Long Live Vinyl Magazine Jun-18 Back Issue

In Issue 15 of Long Live Vinyl, we salute the once mighty 45. Our cover feature profiles 45 7-inch singles that shaped popular music history – from Be My Baby to Pump Up The Volume, and Good Vibrations to Smells Like Teen Spirit, we round up the essential 7s no collector should be without, as well as revealing the UK’s most valuable and most collected 45s. It’s a fitting tribute to the diminutive format.
Elsewhere this issue, in our packed interviews section Beach House, Parquet Courts and Gaz Coombes tell us about their excellent new albums, and we meet the three friends who started a label with £1,000 squirrelled away from a student loan. Today, Transgressive boasts a roster including the likes of Foals, Graham Coxon, Alvvays, Young Knives, Let’s Eat Grandma, Marika Hackman and many others.
We send obsessive record collector Mark Elliott cratedigging at the greatest show on earth – Utrecht’s Mega Record & CD Fair – and catch up with Brian Cannon, the man who designed so many iconic 90s indie record sleeves, including Oasis’ Definitely Maybe and What’s The Story Morning Glory and The Verve’s Storm In Heaven and Urban Hymns. You’ll find an exclusive book extract from Garth Cartwright’s ode to UK record shops – Going For A song; our Classic Album is Nick Cave’s brooding masterpiece Murder Ballads; we round up 40 Essential The Clash classics, plus you’ll find the most comprehensive range of new album, reissue, turntable and accessory reviews anywhere on the newsstand.
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