It's All About Vinyl is presented by Mark Roland and Push, two veteran music journalists whose long history with music journalism started with fanzines in the post-punk, new wave England of the 1980s, before ascending to the giddy heights of the weekly music press as writers and section editors at Melody Maker, and now as the founders of the widely respected music magazine and online platform Electronic Sound.
It's All About Vinyl is a podcast about records, the culture around them, and the strange, brilliant stories hiding in the grooves. From format quirks and forgotten formats to music history, magazines (actually quite a lot of mag chat), charts and scenes, each episode digs into why vinyl still matters – and why it always will. Drop the needle and join us. Warning: It is also entirely likely that the chat will veer wildly off course.
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n this episode, Electronic Sound magazine founders discuss the stoned and naked shenanigans of krautrock legends Faust, the bizarre link between indie champs The Yummy Fur and rap god LL Cool J. Also covered in this episode are New York late 60s electronic trailblazers Silver Apples, and the evolution of Electronic Sound covers. Links! • The Faust issue of Electronic Sound: https://electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/p/issue-142 • The Yummy Fur / LL Cool J piece here: https://www.instagram.com/p/Dc6jnegDuGu/?hl=en-gb&img_index=1 • Silver Apples debut LP limited edition on smokey vinyl: https://electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/p/silver-apples-smoke • Silver Apples second album, limited edition on swirly blue vinyl: https://electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/p/silver-apples-contact-blue • Soft Cell 'Danceteria' limited edition indies only red vinyl: https://electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/p/soft-cell-danceteria
Support the podcast!
Buy an issue of Electronic Sound, subscribe, or buy a T-shirt, or a record. Or a CD. And sometimes a book.
www.electronicsound.co.uk/shop
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30 Sept 2026
EP21: Feedback, everyone loves Dollar, and more nonsense
In this episode Push returns, and talks to his Electronic Sound magazine co-founder Mark Roland about Dollar, which seems to be a popular topic, including their contribution to a Gary Numan track, those Top of the Pops LPs from the 1970s with pictures of ladies in their undies on the coves, Deep Purple, and some great ideas for future episodes as suggested by podcast listeners/viewers.
Dollar Playlist (including the Gary Numan B-side): https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3AYKcGlvn4KelZwSh2fSgl?si=4JnoqKTLQn6oZz3EojT6Kw (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3AYKcGlvn4KelZwSh2fSgl?si=4JnoqKTLQn6oZz3EojT6Kw)
ES David Bowie Top of the Poppers LP: https://electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/p/bowie (https://electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/p/bowie)
Top of the Poppers tackle Kraftwerk’s ‘Autobahn’: https://open.spotify.com/track/3BxH22T0PC9xlyDnlULQjr?si=97f7aa69ac2f4c7c (https://open.spotify.com/track/3BxH22T0PC9xlyDnlULQjr?si=97f7aa69ac2f4c7c)
Ultravox book: https://electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/p/ultravox-book (https://electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/p/ultravox-book)
Last minute tickets for the Globo gig: https://www.thegarage.org.uk/shows/globo-pro-war-redux-album-launch/ (https://www.thegarage.org.uk/shows/globo-pro-war-redux-album-launch/)
Globo album, special ES edition with freebies: https://electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/p/globo-pro-war (https://electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/p/globo-pro-war)
Support the podcast!
Buy an issue of Electronic Sound, subscribe, or buy a T-shirt, or a record. Or a CD. And sometimes a book.
www.electronicsound.co.uk/shop
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16 Sept 2026
EP20: with e.m.arson – sound artist
In this episode, Electronic Sound co-founder Mark Roland chats to e.m.arson about her debut album, being released on the Electronic Sound label, and delves into a selection of her record and book collection. e.m.arson is a sound artist, whose work you can place somewhere between the tape loop work of William Basinski and the dreampop of the Cocteau Twins.
You can pre-order her album from our shop. The release date is 30 October.
https://electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/p/emarson (https://electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/p/emarson)
Emmally brought in a selection of books and records to talk about, and if you’d like to explore further, here they are:
MUSIC
Sylvia and I - ‘For Jon Hassell’
https://sylviaandi.bandcamp.com/album/for-jon-hassell (https://sylviaandi.bandcamp.com/album/for-jon-hassell)
Jordan Deal -
‘Seas of Triple Consciousness’ - https://rosekilljupiter.bandcamp.com/album/seas-of-triple-consciousness (https://rosekilljupiter.bandcamp.com/album/seas-of-triple-consciousness)
Tres Warren and Jeff Burch - ’S/T’
https://thespringpress.bandcamp.com/album/s-t (https://thespringpress.bandcamp.com/album/s-t)
Crazy Doberman - ‘Crazy Doberman’ https://crazydoberman.bandcamp.com/album/crazy-doberman (https://crazydoberman.bandcamp.com/album/crazy-doberman)
BOOKS
On Not Knowing by Emily Ogden
https://amzn.eu/d/0aUXI15x (https://amzn.eu/d/0aUXI15x)
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
https://amzn.eu/d/093mtYwM (https://amzn.eu/d/093mtYwM)
Ugliness by Moshtari Hilal
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ugliness-Moshtari-Hilal/dp/195440428X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0 (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ugliness-Moshtari-Hilal/dp/195440428X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0)
Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval
https://amzn.eu/d/0hUaFahp (https://amzn.eu/d/0hUaFahp)
Your Silence Will Not Protect You by Audre Lord
https://amzn.eu/d/0aUXI15x (https://amzn.eu/d/0aUXI15x)
Basta Now by Fanny Chiarello
https://amzn.eu/d/0bpq9xYA (https://amzn.eu/d/0bpq9xYA)
Support the podcast!
Buy an issue of Electronic Sound, subscribe, or buy a T-shirt, or a record. Or a CD. And sometimes a book.
www.electronicsound.co.uk/shop
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