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✋ Raise your hand if you love lyric sheets.They’re everywhere now, but where did they come from?In 1967, The Beatles’ Sg...
06/30/2025

✋ Raise your hand if you love lyric sheets.

They’re everywhere now, but where did they come from?

In 1967, The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band became the first album to feature printed lyrics on the record sleeve. Paul McCartney pushed for it, along with a gatefold jacket, cutout inserts, and even a fake mustache.

Before that, fans had to learn lyrics by ear or read them in magazines like Disco 45, a UK publication that printed popular song lyrics alongside reviews, puzzles, horoscopes, and classifieds for record collectors.

In the 1970s and 80s, printed lyrics became more common in gatefold sleeves and liner notes. CDs carried the tradition forward with multipage booklets. Today, lyrics are often synced digitally, but many listeners still value having them in hand.

Printed lyrics help us connect with the music more deeply. They are now a standard feature for most releases and are often considered a collectible part of the packaging.

For your next vinyl, CD, or cassette release, A to Z Media offers a wide range of paper stocks, special finishes, and custom options to bring your lyric sheet to life.

06/26/2025

In this episode of BESPOKEN, host Scott Pollack welcomes Ken Shipley, co-founder of the influential reissue label Numero Group. Known for its meticulous packaging, deep archival research, and genre-spanning catalog, Numero has spent over two decades preserving overlooked artists and forgotten underground music scenes, from soul and funk to punk, post-hardcore, early emo, and beyond.

This conversation centers on Sequoia, Numero’s ambitious new 7-inch box set documenting the first decade of American emo. Sequoia is both a love letter and historical archive, featuring 27 vinyl records, a 136-page hardcover book, and packaging that faithfully recreates the tactile, handmade spirit of ’90s DIY culture.

As longtime collaborators, we’ve worked with Numero for years to help bring their most ambitious projects to life, including Sequoia. Whether you're a fan of emo, punk, or the art of vinyl packaging, this episode is a must-listen.

To watch on YouTube or stream on your favorite podcast platform, check the links in the comments below.

Are you a  fan? Same here. We recently helped make the LP and CD for Fearless Movement and these stunning shirts, too. 🎷...
06/24/2025

Are you a fan? Same here. We recently helped make the LP and CD for Fearless Movement and these stunning shirts, too. 🎷👕

The design features “Lines of Change” by , the same painting that graces the album cover. Double-sided print on organic cotton tees in black and white.

Custom t-shirts are a merch must-have, perfect for bundling with a preorder, selling on tour, or launching a limited drop.

🌈 Celebrate Pride 🌈At A to Z Media, we’re proud to work with a diverse group of artists, labels, and creatives, includin...
06/23/2025

🌈 Celebrate Pride 🌈

At A to Z Media, we’re proud to work with a diverse group of artists, labels, and creatives, including many who are part of the LGBTQ+ community.

Pride Month is a time to celebrate identity, visibility, and self-expression, values that resonate deeply with us. We believe in supporting the voices that make our world more vibrant, creative, and inclusive.

To our LGBTQ+ friends, clients, and collaborators, we see you, we support you, and we celebrate you, this month and every month.

For everyone in New York this weekend, we hope you have a joyful and safe NYC Pride! 🏳️‍🌈❤️

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, and informed the last enslaved Bla...
06/19/2025

Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, when Union troops arrived in Galveston, Texas, and informed the last enslaved Black Americans that they were free, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation.

It’s a day to honor the end of slavery in the United States and to reflect on the ongoing fight for Black liberation, justice, and equality.

Today, we’re taking time to reflect on the legacy of Black resistance, creativity, and cultural impact, not just in history books, but in the music, art, and communities we’re lucky to work with every day.

At A to Z Media, we’re committed to listening, learning, and showing up in ways that matter, not just today, but all year long.

✨ COLOR VINYL SPOTLIGHT ✨Nita Strauss  (guitarist for  and the Los Angeles ) pressed her 2019 LP, Controlled Chaos, with...
06/17/2025

✨ COLOR VINYL SPOTLIGHT ✨

Nita Strauss (guitarist for and the Los Angeles ) pressed her 2019 LP, Controlled Chaos, with some of our favorite A to Z splatter variants, including this “Cloudy Clear” w/ Swamp Green + Opaque Orange heavy splatter. 🎸

Splatter vinyl is a canvas for visual storytelling. Each record is unique! Thoughtful color combinations can echo your album art, evoke emotion, and turn your music into a truly immersive, multi-sensory experience. 🎨

Looking for color inspiration? Download our updated 2025 color chart for a full range of eye-catching vinyl options—including all-new splatter effects—designed to complement your album art.

📚 Curious about custom book printing? Let’s break it down. ➡️A to Z Media specializes in high-quality book printing for ...
06/16/2025

📚 Curious about custom book printing? Let’s break it down. ➡️

A to Z Media specializes in high-quality book printing for artists, labels, publishers, and brands. From art books and zines to coffee table and children’s books, we offer a wide range of stocks, trim sizes, and binding styles, including perfect-bound, saddle-stitched, casebound, and more.

