FRESH MANIFESTO
ROX MAGAZINE
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BE A MODERN MAN Staying ‘with it’ as midlife enchroaches: a minefield of tragic fails (with failure guaranteed if you actually use ‘with it’). But fear not! Here we are with the sixth and swankiest installment of ROX MAN’s guide to staying on the money in a time of confused masculinity: keeping things rock ‘n’ roll instead of Songs of Praise. Words by Alex Doak.
CURATE THE PERFECT VINYL COLLECTION As it transpires, the vinyl revival is most definitely not dead on arrival – black wax is back for good. It might have started as an ironic accoutrement for every hipster speakeasy or midcentury-furnished studio flat, but beyond the vintage box-ticking, its unflagging resurgence is down to a cute paradox: digital music’s frustrating lack of physical ‘collectability’, allied with digital music’s limitless scope for aural 48
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adventurousness. Combine the two, and you have a world of listeners craving cultural substance. So now you’ve managed to steal your parents’ turntable (while they ineffectually shout ALEXA! before ‘putting a record on’) what to pluck knowingly from your burgeoning library of twelve inches? What will make you look tasteful, but not tryhard? Just vintage enough to distract from the fact it’s all been purchased over the past six months? The good news is, despite there still being
