The Vinyl District

UK | New Independent Music Chart Launches to Challenge the Official Chart’s Grip on the Industry: Fanfare’s twin charts will track physical sales only—no streaming, no legacy acts—when they launch on 1 September. Independent musicians, labels and managers are being urged to sign up to a new national music chart set to challenge the dominance […]

VIA PRESS RELEASE | Girlschool never did things the easy way. In August 1981, little more than two years after the all-female south London metal band launched itself onto the UK club scene, they were firmly established among the very few New Wave of British Heavy Metal acts either capable of, or deserving to, top […]

VIA PRESS RELEASE | Craft Recordings and HighTone Records proudly announce a new deluxe reissue of Blackjack David, the esteemed 1998 album from GRAMMY®-winning Americana icon Dave Alvin. Featuring highlights such as “Abilene,” “Evening Blues,” “California Snow,” and “Blackjack David,” the album will be available on October 16 on 2-LP, CD, and digital (including hi-res) […]

Remembering Tim Bogert, born on this day in 1944. —Ed. To soak up Vanilla Fudge’s talent as song interpreters, the best route is their eponymous ’67 debut. A further understanding of them as a singles act is best gleaned from the Rhino compilation Psychedelic Sundae. If an immersion into the multifaceted positives and negatives of […]

Songs written inside a prison cell. A producer chased down by hopping a fence, climbing a tree, and waiting outside a trailer with cash in hand. Collaborations that happened because the right people walked through the door at the right moment. There is nothing tidy about the way Not Free Money, the new album from […]