A morning mix of news for the vinyl inclined

In rotation: 5/22/25

Los Angeles, CA | Los Angeles record store Chapter One reopens in new location: The new space in the city’s Arts District opened its doors last Saturday, May 17th. Los Angeles record store Chapter One Records has a new home. Located in the city’s Arts District on S Anderson St., the store opened the doors to its new space with a soft launch last Saturday, May 17th. The opening party featured music from locals Max Coletto, Jackson Algeo and SPEK—Hazy and HUdL went back-to-back. The shop stocks a range of vinyl with a particular eye towards house, minimal, techno and electro. ….Open by appointment and for in-store events, the space originally launched during the pandemic. Speaking to Resident Advisor, organisers said the shop has since grown into “a creative project that allow[s] us to network with the community and dive deeper into artists on vinyl and the craft of collecting.”

Chilliwack, CA | New records store coming to Chilliwack, hiring employees: A Canada-wide records store selling records and other physical media plans to open a new location in Chilliwack in 2025. According to an email of confirmation from the company itself, Sunrise Records will be coming to the Cottonwood Centre Mall in the coming months. “Hi Mike, we are coming to Chilliwack in the coming months. Any confirmation and updates/timeline can be found on our Facebook or Instagram pages,” Sunrise Records wrote in an email. Mark Davis, general manager of PCI Warrington, the company entrusted with leasing space at Cottonwood, told Fraser Valley Today in an email Monday morning that Sunrise Records will open in the vacant space next to Shoe Company. In the “About Us” section of its website, Sunrise Records says it is a proud Canadian record store chain that was founded in Toronto in 1977.

Hastings, UK | Remembering the lost record shops of Hastings: Hastings had some amazing independent record shops that have now long since gone and I am old enough to remember them all. This was in the days when CD’s still belonged to the world of science fiction and there was no internet, never mind streaming services. It was the golden age of black vinyl platters, gate fold sleeves with iconic artwork. Cassette tapes were seen as quite advanced technology, even if you did have to use a pencil to stop them unspooling. In the late 70’s and 1980’s most casual music fans locally were buying their records from Woolworths in Hastings, but those with more serious tastes, would head to shops like Disc Jockey, Stylus, The Record Shop or Masons Music. These were more than shops. They were entry points to music culture.

Conway, AR | Full Moon Records, Crash Cast Podcast reveal lineup for 2025 Full Moon Fest: Recently Full Moon Records and photographer Kurt Lunsford, co-founder of the Crash Cast Podcast, have been revealing the lineup for the 2025 Full Moon Fest. The festival will run from 2 p.m. until 10 p.m. on Saturday July 19, and features a lineup of up-and-coming artists from central Arkansas and surrounding areas. Little Rock-based Go For Gold has gained national acclaim with their catchy pop punk, including the song “Let Me Go,” which has been streamed over a million times on Spotify. Jonesboro’s Tiny Towns has played several sold out shows around the central Arkansas area following the release of their debut full length Deadweight in 2018. Full Moon Records’ owner said that the purpose of the event is to support and uplift the local music community.

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TVD Live Shots:
Amyl and the Sniffers and Sheer Mag at the Agora, 5/13

Clevelanders got a treat from “down under” (Lloyd Christmas voice) recently as Melbourne’s Amyl and the Sniffers stopped by The Agora for a sweaty night of riotous fun.

The crowd was dressed to impress for the special occasion: Many Amyl-esque outfits were on display, plus lots of skin, lots of tats, some leather catsuits, ripped fishnets, and several shirts. The band itself, comprised of Amy Taylor, Bryce Wilson, Declan Mehrtens, and Gus Romer, rose to the occasion, serving fans with a healthy dose of personality and punk rock emancipation.

Taylor is a force live, even on the tail end of a sickness that forced them to cancel their Toronto stop a couple of nights previous. It doesn’t seem to affect her at all, though, as she spins, bangs, and screams her way across the stage. Every human in the house is immediately sucked into her powerful vortex. It’s a vortex that doesn’t give a fuck. Unless, of course, you’re a racist, misogynist, ageist, homophobe, classist, transphobic, and/or ableist. If that’s the case, then fuck you. And to that I say, “Fuck yeah.”

