worth It? This is how much the BBC’s highest-paid radio DJs are earning……
From NME Nick Grimshaw is the highest paid Radio 1 DJ. BBC stars known primarily as radio presenters make up a sizeable portion of the corporation’s highest earners. A review published yesterday (July 19) features […]
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Electric Light Orchestra ‘Out Of The Blue’ 40th Anniversary Release
From the official Sony Legacy press release. Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of ELO’s Out of the Blue, Legacy Recordings to Release First-Ever Picture Disc Edition of Classic Double Album. Available from Friday, September 29. Celebrating the […]
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How we made Ultravox’s Vienna
From the Guardian ‘We were extremely arrogant and a bit too prog rock. We wanted to sound like Elgar and Grieg’ Midge Ure, singer First and foremost, we weren’t trying to create a hit song, […]
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Beatles ‘Holy Grail’ set to sell for £10,000
From the Daily Mail website ‘Holy Grail’ of Beatles records found after 50 years gathering dust in a Liverpool loft and with manager Brian Epstein’s handwriting on the label is set to sell for £10,000 […]
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Lead by Your Samples: DJ Shadow on Collecting Vinyl, Scratching, and His New Tour
From The Stranger Say the name DJ Shadow to any hiphop head who came of age in the 1990s, and they’ll stop what they’re doing to recall a favorite track. For some, it’s “Organ Donor,” […]
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What Does This Button Do? – Bruce Dickinson Autobiography Coming Soon
From the official Iron Maiden website. This Autumn HarperCollins NonFiction are publishing WHAT DOES THIS BUTTON DO?, the hugely anticipated memoir from Iron Maiden frontman and rock legend, Bruce Dickinson. One of the world’s most […]
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If you missed out on seeing Ronnie James Dio live, that could be about to change…
Following its debut at Wacken Open Air Festival in Germany last year, a hologram performance of metal legend, Ronnie James Dio, is set to go on a world tour starting at the end of this […]
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Chelsea Wolfe unveils new track, Vex
The incomparable Chelsea Wolfe has unveiled another new track, Vex, over at The Fader. “Every day, at dawn and dusk, a mysterious hum resounds in the deep sea for about an hour,” Wolfe told The […]
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* LAST FEW DAYS * Save Up to 50% off rare vinyl, CDs & memorabilia at eil.com with our July monthly offer
— IT’S THE LAST FEW DAYS! — Here at eil.com we buy more records & CDs than just about anyone else in the world, and have done for almost thirty years, so each month we clear some […]
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Your Weekly Best Of Premium Collectables including Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Pentangle, Status Quo & More
…movers and shakers this week, include a rare Frankie Goes To Hollywood photograph by John Stoddart, rare first issue Pentangle debut vinyl LP album, and a nice quantity of Status Quo 7″ vinyl singles, also look out […]
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Converge return with their first new music five years
Iconic metallic hardcore band, Converge, have unleashed their first music in five years with a new 7″. It includes the frantic lead single, I Can Tell You About Pain, and the brooding, slow burning opus, […]
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Alice Cooper finds Warhol artwork
From the BBC Alice Cooper’s manager said the singer’s jaw dropped when told of the discovery US rock musician Alice Cooper has found a classic Andy Warhol artwork rolled up in storage after more than […]
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Get More ‘BANG’ for your ‘BUCK’ with our Weekly Top 3 ‘Affordable Rare Vinyl Records & Memorabilia’
Here at eil.com we realise not everyone’s pockets are sooo deep they can stump up the readies for that uber-collectable slab of vinyl, CD boxset, vintage memorabilia etc etc….with that in mind we’ve put together this new […]
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Dick’s Picks: John Gibbs & The U.S. Steel Orchestra – Rare Trinidad ‘Islands Disco’ 12″ Vinyl
Dick’s Picks: This week Dick has chosen this super cool 1978 12″ vinyl single by the little known John Gibbs & The U.S. Orchestra, although largely unknown, it was a regular feature in the sets of […]
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JAZZ Vinyl & CDs at eil.com this week includes John Surman, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Benny Carter & More….
Ain’t nothing but a jazz thing here at eil Towers with some top jazz rare vinyl and CDs coming through the doors over the past week, here’s a few to whet your jazz whistle, see […]
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Is the threat of a copyright lawsuit stifling music?
From BBC Artists are being advised not to state publicly who they’re inspired by on their new music, the Victoria Derbyshire programme has learned. Could this stifle their creativity? “There is no such thing as […]
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On this day in 2009…..
…..prior to his show at First Energy Park, Lakewood, New Jersey, Bob Dylan was picked up by a police officer who had been alerted to a man who was seen to be ‘acting suspiciously’. The […]
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Queen biopic: “yes folks it is finally happening!”
From the BBC The long-awaited biopic of the British rock group Queen is apparently going ahead after years of false starts. Initially Sacha Baron Cohen was attached to star as Freddie Mercury, then director Dexter Fletcher dropped […]
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Huge new David Bowie vinyl & CD boxset announced: ‘A New Career In A New Town’
This is the third monster Bowie vinyl/CD boxset from Parlophone, after previous releases ‘Five Years’ and ‘Who Can I Be Now? Titled ‘A New Career In A New Town’, it will feature a whopping 11CDs […]
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30 Years Ago Today: Guns ‘N’ Roses Iconic debut album, Appetite For Destruction
30 years ago today, Guns ‘N’ Roses shocked the world with their debut album, Appetite For Destruction. They were the shining star in the burgeoning underground scene in Los Angeles, taking glam rock hooks and […]
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Vinyl turns tables for record store chain Golden Discs
From the Times Vinyl sales have helped to bring Ireland’s oldest chain of record shops back from the brink . Golden Discs, which was founded in 1962, reported a turnover of €17.9 million last year, […]