Posted by Metal Insider on April 1, 2021
The pandemic kinda wants us to scream at the top of our lungs and bang our head to good rock and roll music just to feel more alive. You might as well level up the experience by listening to the greatest rock albums on custom vinyl records. Nowadays, you can find so many awesome […]
Posted by Metal Insider on January 5, 2021
Vinyl is a modern name for the phonograph records, which refers to the type of material most recently used for its production. These records for short have a long history of analog storage of music, originating in the late 19th century. However, modern vinyl records and systems to play them are nothing like the […]
Posted by Metal Insider on June 9, 2016
When HBO announced that they were partnering with Martin Scorsese and Boardwalk Empire producer Terence Winter for a series about the New York music industry in the seamy underbelly of the ’70s, we were instantly excited. Vinyl, which debuted back in February, viewed the industry through the eyes of Richie Finestra (Boardwalk‘s Bobby Cannavale), the coked-up head […]
Posted by Zach Shaw on March 29, 2016
It’s not that often when metal creeps its way into mainstream pop culture. So when metal/hard rock acts do actually pop up in beloved sitcoms, dramatic films, cartoons or even reality series, it’s kind of awesome. So in the weekly column Remember When, Metal Insider recalls the most random instances of metal’s elite appearing in front […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on September 29, 2015
As you can see by looking at our weekly Metal by Numbers columns, record sales aren’t what they used to be. Thankfully, metal is still selling, and with a chart like last week’s, its’ still selling well. Hell, to some, physical media is dead, and we’re living entirely in a streaming economy now. And while […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on August 6, 2015
[youtube]https://youtu.be/n2irZnQMovI[/youtube] If there’s one person that’s successfully made a career out of portraying the seamy underbelly of New York City in the ’70s and ’80s, it’s Martin Scorsese. Now he’s teamed up with Mick Jagger and Boardwalk Empire‘s Terence Winter to create Vinyl, a 10-part series coming to HBO in 2016. Vinyl is about the music business in […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on September 25, 2014
With the music industry continuing to mutate and adjust to biz in 2014, it’s a slightly uncommon occurrence to see a new label launch that isn’t one directly by an artist. However, today it was officially announced that there’s a new label being started by an existing company that you might be pretty familiar with […]
Posted by Tiffany Bentley on August 28, 2013
Artist Ted Riederer is giving new meaning to the phrase “face-melting metal.” For his series “Primal Sound,” the artist formed skull figures by melting records around a skull mold, leaving the labels intact. The result is a haunting display of music on the brain, something any devoted metalhead can relate to. The formations almost serve as […]
Posted by Benjamin Friedman on July 2, 2013
Yes, that is a picture of a hummingbird in bondage gear and a bumblebee flower codpiece poking someone in the ear. But if anyone can get away using that as the image on a single it’s Florida sludge group Torche. The new track “Leather Feather”, a B-Side to the 7′” single for “Keep Up” is […]
Posted by Zach Shaw on May 19, 2011
The Nielsen Wire’s latest report on music sales has a lot of positive news for the industry. Digital and track sales have been experiencing dramatic growth since the beginning of 2011, while this past year’s Record Store Day was unarguably the most successful out of its four year history. But what is probably the nicest […]
