The Phonostage Blog

‘The Chain’ A Naturally evolving series of views and reviews that gives us the chance to hear about the records that have changed the ears of the people who have played a part in changing ours.. Each guest blogger will stake their claim in the chain then pass the mic to their chosen commentator – the Phonostage Blogaphonic Workshop will...

I've not had to go far this week before bumping into some speculative feature about the 'comeback' of cassette tapes. Actually i'm going to rephrase that without the inverted commas... we are talking about the actual comeback of cassette tapes, there's nothing inverted about it, and they would have to come right back - because they went right out! Furthermore I'm...

You know when I was a lad. I would go round to relatives houses or to my mates and everybody would have vinyl records. They'd be in cupboards of various sorts. Or piled up on the sideboard or even scattered round the floor like on the video of 'Brimful Of Asha'. Well that might seem cool now but to some...

It's a good question is that;  Why do I need to clean my vinyl records? and a timely one! I just had someone commenting on the Facebook page about how he is amazed how cleaning a record can rescue a piece of vinyl that looked fit for the bin!! The thing is they are often not as bad as they look...