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Behind The Scenes. Vinyl is the most tangible tactile form of music. If you look at the grooves of a record through a microscope you will see these valleys of sound, pressed hard into the vinyl landscape. This is where music is a physical structure. Each...

Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison Blues, ‘At Folsom Prison’ ‘Folsom Prison Blues’ is a country classic by American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash. The song is a mix of two old folk styles, the train song and the prison song. First recorded in 1955, the song appeared on...

David Bowie - Space Oddity, ‘David Bowie (aka Space Oddity)’ ‘David Bowie (aka Space Oddity)’ is the second studio album released by David Bowie on 14th November in 1969. Fusing psychedelic folk with progressive rock and elements of country, the record is a theatrical masterpiece and...

Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side, ‘Transformer’ ‘Transformer’ is the second studio album from New Yorker Lou Reed. Released in 1972 and produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson, the glam rock record is a powerfully honest depiction of 1970s America and addresses then-controversial...