Tagged: recordstores

The Flaming Lips ha sido una de las bandas más ocupadas del año pasado, y para 2012 también promete mantenerse ajetreada. Después de tentar en algunas oportunidades con muchos de los nombres con los que colaboraría, el grupo liderado por Wayne Coyne publicó a través de Twitter partes de sus nuevas canciones. " El tema con Bon Iver va saliendo ", publicó Coyne en su cuenta de Twitter, junto a un breve segmento de la [...]

The new Screaming Females record, called "Ugly", doesn't come out until April on Don Giovanni Records , but to hold you over they will be releasing a new 73, exclusively available on their upcoming tour of independent record stores, which starts February 11th. Here's where you can see Screaming Females live and get the new 73: 2/11 - Brooklyn, NY - Don Giovanni Records Showcase 2/12 - Manhattan, NY - Generation Records 2/13 - Cambridge, MA - Lorem Ipsum Books [...]

Over at The Hits Just Keep Comin' , JB notes the reaction of listeners to Mannheim Steamroller's A Fresh Aire Christmas during a stint DJing at an easy listening station in the late '80s. ("You wouldn't think that the elevator-music audience would use language like we heard on the telephone.") I remember A Fresh Aire Christmas being released for the holidays in 1988. I was a junior in college and it was my second Christmas working in a record store, having earned the [...]

For this month only Tikva Records will pop up at 3191 Mission with a '50s style record store. There will be movies and performance including Dengue Fever on December 10th, Wil-Dog of Ozomatli on the 15th, Zach Rogue of Rogue Wave on the 20th, Greg Ashley on the 27th and Luther Dickinson of the Black Crowes & North Mississippi Allstars on the 28th! Check out the full schedule, there is so much more! Many of the events are free, just sign [...]

Remember Record Store Day comes two times a year now. There's the regular Record Store Day which happens the third Saturday in April, and there's the Black Friday Record Store day (aka today, 11/25,2011), which also brings special releases to many participating record stores . Bull Moose's Chris Brown discusses what you'll find in record stores today, in the videos below... Continue reading "It's Black Friday Record Store Day " at brooklynvegan

Words by Brendan Just a quick news bulletin from us today. We know you're busy stuffing yourself with turkey and mashed potatoes and...well, stuffing. While you're out and about tomorrow taking advantage of Black Friday sales, or are just looking for a good excuse to get out of the house and away from the relatives, stop by a Pittsburgh independent record store, for a few reasons: (1) it's always good to show your love for local shops, (2) there are some special edition, officially-sanctioned Record Store Day Black Friday releases , and (3) [...]

​If you're reading this blog, it's likely you frequent a record store, and there are several good ones in the area to choose from. But, if you didn't realize that purchasing music online is... Continue reading "Record Store Day Comes Early This Year as Record Stores Celebrate Black Friday" >

When so many Americans will be camping out at Best Buys and fighting over big screen televisions at Walmart, music fans will be sleeping soundly in anticipation of Record Store Day's Black Friday... Continue reading "Record Store Day Contest Coming This Afternoon" >

Part two of Tryptic Records mail-order record sale with the wondrous spectacle of rare, hard to find vinyl gems. Picture sleeve addicts and fluffy stylus junkies, the second part of the sales list can be found HERE French 602s FREAKBEAT RHYTHM CHECKERS, HOLLY GUNS, EMPREINTE, PRO CROMAGNUM, UNITY, LONG CHRIS, GOOM, PORTE CLEFS, EXTREMES, JOSE SALCY, ... 602s Mod Beat LORDS, ATTACK, OLA & THE JANGLERS, HULLABALLOOS, [...]

So, the clocks have been turned back, an act that still is an odd thing to me as I grew up in one of the few swaths of the US that didn't acknowledge such antics. (Paloma is like a ninja somehow resetting all of the numerous timepieces in the treehouse so swiftly, so deftly that I never see her do it, but the feat is accomplished by the time I awake) As the citizens of my hometown were ignoring the changing of the times in autumn, 1984, my friends and I had all reached our sixteenth [...]

While there is no comparison between death and the closingof a record store, when the closing of Louisville's record store Ear X-Tacy wasannounced last week, I handled the news like a loss of life. At first there was extreme sadness,followed by anger, then an inability to acknowledge Ear X-Tacy's closing, andnow acceptance. Typically, whenanything music related hits a nerve, I rush to my laptop and rant out a postexpressing my feelings. With thisnews, though, it only just now crossed [...]

The debut album for the band Bon Jovi was released in the autumn of '83 when I was listening to the alternative rock of 97X as much as the spotty reception would allow. Most of the time, the radio was tuned to one of a half dozen or so album rock stations or, still on occasion, Top 40. (though it had only been over the previous year that I'd begun to loosen the tether to Top 40 stations) So I remember well hearing Runaway and She Don't Know [...]

photo from Google Street View An outpost of world music on SE Hawthorne, the record store known as Timbuktunes has sadly announced that they are closing their doors at the end of the year. Owner/manager Andy Hosch first opened the store back in 2001, and for the past decade, Timbuktunes has been the best spot in town to find world and American roots music that you would have a hard time finding elsewhere. It also hosted community events, such as the listening party for the Alan Lomax in Haiti compilation. [...]

The Crown Street Cut Collective tearing up Technics this Saturday. Step in for a scratch or a beer at The Recordstore, Sydney

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The Crown Street Cut Collective tearing up Technics this Saturday. Step in for a scratch or a beer at The Recordstore, Sydney

For a good decade or so, I have had an implacable foe, an entity which I have formally and officially declared to be my arch-nemesis. Making this struggle more complex is that my arch-nemesis is the brother of a good friend. In truth, I don't know David very well. I've been buddies with his brothers for close to twenty years, but I've been around David no more than a handful of times. Our rivalry has no origin other than a decision I made to declare him my arch-nemesis. (it actually [...]

Over the weekend, Girls crammed their entire touring band, including backup singers, into the Nashville record shop Grimey's to play an in-store set. Video of the show went out live on Ustream, and now the entire six-song, half-hour set is below. The set leans heavily on tracks from the excellent new album Father, Son, Holy Ghost , but they also bring back the first-album nugget "Laura." And they also sound good . Do you know how easy it is to sound good at an in-store show? It is not easy. [...]

Link: http://www.contactmusic.com/ne ws/record-store-day-founder-fo rced-to-shut-down_1244229 In recent years, blogs have enabled this 'National Alt Holiday' called Record Store Day. Basically, you are encouraged to go out and support your local record store by purchasing your buzzband's vinyl records thru these dying record stores. I think bloggers have been really into it because they feel 'guilty' for changing the music industry so much, so feigned nostalgia for 'supporting small biz owners' seems like an authentic thing to do. Anyways, some dude who STARTED Record Store Day just went out of [...]