Essays, interviews, and reissue diaries — for listeners who want the story behind the sleeve.
A vinyl record is a precision-cut groove of music. Treated well, it can outlast you; treated poorly, it can degrade in a season. This is the routine our team uses to keep our personal collections —…
Walk into any record shop, scroll any online seller, and the same six abbreviations will appear next to every used record on offer: M, NM, VG+,…
There is a quiet conspiracy at work in every great Bollywood record from the 1960s and 70s. The film studios promoted their hit songs on Side…
There is no skill more useful to a vinyl collector than the ability to grade a record accurately in thirty seconds. Every used copy you encounter…
The 1970s were the most creatively turbulent decade in the history of Hindi film music. The old guard — Shankar-Jaikishan, Madan Mohan, Roshan — were either…
Every city has its record-hunting terrain, but Delhi’s is uniquely layered — stratified with the sediment of half a century of film culture, classical music patronage,…
There is a moment, known to every vinyl listener, that streaming has never been able to replicate. It happens somewhere between lifting the record from its…