Phil Aston is the founder and editor of Now Spinning Magazine, an independent music website and YouTube channel dedicated to physical music formats, including vinyl records, CDs, deluxe editions, box sets and classic album reissues. A lifelong music fan, collector and former guitarist, Phil brings musician insight, industry experience and a collector’s passion to his reviews, interviews and features. Through Now Spinning Magazine, Phil covers classic rock, progressive rock, hard rock, heavy metal, blues rock, jazz fusion and related genres, with a particular focus on sound quality, packaging, archive releases and the emotional connection between music and physical media.

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Thin Lizzy UK Tour 75 Review

Thin Lizzy UK Tour 75 – Album Review

Thin Lizzy : UK Tour 75 : 2008 The first question anyone is going to ask if you do...

Deep Purple Come Taste The Band - Review

Deep Purple Come Taste The Band – Album Review

Deep Purple Come Taste The Band: 1975: Classic Albums Revisited Video Transcription Below In this video, I’m going to...

Black Sabbath Master of Reality - classic albums revisited

Black Sabbath Master of Reality 1971 – Classic Album Review

Black Sabbath: Master of Reality: 1971 Master of Reality was not the first Black Sabbath album I owned or...

Guitar Heroes

Five Emotional Guitar Solos & Where To Find Them

In this special video, I choose five guitar solos and explain why I think they are so special and...

Richard Digby Smith interview with Phil Aston from Now Spinning

Richard Digby Smith Interview with Phil Aston

Richard Digby Smith was the staff engineer at Island Records and has worked with many bands that are both...

Ian Gillan Double Trouble 1981 album review

Gillan : Double Trouble : 1981 Album Review

Gillan : Double Trouble : 1981 Even Ian Gillan was not sure about the sound of this album when...

Rob Halford Resurrection Album Review

Halford :Resurrection : 2000 – Album Review

When Rob Halford left Judas Priest after Painkiller many thought the band were finished. The 90s was a weird...

UFO The Wild The Willing and The Innocent 1981 - Classic Album Review

UFO The Wild The Willing and The Innocent 1981 – Classic Album Review

Video Review of the Album and CD Remaster (Duration 7 mins) Transcription below I wanted to say a few...

Fragile YES 1971

Classic Album Review Fragile by Yes

Now Spinning regulars Phil Aston and Charlie White both review Yes’s seminal album Fragile. Video Transcription This is a...

Strangeways AOR Rock Candy Remaster Review

Strangeways – Classic AOR Melodic Rock Album Review

Video Review (Transcription Below) This video review looks at Strangeways the classic AOR band from Scotland. The review looks...