A morning mix of news for the vinyl inclined

In rotation: 6/16/25

New York, NY | In Brooklyn, an Italian Record Store Fades Out After Nearly 60 Years: Silvana Conte kept it open for her mother, and for a neighborhood that had already moved on. There’s no large “Going Out of Business” sign. No big announcement, no last-minute fanfare. The news came in a Facebook post, shared by a family friend. Just a few lines to say that after nearly sixty years, SAS Italian Records will close its doors for good. The store opened in 1967, founded by Ciro and Rita Conte, immigrants from the island of Ponza. It has remained in the same location ever since: 7113 18th Avenue, in the heart of Bensonhurst. The name—SAS—is an acronym of their children’s names: Silvana, Adrianne, and Silverio. More than a brand, the sign was a marker of origin, a statement of belonging. What began as a small record shop with a few household goods gradually evolved into a kind of Italian-American general store: CDs, DVDs, flags, bath products, pasta makers, crossword magazines, and toys. Nothing flashy, but everything with a clear and traceable lineage.

New York, NY | ‘By Appointment Only’ in New York: 6 Hidden Shops Worth Visiting: Hand-forged armor. Prehistoric bones. Music that’s never been digitized. This isn’t retail—it’s an invitation-only obsession. You didn’t come to New York to wander fluorescent aisles hunting for someone to unlock the fitting room. You came for the locked-door city — where nothing’s labeled, the elevator grumbles and whoever buzzes you in has already decided how the afternoon should go. …Archivio Records: Archivio is more vinyl bunker than retail space. It’s a Dumbo concept store: part record shop, D.J. hub, barbershop, tattoo parlor and creative hangout. Co-founded by the D.J. and Queens native Pablo Romero (who asked for a shout out to his Colombian background) and the D.J. Daniel Corral-Webb, this upstairs Dumbo loft draws an international mix: visiting D.J.s, stylists, design-world regulars and the curious who’ve heard whispers.

Hurry! The five-star LP5X from Audio-Technica is back to its lowest price ever. A fine-sounding, fuss-free turntable—yours for only £299. One of the best turntables on the market right now is the Audio-Technica LP5X. It might be a few years old now, but don’t let that hold you back. The LP5X is a five-star turntable that impressed us during testing. Delivering a well-executed design that sounds fantastic, the LP5X is one of the best in the business. And it is now back to its lowest ever price of £299—a generous £80 discount from its usual retail price. Not only is the LP5X a great turntable to replace your existing player, but we also recommend it for first-time buyers thanks to how unbelievably easy it is to set up. There’s no better time to make the jump to vinyl.

SG | Turn your favourite audio clip into a record? This Katong home studio makes customised vinyl: With the lathe-cutting machine they brought in from the US, Art/st’s Charlyn Yap and Lee Sin Yee offer private workshops for custom vinyl making. Music aside, other audio clips they’ve turned into records include wedding vows, a child’s first words and a grandmother’s last voicemail. bout a year ago, Charlyn Yap became obsessed with the idea of made-in-Singapore records. The seed of the idea had actually come to mind when, after her grandfather died, she found a collection of cassette tapes he had made, recording himself singing. “I suppose that was their era’s way of creating ‘covers’,” said the 35-year-old. “As I played whatever was still audible, a surprising moment emerged: My own five-year-old voice, interrupting his recording session in the studio. What followed was about a minute of him good-naturedly scolding me in a mix of Hokkien and Chinese for ‘ruining his take’ and making him start over.”

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TVD’s The Idelic Hour with Jon Sidel

Greetings from Laurel Canyon!

I once had a life, or rather / Life had me / I was one among many / Or at least I seemed to be / Well, I read an old quotation in a book just yesterday / Said, “gonna reap just what you sow / The debts you make you have to pay” / Can you get to that? / Can you get (I want to know)

Friday the 13th or Father’s Day—call it what you will, but it’s a weekend, and a wild one at that. The vibe in our canyon is like many June weekends: a bit of gloom in the morning and roasting by 3PM.

