April is Jazz Appreciation Month, and Craft Recordings has given us a lot to appreciate as they celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Prestige label with a hefty reissue and playlist campaign. The cornerstone is Coltrane ’58: The Prestige Recordings (out April 26), an eight-LP set that presents John Coltrane’s 1958 sessions for the label […]
Discogs is proud to sponsor the annual dublab Record Fair on Saturday, April 27! In anticipation of the event, DJ and program host Bianca Lexis shared this list of her top 10 introspective ’80s albums. Dublab is an independent, non-profit internet radio station. This event is part of their spring membership drive. There will be […]
Yes, this is a 4/20 post — so cliche, so overdone, so unnecessary. But what do you know? You’re probably high af right now anyway. Today is a day for you, our stoners friends, and I care about what you want, so I compiled a list of stoner albums just for you. Now I’ll confess, […]
For decades, colored vinyl was looked upon as some open joke. A way that record companies could charge more while distancing themselves from what many music lovers demanded from their records: high-quality sound. Almost without exception, a colored vinyl disc would play with much more noise and hiss compared to their black counterparts. Well, those […]
Pau Roca has risen as the new “house master” of Barcelona, as described in a review of the Sónar festival. He has been playing regularly at such festivals as Mutek, Sónar, Brunch In the Park, DGTL, and BAM. As head of the vinyl-only Bons Records, he released records by likes of Doc L. Junior, Philou […]
Greetings fellow humans. Reporting live from the Dutch office where I’m licking my proverbial wounds from the Utrecht record fair all weekend, which I’ll blab about in a later post. In the meantime, once again back with another list of things you should have bought, had you known about the real top 50. What was […]
Discogs is happy to support the annual dublab Record Fair on Saturday, April 27! Leading up the event, dublab program host Daddy Differently, aka Spencer Velasquez, regales us with some tales about record collecting and the characters you encounter along the way. Dublab is an independent, non-profit internet radio station. This event is part of […]
In the weekend of April 20 and 21, we’ll be heading to Brussels, Belgium to celebrate independent music at the second edition of the Independent Label Market Brussels! After the success of the first edition last year (almost 2,000 visitors!), this year they’re teaming up with Listen Festival as part of the Sound District – […]
Last month, midwestern emo paragons American Football released their acclaimed third self-titled album. This triumph came almost 20 years after their debut LP hit shelves in September 1999 — and failed to light up the charts. The record didn’t generate much hype, and by 2000, they decided to call it quits. The then-trio probably thought […]
