It's All About Vinyl

This episode Electronic Sound magazine founders Mark Roland and Push talk about Scritti Politti, and the cover star of Electronic Sound Green Gartside. The chat leads on to Mouse on Mars, Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Mark E Smith and the usual meandering. It's All About Vinyl is a podcast about records and the stories that cling to them. Each episode explores the history, culture and happy accidents behin...

It's All About Vinyl is a podcast about records and the stories that cling to them. Each episode explores the history, culture and happy accidents behind recorded music, from spinning speeds and forgotten formats to music magazines, charts and the people who shaped how we listen. It’s a chatty, curious look at vinyl and the analogue world around it: part music history, part trivia, part conversati...

In this episode of the podcast from Electronic Sound magazine (https://electronicsound.squarespace.com/shop/magazine) founders Mark Roland and Push have a look at issue 138 and discuss Squarepusher, Angine de Poitrine, Boards of Canada's new album and the new one from Paul McCartney. Stay tuned to the end for a fine joke which doesn't get quite reaction hoped for. It's All About Vinyl is a podcast...

In this episode, Electronic Sound magazine founders Mark Roland and Push talk about their experiences with the first wave of SubPop bands to hit the UK back in the late 1980s, and Push's various interactions with Kurt Cobain. It's All About Vinyl is a podcast about records and the stories that cling to them. Each episode explores the history, culture and happy accidents behind recorded music, from...

In this episode, Electronic Sound magazine founders Mark Roland and Push reveal the identity of the new synth supergroup and fill in the detail of this bold new venture, tackle some more viewer feedback, including input from the Freddie Starr fan club about the last episode's mention of his Elvis tribute era, and wrap up by ranking their favourite Pink Floyd albums, an exercise moderately less mes...

In Episode 10 of the podcast from the makers of Electronic Sound magazine, Mark Roland and Isaak Lewis-Smith read out some viewers feedback, reveal the most expensive records in their collections, go down a rabbit hole about the defunct UK indie label Kamera, and update with more detail about John Du Cann, the musician who re-voiced a Gary Numan track for a jeans advert in 1979. t's All About Viny...

In episode 09 of the podcast from Electronic Sound magazine, co-founder Mark Roland is joined by Isaak Lewis-Smith who edits the magazine's front section. They chat about issue 136 of the magazine, which includes an interview with podcast don Adam Buxton, which leads to a dive into a 1979 Gary Numan-soundtracked TV advert. Mark is then joined by cover star Hannah Peel, who talks about the Moon, De...

In episode eight of the podcast from Electronic Sound magazine founders Mark Roland and Push talk about Paul McCartney, just before he announced a new solo album. Had Paul waited a few days, we could have talked about that too… Inspired by the watching the Man On The Run documentary, they mull over Macca's 1970s, and finally reveal the truth about his connection to Throbbing Gristle, and the Sex P...

In episode seven of the new podcast from Electronic Sound magazine, founder Mark Roland has a cosy chat with Cabaret Voltaire founder Stephen Mallinder. The wide-ranging conversation takes in the Sheffield music scene of the 1970s, the teenaged Mal, Chris Watson and Richard H. Kirk developing their avant garde process in a loft, and the carpeted splendour of the YMCA basement venue in London's Tot...

In episode six, Electronic Sound magazine founders Mark Roland and Push chat about the launch of Kraftwerk's Atmos mix of the 'Radio-Activity' album, and British electrronc music pioneers Cabaret Voltaire. It's All About Vinyl is a podcast about records and the stories that cling to them. Each episode explores the history, culture and happy accidents behind recorded music, from spinning speeds and...

In episode five of the new podcast from Electronic Sound magazine, founder Mark Roland has a cosy chat with snooker legend turned electronic music lighting rod Steve Davis. Under discussion are kosmische music, the Canterbury scene, Magma, record fairs, limited edition records, selling records to buy more records and much more besides. It's All About Vinyl is a podcast about records and the storie...

In episode four of the new podcast from Electronic Sound magazine, founders Mark Roland and Push discuss Harry Styles and his new-ish song 'Aperture', and the unlikely source where some of its inspiration may have come from, leading to a chat about The Stranglers, Elastica, the Manic Street Preachers, Wire, Oasis, Neil Innes, Radiohead, The Fall and Spinal Tap . They also dissect Record Store Day...

It's a bonus episode! Mark Roland and Push take a look at the new issue of Electronic Sound magazine, with a deep dive into the history of the legendary Futurama Festival which saw the likes of Siouxsie & The Banshees, Public Image Limited, Dead Or Alive and the Bay City Rollers rubbing shoulders in a petrol-stinking shed. Also they question the wisdom of doing a live launch event. Tickets for...

In episode three of the new podcast from Electronic Sound magazine, founders Mark Roland and Push delve into the history of Melody Maker, the legendary British music paper which launched in January 2026, 100 years ago. They tell the story of how the Maker started as a devious plot by its founder to promote songs like 'I've Never Wronged An Onion', through to the post-Beatle glory days and a peek b...

In episode two of It's All About Vinyl, music journalists and publishers of Electronic Sound Mark Roland and Push talk about David Bowie again, this time because Mark attended an event at the British Library where Jehnny Beth (Savages) and Blixa Bargeld (Einstürzende Neubaten and The Bad Seeds) performed Bowie songs. None of which stopped them from discussing Hawkwind, heinous cat violence meted o...

In this first episode of It's All About Vinyl  , music journalists and publishers of Electronic Sound Mark Roland and Push talk about Mute Records, Devo, the Channel 4 David Bowie documentary 'The Final Act', which somehow connects to BBC World War II propaganda broadcasts, the long-running West End play 'The Mousetrap', and getting baked in Milton Keynes. It's All About Vinyl  is a podc...