This weekend, however, has a dark, dark cloud hanging over us Angelenos. The feds are fucking with our Chicano community and therefore us all. I’m on top of the hill and I even feel infringed. This week has made me realize how ethnically special our city is.

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TVD Live: Joan Osborne at the Hamilton, 6/10

Joan Osborne is one of hundreds of artists who have sung the music of Bob Dylan. In her case, she included a version of his then-recent “Man in the Long Black Coat” on her Grammy-nominated debut album Relish 30 years ago. Dylan noticed and invited her to duet with him on a remake of “Chimes of Freedom” for a TV miniseries. They’d share the stage for a series of shows with the Grateful Dead, and he’d remain a touchstone for her recordings ever since.

In 2017, she recorded a full album of Songs of Bob Dylan and toured to promote it, bringing a cast of guest stars with her. One night’s recording, which featured Robert Randolph, Jackie Greene, and Levon Helm’s daughter Amy Helm, was released in April as Dylanology (Live). So Osborne is on tour to promote that—again with a stellar band, but not the same one on the record (and for that matter, repeating only three songs from the live album).

Closing out the latest Joan Osborne Sings the Songs of Bob Dylan tour at the tasteful Hamilton in DC, Tuesday, she was flanked by a formidable female front line. On one side was Cindy Cashdollar the slide and dobro master who’s played with everyone in Austin, where she lived for 23 years, to Woodstock, NY, where she now presides. She added just the right coloring to tunes, and a bit of authenticity—she played on the original Dylan recording on “Tryin’ to Get to Heaven” on Time Out of Mind, as well as the live version here.

On the other side of Osborne was Gail Lynn Dorsey, the distinctive bassist who has played with everyone from Tears for Fears and The B-52’s to David Bowie for nine years; her last appearance in DC was singing “Life on Mars” at a David Bowie tribute performance of his Blackstar album a year ago at the Kennedy Center. Besides providing a solid and palpable bottom to the night’s Dylan repertoire, Dorsey also showed some strong, soulful vocals by taking the lead on “Lady Lay Lay” and dueting with keyboardist Will Bryant on “Shelter from the Storm.”

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TVD Radar: Stax Revue: Live in ‘65! 2LP, 2CD in stores 8/8

VIA PRESS RELEASE | 60 years ago this summer, Stax Records’ biggest stars landed in the City of Angels for a two-night residency at South LA’s 5-4 Ballroom.

Billed as the Stax Revue, the whirlwind visit was a milestone for the young Memphis soul label and marked the first time that many of the artists on the bill—Rufus & Carla Thomas, Booker T. & The M.G.’s, The Mar-Keys, The Mad Lads, Wilson Pickett, and William Bell—had played to a Los Angeles audience. But the high-profile engagement, which took place on August 7th and 8th, 1965, was also set against a backdrop of racial tension—just days before the Watts Rebellion.

The audio from this historic concert was shelved for decades, with highlights initially released in 1991 as Stax Revue Live At The 5/4 Ballroom. Now, Craft Recordings proudly presents Stax Revue: Live in ’65!—a deluxe collection that not only includes the electrifying Los Angeles engagement, but also unearths a rare hometown showcase, captured earlier that summer at Memphis’ Club Paradise, featuring David Porter, Booker T. & The M.G.’s, The Astors, and Wendy Rene.

As a special bonus, the expanded album features previously unreleased recordings from both cities’ shows, including a charismatic set by Porter, a searing performance of “In the Midnight Hour” by Pickett, a lengthy jam of “The Dog” by Rufus Thomas, and a high-energy rendition of “Boot-Leg” from Booker T. & The M.G.’s which is available to stream as an advance single today.

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Graded on a Curve:
Slade,
Slade Alive!

Celebrating Jim Lea in advance of his 75th birthday tomorrow.Ed.

