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

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


Latest Episodes

Ep452: Managing the Miles Davis Legacy with Vince Wilburn Jr
June 17, 2024

Managing the estate of a legend like requires tremendous coordination, detail and creativity. , musician, collaborator and nephew of Miles and co-manager of the Miles Davis Estate discusses the conte

Ep451: Data, Trends & the Future of Discogs
June 10, 2024

Most record collectors use Discogs each day - so what does the data tell us about the state of record collecting? Founder & CEO Kevin Lewandowski and COO Lloyd Starr talk to us about the data and futu

Ep450: The Legend of Fraction "Moon Blood"
May 27, 2024

The 1971 album has fascinated record collectors for decades. The perfect intersection between great musicianship, intriguing backstory and supreme rarity, Fraction "Moon Blood" is now getting an offi

Ep449: CJ and Spike of Me First & the Gimme Gimmes
May 20, 2024

9 years since the last album, and discuss the new album - the victories and challenges of the band, disgruntled audience members, picking annoying songs to cover and what's next for the band. Topic

Ep448: Preserving Punk with Trust Records
May 13, 2024

Joe Nelson is co-founder of , which specializes in preserving and extending classic punk and hardcore records for future generations including , , , and more. Topic Include: Interview kick off Orig

Steve Albini (1962-2024) - The Vinyl Guide Interview
May 08, 2024

Steve Albini, musician, engineer and producer of some of the most memorable records of the 90s up through today. His ears and musical sensibilities were stellar and his wit and attitude made him appre

Ep447: Matt Pike & Coady Willis of High on Fire
May 06, 2024

(Sleep) and (Big Business, Melvins) discuss their latest album "", the many vinyl variants, touring, winning a Grammy and much more. Topic Include: Coady and Matt fighting with Zoom Great response

Ep446: Handmade Vinyl Boxsets of DEAD and We Empty Rooms
April 29, 2024

and regularly releases extremely ambitious vinyl packages and boxsets. Today we speak with proprietor Jem on the making of these collections, the recent "" 9-7" boxset, working with Hard-Ons, Melvins

Ep445: Dweezil Zappa - Return of the Son of...
April 22, 2024

returns to The Vinyl Guide to share stories of Frank, the recordings, Frank's record collection, an unreleased track with Eddie Van Halen, discuss celebrating 50 years of "Roxy & Elsewhere", "Apostro

Michael Cuscuna (1948-2024) - The Vinyl Guide Interview
April 20, 2024

Michael Cuscuna (1948-2024) spent several decades preserving record label archives and compiling rare recordings, sessions and 'vault material' through . In theis 2019 interview he discusses this fasc