Speaking of strong frontwomen, Tina Halladay of opener Sheer Mag has some serious pipes! She not so much sings but growls, a perfect complement to the band’s sound, which is a little classic rock, a little punk rock, and a little hair rock. I can see why Third Man Records signed them a couple of years ago.

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Demand it on Vinyl: Gregg Allman Band,
One Night in DC in
stores 6/20

VIA PRESS RELEASE | The musical legacy of the late, great Gregg Allman continues with the release of The Gregg Allman Band – One Night In DC, May 15, 1984, a full-length concert recording arriving digitally and on CD June 20, 2025, via the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’s posthumous label, Sawrite Records.

Recorded live at The Bayou in Washington, DC before a capacity crowd of 900 lucky fans, the latest release from Allman’s personal archives sees the Gregg Allman Band flying at full force after three years of non-stop touring, rocking the house with a stacked setlist highlighted by new songs, iconic covers, and fiery renditions of classic songs from the Allman Brothers Band repertoire. Highlights include the Allman Brothers Band classic, “Dreams,” premiering today at all digital streaming services.

Though his passing in 2017 has left an immense space in rock ‘n’ roll that can never truly be filled, Gregg Allman Band – One Night In DC, May 15, 1984 stands as a stunning audio snapshot in time that magnificently captures Gregg Allman during his quest to prove that no matter what the challenges, the road would go on forever. Having spent more than three years playing anytime, anyplace, for anyone who wanted to listen, the Gregg Allman Band had truly hit its stride.

The core line-up of Gregg on vocals and Hammond organ, Danny Toler on lead guitar, his brother Frankie on drums, bassist Gregg Voorhees, Bruce Waibel on rhythm guitar, and percussionist Chaz Trippy had been augmented by the addition of keyboardist Tim Heding, which brought another lead instrument to the GAB. A further advancement was that Gregg was writing new songs with the brothers Toler, which further expanded the band’s repertoire.

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Graded on a Curve: Sonny Rollins, Alfie (Original Music From The Score) & VA, Eli Roth’s Red Light Disco

Many people have dreamed about being in a movie. While it amounts to no more than a dream, for many, finding the perfect movie soundtrack to play whenever you want is quite easy. The two releases covered here will not only provide a fantasy soundtrack, but will whisk you away to England in the ‘60s or Italy in the ’70s and early ‘80s.

Alfie was one of the most important films of the 1960s. Released in 1966, it was a galvanizing cinematic success that not only solidified London as the center of world cinema for a brief time in the early and mid-‘60s but also provided the breakthrough role for Michael Caine, which launched him into international stardom. He’s never looked back.

For a film that would be considered the height of ’60s Swinging London, this soundtrack is an American jazz tour de force. While Italian clothes, scooters, and cappuccino highly influenced the mod movies and culture of the time, Jamaican music and American jazz and R&B fueled the sound of the early stages of Swinging London.

Original copies of this highly sought-after soundtrack album fetch big bucks on the collector’s market, due to its immaculate sound and innovative jazz music. Though primarily the musical brainchild of saxophonist Sonny Rollins, Oliver Nelson’s arrangements set the cool cinematic mood. The title song, done here in instrumental fashion and written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, was recorded by many artists at the time, most notably Cilla Black and Dionne Warwick. Black’s version is not included here, but was played during the end credits. The US soundtrack release included a version sung by Cher.

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TVD Radar: The Podcast with Dylan Hundley, Episode 183: Andi Harriman

Andi Harriman is a NY-based DJ, producer, music journalist, and the boss of the party/label, SYNTHICIDE, which promotes live and DJ events all over NYC. She is the author of Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace, the worldwide compendium of post-punk and goth in the 1980s. She is also an EBM artist, and you can find her work as Andi on Bandcamp and wherever you stream.