You can forget all about Kiss Alive! because Slade’s Slade Alive! is the real thing–a gut-bucket blast of pure rock ‘n’ roll energy from the poorest spellers in the history of music. This 1972 studio live affair captures this band of Wolverhampton rowdies at their rawest, and the spirit of raucous fun is contagious.

This baby was released before Slade reached full maturity and here’s how you can tell–there isn’t a single spelling error on it. And here’s another way you can tell–four of its seven cuts are covers, and the other three you probably don’t know.

The foursome’s subsequent release, 1972’s Slayed?, cemented the band’s reputation as Top of the Pops hit makers, but on Slade Alive! they established their bona fides as a formidable live act–one that pitted musical brutalism against vocalist Noddy Holder’s formidable tonsils and crowd-rousing charisma.

Slade gets filed under “Glam,” but theirs was an awkward fit. They looked ridiculous in their glitter clobber–like a bunch of roofers playing dress up–and unlike most of their Glam contemporaries appealed directly to England’s working stiffs.

Their proto-Oi! placed pints above androgyny, and their audiences did the same. When Noddy Holder says, “All the drunken louts can shout anything they like” he’s talking to the entire crowd, and not just a couple of unruly yobs.

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TVD Radar: The
Podcast with Dylan Hundley, Episode 185: William Garrett

I recently spoke with producer William Garrett. William is probably best known for his work as lead producer of Spotify Singles, where artists re-recorded one of their original songs alongside a cover of their choice. Over the course of this project, he recorded an amazing array of recording artists. The list is wild. I’ll just shout out some of my favorites because it would be too lengthy to list all 750 of them:

Yo La Tengo, Jack White, Idles, The Hives, Orville Peck, Toots and the Maytals, Yo-Yo Ma, Muse, Elton John, Lily Allen, Florence + The Machine, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem—you get the idea. Before all that, he was roaming around studios in NYC and Boston working with Sugar Hill Gang, Afika Baambaatta, and multiple albums with John Cale. Recently, he worked with Jon Batiste on the soundtrack to the movie Saturday Night and the Beethoven Blues album.

He just completed an album with the Shedrick Mitchell Trio and is doing a song with Amber Rubarth, Sara Bareilles, and Celisse. He just started a new album with Bandits on the Run, recording in a house in the Catskills and building a studio there from scratch. We talk about ALL of this. Tune in!

Radar features discussions with artists and industry leaders who are creators and devotees of music and is produced by Dylan Hundley and The Vinyl District. Dylan Hundley is an artist and performer, and the co-creator and lead singer of Lulu Lewis and all things at Darling Black. She co-curates and hosts Salon Lulu which is a New York based multidisciplinary performance series. She is also a cast member of the iconic New York film Metropolitan.

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Graded on a Curve:
Squeeze,
Singles – 45’s and Under

From England’s green and pleasant land, an unprepossessing and pleasant band—Squeeze aren’t out to change your life, just to provide you with friendly and understated pop gems, domestic and romantic tableaux of the sort that won me over even when I was at the height of my Anglophobia.

The Village Voice’s Robert Christgau more or less summed up my sentiments when he wrote of Squeeze’s 1982 compilation Singles – 45’s and Under, “They’re so principled in their unpretension, so obsessed with the telling detail, that their lesser moments are passively minuscule—not unfine when you squint at them, but all too easy to overlook.”

People are always talking about Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook as if they’re the McCartney and Lennon of the early eighties, but back me against a wall and the only Squeeze songs I can name are “Tempted,” “Pulling Mussels from the Shell,” and “Black Coffee in Bed.” And I considered myself a fan. Not a huge fan, but I saw them live on a pier in New York City once. Pity I was three sheets to the wind and almost fell off the pier.

But just because I don’t remember most of the songs on Singles – 45’s and Under doesn’t mean they’re not worth hearing. There’s a real warmth to Squeeze’s music, even if Difford and Tilbrook are rather cool customers. They’re Apollonian formalists, and pure popcraft is their strong suit. I’m talking immaculately put-together songs with smart words about heartbreak and occasionally irresistible melodies.