With specialty finishes like foil stamping, embossing, die-cuts, and Soft-Touch lamination, we bring your creative vision to life. Whether you’re producing 250 or 10,000 copies, our global network of expert printers ensures exceptional results, fast turnarounds, and competitive pricing.

Ready to get started? Send us a DM or reach out at the link in our bio. ✨

🚨 You asked. We listened. Printed polylined inner sleeves are now available!This long-requested option gives your vinyl ...
06/11/2025

🚨 You asked. We listened. Printed polylined inner sleeves are now available!

This long-requested option gives your vinyl both archival-level protection and a new canvas for artwork, liner notes, photos, or design elements. Fans care about the sound, and so do we. Polylined inner sleeves are the gold standard for vinyl protection, helping reduce static buildup, micro-scratches, and paper dust. That means cleaner playback and longer life for every record. ♾️

Need options? These polylined inner sleeves are available in 12” size, with uncoated or coated stock, full-color printing, square or beveled edges, and the choice to add a center hole. The best part? You can add these to any vinyl order starting at just 250 units. 🙌

Reach out today to upgrade your packaging with printed polylined sleeves. 🔗 in bio.

🚨 You asked. We listened. Printed polylined inner sleeves are now available!This long-requested option gives your vinyl ...
06/11/2025

🚨 You asked. We listened. Printed polylined inner sleeves are now available!

This long-requested option gives your vinyl both archival-level protection and a new canvas for artwork, liner notes, photos, or design elements. Fans care about the sound, and so do we. Polylined inner sleeves are the gold standard for vinyl protection, helping reduce static buildup, micro-scratches, and paper dust. That means cleaner playback and longer life for every record.

Need options? These polylined inner sleeves are available in 12" size, with uncoated or coated stock, full-color printing, square or beveled edges, and the choice to add a center hole. The best part? You can add these to any vinyl order starting at just 250 units.

Reach out today to upgrade your packaging with printed polylined sleeves.

https://www.atozmedia.com/

Congratulations to our clients, Rhymesayers Entertainment and Mexican Summer, on their big wins last night at the 2025 A...
06/10/2025

Congratulations to our clients, Rhymesayers Entertainment and Mexican Summer, on their big wins last night at the 2025 A2iM Libera Awards!

MF DOOM – MM..FOOD (20th Anniversary Edition)
(Rhymesayers Entertainment)
* Best Reissue
* Creative Packaging
* Best Remix - “One Beer (Madlib Remix)”

Jessica Pratt – Here in the Pitch
(Mexican Summer)
* Record of the Year
* Best Folk Record
* Best Singer-Songwriter Record

If our splatter vinyl effects were famous works of art... 🎨💿Because color vinyl is art, and these three are masterpieces...
06/03/2025

If our splatter vinyl effects were famous works of art... 🎨💿

Because color vinyl is art, and these three are masterpieces.

🎨 Standard Splatter = Jackson Po***ck chaos
🎨 Dot Splatter = Seurat’s pointillist perfection
🎨 Burst Splatter = Van Gogh’s swirling emotion

Our splatter effects are available in all three expressive styles, including the all-new Dot and Burst options. Place your order by July 31 to pick any splatter style for the same price. Get started today at the link in our bio. 🔗

Today, we're highlighting a new vinyl project we worked on—Reed Turchi's World On Fire. The album quickly became a favor...
06/02/2025

Today, we're highlighting a new vinyl project we worked on—Reed Turchi's World On Fire. The album quickly became a favorite at our NYC office, and we're so happy with how it turned out. Recorded live direct-to-tape in Brooklyn, mastered by Greg Calbi, and pressed on 180 gram black vinyl, this album has a lot of vibe. Thanks for choosing A to Z Media, Reed!

World On Fire is out now. Give it a spin!


Hailed by the Oxford American as an artist “beyond genre constraints,” Reed Turchi first became fascinated with the sound of the North Mississippi Hill Country blues as a teenager, when he began making regular pilgrimages to northern Mississippi to capture field recordings of the last of the music’s originators. On his captivating new album, World On Fire, Turchi revisits those vintage blues and spiritual tunes with new perspective gained in the wake of four tumultuous years marked by debilitating illness, divorce, and a cross-country move. Recorded live over two nights without any edits or overdubs, the collection is the raw and haunting testimony of a man who’s been to the brink and back, as stark and eerie as it is enthralling and hypnotic. Turchi produced the record himself, stripping each track down to its barest essentials with only acoustic guitars, upright bass, and drums to accompany his evocative slide playing and aching vocals, and the result is a timeless recording that lands somewhere between Muddy Waters’ Folk Singer and Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, an alternatingly harrowing and hopeful journey of self-discovery fueled by doubt and despair, pain and healing, loss and redemption.

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