Gareth
@justplayed.bsky.social
Music obsessive. Record shop frequenter. Occasional self-elected gatekeeper. Clash Magazine’s vinyl nerd. @justplayed on Twitter, @justplayedvinyl on Threads & IG.
Ep 78. We share listener's pre streaming discovery tales, a bumper letter bag, meta glasses get renamed, a quiz, lady pop and all your usual crate digging larks. Our cloud recording for @justplayed.bsky.social failed halfway, so he's half cooked until we recover it. Episode pod.link/1456163688
One of the rare occasions where the unnecessary apostrophe isn’t the most annoying thing in an advert
Thank you for the kind words about the latest column. Listening underway for the next one:
The latest edition of my @clashmusic.com vinyl review column is now live. Fling it before the eyes of the record lovers in your lives. Including you, of course: www.clashmusic.com/features/jus...
Just Played: A Column About Vinyl Records #72 | Features | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & Interviews
There’s quite the selection for you this time around, with a number of huge artists returning, some newbies doing very fine work and a few deluxe
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A fantastic round up, as ever. Worth reading the Gish review for the final paragraph alone.
Gareth@justplayed.bsky.social · last wk.The latest edition of my @clashmusic.com vinyl review column is now live. Fling it before the eyes of the record lovers in your lives. Including you, of course: www.clashmusic.com/features/jus...
The latest edition of my @clashmusic.com vinyl review column is now live. Fling it before the eyes of the record lovers in your lives. Including you, of course: www.clashmusic.com/features/jus...
Just Played: A Column About Vinyl Records #72 | Features | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & Interviews
There’s quite the selection for you this time around, with a number of huge artists returning, some newbies doing very fine work and a few deluxe
clashmusic.com
John Douglas 1963-2026. Sending all my love to Eddi, Frank, Stephen, Paul, Davy and all of John's co-travellers in life.
“Robert Burns said, ‘You’ve got to rivet words together just to hear them clang.’ That always stuck with me.” John Douglas (1963-2026) | Pete Paphides
Oh God. Not John? Surely not John? To the best of my knowledge John had never done anything as shocking, anything as dramatic as this. Low-k
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@faberbooks.bsky.social Is the whole John McGahern catalogue getting re-done in the style of the four titles released last week?
This mimsy, excuses-filled piece on loudcasting fails to point out even once that if we vaporise all offenders, their poor genetic material will not be passed on to future genersations.
Why phones on loudspeaker may become just another noise
Playing music or videos out loud on your phone is bemoaned by many - but in the future, it might not seem so outlandish
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Suggests that somebody has been listening to the final few Low albums: www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...
Phoebe Bridgers: Lost Weekend review – long-awaited return is a thrilling, daring study in dislocation
After sweeping the Grammys and being scrutinised by the press, Bridgers deploys electronics and unsettling sound design to brilliantly evoke emotional turmoil
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Whatever we might suspect, if Modella are keen to build a successful, streamlined version of TG Jones as they say, why visibly sell off all the stock at a discount when it could be redistributed to other, still operational, shops?
Who comes up with this shit? Another exciting way to do variants
Will there ever be a day of our lives where we're not called upon to think about Farage? I'd got all the way to noon. It's like that thing with 'Last Christmas'.
Ep 77. Rolling Stones merch, a listener's fever dream, more Flip Vinyl shenanigans, @justplayed.bsky.social new vinyl reviews, The Flaming Lips (again), news, features, vinyl stupidity and of course a quiz. pod.link/1456163688 Support the show. ko-fi.com/webuyrecords
The worst thing about James Blake's "Can't trust a review" claim is that it's unleashed a swarm of agreement from conspiracy theorists & musicians who (for whatever reason) never made it. FWIW, neither I or any journalist I know has ever been offered money by a label in exchange for a review.
A nice quiet first hour in the office before the hoards descend, perfectly soundtracked by the new Coral album. It really is as good as you all said isn't it?
Are you in need of a helpful vinyl review column to give you purchasing tips for the weekend ahead? If so, my new one for @clashmusic.com is live now: www.clashmusic.com/features/jus...
Just Played: A Column About Vinyl Records #71 | Features | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & Interviews
It has been a bumper month and a bit since all of the fuss around RSD and there is much to please your ears in what follows. Some big hitters are back,
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whether you’re throwing money away on an average or sub standard pressing and package. So it is with such major relief to get such a glowing review of the album for the musical content, the vinyl pressing and the package we’ve put together! Review at www.clashmusic.com/features/jus...
Just Played: A Column About Vinyl Records #71 | Features | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & Interviews
It has been a bumper month and a bit since all of the fuss around RSD and there is much to please your ears in what follows. Some big hitters are back,
clashmusic.com
Out of all the reviews for the Late Transmissions album the one I was most nervous for and anticipating was from Clash magazine’s vinyl specific column. Gareth quite rightly doesn’t take any prisoners, knowing full well for music fans the cost of investing in a record in this age, and
Are you in need of a helpful vinyl review column to give you purchasing tips for the weekend ahead? If so, my new one for @clashmusic.com is live now: www.clashmusic.com/features/jus...
Just Played: A Column About Vinyl Records #71 | Features | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & Interviews
It has been a bumper month and a bit since all of the fuss around RSD and there is much to please your ears in what follows. Some big hitters are back,
clashmusic.com
@octopus.energy Has the number of Caffè Nero codes been reduced? Not up yet at 5am and gone by 5:20!
“I wanted this to be as fun, colourful, funny, exciting and stupid as Smash Hits, as on-the-ball as the NME but not as up its own bum, and as well-written as Q” I love you @nndroid.bsky.social I am very, very proud to have had Andrew as an editor at a crucial juncture and been taught, therefore
Select Magazine – How the ’90s greatest music mag launched Britpop and reinvented Glastonbury
Podcast Episode · Talk ’90s to me · 15 June · 1hr 1min
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No doubt many of you have been following the Lego drama over on YouTube (if you haven't you should)..made us think... anyone had a bad experience when selling used records..shop owners tried to rip you off? Even steal some of your records? Shady business to webuyrecordspod@gmail.com
Still a total joy to listen to Gilles on 6. As ever, now have a ‘to investigate/purchase’ list.
