Includes records by Big Thief, New Order, Flight of the Conchords and more In this fast-paced musical landscape, where it’s so easy to simply put a playlist on shuffle, nothing compares to putting a record on, sitting back and enjoying all it has to offer in full (or at least until you have get up again to flip it over). Every week, NME will round up the best vinyl releases available to […]
Call it Human Civilization 101 — a record that contains sounds, music, and images from Earth to teach extraterrestrials everything they needed to know about us. That’s NASA’s Golden Record, a precious album that was printed onto gold-plated copper disks and launched into space aboard the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft in 1977. The two original records are still attached to the probes, which are traveling through space billions of […]
Star Wars fans looking to add The Force Awakens soundtrack to their collections have a special reason to buy it on vinyl. The latest records have special 3D holograms of the Millennium Falcon and a TIE fighter carved right into the vinyl itself. It speaks to the ongoing resurgence of records that Disney would put the extra effort into making this vinyl release special. Tristan Duke, a holographer who created the […]
On Thursday, HBO announced the February premiere dates for Martin Scorsese’s ’70s-set record label drama Vinyl, along with the return of comedies Girls and Togetherness. Vinyl starts Sunday, Feb. 14 with a two-hour opening, and the comedies launch a week later. What do those series have to do with Thrones? Quite possibly everything. It’s the TV scheduling domino effect! HBO usually airs its original programming for up to two hours on one night […]
From Martin Scorsese, Mick Jagger and Terence Winter, this new drama series is set in 1970s New York. A ride through the sex- and drug-addled music business at the dawn of punk, disco, and hip-hop, the show is seen through the eyes of a record label president, Richie Finestra, played by Bobby Cannavale, who is trying to save his company and his soul without destroying everyone in his path. Additional […]
