It's the most wonderful time of the year....for re-upping your vinyl collection of course. And starting this weekend, the ARChive of Contemporary Music will be kicking off its biannual task of cleaning house, getting rid of duplicate copies of records and CDs from their permanent collection and selling them at amazing prices. And perhaps most awesome about this iteration of the sale, ARC actually sold out of all their duplicate inventory last year and so 100% of the items this year are new stock. If you're like us and make it a point to hit this [...]
ARC Holiday Record + CD Sale 2009 ARC Holiday Record + CD Sale 2009 Twice a year the ARChive weeds through the permanent collection and pulls our third copies of recordings to sell. We also contact all of the record companies and supporters who send their latest releases. The result is a massive record sale of incredible items, and you're invited! December 12 - 20, 2009 Everyday from 11am – 6pm, 54 White St, New York, NY Remember [...]
Greil Marcus, one of the writers of pop culture criticism and zeitgeist definitions, is celebrating the twentieth anniversary next week of his landmark book and one of our personal favorite texts to return to every once in a while, Lipstick...
"To mark the just-published 20th-anniversary edition of his book ' Liptick Traces ' the book, Columbia University in partnership with the ARChive of Contemporary Music presents Greil Marcus in a one-man performance of Lipstick Traces. The event will take place on Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. at Altschul Auditorium, 417 International Affairs Building, 420 West 118th Street and is free and open to the public. In addition, the Music & Arts Library at Columbia University will display books by Marcus, books that influenced him, and posters, records, and other materials courtesy of the ARChive of Contemporary [...]
How many times must we bring this phenomenal treasure trove of excellent used LPs to your attention before you drop everything and see for yourself? Yes, we've been talking up the ARChive of Contemporary Music's semi-annual record sale for a while now, and for very good reason. The good folks at ARC are yet again rolling out all their vinyl duplicates and selling them for absurdly reasonable prices, and this time there are over 20,000 items for sale! For those who need a refresher, ARC is the ARChive of [...]
From the Inside Looking Out is our opportunity to have those involved within the music world tell us a bit about things from their point of view. This time around, we have Daniel Neely from the New York Musicians Index and Archive over at the ARChive of Contemporary Music talking about the NYMIA and the New York State Black Sabbath Covers Project . At some point during the summer of 2002, my mother-in-law sat my wife, her sister and I down to tell us how she "just loved that [...]
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