Hardformat

Here are a few of the places we like:

• Birkajazz – frankly astonishing, huge archive of wonderful jazz record sleeves – and a record store!
• Boomkat – top seller, subscribe to their weekly email for new releases
• Cargo Records – excellent source of wide range of left-field music at great prices
• Create Digital Music – huge informative blog about music making and all sorts of related issues
• Destination: OUT – an mp-free jazz blog focusing on rare or out-of-print music
• Discogs – indispensable discographical information and a great place to find rare releases
• Fact magazine – excellent music mag
• Last.fm – for the list and music lover in you – friend us (Colin, Justin)!
• Lend Me Your Ears – excellent left-field music blog with lots of sample mp3s. Well worth following on Twitter.
• LP Cover Lover – “Welcome to the weird and wonderful world of record covers from the golden age of LP”
• Mapsadaisical – left-field personal music blog with a great sense of humour
• NYLVI – great vinyl marketplace and blog
• Record Envelope – “the little library of factory sleeves” – 7″ factory records, so to speak…
• Resident Advisor – High quality writing about mostly club-based music
• Sleevage – excellent blog with the same subject as Hard Format, but a very different selection
• The Milkfactory – long-running electronica and left-field e-zine
• The Quietus – “A new rock music and pop culture website” -  high quality writing
• The Vinyl Factory – dedicated vinyl lovers who release impressive limited editions
• Wax.fm – dedicated to the vinyl resurgence.