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A morning mix of news for the vinyl inclined

In rotation: 6/13/25

Kutztown, PA | ‘One of those artists that lives on’: Kutztown record store reflects on Beach Boys legend Brian Wilson. Inside Young Ones Record Store, one name is on everyone’s mind: Brian Wilson. The genius behind the Beach Boys, known for timeless hits like “California Girls” and “Good Vibrations,” has died at the age of 82. For those who’ve lived and breathed music, the loss is deeply personal. “Shocking, because it’s just like another one of the long lines of these legendary people that have passed,” said Ross Adam, manager at Young Ones. “For decades, they weren’t just influential for their time.” Adam has worked at the Kutztown store since high school. Now a manager, he says Wilson’s impact is still felt in every corner of the shop. “Just between ’65 to ’67, the huge leap pop music made, from being kind of fun, jingle-jangle love songs, to deeper, more meaningful things happening in the late ’60s… the Beach Boys broke that ground,” Adam said.

Chattanooga, TN | Chattanooga’s newest record store hosting grand opening on Market Street: The corner of Main and Market streets will get a musical infusion when Dallos Vinyl Love hosts its grand opening Saturday as Chattanooga’s newest record store. Dallos is the passion project of owner Marlo White, who moved to Chattanooga from the St. Louis area in 2020 when he married his wife, Dalya. The store’s name is a combination of their first names and a reference to White’s lifelong love for music. “Vinyl love is simply my love for vinyl,” White said in an interview at the shop. “Vinyl never goes away. History has a habit of repeating itself, and vinyl keeps coming back. People love just the act of digging for vinyl.” The popular pastime led White to create the store’s motto, “Everybody loves digging in our crates.” The motto hangs in neon on the wall beside a gallery of music posters.

Charlotte, NC | Charlotte record store expands with a new South End location: Hardy Boys Records, a locally owned vinyl shop, is expanding with a second location set to open in a few months at 1616 Camden Road, in the former 704 Shop next to the rail trail. Why it matters: While we are living in a streaming world, demand for vinyl has been climbing for years, and locally owned record stores like Hardy Boys are working to meet that demand. Flashback: Husband-and-wife team Dean and Tiffany Hardy started Hardy Boys in 2018 as a small vinyl reseller. Through online sales and pop-up events over the years, Hardy Boys saw enough demand to open its first brick-and-mortar spot at Camp North End in 2023. “Camp North End has been really gracious to us and we’ve seen sales there explode and do amazingly well. If we do close to how we did at Camp North End, we are going to flourish in South End,” Dean Hardy tells Axios.

Huntsville, AL | MidCity Huntsville announces city’s first vinyl bar, other new retailers: A first in the market vinyl bar, fitness center, spice shop and nail salon are among the new retailers joining the offerings in the MidCity District, RCP Companies announced Wednesday. Perseus Sound Bar…be Huntsville’s first true vinyl listening lounge—a Hi-Fi hideaway with a mid-century modern soul, according RCP. “Mornings begin with craft coffee and calm, while evenings give way to Mediterranean-style tapas, refined cocktails, and an immersive music program built around analog sound,” the company said in a news release. “The space is intimate, transportive, and designed for people who appreciate ambiance as much as quality. It’s a lifestyle bar grounded in precision and atmosphere—an entirely new cultural anchor for MidCity.” …There will be coffee pop ups in collaboration with Vertical House Records and tvg at the Lumberyard this month to introduce the city to the concept of a vinyl bar.

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TVD Radar: Pretty Purdie and The Playboys, Stand by Me (Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get) reissue in stores 7/11

VIA PRESS RELEASE | You’ve heard Bernard “Pretty” Purdie drum on more albums than you can count.

Besides releasing some 30 albums as a bandleader, and acting as Aretha Franklin’s musical director, Purdie played on records by Miles Davis, Herbie Mann, King Curtis, Tom Rush, Albert Ayler, James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Roberta Flack, Cat Stevens, Todd Rundgren, Steely Dan, Al Green—and that’s just scratching the surface!

