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!

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:

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 got the new album from New Zealand’s post-punk legends The Clean entitled “Mister Pop“. A band that might have sounded different without inspiration from [...]

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″ Subscription Club. The first installment consists of seven limited edition 12″s spread out over three packages. The following artists are included: The Fiery Furnaces, [...]

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, sleeve notes and various interactive features with music downloads aiming to change buying patterns on their online store. These rumors surfaced at the same [...]

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 occupied by the packing and shipping department, 11 of the 120 record presses that immortalised the music of groups such as The Beatles and Pink Floyd [...]

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 various parts of the vinyl pressing process.
Enjoy

Record Playaz from Joe Biel on Vimeo.