The artist Ty Lettau have taken 20 classic album covers and redesigned them in a minimalistic style. We rather like it! Check out the covers below, and tell us what you think?

This is pretty awesome: Mike Senese found and rescued this tutorial about how to “pirate” a vinyl record by casting!
If anyone want to try it out, follow the step by step guide and please let us know how it sounds!
(via MAKE, Yvynyl)

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!

This looks pretty awesome: Audio engineering company GGRP have created a record player from a piece of corrugated cardboard that folds into an envelope. Once assembled, a record can be spun on the player with a pencil!

(via Gizmodo)

During 60s and 70s communism in Poland, at a time when vinyl records hard to get, sounds postcards became extremely popular. They looked like standard postcards on the back, but on the front an analogue recording was engraved in a thin layer of laminate.

Like we pointed out earlier, 2009 was great year for vinyl records. The Nielsen Soundscan numbers reveals a 33% growth in 2009 with about 2.5 million vinyl records sold in the US! On a even more positive note 2 out 3 vinyl records was purchased at a independent music store!
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In November Art Vinyl with the help from Creative Review’s Mark Sinclair, Rough Trade’s Spencer Hicks and John Doran from The Quietus shortlisted 50 record sleeves and invited everyone to cast their vote. The results are in and the winner of the best vinyl album cover of 2009 is:

This company, which we think make glue for a living, made one.

via DOIS PONTO OITO

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, old-fashioned albums will top 2.8m by the end of 2009. This will mean an increase of almost 1m on last year and the highest annual figure [...]

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 three years in Africa hunting down rare funk records. We talked to Voodoo Frank about his trip a while back, you can read the [...]