December 2009
8 posts
Want to See a Cool Vinyl Movie? →
This company, which we think make glue for a living, made one.
via DOIS PONTO OITO
ATL RMX – Free Remix Album →
The guys over at Adult Swim have released a free remix album with Atlanta area hip hop remixed by some of the best electronic artists at the moment. Free download and album work…
Top 30 All-Time Greatest Punk Albums →
The guys over at Guitar World have put together a list of the thirty best punk albums of all time. Lots to like on this list. We’re quite pleased to see The Sonics up there.
Here is top five. …
Wonderful, Weird & Rare Vinyl Records On Nylvi →
If you dig around Nylvi a while you’ll soon enough discover some truly rare, often wonderfully weird and most likely valuable vinyl records. Every once in a while we’ll feature some of…
Vinyl Sales Up – Is Vinyl Going Mainstream? →
Record geeks rarely need a reason to feel smug, but vinyl hoarders worldwide had reassuring news the other week as Nielsen SoundScan released figures predicting that sales of proper,…
Styrofoam Turntable →
The guys at Teenage Engineering have designed and engineered a low-cost do-it-yourself Turntable kit made out of high density styrofoam. Yes, styrofoam like you know it from coffee cups…
Lagos Disco Inferno & A Room Full Of Vinyl →
Somewhere in Africa, there’s a room full of vinyl records… Discovered of course by none other than Voodoo Frank, the legendary DJ and record collector who sold off everything and spent…
New Releases! →
Kraftwerk – Catalogue From $137.12
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Live From €24.90
Waits, Tom – Glitter And Doom Live From €32.00
Real…
November 2009
4 posts
Wes Anderson – Scenes & Songs →
Spinner has cool a piece on writer-director Wes Anderson’s convincing ability to match songs with scenes to make them both more enjoyable and memorable. We’ve picked two we like below. If you enjoy…
Dead Cassette Tapes →
Atlanta based artist Brian Dettmer breaths new life into dead cassette tapes as he explores the possibilities held by forms of media fast becoming outmoded, altering and remodelling…
Awesome Vinyl Videos →
We’ve covered some awesome vinyl videos in the past and lately we’ve spent more time digging through vinyl goodness. Check out some of the videos below and feel free to friend us up on Vimeo.
Technics to axe 1200 and 1210 Turntables? →
Iconic turntable manufacturers Technics will most likely be stopping production on their universally loved Technics 1200s and Technics 1210s.
Manufacturing parent Panasonic has…
October 2009
2 posts
The International Turntable Orchestra →
Want to meet 14 of the most daring experimental turntablists in one place? Then you should really check out the TITO - The International Turntable Orchestra, a four-day fetival taking place in…
Footage from the Groove Store in Paris →
Time to drool over some vinyl footage again. Lot’s of beautiful vinyl set to a soundtrack of “Free Soul” by John Klemmer in this clip from the small but good-looking Groove Store Record Shop…
September 2009
7 posts
New Releases! →
This week’s picks among the latest music releases includes Beastie Boys’ incredible 4 LP limit collectors edition of their album “Check Your Head” and Os Mutantes new album “Haih Or…
Record Making With Duke Ellington - Vinyl... →
“Record Making with Duke Ellington” is a great little movie from 1937 highlighting the production of 78 RPM records with the great Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington (1899-1974).
Check it out…
Moldover - CD Case As An Instrument →
There’s a lot working going into finding and innovating new ways to package and distribute music these days, just check out Wired’s “10 Weird Ways to Distribute Music“.
However it’s …
Klaxons Next Band Out In The Alan Vega 70th... →
“Nu-Rave” wonderboys Klaxons is the next band to cover legendary Suicide in the ongoing Alan Vega 70th Birthday Limited Vinyl EP Series from the Blast First (petite) label.
Klaxons…
Ryan Adams About To launch Vinyl Label? →
Ryan Adams is back from his temporary break from all things music. Via TwentyFourBit comes the news that “Lost and Found”/”Go Ahead and Rain,” is Adams first official digital release on…
New Releases! →
This week’s picks among the latest releases includes the reissue of Brian Eno’s collaborations with Cluster main men Moebius and Roedelius on “Eno & Cluster” and “After The Heat” and we…
FRKWYS - New Vinyl Series from RVNG →
FRKWYS is a new sub-label and vinyl series from the New York label RVNG, with the aim to bring together “contemporary artists and their progenitors by way of remix, reinterpretation and…
August 2009
6 posts
Thrill Jockey 12″ Subscription Club! →
Vinyl subscription offerings have become increasingly popular lately and we’re happy to let you know that the guys over at Thrill Jockey now have joined in and started their own 12″…
Documentary: What Is The Future Of Vinyl Music? →
Josh Ralph takes an in-depth look at the possible future of vinyl records in this 3 part video documentary called “What is the future of vinyl music?”, which features interviews and insights…
New Releases! →
Nylvi’s picks among the latest vinyl and CD releases this time includes new albums from Yacht, Cornershop, Rainbow Arabia, Jay Reatard, Sax Ruins and Reigning Sound.
Also in stock are recent…
Kraftwerk with Eight-disc Box Set and Reissue... →
Good news for all Kraftwerk fans!
