Cleveland, OH | Blue Arrow Record Store owner Pete Gulyas chooses four albums you should check out: Looking for some new music to spin? Cleveland’s record store owners have their own thoughts about what they think you should be listening to–and it’s all available in their shops. Pete Gulyas has owned and operated Blue Arrow Records for nearly a decade in Cleveland’s hip Waterloo neighborhood. The store is well-known for its shop cats, its vintage selection and its flooring–made of a collage of old record covers. Gulyas chose four albums, all by Northeast Ohio bands, that he thinks you should be listening to. They are all available in his shop, located at 16001 Waterloo Rd., Cleveland.
Washington, DC | Booze & Vinyl Listening Party: Join us for a vinyl listening session! Come meet André Darlington, co-author of Booze & Vinyl, and sip cocktails while listening (and dancing!) to classic records. Named as one of the most anticipated books of the year by Esquire, Imbibe, Tasting Table and more, Booze & Vinyl shows you how shake, stir, and just plain pour your way through music from the 1950s through the 2000s — with a Side A and Side B cocktail made by Chantal Tseng. There will be drinks pouring and vinyl spinning — plus crate digging with $5 and $15 vinyl bins courtesy of Upshur Street Books. B&V book will be available for purchase — get your copy signed!
Aretha’s Greatest Albums: ‘Lady Soul’ (1968): Remembering a 1970s used-record-store encounter with one of Franklin’s finest full-lengths. I bought my copy of Lady Soul in the mid-’70s at my neighborhood record store in Queens for $2 – used but in perfect condition, a heavy black disc with the iconic red, white and green Atlantic label I knew from Led Zeppelin records. The front cover image was a concert close-up, soft-focus and regal: Aretha, bejeweled, with a mic in her manicured hand and a mighty up-do crown, so tall that the photo crops off the top. On the back cover were notes by Jon Landau, identified as a writer for Crawdaddy! and Rolling Stone, a magazine roughly two months old when the album dropped in January 1968. She was, he announced, “bringing the soul message to new mass audiences.”
Deadpool 2 soundtrack gets first vinyl release: On red and black striped LP. The original soundtrack for Marvel superhero film Deadpool 2 is being released on vinyl for the first time, this August via Mondo. Deadpool 2 stars Ryan Reynolds in its titular role as anti-hero Wade Wilson aka Deadpool. Its original score was created by composer Tyler Bates, best known for his work on John Wick, and Atomic Blonde, both of which were also directed by David Leitch. Deadpool 2 follows Mondo’s release of the Luke Cage Season 2 soundtrack, as well as the Speed Racer original score.