We recently spoke about her upbringing in a Pentecostal family in Appalachia, how she first discovered the ’80s Goth subculture, our shared love of Depeche Mode, and her unending energy to create environments that support lovers of darker and synth-driven sounds from multiple genres without barriers. We both agree that there should be more women everywhere.

I really love everything Andi makes and think she has an amazing story. I suggest heading over to Synthicide on Instagram, where you can keep track of the events. You can find Andi’s page @andi80s, which has links to her music and piles of great stuff, including vinyl, over on Bandcamp on the Synthicide page.

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, 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:
Unrest,
Perfect Teeth

One of Washington, DC’s finest ever bands, Unrest also blazed a trail out of the 1980s underground scene, smack dab into the middle of the indie era without ever making a bad record. In fact, their final album, Perfect Teeth is arguably their best. Originally co-released by 4AD and Teen-Beat Records, that last statement turns 30 years old this year and has been reissued for the occasion by Teen-Beat with a bonus LP of material on vinyl (that appears to be sold out), a single LP (plus an accompanying download with all the extras that’s still available), 2CD, and digital. Impeccable as an unintentional missive of finality, Perfect Teeth has lost none of its allure. The extras add value.

Formed in 1983 by guitarist-vocalist Mark Robinson (who also runs the Teen-Beat label) and drummer-occasional vocalist Phil Krauth, Unrest started out with the intention to never play the same song twice. By the time they recorded Malcolm X Park with third member Dave Park in 1988, the mission had shifted to encompassing an insanely wide stylistic range that against all odds maintained a continuity of personality.

Released by the Caroline label, Malcolm X Park is also a logical conclusion to Unrest’s early days, which began with a pair of homemade cassette albums and the vinyl set Tink of S.E. (among numerous other names), all issued by Teen-Beat in the lead up. However, Malcolm X Park and the next record, Kustom Karnal Blackxploitation, released in 1990, can also be considered as Unrest’s Caroline era.

The culminating stretch with Bridget Cross effectively begins in 1992 with the release of Imperial F.F.R.R. by the No. 6 label. It’s an exquisite record that refines the Unrest sound toward its decidedly Anglo-centric late phase, but with the band’s experimental side intact as Cross settles into the bass position and adds occasional vocal standouts.

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A morning mix of news for the vinyl inclined

In rotation: 5/21/25

Shropshire, UK | 7 beloved record shops no longer on Shropshire’s high streets: Record stores were once the epicentre of Shropshire high streets for music lovers, but with the onset of downloads and streaming services, many of the have since closed their doors for good. However, an online archive is ensuring that many of these “remarkable emporiums that sold us the music we love” may be gone but are not forgotten. The British Record Shop Archive is an online database of all those high street record shops that have since shut. The online archive is a collaborative effort, with various individuals contributing their memories, photographs, and other materials to build the online resource. “From shellac shops through vinyl dealers to CD megastores and back to vinyl, we aim to document as many record shops as possible over the 20th and 21st Century—the legendary, the lost, the infamous and your forgotten favourites,” The British Record Shop Archive (BRSA) said. “The BRSA is a labour of love…”

Owensboro, KY | Owensboro’s newest book & record store is open and it’s awesome: Saturday was so beautiful that my husband, Michael, and I went out for a little day date. We be-bopped around town playing music with the windows down, and before hitting up the Big Dipper for lunch, we went to check out the newest store in downtown Owensboro. My friend Virginia Hardesty has opened up a book and record shop. It’s a whole family affair, actually, shout out to her awesome brothers! Displaced Pages is in a little spot on E. 4th Street across from Dee’s Diner. Apparently, but not surprisingly, we weren’t the only folks excited about the grand opening, because the parking lot was PACKED! We walked in to find lots of smiling faces, music playing, friends chatting, and immediately fell in love with the vibe. Well-organized, unique and colorful decor, great music playing, and a comfy hangout area that felt like we were visiting a really cool friend’s house.

