Notes From A Record Store: Banquet, Kingston
The Surrey-based retailer talks to The Independent Echo
Meet The Team: Altafonte
We catch up with the Madrid-based team behind the ‘music network’
Ewan MacColl – by Calum MacColl
Folk legend’s son on his father’s legacy – and new album
IMPALA: 15 years of fighting for independence
Helen Smith talks us through a decade-and-a-half of fighting for indies
Pure Gold: Martin Goldschmidt on Cooking Vinyl’s unplanned success
Martin Goldschmidt was busying fighting Margaret Thatcher when he accidentally fell into the music business. The Cooking Vinyl boss was organising anti-nuclear concerts around the UK in the early ‘80s when one particularly ferocious anarcho-punk act, The Poison Girls, asked him to manage them. “I looked every bit like a political activist,” he tells The Independent […]
My Life’s Playlist: Rough Trade’s Nigel House
One of London’s best-loved retailers picks his soundtrack
Notes From A Record Store: Bengans, Sweden
The Independent Echo takes a trip to the Nordics – home of streaming