Josh Homme has come a long way since his formative teenage years when his band, Sons of Kyuss, filled the hot, star-filled Palm Desert sky with cacophonous noise, bonfire smoke and teenage attitude, playing gear powered by generators to a… Read More ›
You can see why the start up of it’s own record label by supermarket chain Sainsbury’s would provoke within independent record shops the sort of confusion and suspicion you might otherwise only witness when a particularly trendy flock of sheep… Read More ›
On the 28 October 1977 a thirty-seven year old Peter Driscoll opened a new record shop at 55 Elm Road in Leigh on Sea. It was the year of Punk and The Sex Pistols, so naturally the UK’s charts reflected… Read More ›
In which we discover how The White Stripes’ story was foretold by Journey’s Classic AOR hit “Don’t Stop Believin’”
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 ›
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…
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 ›
“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…
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
Chris Davidson was a bit pushy. He was also not the tallest boy. He wanted to join a band at school called The Perfumed Gardener. Rehearsals were in the school hall at the not very rock n roll time of… Read More ›
With Record Store Day this weekend, the record collecting fraternity is faced with many quandaries: a) How can I afford the 4LP Deluxe Box Set of a 1975 Bruce Springsteen concert? b) Even if I could afford it, given that… Read More ›
…and a discussion of Record Collector’s Logic. Also: The Great R.E.M. CD / Vinyl Hunt… Have we reached peak vinyl? Should we all pile in to CDs now the price is a tiny fraction of the cost of vinyl? Is… Read More ›
The Great R.E.M. CD Hunt (Part 2) In the last article we asked some of the fundamental questions of the universe. For example: With the re-release of Paul Weller’s Stanley Road for no less than £32.99, have we reached Peak… Read More ›
