The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds

The Vinyl District is an awesome website as well as application for Apple iOS and Google Android smart phones and we speak to the founders about their contributions and future of the vinyl communit…

The Black Album is a mysterious album in the Prince catalog, originally recorded, mastered, duplicated then cancelled with all but a handful of copies destroyed. Today we share the story of the LP, t…

Former Iron Maiden drummer Doug Sampson joins us to discuss the band’s very first record "The Soundhouse Tapes" - one of the rarest and sought after Iron Maiden artifacts. We also share how to tell a…

Record Store Day 2016 is upon us, are you ready? Hundreds of new releases on vinyl as well as cassette and CD are making their way to the shops. Will you line up at your local record store the mornin…

This week we tell the story of Jazz pioneer Norman Granz, founder of Verve Records, Jazz at the Philharmonic and a rare record set he produced called "The Jazz Scene". Plus we discuss Sun Ra, John C…

Sundazed Music is a great reissue label and record dude Jay Millar discusses how the company goes about putting together reissues as well as some of the cool upcoming releases on the new Modern Harmo…

The story of the 'Golden Records' that contain sounds, images and greetings from the Earth, that were blasted into space as part of NASA's Voyager space program. We also talk to Dan Cook of Gimme Gi…

Dead Kennedys debut LP "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables" is still a high-water mark in the history of American hardcore punk, today we discuss the LP, the various pressings and the history with D…

A newly discovered Beatles one-off acetate is up for auction, we tell the history of that, also we visit Permanent Records in Highland Park in Los Angeles, discuss the Prince 'Piano & a Microphone' t…

We are in Singapore and checking out the local music shop scene including 2 great record shops Vinylucky & For The Record, as well as test driving some high end audio gear that we can't afford (che…

In part 2 of our 2 part series on bootleg recordings, we tell the story of Mike Millard "Mike the Mic" who recorded hundreds of bands in the 70s in Los Angeles, including Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Th…

The 1st of our 2 part series on bootleg records; we discuss events that led up to the creation of the bootleg industry, the story behind the first widely distributed bootleg Bob Dylan's "The Great Wh…

This week I’m going to give away some records so share the Vinyl Guide with your friends and I may just reach out to you to send you some good stuff! This week I also chat with Parker Macy of Crème T…

Nate talks to Mike Spitz and Rebecca Villaneda, authors of "The Record Store Book: Fifty of Southern California's Most Iconic and Legendary Record Stores" as well as discussing the story of Florence …

Another hour+ episode! Lots of Zappa talk including Nate's favourites 'We're Only In It For The Money' & 'Lumpy Gravy', Arthur Barrow talks about his time w/ FZ and how to tell if your Zappa WOIIFTM …

This week we say goodbye to one of our heroes David Bowie and talk about the lack of copies of his last LP "Black Star" there are on the market. We also tell the tale of the record John Lennon, Paul…

Continuing with the Los Angeles Vinyl Roadtrip, Nate interviews Marc Weinstein of Amoeba Music, who shares the history and future of running the world's largest music store. Also we discuss the pass…

Nate takes a trip to Los Angeles and talks about why LA is such a great area for record collectors. We also talk about New Years Resolutions with vinyl collecting and interview Mike Vague who is a r…

Dean Benedetti just wanted to get some saxophone tips from his hero Charlie Parker. He ultimately ended up with a pile of recordings cut onto paper discs that captured the legendary jazz musician at…

Records are generally a linear experience however there are some artists like Tool, Mr Bungle, Pink Floyd & even The Beatles have gone a step or 3 further and push the vinyl format beyond just a sin…