Record Collections of Shame
Essay by Danny Baker, Q, December 1991
EVER SINCE the Medved Brothers published their Fifty Worst Movies Of All Time, it's been a cinch that a similar, meatier job has been going begging ...

The Clash: Vanilla Tapes
Report and Interview by Fred Mills, Harp, November 2004
THE VANILLA material is clearly aimed at Clash collectors who routinely snap up underground recordings of the band. As Simonon himself freely volunteered, he’s not bothered ...

Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeves: The Lost Art of the Mix Tape
Memoir by Sean O'Hagan, The Observer, January 2007
LAST WEEK, while preparing to write this piece, I did something I have not done for a long time. I made a compilation tape. Back in ...

Undisputed Heavyweight Champions of the Mix Tape: 30 Years of Transatlantic Friendship on Cassette!
Memoir by Mark Leviton, Rock's Backpages, August 2009
MY ENGLISH FRIEND Neil and I have one of the longest, strangest, and most voluminous correspondences in the history of the world – a correspondence that ...