He also invented “The Purdie Shuffle,” tapping triplets against a half-time backbeat, among other rhythmic innovations. This rare record from 1972 is only the third he recorded as a leader, and, no surprise, he is surrounded by a stellar cast of musicians including guitarist Cornell Dupree, bassist Chuck Rainey, keyboardist Harold Wheeler, trumpeter Snooky Young, and reedman Seldon Powell.

Needless to say, it’s a funky, eclectic affair, with plenty of great breakbeats, highlighted by the proto-rap tune “Artificialness” featuring Gil Scott-Heron! Comes in the original gatefold jacket art, too. Crate diggers gonna dig this one.

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TVD Radar: Bruce Dickinson, More Balls
To Picasso
expanded
2LP in stores 7/25

VIA PRESS RELEASE | In 1994, having left Iron Maiden for a time (he rejoined in 1999), Bruce Dickinson released his second solo album, entitled Balls To Picasso. Named in honor of the cubist pioneer whose representations of spherical objects were as squares and reflected on the cover in graffiti style on a tiled bathroom wall, the album belied its irreverent title by solidifying Dickinson’s reputation as a serious solo artist.

His first record with collaborator Roy Z, recorded with Z’s band Tribe Of Gypsies, went through various iterations before its release, produced by Shay Baby. The original album included a number of classic tracks and live favorites from Dickinson, including the singles “Tears Of The Dragon” and “Shoot All The Clowns,” alongside the much-loved epic “Laughing In The Hiding Bush,” which was the album’s original title.

Yet despite its positive reception at the time, it never quite captured Dickinson’s original vision, which was even more expansive in scope and ambition. However, with the ability to revisit his solo catalog—and following on from Dickinson’s hugely acclaimed album The Mandrake Project in 2024—the brand-new partly re-recorded, remixed, and newly mastered version of the album, now entitled More Balls To Picasso, reimagines it as a fresh and contemporary release; a roaringly full-throttle and ambitious collection of supremely crafted and realised songs.

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Graded on a Curve:
The Beach Boys, Sounds Of Summer: The Very Best Of The Beach Boys

Remembering Brian Wilson.Ed.

The Beach Boys have arguably created the most fulsome and legendary canon of hit songs by any American group in popular music history. While most of those hits are confined to one decade (the ’60s), they are unmatched in durability, cultural relevance, artistry, sound and being perfect examples of post-war, popular American music.

While the youthful themes of the group’s songs of surfing and especially cars have lost most of their luster over the years, the themes of yearning love, girls, and the beach still endure. The group’s peak run (from roughly 1962 until 1966) ended with the release of its most important album, Pet Sounds, but the group continued to make more fine albums. While certain of those later songs were not bona-fide chart hits, they are key parts of the group’s unmatched legacy.

At this point in history, with the long procession of music formats that have come and gone, from singles, albums, 8-tracks, cassettes, CDs and downloads to streaming, one would think that for a group whose biggest hits have been packaged and re-packaged, yet another greatest hits collection would be redundant. Disabusing that notion is the mostly welcome new updated and expanded edition of the group’s Sounds of Summer best-of package.

Originally released in 2003 as a single-CD, 30-track compilation and a digital, best-of package, it was the de-facto replacement of the group’s analog Endless Summer vinyl set, as the definitive hits collection of the group. Before and since both Endless Summer and the new Sounds of Summer, there have been many other worthy greatest hits packages of the group’s music, but these two are the most acclaimed and representative of their respective eras. This new expanded version of Sounds of Summer, now must be considered the most comprehensive and as far as packaging, design, and collectability, it can’t be beat.

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TVD Radar: Sandworms: The Songs Of Howe Gelb and Giant Sand in stores 8/15

VIA PRESS RELEASE | Delving into the Great American Songbook of Howe Gelb, Sandworms: The Songs of Howe Gelb and Giant Sand (out 15th August) is a new collection that rephrases and rephases their legacy. This release offers new perspectives from Water From Your Eyes, Deradoorian, Jesca Hoop & John Parish, Lily Konigsberg, Holiday Ghosts, Ella Raphael, Monde UFO, The Golden Dregs and Gently Tender.

