Vinylism

Five minutes. That's all it took to hook Dane Prenovitz.

A Welsh town was on Wednesday hoping to enter the record books for creating the world's largest copy of Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, arguably the most famous painting in the world.

A Mona Lisa made of vinyl squares attempts to claim a world record for the largest reproduction of the famous painting.

Record claim for largest Mona Lisa in town centre

Record claim for largest Mona Lisa in town centre

Cover art by recreating vinyl album sleeves

Activision adds another chapter to its already impressive music game franchise today with the release of DJ Hero . Like Guitar Hero before it, DJ Hero challenges you to “master” a virtual instrument, in this case the vinyl turntable still in use by many a DJ even in the digital age. Also like Guitar Hero, it features an easy to pick up but difficult to master type of gameplay mechanic. DJ Hero’s ...

Dog Day are getting noticeably better with every record they make. The three songs that constitute side A of this 12-inch — "Ritual," "Dark Day" (written specifically for the band by producer Rick White) and "Concentration" — are among the best they've recorded.

Liverpool's Echo and the Bunnymen present their 11th studio album, The Fountain , which is their fifth since reforming in 1997. In a career spanning 30 years, singer Ian McCulloch states that this one's the bands best since Ocean Rain . No small claim, as on that record's release in 1984, McCulloch declared Ocean Rain to be "the greatest album ever made."

Despite all his bubbling creativity, Rob Garza of Thievery Corporation still gets his biggest thrills from exploring music by other people — specifically by crate digging, the ritual hunt by dedicated DJs for dusty vinyl tucked away in the back rooms of record stores (if there are even any of those left). The difference is that in Garza’s case, the crate is just as likely to be in an open-air ...