A Film & Video project in Torino, Italy by Paolo Campana 
A trip into the grooves, Vinylmania is a 75 minute feature length documentary about an object that has never lost its soul: the vinyl record. An epic love story, the film is filled with fascinating characters and internationally recognized artists including PHILIPPE COHEN SOLAL (Gotan [...]

 
 
Here's a short, but sweet, documentary on records collectors, audiophiles, pressers of long lost Rock records and an inventor who takes his records to the park. Such an array of characters condensed into a much too short film, it can only leave you wanting more. 
A portrait of Vinyl collectors and producers and aficionados. From the [...]

Yes, so glad this finally arrived. I had been hitting up (unsuccessfully) @questlove and @theroots since the December "Full LP Stream" hit the NPR music pages. If the label calls something an "LP Stream", I'm going to assume that you're actually pressing an LP, but I guess that's not always true. 

Undun was met with some critical [...]

4 years of the Beat Swap Meet. What a trip. I remember hearing about the first one, back when I was still relatively new to LA, when it was still just an idea and when it was still hosted at the Echoplex. I sold records at the first few, but then realized that the freedom [...]

L-Fudge – Liquid – What If – Show Me Your Gratitude 12"
Great moments in Hip-Hop 12"s – L-Fudge, Mike Zoot, Shabaam Sahdeeq, Skam & Kweli – "What If". Produced by DJ Spinna.
This was a classic Rawkus posse cut. Spinna had released his Heavy Beats LP, Skam (Skam2) dropped a 12" w/ Eminem (he also did [...]

For this post, I gotta give a big shout out to a friend, mentor & inspiration: Danny Holloway aka @smokinvinyl. I can only footnote it with the time I have, but from selling wax to Cut Chemist, the Beat Junkies, Peanut Butter Wolf, Madlib, etc, to having a young B+ (Mochilla) working as his early [...]

Gilles Peterson, Stuart Baker and Soul Jazz Books have put out some great books the past couple years.
In 2009 they released the great Freedom, Rhythm & Sound, which is around 200 pages of rare, private press and obscure Free Jazz album covers. The years span 1965-‘83, through the Civil Rights movement, much of the music [...]

           
And listen to those breaks gettin slapped by the Djs.

The Freestyle Sessions 14th Year jam was a perfect ending to the last (kind of, I’m done anyway) weekend of summer. At the the end of BBoy Week, after a week of different battles and jams all week long in Los [...]

Fire Foxiness is a product and labor of love that turns old and cherished vinyl into products like clocks, bowls, earring hangers, book ends, jewelery, organizers, coasters, business card holders, etc.  The business is based out of Los Angeles and run by Frankie Fox Miranda, who creates/works/freaks all the custom products. Fire Foxiness is also [...]

"From Percee P's surprise acapella performance.. to Alchemist strolling through so nonchalantly.. to Ras G telling me he really came up on some good records.. to Gaslamp Killer never missing a Beat Swap Meet.. we are very thankful for Los Angeles." -Beat Swap Meet
The Beat Swap Meet, where Socal's vinyl fiends, beat heads and loop [...]