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Every Record Tells A Story. A blog about music. Operating fearlessly in the Blogs-With-Stupid-Jokes-About-Heavy-Rock-And-Indie-Bands-niche.
I write about music, and I have written for Classic Rock magazine and Record Collector
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• How The Story of The White Stripes Was Foretold: By Journey

  By Every Record Tells A Story on October 19, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  In which we discover how The White Stripes’ story was foretold by Journey’s Classic AOR hit “Don’t Stop Believin’”

• Beck Pays Tribute To Tom Petty With Cover of American Girl: Live at The Electric Ballroom

  By Every Record Tells A Story on October 13, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  A new album by Beck is something to be celebrated, and the man himself has been in London all week to promote the new LP “Colors”, an upbeat, shiny, modern pop record, a million miles removed from its predecessor, the… Read More ›

• Vinyl Subscription Services: Which One Is Best?

  By Every Record Tells A Story on October 4, 2017 • ( 9 )

  

  Not sure whether to sign up to a vinyl subscription service? Here’s a look at a few… Last time, we looked at Vinyl Me Please and its cocktail recipe. It was all very shiny and pleasing, but didn’t solve the… Read More ›

• Vinyl Me? Please…

  By Every Record Tells A Story on September 19, 2017 • ( 9 )

  

  In which we take a look at the US vinyl subscription service and check out the most important aspect of their monthly offer: The cocktail recipe…

• Ty Segall: Live at The Coronet, London. 

  By Every Record Tells A Story on September 2, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  Gentrification. “The process of renovating and improving something so that it conforms to middle-class taste”. Or “the process of making a person or activity more refined or polite”. Last night, the thankfully ungentrified Ty Segall and his ungentrified band played… Read More ›

• Car Seat Headrest Steps Up As Headliner: Live at The Forum

  By Every Record Tells A Story on August 30, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Car Seat Headrest announced themselves with something of a flourish last year, surfacing seemingly fully formed with one of the albums of 2016. It turned out that band leader Will Toledo had already released (at the still tender age of… Read More ›

• The Five Golden Rules of Setting Up Your Own Album Of The Month Club

  By Every Record Tells A Story on August 28, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  An Album of the Month Club is a wonderful thing. It’s like having a friend with great musical taste who is compiling, nay, “curating” * music for you to add to your collection. Yay! Or is it? What friend would… Read More ›

• Cheap Music! (Terms and Conditions Apply): The Rise and Fall of Album of the Month Clubs

  By Every Record Tells A Story on August 21, 2017 • ( 41 )

  

  “The one thing Harry Houdini was never able to get out of was his Album of the Month Club subscription”
  Remember Album of the Month clubs? Watch out! They’re on their way back…

• Welcome, Discover WordPress Readers!

  By Every Record Tells A Story on August 7, 2017 • ( 46 )

  

  If you are reading this article, there’s a decent chance you’ll have come here via the Discover WordPress feature, a mythical, subscriber-and-ego-boosting seal of approval from the people who run WordPress – the web publishing platform that Every Record Tells… Read More ›

• New Sounds From This Is The Kit: at Rough Trade East

  By Every Record Tells A Story on July 14, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  There are many things to like about This Is The Kit. There’s the relaxed and easy way singer and songwriter Kate Stables has with the audience and her band members, typified by the way she walks onstage in a Jeremy… Read More ›

• Ten Things We Learned At The Village Green Festival. 

  By Every Record Tells A Story on July 11, 2017 • ( 8 )

  

  It’s in Essex, it’s about the size of the kid’s field at Glastonbury, and it only costs £15 to get in (take that, austerity Britain!) but this weekend 16,500 festival goers experienced a mellow, friendly atmosphere and saw some great… Read More ›

• Breaking News: It Will Be Sunny on Saturday. The Village Green Music Festival Awaits!

  By Every Record Tells A Story on July 5, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  Ah, the British summer. As elusive as a politician’s answer.  In days of yore, at the slightest sniff of a sunny weekend, the Great British Public would, in a futile attempt to keep the kids quiet for five minutes, hop… Read More ›

• King’s X: The Return of The Ultimate Cult Band

  By Every Record Tells A Story on June 15, 2017 • ( 18 )

  

  King’s X, a three piece band from Texas, are hugely influential, have a large and loyal fan base, and last night played a show in London for the first time in six years. They are, perhaps the archetypical Cult Band. … Read More ›

• Depeche Mode: Live in London – Review

  By Every Record Tells A Story on June 4, 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  Their biggest ever show. 80,000 fans.  It’s a far cry from their humble origins. Leaving school in 1979, Martin Gore worked as a bank clerk for Nat West in Fenchurch Street, saving the money he earned to buy a Yamaha… Read More ›

• Do Helloween Get The Credit They Deserve?

  By Every Record Tells A Story on May 31, 2017 • ( 12 )

  

  When we think of thrash metal, we think of certain things. The “Big Four” of Anthrax, Metallica, Slayer and Megadeth. We may also think of album covers that feature skulls… …or demons… …lead singers who dress like monks… …albeit there… Read More ›