vinyl
Classical LPs Weekly: Corker, Sveinsson, TchaikovskySaturday, 24 December 2016
Adrian Corker: The Have-Nots OST (SN Variations)German director Florian Hoffmeister’s debut film The Have-Nots is a European exploration of the emotional after-effects of 9/11. The score comes from the British musician Adrian Corker. He’s worked... Read more... |
theartsdesk on Vinyl: Volume 23 - Kate Bush, Elton John, Black Sabbath and moreWednesday, 14 December 2016
The big news as this year closes is that vinyl sales have brought more money in than downloads. They made £2.4 million compared to the £2.1 million from digital, the eighth consecutive year of growth in vinyl sales. Of course, to a large degree,... Read more... |
theartsdesk on Vinyl: Volume 22 - Queen, Gillan, The Pop Group, Joe Fox and moreWednesday, 16 November 2016
The music keeps coming thick and fast. There’s an emphasis on rock this month but, as regular readers will know, theartsdesk on Vinyl has no favoured musical genre. All music is welcome, as long as it’s cut to plastic.This month we open with a jazzy... Read more... |
theartsdesk on Vinyl: Volume 21 - Sex Pistols, J Dilla, Uriah Heep, Hendrix and moreTuesday, 11 October 2016
Autumn arrives and theartsdesk on Vinyl is ready at the turntables with a vital selection to kick out the drizzle and seasonal blues. Now in a more toned, slimmed down form, we offer 30 reviews that pinpoint the very best new vinyl available,... Read more... |
theartsdesk on Vinyl: Volume 20 - Ramones, Freddie Mercury, Pet Shop Boys and moreFriday, 02 September 2016
Once again theartsdesk on Vinyl returns to offer a round-up of the very best available on plastic, covering every style imaginable and, this month, a few that have to be heard to be believed. From albums to 7” singles to boxsets, all vinyl life is... Read more... |
theartsdesk on Vinyl: Volume 19 - Sisters of Mercy, Peter Gabriel, Solomun and moreMonday, 25 July 2016
This month we’re just going to get straight into it. It’s summer, the sun's out, no time for waffle, just slap a disc on the turntables and wallow in the richness of the sound. Below 42 vinyl releases are reviewed, with no genre boundaries... Read more... |
theartsdesk on Vinyl: Volume 18 - Star Wars, Plaid, Air, Fog, 18+ and moreMonday, 20 June 2016
For new, independent artists, access to putting music on vinyl can seem daunting, especially to those who’ve grown up in the era of virtual music. There are schemes out there to counter this, notably the VF Selects programme, wherein the self-... Read more... |
theartsdesk on Vinyl: Volume 17 - Paul McCartney, Moby, Grace Jones and moreSaturday, 28 May 2016
News just in that the vinyl soundtrack to Star Wars: The Force Awakens will feature holograms that can seen as the record is played, if a light is shone upon it. It seems that every month there’s a similarly bizarre development in the many ways that... Read more... |
theartsdesk on Vinyl: Volume 16 - Santana, Yeasayer and loads moreThursday, 28 April 2016
The recent Alien Day was a contrived event designed to sell as much tat related to the Alien film franchise as possible. However, it had one intriguing side effect. Seventy-five copies of the soundtrack to the second film, Aliens, appeared on liquid... Read more... |
theartsdesk on Vinyl: Volume 15 - Saxon, Bernard Herrmann and much moreThursday, 24 March 2016
Vinyl now accounts for almost 6% of the money made from music distribution, more than is accrued through free ad-backed streaming services. In the US last year vinyl sales rose to $416 million. Clearly these sort of figures are no threat to the... Read more... |
theartsdesk on Vinyl: Volume 14 - Ennio Morricone, Erasure, NWA and moreMonday, 22 February 2016
There is an ongoing, unresolved argument as to whether vinyl really does sound warmer than digital music files, as analogue-lovers would have it. The truth is that few of us could tell the difference, on a high end sound system, between a 320k MP3... Read more... |
theartsdesk on Vinyl: Volume 13 - Kurt Cobain, Wolfgang Flür and moreSaturday, 23 January 2016
Welcome to the first theartsdesk on Vinyl of 2016. Last year saw vinyl go from a surprisingly successful retro underdog format to a profitable investment for major labels, notably Universal. This resulted in much grouching about bottlenecks of new... Read more... |