The ever-present Giant Sand and their one-man cerebral traveller, Howe Gelb, are anchored by a reputation for idiosyncratic storytelling. A “natural storyteller,” Gelb’s multifarious musical delivery adds an enduring sense of wonder as he extols the virtues of happenstance. This collection celebrates the esoteric and singular journey Giant Sand has taken, through alt-country, jazz, lo-fi experiments, and beyond, while their music is reimagined here by a new generation of artists paying tribute to their lasting influence.

Brooklyn duo, Water From Your Eyes, known for their stoner humour with a hazy undercurrent of fatalism and a verve for art-pop, bring a delicate balance between punk riffing and dream pop escapism on “Warm Storm”—a tune first heard on Giant Sand’s Ramp (1991).

“Happenstance” (from 1994’s Glum) with its consequential questioning of our state of mind is the kind of nagging puzzle that any Canadian baritone with the burr of Leonard Cohen would marvel at; Whitney K do just that, whispering sweet somethings in your ear. “This rendition came together like happenstance—right place, right time. Howe reached out across the void with a song to be sung. We humbly obliged and like serpents made it our own,” adds Konner

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Graded on a Curve:
Bruce Haack,
The Electric Lucifer

Born in 1931 in an Alberta, Canada mining town and deceased in 1988 from heart failure, Bruce Haack is rightfully considered one of the trailblazers of electronic music. He’s responsible for an eclectic and often eccentric oeuvre, but his most famous LP is the one he made for Columbia in 1970. The Electric Lucifer remains an inimitable and visionary work.

Quickly dropping out of Julliard in the mid-‘50s, Bruce Haack initially made a living writing both pop songs and scores for dance and theater, but on his way to electronic music immortality he also simultaneously devoted his energies to serious composition, completing work in the highly prescient musique concrète style, a form wildly popular with the ‘50s avant-garde. He was also a creator of early synthesizers, with his inventions landing him on television programs such as The Tonight Show and I’ve Got a Secret, where Haack often demonstrated his heat and touch sensitive Dermatron. As such, he’s often linked with Raymond Scott as an inhabitant of the oddball-visionary wing of electronic music, the ties to Scott enhanced by a significant portion of his discography being designed for the enjoyment and benefit of youthful ears.

In the case of the three volumes of Scott’s Soothing Sounds for Baby, the intended audience was still lolling in the crib, but the records produced by Haack for his own Dimension 5 label took on a more educational approach. Offered in homemade black and white covers with the assistance of dance instructor Esther Nelson, pianist Ted “Praxiteles” Pandel, and later Haack’s friend and business manager Chris Kachulis, their look and sound does give off a strong whiff of the unconventional.

However, spending time with Emperor Norton’s 1999 CD/LP survey Listen Compute Rock Home – The Best of Dimension 5 reveals an aesthetic that’s ultimately not much stranger than the early personality of Jim Henson, sharing with the Muppet man a desire to engage the growing mind through imagination rather than exuding superciliousness or thinly veiled attempts at conformity. And the creativity and frequent sense of humor allow the music to transcend its didactic aims and to be of continued interest to inquisitive adults.

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A morning mix of news for the vinyl inclined

In rotation: 6/12/25

The Vinyl Resurgence: Why Physical Music Still Matters. In an age where music streaming dominates the industry, offering millions of songs at the tap of a finger, one might assume that physical media has become obsolete. However, vinyl records have defied expectations, experiencing a remarkable resurgence over the past decade. …Despite its resurgence, vinyl will never replace streaming, nor does it need to. The two forms of media serve different purposes—streaming offers convenience, while vinyl provides depth. As the industry evolves, vinyl’s continued growth is a testament to the enduring value of physical music in a digital world. The vinyl revival is more than just nostalgia—it’s proof that music, in its purest form, is meant to be felt as much as heard.