Miami, FL | Here’s How You Can Meet Joe Jonas at Sweat Records This Weekend: Fans who want to meet Jonas face to face will need to pre-order his latest album through Sweat’s website. Fresh off his recent visit to Caracas Bakery Biscayne, Florida Man Joe Jonas will stop by Sweat Records this Saturday, May 24, for a meet-and-greet with fans. The Little Haiti record store, which recently celebrated its landmark 20th anniversary, announced this weekend that the eldest JoBro (JoeBro?) will visit the shop to promote the release of his new album, Music for People Who Believe in Love, due out this Friday, May 23. The record is his first solo release since 2011’s Fastlife. Fans who want to get up close and personal with Jonas at the all-ages event will need to pre-order a CD or LP via Sweat’s website and select “free local pickup.”

Staten Island, NY | Vinyl collectors flock to Staten Island for annual record fair: Hundreds of vinyl connoisseurs and budding collectors once again descended upon Flagship Brewing Co. in Tompkinsville Sunday for Maker Park Radio’s fourth annual record fair, looking to add to their collections and help support the non-profit streaming radio station. Tom Ferrie, who co-founded the station with Kristin Wallace in 2017, said the fair has become an extremely important fundraising event, as grants for the arts have become much more difficult to acquire over the last several years. Dropping the needle at 11 a.m., 14 vendors were spread over 26 tables, the most in the fair’s history, Ferrie noted. The vendors offered recommendations and talked music with attendees who could be seen leaning over thousands of bins, flipping through tens of thousands of 45s, LPs and 78s, as well as a smaller assortment of CDs and cassettes.

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TVD Radar: Willie Colón and Rubén Blades, Metiendo mano! reissue in stores 7/11

VIA PRESS RELEASE | Craft Latino proudly announces the return of Metiendo mano!, the influential 1977 debut from Willie Colón and Rubén Blades that started it all.

In the late ’70s, bestselling bandleader, producer, and trumpet player Willie Colón and Panamanian singer-songwriter Rubén Blades forged a musical partnership, blending Blades’ socio-political lyricism with Colón’s innovative approach to salsa music, resulting in what would become known as “conscious salsa.” The first of four LPs by Colón and Blades, Metiendo mano! changed the Latin music landscape with thought-provoking tracks like “Pablo Pueblo,” “Plantación adentro,” and “Según el color.”

The album, which has long been out of print in the US, returns to its original format on July 11th, featuring all-analog mastering and 180-gram vinyl. A limited-edition (only 300) “KO Red” color vinyl variant is available exclusively at Fania’s online store, bundled with a Fania Retro logo T-shirt. Both vinyl options are available for pre-order.

The story begins a decade earlier with Willie Colón (b. 1950). A Latin GRAMMY® Lifetime Achievement Award winner and multiple GRAMMY® nominee, Colón was instrumental in shaping the sound of salsa through his prolific work on and off the stage. The Bronx native launched his storied career at just 15 years old when he signed to New York’s own Fania Records.

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TVD Radar: J.D. Crowe and the New South,
The New South root
beer vinyl reissue in stores 6/6

VIA PRESS RELEASE | Virtually no other album anywhere in history is known to its audience by its label number. Not Kind of Blue, nor Pet Sounds, Glenn Gould’s Goldberg Variations, none. Except this one. Rounder 44. Probably the most seminal bluegrass album of all time. Notice we didn’t say modern bluegrass, though it originally came out in 1975. That’s because, unlike, say, Aereo Plain by John Hartford (who contributed notes to the original package, reproduced here), The New South didn’t reinvent bluegrass. It perfected it.

Bandleader and banjoist supreme J.D. Crowe got his start as a teenager in Jimmy Martin’s Sunny Mountain Boys, before returning to Kentucky and forming The Kentucky Mountain Boys. That band morphed over the years to become The New South, boasting probably the most formidable line-up any American band of any genre has enjoyed. Bassist Bob Sloane (of The Kentucky Colonels) was the first to join, followed by one legend after another: fiddle and mandolin player Ricky Skaggs, dobroist Jerry Douglas, and guitarist/vocalist Tony Rice.

