STORY OF THE DAY
September 5, 2026
Avril Lavigne: The Best Damn Tour Live in Toronto
Avril Lavigne's The Best Damn Tour: Live in Toronto captured a sold-out Air Canada Centre show on April 7, 2008, and arrived on DVD in September 2008.
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Cover of “Minstrel in the Gallery” by Jethro Tull. Source: Cover Art Archive (coverartarchive.org)
September 5, 2026 · Metal
A Studio on Wheels Parked in Monte Carlo's Tax Exile
A band with a decade of road-worn muscle retreated not to some pastoral English manor, but to a Mediterranean tax haven, hauling a custom-bu…
Thesupermat, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
September 5, 2026 · World
Who Leaves a 400‑Meter Record Behind for Semba?
Angola’s José Adelino Barceló de Carvalho — known to millions as Bonga — once held the Portuguese 400‑meter record. The Estado Novo regime later exiled him for singing about independence.
Cover of “Stratovarius” by Stratovarius. Source: Cover Art Archive (coverartarchive.org)
September 5, 2026 · Metal
The Album That Survived a Nervous Breakdown
Stratovarius released their self-titled eleventh album in September 2005 after a nervous breakdown nearly ended the band. Guitarist Timo Tolkki later disavowed the record he wrote entirely.
Capitol Records, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
September 5, 2026 · Folk
The Guitarist Who Wrote Everyone Else's Hits
Joe South died fourteen years ago today, leaving a Grammy for Song of the Year and a catalog of hits made famous by other voices. His own name stayed in the background.
Cover of “Rock 'n' Roll” by Motörhead. Source: Cover Art Archive (coverartarchive.org)
September 5, 2026 · Metal
When Motörhead Became a Quartet and Lost a Label
Six songs for a film soundtrack, a drummer who walked out three years earlier suddenly back behind the kit, and a bandleader moonlighting as…
AI-generated illustration
September 5, 2026 · Alternative
Bossa Nova Before Breakfast
The kid who would grow up to make a living writing film scores spent his childhood trying to slip out from under A-ha’s shadow. Sondre Lerch…
DROPS
Upcoming reissues
GUIDES
Learn it once
Evergreen practice for care, buying and setup — without the mythology.
GUIDE · Setup & Sound
Why Your Record Player Skips and How to Fix It
Skipping is a symptom, not a diagnosis. The fastest safe route is to learn whether the problem follows one record, one location or every record on the system.
TOOLS
Read here, collect in the app
CrateCore is an app for vinyl collectors: stories about albums and artists, a collection catalog with barcode scanning and Discogs search, and tools for your turntable. Free for Android on Google Play; iOS is next.
Your collection, properly shelved
Scan a barcode, or look up a record through Discogs by title, catalog number, or matrix number. Already have a collection? Import it from a single CSV file. Each card carries your own photo, a Goldmine grade, the tracklist, the pressing country, and the matrix data. All of it works offline.
Hi-fi setup
Turntable, cartridge, phono stage, amplifier, speakers — written down in the order the signal travels, with your own links added wherever your system needs them. One card shows the whole thing.
Tools that keep an eye on your turntable
The tracker counts the hours on your stylus and tells you when it’s time for a new one. The speed check reads your phone’s gyroscope alongside a printable stroboscope disc — and we’ll be straight with you: it’s an estimate, not a calibrated measuring instrument. The calculator helps you place your speakers in the room, and the audio chain diagram is there when you put a system together.
Hear about reissues first
A drop is an announcement: a reissue, a limited run, an important date. In the app you can turn on a push for a card like that, so you never miss the moment pre-orders open.
iOS — after Android
ACCOUNT
Why CrateCore asks for a Google Account
Reading needs no account — the stories are open to everyone. An account matters the moment something becomes yours: your collection, the tools, and your bookmarks should belong to you, not to one phone. If you choose Sign in with Google, CrateCore receives your email address and a Google account identifier, and nothing else. They are used to create your account and to keep your interests and your feed identical on the website and in the app — and your collection, tools, and bookmarks tied to you rather than to a single phone. CrateCore never posts anything on your behalf and never reads your mail, contacts, files, or calendar. You can delete the account and everything in it at any time.
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