The German electronic music legends and EMI are planning to reissue eight of their albums as a box set called 12345678: The Catalogue. All albums…
Crate Digging with DJ Shadow →
Wondering how DJ Shadow spends his summer vacation? Well, like most true record collectors and crate diggers much time is spent hunting down rare vinyl in all kinds of different places -…
Record Covers Recreated in “Pärlplattor” →
Last week we showcased some iconic album covers recreated in Lego. This week we got some classic album art remade with what you in Swedish call “pärlplattor”. Take look at David Bowie’s “Hunky…
July 2009
10 posts
The Vinyl Experience Goes Digital? →
A few days ago Financial Times wrote up a piece on Apple working together with four of the largest record labels to increase digital sales of albums by adding interactive booklets,…
Financial Times Visit Portal Space Records →
The strangest thing about EMI’s former record factory in Hayes, west London, is not that it has been lying derelict for years, but that in a ramshackle outbuilding once…
Classic Album Covers in Lego →
You can pretty much anything with Lego. Or maybe not, but at least you can recreate some of the most iconic record covers ever made with it. Speckboy has put together a list of 30 classic album…
Merge Records Turns 20 - Festival and Book Release →
Merge Records, home to bands like Superchunk, Neutral Milk Hotel, Arcade Fire, Magnetic Fields and many more is celebrating its 20th anniversary in style, we already been enjoying…
New Releases! →
This week’s picks among the latest releases includes the long-awaited vinyl release of Johann Johannsson’s “Englaborn” and Babatunde Olatunji’s influential 1959 debut “Drums Of Passion” is available…
EMI refuses to sell to independent record stores →
Here’s another “great” move by a major label, according to Wayne Rosso, EMI has now in order to save money started to refuse many of their smaller accounts, mostly small independent mom &…
Doc: Record Playas - United Records Pressing Plant →
Yesterday it were Jack White and The Dead Weather who showed us the inside of the United Record Pressing Plant in Nashville. Today, we got Joe Biel showing us the plant and explaining the…
Dead Weather Visit Pressing Plant For “Will There... →
“I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age,” Jack White told The Guardian a few days ago. And with…
New Releases! →
This week’s picks among the latest releases includes Wilco’s great new (The Album), Jim O’Rourke, Fennesz and Peter Rehberg’s two classic albums are repackaged in the new set “Magic &…
70’s Soviet LP Cover Art →
Enjoy some truly weird album covers from 1970’s Soviet.
You can find more 70’s Soviet album art over at English Russian
June 2009
14 posts
The Turntable Collection →
We have had a couple of posts about vintage turntables here earlier, ranging from beautiful classics to Soviet ones to the wonderfully weird ones. And here are some more cool-looking vintage…
Digging! →
A great one minute narrative about crate digging from Justin Holbrook
the one-minute narrative centers around a dj’s secret ingredients—the dusty records and obscure samples that are…
New Releases! →
This week’s picks among the latest releases includes “Beacons Of Ancestorship” the first new material from Tortoise in five years, Sunn 0))) collaborates with Pan Sonic on “Che” and Belle…
Music Of The Sphere: Void LP Player →
Prepare to be amazed! Made by korean designer Rhea Jeong the Void LP Player elevates the LP into thin air as it is playing!
“The record player uses a carrier and dock outfitted with a…
Vinyl Sales Up + Vinyl Saturday →
Vinyl just continues to become more and more popular, recent figures (via LA Times) “released by Nielsen SoundScan indicate that overall U.S. vinyl sales will once again set a benchmark in…
Portable Turntable - Linos →
A while back we featured some pretty awesome vintage portable turntables and some pretty good-looking new ones too. However, the new “Linos” portable LP player designed by Charles Pyott is about…
New Releases! →
This week’s picks among the latest releases includes the reissue of Robert Hood’s seminal 1994 album “Minimal Nation“, via Brooklyn and In the Red Records comes Blank Dogs impressive new…
Pixies - Minotaur Box Set →
Yesterday, it was Warp’s 20th anniversary box set that had us reaching for the wallet, today we are drooling over Pixies‘ upcoming monstrous Minotaur box set, which collectsall the…
Warp unveil 20th anniversary box set →
A while back we told you that Warp records would celebrate its 20th anniversary this year with a box set and parties around the globe, we also picked out 20 great Warp releases we…
New Vinyl Releases! →
This week’s picks among the latest vinyl releases includes Sonic Youth’s 16th album “The Eternal”, a great new 12″ from Kevin Martin’s King Midas Sound project and the always amazing Sublime…
Upcoming Vinyl Reissues: Pavement, Flaming Lips,... →
The deluxe vinyl reissue of Pavement’s “Brigthen the Corners” is set for release via Matador on June 23. It will come with lots of bonus materials including eight tracks not included on…
Sonic Youth - The Eternal Vinyl Package →
Sonic Youth’s new album “The Eternal” is out on June 9 via Matador. You can stream the entire album on iLike now, and while you listen you can drool over these images of the vinyl package that…
Announcing the Winners of the Desert Island... →
We ran a competition last week where we asked you to submit a list of your desert island records and today we’re happy to announce the three winners, who each get a copy of the newly…