Urban Outfitters unveils first-ever Pride vinyl collection: As part of UO Celebrates: Pride, Urban Outfitters is proud to debut a vinyl collection curated in collaboration with some of today’s most influential LGBTQIA+ artists, allies, and labels. Created to honor the deep connection between music, identity, and culture, the 18-title lineup features legendary releases from RuPaul, Kesha, Britney Spears, and a new drop from Frankie Grande. Bold, expressive, and unapologetically fun, the collection channels both high-energy beats and nostalgic anthems, available online and at select Urban Outfitters stores starting June 27. “At UO, we’re always listening to our customers and music is one of the most powerful ways they connect, express, and celebrate who they are,” said Jena Tracey, Executive Director of Home and Lifestyle Buying at UO.

Logic on Getting Advice From J.J Abrams For Directorial Debut ‘Paradise Records’ and Spending ‘Millions and Millions’ of His Own Money: ‘Everyone in Hollywood Said No.’ “I’m not being boujee, but they have to do this while we’re talking,” Logic says as a crew of makeup artists encircle him, powdering his face as we chat. “It’s okay,” I assure him. “You’re in Hollywood now!” “I know…it’s crazy.” We’re not literally in Hollywood but at the Getty Portrait Studios at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival, where the rapper, born Sir Robert Bryson Hall II, is premiering his directorial debut “Paradise Records.” He’s still adjusting to the whirlwind of the film industry, a world far removed from the rapper’s lifestyle that defined his rise — one that earned him multiple award-winning, critically acclaimed albums before he announced his “retirement” in 2021. Music doesn’t fuel him creatively in the way it once did, and now he’s going all-in on his one true love: film.

Limerick, IE | A love letter to vinyl and community: Wreckquiem makes its world premiere this month. Wreckquiem is the new play from Pigtown Productions. Playwright Mike Finn and Pat Shortt chatted with Limerick Post’s Eric FitzGerald about this wonderful tribute to the underdog and a commentary on the value of community in a rapidly changing world getting its world premiere this month. Limerick will host the world premiere of Wreckquiem, the hotly anticipated new play from acclaimed playwright Mike Finn ((Pigtown Productions, Bread Not Profits). Finn returns with another powerful, heartfelt and comic tale—this time set to a soundtrack of pre-loved vinyl and K-Tel compilations. …Set in “Dessie’s Discs”, a cluttered sanctuary of old LPs, scratched CDs and faded gig posters, Wreckquiem introduces us to a group of eccentric regulars.

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TVD Radar: Bob Marley, Uprising ‘liquid sunshine’ filled vinyl in stores 6/27

VIA PRESS RELEASE | The Marley family, UMe, and Island Records are continuing to honor Bob Marley’s legacy with a year-long celebration commemorating his 80th birthday milestone, his importance in the uprising of global music, and the fight for social justice and equality.

Today, in celebration of the 45th anniversary of Uprising, an exclusive merch capsule is being released, which includes unique items and a special, limited-edition “liquid sunshine”-filled vinyl reissue of the album that is housed in a special die-cut sleeve. Uprising was the final album released during Bob Marley’s lifetime and features fan favorites “Could You Be Loved,” “Redemption Song,” and “Forever Loving Jah.” Preorder the “liquid-sunshine” LP and check out the exclusive merch options, HERE.

Adding to the 80th festivities, Natty Dread (1974) and Rastaman Vibration (1976) are both now available in Dolby Atmos®. With Dolby Atmos, fans can immerse themselves in their favorite Marley tracks like never before, experiencing every nuance with stunning depth, precision, and clarity. Natty Dread and Rastaman Vibration were mixed by Nick Rives, who also mixed the albums Burnin,’ Catch A Fire, Exodus, and Legend, as well as the Bob Marley: One Love soundtrack in Dolby Atmos in collaboration with the Marley estate.

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