For Sale: DJ Shadow’s Record Collection: “This is a chance for producers, dealers, and DJ’s to access seldom-seen and eclectic vinyl at affordable prices. These are all records I have other copies of, and I’ve decided that I don’t need to keep multiples. Think of it as a year-long thrift-store hunt consolidated into two days…. Vinyl is so fetishised, but I actually covet other formats equally. For example, ideally, I would want James Brown’s ‘Payback’ album on reel, cassette, and 8-track in addition to vinyl. If it existed as a first-run consumer product, I need it in my collection.”
Latonia record store and community staple needs community support to stay viable, Are other area vinyl stores feeling the heat?: Phil Breen still greets customers with a joke and a smile, exactly like he has since he first started running his own record store in 1989. At the height of business, Breen ran six locations of Phil’s Music and Memories, but times have been hard on the record industry. He’s down to a single location in Latonia, on Winston Avenue next to Klingenberg’s Hardware store. While his staple product, record albums, has seen a bit of a resurgence in the past couple of years, it hasn’t been quite enough for Breen to justify seven-days-a-week business. He’s still there every day, but may not be able to be much longer, unless he sees an increase in business.
Wreck sends vehicle into the front door of a Kansas City record store: Stephen Rector froze for a second. He couldn’t believe what he saw headed toward his record store Wednesday afternoon. Rector is owner of Revolution Records at 1830 Locust St. in the Crossroads Arts District. He was tending to customers when he witnessed a two-vehicle crash that sent one car careening into the front door of the business. The vehicle was driven by a woman who had a toddler in the back seat, Rector said. “I heard a sound, looked up and I saw a car headed for the door,” he said. “I warned the two (customers) that were in here — I’m not sure what I said, but I probably can’t repeat what I said.”
Proto-punk: 10 records that paved the way for ’76: Punk liked to posit itself as a year zero, an existential yell rising up out of nothing more than pure opposition to the staid aspects of the mid-’70s music scene. In this year of punk celebrations we’re awash with images, reminiscences and tributes rehashing and repeating the idea of punk as a singular phenomenon. Of course, the truth is punk had deep roots in the history of rock and pop music while also possessing very recent antecedents and influences in the immediate (and oft-disregarded) early years of the 1970s. It takes nothing away from the explosion of those years to acknowledge that while punk may have seen ‘no future’ it had an already impressive past that provided it with numerous sources on which to build. Here we look at ten artists who laid the groundwork for punk.
