The Vinyl Guide Celebrates 100 Episodes with Special Guest Henry Rollins And Is Giving Away Its Entire Catalog For Free!

Popular podcast The Vinyl Guidewill publish its 100th episode today!

The podcast began in 2015 and has grown to be one of the most popular music podcasts on Apple iTunes.

Hosted by Nate Goyer, The Vinyl Guide has featured musicians such as current and former members of Deep Purple, Pixies, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Ramones, Genesis, even legendary blues artists, jazz musicians from Blue Note Records and behind the scenes contributors. Guests tell the tales behind the records that changed popular culture.

Special guest on Episode 100 will be punk rock legend Henry Rollins. The former vocalist for Black Flag, Rollins Band, spoken word artist, author, television host and renown record collector.

To celebrate 100 episodes The Vinyl Guide is committing to making their entire interview archives available for free online and with minimal copyright or artistic restrictions!

Nate Goyer explains “I have hours and hours of interviews with some of the most beloved musicians in history. I have no interest in keeping that locked away. It’s bigger than me, those interviews belong to the fans and listeners.”

Goyer continues, “I have a heap of interviews, literally days and days of audio chock full of fascinating and rarely heard rock and roll tales. I’ll be making high-resolution audio files available online over the coming weeks and months until I’m caught up.”

Making the files available for public use required removing standard copyright from each interview and replacing it with a ‘Creative Commons’ license that makes the material open for the public to enjoy and use.

The removal of standard copyright for the material in an archive this large will have some potentially revolutionary effects; aside from the availability of all interviews to be downloaded and enjoyed by anyone at anytime,

The Vinyl Guide interviews can also be traded on file-sharing networks, remixed to create something new, translated freely into multiple languages, transcribed into magazine and online articles, and many more creative options.

Even public radio can benefit as any station may now freely use The Vinyl Guide archives for their broadcasting purposes.

“I could be the new nightshift for some of these stations that can’t afford a late night DJ” says Nate.

All future episodes of the podcast will be available without standard copyright a few weeks after their initial air date.

Why is Nate giving away this treasure trove of music history? “Why not?”

That’s very rock and roll.