With music venues in crisis, does celebrating them as places where bands appeared on the way to fame overshadow their true purpose as the places in which music is played for the sake of communal joy, asks Luke Turner
Amoeba Music's Vinyl Vaults project, digitising rare vinyl for download, seems like a brilliant idea on the surface. However, Laurie Tuffrey investigates the questions it raises about the legal and ethical issues around reissuing older music