Tag: The Vault

  • Vinyl Subscription Services: Which One Is Best?

    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 perennial issue of potentially lumbering you with records as welcome in your collection as Mariah…

  • Jack White: The Lightning Bolt of Inspiration That Is Blunderbuss

    Jack White: The Lightning Bolt of Inspiration That Is Blunderbuss

    Jack White‘s Blunderbuss was one of my Records of The Year in 2012. I was therefore pleased to receive an early Christmas present this morning: a little parcel from Third Man Records. For the princely sum of twenty American dollars I picked up a nice copy of his solo album Blunderbuss – something I had…

  • Is This The Hard Rock Cafe’s Greatest Treasure?

    Is This The Hard Rock Cafe’s Greatest Treasure?

    The Hard Rock Cafe in London’s Piccadilly contains some most amazing treasures. As the silver-cross-wearing and black-nail-varnish sporting readers amongst you may know, Black Sabbath got back together in 2012 to perform a few shows. Regrettably, original Sabbath drummer Bill Ward did not participate due to a dispute over that root of all evil, Sharon…