How Vinyl Records Are Made

Vinyl Mockup Generator

Generate mockup images of your vinyl records, labels, and jackets using a variety of vinyl types, styles, and colors. Explore unique variants with Vinyl Mockup.

Velour 100 – Fall Sounds

Velour 100’s Fall Sounds comes to vinyl for its 30th anniversary, remixed, remastered, and pressed on Fall Sky Blue vinyl.

How Sun Records Saved a Lost Collection of Legendary Music - Musicbed Blog

Rock ’n roll was born at Sun Records. The list of earth-shattering artists who got their start there is hard to believe: Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison and so many others. As Collin Brace, VP of Sun Records, told us, “These guys defined not only a genre, but a generation.” In many ways, Sun Records and its artists paved the way for indie musicians and studios today. They were future minded. Open minded. They welcomed anyone with a guitar and a song. This is how they found legendary, mold-breaking artists like Johnny Cash. And it’s also how they ended up with over 8,000 master recordings from artists who never made it big, if it at all.

Third-Party Record Labels

Is there a record company willing to take on the massive SG history of albums?

The Vintage Technology Digital Archive

A dispatch from the dawn of the electronic music age | Aeon Videos

These days, synthesised sound is easy to access – but early electronic music pioneers had to get hands on to produce it

Universal Music Group: Decades of Masters Lost

Last year, I wrote an article detailing how record companies have a checkered past when it comes to properly archiving their master recordings. Among some of the revelations noted (thanks to a bril…

How The Heck Do Record Players Work? (An Interactive Exploration)

An interactive exploration of how record players work: from a stylus, grooves, and magnets to the RIAA curve and playback speed.

Nothing Sounds Good — Record Club

UK vinyl subscription for DIY punk, indie, emo and whatever.

The Sunshine Recorder

I went into this video not knowing anything about how a mid-19th century sunshine recorder might work and was genuinely delighted by the reveal. If you’d li

Intertapes — Main

Obscure tape finds and their stories

Record Company Archives

Do SG master recordings still exist, and if so, are they easily found?

Art of Noise

A multi-sensory exploration of how design has changed the way we’ve experienced music over the past 100 years.

Jeffrey Zeldman Presents - Underdubbed - glamorous

When my brother Pete and I were kids, and our parents were out of town, we ditched school for a week and cut an “album” by recording backing tracks to my dad’s reel-to-reel, then live overdubbing on different instruments and capturing the whole mess on a cassette recorder. We didn’t know what we were doing, […]