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Last Year Says It Needs to Be Said – 2018’s 10 Best EPs

The typical 12-inch vinyl record you will find at the record store can hold roughly 22 minutes of sound per side….if pressed at the typical 33 revolutions per minute (rpm). When Columbia Records introduced the microgroove technology in 1948, it became the standard of the music industry and a format that would come to define the Long Playing (LP) full-length record. Competing with the LP record were “45s”, the 7″ vinyl records played at 45 rpms (hence the name). “45s”...