2018. A new year, a fresh start. A chance to shed the winter coat that you unwittingly piled on when you bought, and then consumed, those second and third tubs of Heroes and Quality Street over the festive season. It’s… Read More ›
Music
Every Record Tells A Story’s Albums Of 2017
Being barged out of the way by stressed shoppers. Not being able to find the thing your kids put on the top of their list. Bringing a dead tree into your house and covering it with shiny balls. Spending slightly… Read More ›
Queens of the Stone Age – Live In London
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 ›
Why Independent Record Shops Shouldn’t Fear Sainsbury’s Compilation Albums (Too Much)
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 ›
Help Celebrate “One Of The Country’s Great Record Shops’” 40th Birthday
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 ›
How The Story of The White Stripes Was Foretold: By Journey
In which we discover how The White Stripes’ story was foretold by Journey’s Classic AOR hit “Don’t Stop Believin’”
Vinyl Subscription Services: Which One Is Best?
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…
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…
The Five Golden Rules of Setting Up Your Own Album Of The Month Club
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
“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!
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 ›
Ten Things We Learned At The Village Green Festival.
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!
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 ›
How To Buy Nick Drake On Vinyl
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 ›
Now That’s What I Call Cash! Do You Have This CD Worth Over £500?
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 ›
