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LONG LIVE VINYL

The Long Live Vinyl team pick their current favourite Beatles album…

On the record

Four new vinyl releases for Bowie aficionados – including

The Vinyl Festival is coming!

Fancy digging crates, hearing top DJs, browsing the latest hardware, eating street food and drinking craft beer? Of course you do! Long Live Vinyl is proud to present The Vinyl Festival – a weekend-long celebration of the format, taking place at Printworks London, from 23 to 24 September

Simon says

Fact – there’s no more money left in the music industry. Does that mean emerging acts should just give up trying? Of course not…

Radiohead Are NOTOK

OK Computer gets an anniversary reissue, with bonus tracks, on various tantalising vinyl formats

IDLES

This rising South West punk band are ready to take the festival scene by storm

Crate digging with… Don Letts

Filmmaker, musician and latter-day BBC 6 Music linchpin, Don Letts also has a pretty amazing record collection and a deep-rooted love of vinyl. So, who better to head out with for an afternoon of crate-digging? Don’s latest venture, the 19-track Culture Clash Radio is more an ‘audio autobiography’ than a Various Artists compilation…

LINER NOTES

Long Live Vinyl’s founder gets drawn into The Beatles’ …Inner Groove, putting the spotlight on Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’s two, secret, hidden tracks – and the world of run-off-groove madness they’ve since inspired

YOUR MOST VALUABLE VINYL

Each issue, our friends at 991.com trawl through the crates and bring us four more prized collectables. All values are for mint or near-mint condition copies

Gabriel On Film

Peter Gabriel issues half-speed remasters of lm soundtracks

#2 We’re Only In It For The Money

The Mothers Of Invention

THE ROLLING STONES

In June 1968, The Stones were in Olympic Studios in

AMERICAN EPIC

This new star-studded TV documentary series and film about field recordings of artists from the USA’s distant past has revived some long-lost record-production technology. Jonathan Webster meets the people behind a pioneering project…

SUPER SUNDAYS

What started as a small gathering of music-loving friends has grown to become an expansive worldwide network of unique listening events. Laura K Williams talks to Classic Album Sundays founder Colleen Murphy…

IT WAS 50 YEARS AGO TODAY

The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is a masterpiece. Melodies, poetry, textures, moments of grandiose beauty… It’s possibly the most perfectly orchestrated album of all time, meticulously produced into an unfolding storyboard, then wrapped up in a matching gatefold sleeve. Gareth Murphy takes a look at the big one, from the biggest group ever…

Orlando

Vinyl adventurer Mark Elliott boards a plane to Orlando and discovers a virtual theme park for record hunters, with nine – yes, nine – stores all ripe for a ransacking

THE ESSENTIAL Jazz

With a century of output, collecting jazz records can be a daunting prospect. Martin Kelly brings you the definitive guide to some of the best records by the most creative artists from the genre’s most collectable and productive period on vinyl…

THE BIG REISSUE

Gareth Murphy meets Andrew Rossiter, boss of ORG Music – the Californian indie reissues label curating, re-releasing and restoring lost masterpieces back to their rightful place in the spotlight…

TOM GUNDELFINGER O’NEAL

Photographer Tom Gundelfinger O’Neal was at the heart of the West Coast psychedelic-music boom in the 1960s, shooting album covers and portraits for rock royalty such as Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell and Jim Morrison. Teri Saccone meets the man behind the lens…

Classic Album FLEETWOOD MAC RUMOURS

“Art is only a way of expressing pain”, reckoned John Lennon – and with Rumours, Fleetwood Mac took massive hurt and polished it into a tour de force of pop-rock that helped define the 1970s. Michael Leonard looks back at a 40-million seller that has transcended genre and fanbase, and whose legend is half-based on the fractious relationships and excess that surrounded its very making…

KEITH DALGLEISH The Vinylist

Record collector Keith Dalgleish has a treasure trove of vinyl that spans the ages. But it’s the latter part of one decade in particular T H E V I N Y L I S T that really lights his fire. Mark Alexander finds out more…

THURSTON MOORE SONIC

Thurston Moore’s latest solo album, Rock N Roll Consciousness, is a work fuelled by the meditative effects that record collecting has had on the celebrated former Sonic Youth man and Jazzmaster-wielding noisenik’s psyche. Chris Parkin meets a pioneering artist who takes inspiration from the most eclectic of sources…

THE MISFITS HORROR BUSINESS

This three-track 7” has a troubled production history, which led to its appearance in various permutations – as a result, it has become a seriously rare and desirable find for punk aficionados…

DEVON SENT DRIFT, TOTNES

Drift Record Shop, in the Devon market town of Totnes, has launched its own magazine and festival without abandoning its ethos of supporting emerging acts. Gary Walker finds out more…

CHANGING ROOMS

If left untreated, a room’s acoustic issues can have a major effect on your hi-fi’s sound. Huw Price identifies and explains some common problems, such as comb filtering, standing waves and flutter echoes…

My favourite vinyl GRANT NICHOLAS

The Feeder main man and solo artist takes us on a guided tour of his record collection and selects six of the best…

The Beatles

SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND (ANNIVERSARY SUPER DELUXE EDITION)

Elton John

SONGS FROM THE WEST COAST

Sting

THE COMPLETE STUDIO COLLECTION

Bob Marley & The Wailers

EXODUS 40: THE MOVEMENT CONTINUES

Bill Wyman

WHITE LIGHTNIN’ – THE SOLO BOX

The Sweet

ARE YOU READY? (THE RCA ERA)

Emerson Lake & Palmer

WORKS VOL 1 & 2

Twin Peaks

MUSIC FROM TWIN PEAKS & FIRE WALK WITH ME

Com Truise

ITERATION

Cigarettes After Sex

CIGARETTES AFTER SEX

Royal Blood

HOW DID WE GET SO DARK?

Dan Auerbach

WAITING ON A SONG

Saint Etienne

HOME COUNTIES

Ride

WEATHER DIARIES

Beach House

B-SIDES AND RARITIES

The Magpie Salute

THE MAGPIE SALUTE

Royal Trux

PLATINUM TIPS + ICE CREAM

Sufjan Stevens et al

PLANETARIUM

Kevin Morby

CITY MUSIC

The Drums

ABYSMAL THOUGHTS

Girlpool

POWERPLANT

Peter Perrett

HOW THE WEST WAS WON

Aldous Harding

PARTY

Public Service Broadcasting

EVERY VALLEY

Ani DiFranco

BINARY

Broken Social Scene

HUG OF THUNDER

London Grammar

TRUTH IS A BEAUTIFUL THING

Roger Waters

IS THIS THE LIFE WE REALLY WANT?

ROUNDUP Genre Hopping ‘Nu’ new age

Every issue, Chris Parkin uncovers the latest gems in a particular genre. This month, he looks at the resurgent interest in the work of new age and spiritual artists…

BLUE ELLA

PLANAR MAGNETIC HEADPHONES

ELIPSON OMEGA 100 TURNTABLE

WITH ORTOFON OM10 CARTRIDGE

PRO-JECT VT-E

VERTICAL TURNTABLE WITH ORTOFON OM 5E CARTRIDGE

REGA RP10

WITH NAIM AMP, SOPRA SPEAKERS AND REL SUBS