Together, they were pure magic: technically brilliant but soulful, inventive but disciplined, each a virtuoso but still part of the unit. And, oh, those harmonies! The New South is the cornerstone of any bluegrass collection. Of course, a group this talented wasn’t destined to last long. Within a year, each member went their own way, pioneering progressive bluegrass with each successive project. But the one album they recorded together, Rounder 44, is THE ONE.

Real Gone’s reissue of The New South features two sets of added liner notes, one by guitarist Skip Heller and one by mandolinist Jarrod Walker, along with the bonus tracks “Why Don’t You Tell Me So” and “Cryin’ Holy” with Emmylou Harris. We’re pressing 1,000 copies of this classic in root beer vinyl—don’t you dare miss it!

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Graded on a Curve:
Joe Cocker,
Joe Cocker!

Remembering Joe Cocker, born on this day in 1944.Ed.

If you’re going to write a piece about the late, great Joe Cocker, or so it seems to me, that piece should be every bit as spastic and twitching all over the place as the feller himself. When he was singing that is. I don’t know as Joe walked the streets gesticulating and twitching and wringing his hands and all. If he did, God bless him.

Anyway, I tried to write a spastic and twitching review of 1969’s Joe Cocker! but gave up after sentence one, because the man did it better than I could ever do. He was possessed by genius, and told those who would exorcise said genius to piss off. A voice as gravelly and soulful and great as his came with a cost, and if that cost was that he twist himself into pretzel-like contortions ever time he sang, so be it.

The early Cocker was a genius of such magnitude that his idea of a great gig was coming on stage, vomiting on the front row, and passing out. A real showman, our Joe. But if his gravel-grinding voice was a gift from Heaven, it need be said that it was not the only reason Joe Cocker! is an indispensable piece of vinyl as you should turn red with shame for not owning.

No, Joe Cocker! is a classic due in part to the pure dead brilliant performances of the people behind the voice, namely his backing outfit the Grease Band, to say nothing of Leon Russell, Sneaky Pete Kleinow, Clarence White, and a veritable heavenly choir of backing vocalists including Rita Coolidge, Merry Clayton, Bonnie Bramlett, and Shirley Matthews, amongst others. I take my hat off in particular to Chris Stainton, the fella as played piano in the Grease Band. His every performance is hair-raising, and he makes the LP worth owning all by his own self.

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UK Artist of the Week: Maya Law

Neo-soul newcomer Maya Law has teamed up with producer, beat-maker, and multi-instrumentalist edbl (Ed Black) on new single “Final Round,” out now. The single is taken from edbl’s upcoming Archives Mixtape, out on 6th June 2025 via edible recordings.

Combining soul and pop, Maya Law’s music warmly invites you alongside as she navigates life as a queer woman, offering refreshingly candid snapshots into her own mental well-being. Latest single”Final Round” is no exception as it oozes smooth, sultry, sexy vibes akin to the likes of Pip Millett and Solange.

Maya is immensely inspired by Amy Winehouse, and credits the late singer’s ability to weave heartbreak into beautiful music as a big reference point in her own music. Having already shared stages with the likes of Connie Constance, Loyle Carner, Andreya Triana, and Akala in recent years, its pretty obvious Maya is definitely one to watch.

edbl’s free-flowing beats have amassed upwards of 130 million streams and have garnered support from BBC Radio 1Xtra’s Jamz Supernova, BBC Radio 2’s Jo Whiley, Jazz FM, BBC 6 Music’s Don Letts, and BBC Introducing to name a few. With his roots as a session musician, Ed strives to keep his sound as live as possible. Aside from the drums, everything you hear on a track—from the keys and the guitar to the trumpet—will be live instruments. The result is a free-flowing pool of textured sounds, each collaboration teeming with natural synergy.

“Final Round” is in stores now via edible recordings.

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Graded on a Curve: Thalia Zedek Band,
The Boat Outside Your Window

On May 23, the latest full-length record from the Thalia Zedek Band arrives; like the previous five it’s available through the auspices of the Thrill Jockey label of Chicago, Illinois, USA. And like those prior volumes, The Boat Outside Your Window documents its maker’s enduring growth as a guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, and bandleader, as bassist Winston Braman and drummer Gavin McCarthy return to a lineup that’s solidified by pedal steel guitarist Karen Sarkisian. The 10-song set, released on limited coke bottle clear vinyl, compact disc, and digital, reinforces Zedek as one of the underground rock scene’s most reliable and yet consistently undersung figures.

