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 & Return” and “Ambivalence Avenue” is the new album from the always charming Bibio.
“Imidiwan: Companions” is a new album from Tuareg Nomads Tinariwen and from the [...]

Enjoy some truly weird album covers from 1970’s Soviet.

You can find more 70’s Soviet album art over at English Russian

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 turntables found via The Temporary Soundmuseum, who works for the preservation of the vinyl culture.
Sanyo Stereo Music Center

Wega Stereo Set by Verner Panton, 1963

Baird [...]

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 brought to life in sonic compositions. as the dj pulls records from crates, handwritten notes are scrawled across screen, and fragments of audio are added to the mix.

Digging from [...]

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 & Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch presents his new project “God Help The Girl“.
Dinosaur Jr is rocking like it’s 1988 again on “Farm“, Monolake brings us epic [...]

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 magnetic and auto-calibrating control system which carries the LP into thin air as it is playing music. a self-running record player [...]

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 2009, with sales up 50% through the first five months of the year. SoundScan predicts vinyl sales will reach 2.8 million units in 2009, up [...]

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 to take portable turntables to a new level.

Probably, at least partly inspired by the legendary Sound Burger, the new “Linos” looks even better, is [...]

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 album “Under & Under“, from the same place comes also Vivian Girls new 7-inch “Wild Eyes“.
Burial Hex and Zola Jesus have a new split out [...]

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 collects all the band’s studio recordings and videos, plus a live DVD, book and new artwork.
Packaged by Vaughan Oliver with photographer Simon Labalestier, the partnership behind all of [...]