A Rough Guide To: Why Is My Vinyl Record Skipping?
It’s a horrible feeling. You go to spin your brand new vinyl record – or even a classic from your collection – and it starts skipping. Right…
A Rough Guide To: Indie Sleaze
"Growing up I wanted to be Pete Doherty, he was literally a cultural icon. The band had that sticky dance floor sound that you couldn’…
A Rough Guide To: The Best Gift Ideas for Vinyl Lovers
Vinyl record sales have been on the rise for the last 15 years, even overtaking CD sales in 2022. A combination of OG collectors adding to…
A Rough Guide To: Vinyl Cleaning, Restoration and Storage
Part of any record collector’s routine involves maintaining and restoring old vinyl. Over time, vinyl material can wear and tear, leading to the loss of…
A Rough Guide To: Valuing and Selling Your Vinyl Records
How to value and sell your vinyl records - a guide Parting with a particular record can be hard for vinyl lovers – especially if it’s…
A Rough Guide To: Sampling - How An Abstract Concept Evolved Modern Music
'Good artists copy, great artists steal.' - Pablo Picasso Words by Will Bradbury In the 1940s, Pierre Schaeffer pioneered 'musique concrète', an…
Turntable Setup: The Best Record Players & Speaker Systems from Budget to Professional
Guide written by Will Bradbury The enduring appeal of records comes as no surprise to us. In an increasingly digital world, having a physical relationship with…
A Rough Guide To: Recycling Vinyl
Can You Recycle Vinyl Records? For decades, vinyl enjoyed its reign as the most popular way to listen to music. But with the emergence of CDs…
A Rough Guide To: Contemporary Emo
Loud, blistering and emotional. The emergence of the term 'emo' seemed a clever label around the year of 1985, as spearhead bands such as…
A Rough Guide To: Slacker Rock
...Just mere lazy lizards, sunning themselves in the Californian sun (no doubt the most slacker of all the suns out there). A genre which is very…