Thalia Zedek’s musical journey began at the dawn of the 1980s in the vicinity of Boston, Massachusetts. The band was White Women, long represented by a sole song, “Midge,” released on a compilation tape in 1981 by the Propeller label. The same tape offered “Catholic Boy” by Dangerous Birds, a somewhat higher profile outfit featuring Zedek; they released the single “Alpha Romeo” b/w “Smile In Your Face” in 1982. After that, it was Uzi, a highly regarded but short-lived outfit that broke ground on the fringes of post-punk and art rock, releasing one EP, “Sleep Asylum,” on Homestead Records in 1986.

Zedek made a bigger splash on the national scene when she joined New York City’s Live Skull for the albums Dusted (1987, Homestead) and Positraction (1989, Caroline). Upon Live Skull’s disbandment, Zedek joined Come, a critically lauded heavy indie two-guitar four-piece who made a big splash with their 1992 debut 11:11 for Matador Records.

Come had a nice run of it on record before winding down in 2001; from there, Zedek branched out on her own, first with two solo studio efforts under her own name, Been There and Gone (2001, Matador) and Trust Not Those In Whom Without Some Touch of Madness (2004, Thrill Jockey), and then with The Boat Outside Your Window, six records fronting the Thalia Zedek Band and four as one-third of the ensemble E, alongside guitarist James Sanford and until their most recent LP, drummer Gavin McCarthy doing double duty; he’s replaced on 2024’s Living Waters by Ernie Kim.

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A morning mix of news for the vinyl inclined

In rotation: 5/20/25

Freehold, NJ | People are excited about this new record shop opening in Freehold, NJ: Vinyl records are making a big comeback right now. People are fed up with streaming services increasing their prices year after year while still making you sit through commercials, and also not paying artists for their music, and streaming music at a lower quality than it was recorded at. …This shop seems like it’s going to be really neat; it’s a small, little mom-and-pop record store that’s just getting ready to open in Freehold. They feature records from all sorts of different genres, and their merch is really fun-looking. On top of that, they buy old vinyls, cassettes, and CDs so if you’re looking to clear out some room in your attic or basement, Boro Record can probably help you out. Boro Records also runs a pretty detailed online shop, and they ship across the United States, so if you have an vinyl head in your life, this is a great local shop to check out.

Poole, UK | Red Rock Records thriving in Poole with young customers: Young people are keeping cassettes and video tapes alive, says a Poole record shop owner. After running Red Rock Records for nearly three decades, Wayne Hopkins said it is an “ever changing business” and that shops must adapt to survive. “It’s sink or swim, you have no choice, you just have to get on with it,” said Wayne. He took over the shop, just off Poole High Street on North Street, 27 years ago after the founder returned to the building trade. “In those days it was just a different world. “Now there’s online and ordering, but back then if it was a quiet day he would just be sat around bored.” Wayne said he started buying and selling his own items in the 1980s, adding “it was the glory days before the internet.”

Worcester, UK | How record shop reopened after owner’s six month Covid battle: The one-man band owner of a record shop has reopened after a six-month health battle which put him in hospital as he fights to get back into the groove. Mick Bishop reopened Market Hall Records in The Shambles in Worcester yesterday (Wednesday) for the first time since last November. He was forced to close the business for six months because he developed health problems which led to him being hospitalised three times. The 60-year-old said he was now looking forward to welcoming back his loyal customers but confessed he was ‘still suffering.’ He said: “I’ve just got to get some strength back. The main issue was long term Covid.” After becoming ill in November, Mr Bishop said he had been in Worcestershire Royal Hospital for stays of one, two and three weeks and had also suffered from bronchitis and other respiratory problems, delaying his return to the job he loves.

