Vinyl Cobwebs is an amateur radio programme broadcast weekly over the Internet, primarily focusing on obscure 'oldies' music¹. Vinyl Cobwebs devotes its weekly hour to broadcasting those old records that for one reason or another never made it into Billboard magazine's top 100, or were only hits in regional or local markets, or are just plain fun.

The name 'Vinyl Cobwebs' is a bit obscure, but seems to reflect the fact that the majority of the music on the programme comes from vinyl 45rpm records² and have never received much airtime. This suggests that they have most probably been sitting in a box somewhere while spiders have been making their homes amongst them as the years have gone by. The name also acknowledges the fact that they can be found on the World Wide Web.

The hosts of Vinyl Cobwebs are two slightly deranged natives of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA who go by the unlikely aliases of 'Donovan' and 'Premium Deluxe'. Both of these eccentric but basically fun-loving gentlemen have worked at several Salt Lake area radio stations trying to get airtime for their massive collection of obscure records. Eventually, due to constant collision of craniums between the two of them and the management of said radio stations, they decided to start up the Vinyl Cobwebs programme via the Internet, where they could dictate their own playlists, what they could say, and basically be in charge.

The programme is made available on the Vinyl Cobwebs web-site every Sunday night at about 11pm Eastern Standard Time. The format is largely freeform and eclectic, ranging from old time doo-wop, obscure song parodies, to the downright strange³. Occasionally, Donovan and Premium Deluxe do theme shows depending on whatever strikes their fancy at the time.