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davidbowie.com have just announced that Bowie’s final recordings are to be issued as part of the ‘Lazarus Cast Album’, the album will be available as a double CD and also treble LP, released date is […]
Now this may be hype but Austrian company Rebeat Digital claim to have developed a new method for making, not just high quality vinyl, but HD vinyl? Here’s the scientific bit – they have developed […]
Mark Savage of the BBC The success of acts like Adele and Coldplay was not enough to reverse a fall in revenue from recorded music in 2015, industry figures show. One out of every six […]
From the NME ‘Before the Flood’ will be released on October 30 Trent Reznor and Mogwai have created the score for Leonardo DiCaprio’s climate change film Before the Flood. Set to air on the National […]
…1964, The London Evening News reported that a 16 year-old Eltham Collage boy, introduced as Laurie Yarham, was everyone’s idea of a winner in a Mick Jagger look-a-like competition. Laurie looked like Mick Jagger and […]
By Mark Hudson The Telegraph What more can there possibly be to say about the Sixties?From the perspective of the Seventies and Eighties, theBeatles-and-Woodstock decade appeared a rather silly era, too recent to have accrued […]
We are very sad to hear of the death of another musical giant, Cecil Campbell a.k.a Prince Buster, who passed away on September 8th aged 78. A giant in Jamaican music and a key figure […]
Now rightfully acknowledged as classics these ’90s albums from the Verve were fairly underground releases at the time. Now’s your chance to relive them with deluxe, remastered and expanded CD reissues plus 180g vinyl, all […]
Just released is this remastered, revised and updated version of the New Order Singles Collection originally released in 2005, with much improved sound and available as a 4LP set and double CD – if you […]
From The Guardian Kik It to be first single from 15 previously unheard tracks Hutchence recorded shortly before he died, and a documentary about singer’s life also ‘nearly done’ The final 11 seconds of a […]
David Bowie is rumoured to have written a score to the sci-fi classic that’s locked up in some vault. But the truth is much stranger – involving screaming maids, boozy brawls and coke-induced hearing hallucinations […]
Are you Like a Virgin to the art scene? There’s no better place to immerse yourself in some of the world’s most inspiring artists, galleries and collections than Art Basel. And when you factor in […]
On September 17th and 18th Art Vinyl and eil.com present ‘David Bowie Art Vinyl’ at the National Audio Show 2016, celebrating the art and music of David Bowie through the ever changing record sleeve styles […]
From the L.A. Times Ron McMaster, skilled in the art of cutting vinyl records, had been planning to retire. To the longtime Capitol Studios mastering engineer, the era of digital streaming services such as Spotify seemed to […]
By Adrian York The Independent Sia has been criticised for putting on a poor show in Israel; can fans get their money back? Israeli fans of Australian popstar Sia have reportedly filed a £1.6m lawsuit against […]
Okay, so we’re all up to speed with the (ahem) ‘vinyl revival’ but rising like the proverbial phoenix from the ashes is the good ol’ cassette….in fact so much so that in recent years Kanye […]
OK, so it’s not strictly ‘music’ but since there’s a good few petrolheads amongst us record collectors here at eil.com, we couldn’t resist a read about Bryan Ferry’s car-history. And surely car collecting is much […]
……the Sex Pistols made their television debut* with an appearance on Manchester’s Granada TV programme ‘So It Goes’ ‘So It Goes’ was a regional TV programme broadcast only in the Manchester area (late at night) […]
…..It’s Ringo Starr’s very own copy of the ‘The Beatles’ a.k.a. ‘The White Album’ which was stored in a vault for 35 years! The LP was the very first copy pressed and you may recall […]
Read the full article here at The Guiness World Records REVEALED: CHART-TOPPING ARTISTS JUSTIN BIEBER AND THE WEEKND ROCK THE GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS 2017 EDITION David Bowie, Ringo Starr, Gordon Ramsay, Dame Judi Dench also […]
Freddie Mercury’s former home in Feltham has just been given coveted blue plaque status, what musician/band would you nominate to get the blue plaque treatment? Looking for rare Queen/Freddie Mercury vinyl, CDs, memorabilia and more? […]
Read more here THE PINK FLOYD EXHIBITION: THEIR MORTAL REMAINS 13th May – 1st October 2017 The Victoria and Albert Museum Iconic and the V&A present THE PINK FLOYD EXHIBITION – THEIR MORTAL REMAINS, the first […]
Although not a household name Rudy Van Gelder, who has died at the age of 91 in the U.S., is one of the key figures in jazz, helping to shape the sound of jazz over […]
By Jack Shepherd/The Independent Warner Bros. have announced they are releasing Liam Gallagher’s first solo album, the ex-Oasis singer having previously said he would never release a solo album because he’s ‘not a c*nt’. The […]
From the NME Sadly not the unheard electronic OST that Bowie created for the film with Paul Buckmaster (that is still in copyright limbo) but a reissue of the films OST which featured music created […]
1991’s ‘Out Of Time’ was the album that saw R.E.M. move from top U.S. college band into the big league, helped by huge hit singles ‘Losing My Religion’ and ‘Shiny Happy People’. On the 18th […]
….legendary producer/DJ, Guy Stevens died at the incredibly young age of 38. If you are unaware of Stevens name you may be surprised at how far his influence across music went… …in the early ’60s […]
From Nerdist As vinyl records continue their glorious comeback, let’s take a second to look at how these black discs of beautiful music actually work, or more specifically, how they materialize. For this express purpose, Super […]
From the BBC A long-lost demo disc recorded by Paul McCartney that was given to Cilla Black is estimated to fetch £15,000 at auction later. Black, who died in 2015, had a UK top 10 […]
US company Lakeside Photo Works who have discovered a novel use for those old concert/gig ticket stubs…. …or a nice cup of tea? Here’s a link to their video.. What do you think, let us […]
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