Tarpon Springs, FL | Stay Tuned Records in Tarpon Springs is a fun, funky tribute to glorious vinyl: Open 7 days a week, the shop is a perfect fit on eclectic Tarpon Avenue. Whether you love Sabrina Carpenter or dig Ozzy Osbourne, the new Stay Tuned Records in Tarpon Springs has what you’re grooving for. This charming tribute to glorious vinyl and delicious album art is open 7 days a week on fun, funky Tarpon Avenue in the downtown district. It’s owned by Doug Lanza and Aimee Brigmond, a young couple with music in their blood. “Whatever you like, we’re trying to get it for you,” says Doug. “We want punk in here. We want pop. We want jazz, blues, rock.” They also sell new and used vinyl and offer great, affordable deals. They have CDs, cassettes, T-shirts, and more.

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TVD Live Shots: Smallpools with Rec
Hall at the House of Blues, 5/15

Celebrating the 10-year anniversary of their album Lovetap!, Smallpools has hit the road to play the record all the way through. The tour started on May 1, and after about two weeks, they stopped by the House of Blues in Chicago.

The historic venue in Chicago has seen some legendary acts since opening in 1996, and is one of the more iconic names in Chicago. Smallpools officially commenced 12 years ago, and Lovetap! was their first album, released in 2015. Still as relevant as ever, three of the band’s top five most listened to songs on Spotify are from this album. Like many anniversary tours, the band played the entire record all the way through, except they held the second song till the end. “Dreaming” and its 122M streams on Spotify rightfully earned its spot as the encore for the tour. Besides that, it’s from beginning to end, starting with “American Love” and ending with “(Submarine).”

If you don’t immediately recognize the band’s name or album, I guarantee you will recognize their songs. They have that unique level of stealth fame in the music industry where they have certain songs everyone knows, but maybe doesn’t realize it’s Smallpools. Regardless of whether people know the name or not, if you put on this album, it is sure to get a few “Oh, who’s this band you’re playing?” They’re upbeat, they’re energetic, they’re fun, they’re everything you could look for.

This show was supported by an up-and-coming Southern California band, Rec Hall. After just an opening set, I am already a fan. They have the stage presence of a band that has been doing this for years, and in my opinion, that’s what it takes. They are interesting to watch, they’re fun, they clearly enjoy what they’re doing, and they’re exactly who should be opening for Smallpools. They remind me of a young Briston Maroney or Almost Monday. I’d recommend checking them out as they grow.

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TVD Radar: Jamiroquai, Dynamite 20th anniversary 2LP smoke vinyl in stores 6/20

VIA PRESS RELEASE | Celebrating its 20th anniversary this June, Jamiroquai’s Dynamite will be released as a double-LP set on Dynamite Smoke vinyl. The original album will be featured alongside a bonus CD of the original promo album sampler, which features different pre-release track versions. The album will be released on 13 June, and pre-orders can be placed now.

Dynamite was the hotly anticipated sixth album from the band. It followed the release of their 2001 album A Funk Odyssey that had garnered critical and commercial success globally. Also in the intervening period between the two albums, the band were exposed to rafts of new fans when their 1999 track “Canned Heat” became the focal point of cult-turned-smash-hit movie Napoleon Dynamite (2004) when the movie’s namesake lead performed his now infamous dance.

Originally released in the UK on 20 June 2005, its lead signal and first track on the record “Feels Just Like It Should” became the band’s fourth number-one on the US Dance Chart that also broke into the UK Top 10 Singles Chart and was accompanied with a Grammy Award nominated video that features Jay Kay going from nerd to himself and also adopt the role of the Candyman—all of who adopt Jay’s unique style and moves.

Dynamite, like all of their previous albums, continued their great album chart success, this time entering at number three. The second single, “Seven Days in Sunny June,” entered the top 15 and, in 2006, saw the band’s relationship with smash hit movies continue, appearing in The Devil Wears Prada. “(Don’t) Give Hate A Chance” was released as the third single, once again featuring a hugely captivating video, this time with an animation of the band’s infamous “Buffaloman” logo throwing some signature Jay dance moves.

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