To Have & To Hold – Taster Tape from Jony Lyle on Vimeo.
To Have & To Hold is a upcoming ‘musicmentory’ to celebrate the age of vinyl records… Looks exciting!

Via always amazing Hard Format we bring you this great little unboxing video of the Pixies‘ gigantic box set Minotaur.

If this wet your appetite, you’ll find the Pixies’ Minotaur box set right here

Something that always turns us on here at Nylvi is people with dedication and passion. People like the great guys at Secret Stash Records who have just released the first volume of Soviet Funk, a compilation of funky rarities recorded in Soviet between 1971 and 1976! Here they have, together with Pavel Sysoyev, dug up [...]

Limited Edition, Special Edition, Anniversary Edition, Collectors Edition, Deluxe Edition…,  all much used words when talking about music releases in 2009. As both new releases and old classics were often released in various edition and levels of bonus material and deluxe packaging. Some were obvious cash-ins for the industry, others were prepared with much more [...]

Figuring out the exact number is tough since quite a bit of vinyl is sold through independent stores and directly from artists/labels, but judging from recent numbers from Nielsen SoundScan, which is measuring sales from the major retailers, vinyl is doing even better than last year with an increase from 1.9 million to 2.8 million [...]

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 these gems and collector’s items, first out are records from The Beatles, Fela Kuti, Honey Bs, Hellebore and signed promo from Patsy [...]

We have teamed up with Black Dog, publisher of some of our favorite books on music and popular culture, to give Nylvi’s friends and users a special 40% Christmas discount on selected titles.
With titles like “Old Rare New – The Independent Record Shop” – a homage to the holy places of record collecting, via books [...]

John Tefteller recently found himself in the typical record collector dream scenario, as he got a call from a woman selling her deceased husband’s record collection. Turns out the husband had been a Capitol Records executive and among his jazz and easy listening records Tefteller found a copy of the Beatles‘ “Sgt. Pepper” unlike anything [...]

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 in Paris, France. Probably well worth a visit if you ever happen to be in Paris.
We would love some more great [...]

“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 covers “Sweetheart from Suicide’s second self-titled album and the EP will be limited to an edition of 3000 vinyl records. It also includes Alan Vega’s own “Speedway” [...]