/weightless fm/ - Radio Podcast and Music Recommendation We are back for the latest instalment of our radio podcast, playing a curated selection of new releases and interesting records that we have discovered recently. Hope you make some nice discoveries, enjoy! Flip through the stacks and you'll find...
Blank City Records revives vinyl art of pressing music on vintage medical X-rays New LA-based record label Blank City Records are reviving the vintage art of pressing music on medical x-rays, paying tribute to the Soviet hipsters in the 1940's who struggled to smuggle music into...
The Top 10 Albums of the 1960s. The artists who changed music forever. Pitchfork recently put together a list of the best albums from the 1960s. The list, is based on votes from more than 50 full-time staffers and regularly contributing writers. Among the many upheavals of the era, the 1960s...
Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Washington catalogs rare Japanese 78 rpm records A collection of old Japanese 78 RPM records offers a window into the musical interests of early Japanese-American immigrants in Seattle. Local artist Paul Kikuchi is cataloging and digitizing a rare collection of...
Oasis' iconic ‘Be Here Now’ turns 20 - here's 10 things about the album you (probably) didn't know Coined as one of the greatest masterpieces from the band's discography, Oasis's 3rd studio album Be Here Now (released 21 Aug 1997) was produced at the height of their...
Vinyl sales slump quality blamed. It’s time to stop using digital masters While vinyl has undoubtedly been enjoying a surge in popularity the likes of which we haven’t seen for 30 years, vinyl sales are slowing down. And many think quality is to blame. According to Neilsen Music data, vinyl sales jumped...
Twin Peaks: The Return gets a release on vinyl Fans of the 1990's crime drama Twin Peaks and it's 2017 sequel, The Return, can now look forward to getting their hands on a vinyl release of it's soundtrack very soon. Sacred Bones has just released the...
Melbourne introduces a brand new vinyl pressing plant, the first in Australia in 30 years For the first time in 30 years, a brand new, high-tech vinyl pressing plant called Program Records is set to open in Melbourne in early 2018. Vinyl manufacturing in Australia is rare,...
Recent Vinyl Rotation: Smooth Operator! Things you could do when life is stressing you out: smash your head against the wall, create little voodoo dolls of annoying people, play God Of War, shave your hair off like Britney, listen to whale sounds while sitting in the bathtub,...
Record all your favourite vinyl music into the Vinyl Recorder Convert Technologies, thinking ahead of the vinyl resurgence of late, has developed a free app called The Vinyl Recorder that records your albums to 16bit/48kHz FLAC files. With the aim of making it extremely accessible to the...
Today's Google Doodle Celebrates Hip Hop By Letting You To DJ Today's Google doodle marks the 44th anniversary of the Bronx block party that birthed hip-hop. It was there that DJ Kool Herc invented the "break" (by isolating the percussive portion of a beat). The term also lends...
"Dunkirk" Soundtrack by Hans Zimmer Out Soon On Limited Edition Vinyl Christopher Nolan’s much anticipated World War II film Dunkirk with music by Hans Zimmer, will have a limited edition release on vinyl. This is Hans' fourth collaboration with director Nolan, and had previously composed music for the Batman series, Interstellar and Man of Steel. Limited...
Short Store Stories: Hendrix Ibsen, Oslo Short Store Stories is a new project showcasing and cherishing independent record stores and their stories from all over the globe. Do you know a record store you would like to see featured on #vinyloftheday? Then send a few words...
16 Upcoming Records To Get Excited About This Fall From Haruka Nakamura's Hikari and Bjork's untitled record to the physical release of Jay-Z's 4:44 and Milo's Who Told You To Think??!!?!?!?! , here are the upcoming records to keep your music nerd momentum going steady throughout...
BadBadNotGood Discuss Their Favourite Records In this new short film, the BadBadNotGood opens up to Late Night Tales about their favourite records which were selected for the now available compilation LP while hanging out in Toronto’s Cosmos Records. The selection reflects the breadth of BadBadNotGood’s sound, ranges...
