TVD’s Record Score is brought to you by TVD NYC’s own Mike Newman, who recently scored some great records and is now intent on sharing them with you. New stuff and old stuff, straight from the vinyl to your ears!
We’ll always provide links in the playlist where you can score the records online, but always remember to hit up your local independent record store!
The playlist for this fourth edition of the Record Score podcast follows after the jump. Hope you dig!
Since we’re all a tight-knit music-lovin’ community, we created this segment so that some of our good friends who are doing good things in the industry of human happiness could share the records that they’ve been diggin’ on lately.
This edition of Grooves Shared comes from Black Gold Records’ co-owner and head record buyer, Jeff Ogiba. Jeff has been buying and selling records for nearly a decade. Originally from the suburbs of New Jersey, Ogiba had many collecting hobbies before getting caught up in records. With his love for music and collecting combined, he figured he might as well make a living off of the countless records he was beginning to encounter. The rest was history.
Black Gold opened in Carroll Gardens Brooklyn in the spring of 2010. Black Gold’s concept includes new and used record sales alongside a coffee bar. The bins are stocked with a large variety of music from indie to jazz, blues, rock, funk, soul, punk, metal and everything in-between. The walls are adorned with antiques with a focus on the occult that range from the Victorian era to the mid century. Nearly everything is for sale. The shop has received an overwhelming amount of positive feedback, press, and support. And this here editor digs it fully.
We all know that Howlin Rain‘s new Rick Rubin-produced album, The Russian Wilds, kicks major ass and Howlin Rain is at their absolute magical best in a live setting, so tonight’s show at the Studio at Webster Hall is a big duh! But what makes this show more ‘duh’ is the amount of talent in all the opening bands too.
Like the dudes pictured above (chicks can be dudes too, btw), the Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound. I love their new album, Manzanita. It super-grooves! Take a listen…
And then there’s the fantastic psych-blues duo, Golden Animals. Dig…
Once again, we’ve got another far-out slab o’ wax to grace your turntable. This one is the self-titled debut from a band called Anywhere. You might even call it a super-group. Read on for the full scoop on Anywhere.
“Anywhere began as a LA/SF collaborative project started by musicians Christian Eric Beaulieu and Cedric Bixler Zavala. Fresh off years of writing and touring as co-founder of Bay Area acid punk extremists Triclops!, Christian decided to immerse himself in the resonant universe of acoustic guitar and began performing solo under the moniker Liquid Indian.
In early 2010 while in Los Angeles to perform at an art opening of mutual friend artist Sonny Kay, he befriended Cedric (singer of The Mars Volta) who was a DJ for the event. The two exchanged numbers and planned to record something acoustic rooted in the open tuning, eastern raga style Christian was delving into. Months later the pair met in Los Angeles, enlisted the mobile engineering talent of Toshi Kasai (Big Business) and tracked the new material in 2 days at The Melvins practice space in downtown Los Angeles. During that same visit Christian played live on “The Watt from Pedro Show” as the musical guest of Mike Watt (of The Stooges, fIREHOSE, Minutemen).
I was way too excited when I heard about this reissue from the phenomenal Light In The Attic Records! So excited that I hooked up a copy for one of you cats. It’s the great Thin Lizzy debut album from way back in 1971, known also of course as the first in the triumvirate of albums from the Eric Bell era.
Lizzy would later become known for their twin-guitar, or dual-lead, sound. You know, the way the two guitars sound in unison on “The Boys Are Back In Town.” Well, the first three Lizzy albums had only one guitarist, the great Eric Bell.
A little info on Bell from Wikipedia: “…the pressures of recording, touring and the excesses of the rock star lifestyle began to take their toll. He left the band after a New Year’s Eve concert in 1973, after throwing his guitar into the air in the middle of the concert, pushing the amplifiers into the audience and storming off stage.
For the past 2 and a half years, I’ve hosted a monthly event in New York called the BBiB Record Club. The “BBiB” stands for Beyond Beyond is Beyond. The “Record Club” part stands for music-loving friends gathering to share in that too often forgotten ritual of actually “listening” to an album.
Here’s a little recent press via BlackBook about one of our group vinyl meditations.
Well, Franny and I are taking a lil vacation to LA, so I thought “Why don’t we have a record club out there?!” So off ya go! Here’s the info:
Well, as we head into 4th of July sun and fun, we might as well keep the vibe going for the next two weeks…with the help of NYC’s River to River Festival!
The events are free and open to the public and take place at different scenic piers and Hudson River-centric locales up and down Manhattan’s west-side and downtown parks.
Some of the highlights of the final two weeks of the River to River Festival inlude:
I believe the new Tame Impala album might be “finished, mixed, mastered, mooged, broinged, and beeped.”
Watch the Australian psychsters’ announcement:
Sign up here for more Tame Impala info!
I was just turned on to the very cool subscription based record club, Grapefruit Records and thought I’d turn you on in return.
I found out about Grapefruit because I’m a big fan of Meg Baird and Espers. Knowing this, someone at Grapefruit emailed to let me know that their most recent release was from the Baird Sisters, which is Meg and her sister Laura.
Until You Find Your Green is a beautifully quiet folk album with magical intertwining of wooden instruments and golden voices. One that sounds perfect on vinyl. And even though Grapefruit Records is a subscription-based record club, you can still purchase albums a la carte.
“Grapefruit’s mission is to expose fans to exclusive, challenging new music on vinyl while ensuring that the musicians actually get paid for creating their art.”
Hey dudes, there’s a great new album that I’m in love with from a brand-new psychedelic outfit from Nashville called The Sufis and I want to put a vinyl copy of their debut on your turntable too.
It comes out on July 3rd on Cornershop’s Ample Play Records. The Sufis demo was handed off to the Cornershop guys from another Nashville psych band that I love called The Paperhead, and they knew straightaway that they wanted to release this album. Cornershop states:
“The Sufis’s album was so instant, that we knew instantly we had to put it out on Ample Play. It’s incredibly adventurous and memorable. They record using old analogue recording equipment and effects, some of which they have rebuilt from scratch. The musicianship on the record is stunning.
We also love the fact that the only show they played (that we’re aware of prior to recording the album) is where they set themselves up in the middle of a large room and arranged their speaker/amps in all four corners. They had the audience in a circle around them. Part gig, part happening and part experiment. This is a group with ideas, with psychedelic ideas.”
How about a little something lovely for your weekend? This fantastic new Blues Control video featuring Tarik Davidson (aka Allstar the MTA Mime) should do the trick. Not to mention it’s shot all over our gorgeous NYC.
Plus be sure to grab the vinyl of the new Blues Control album, Valley Tangents, due out June 19th on Drag City Records. It’s a perfect next step for the genre-defying keyboard, guitar, and tape music duo who prove that the music that means the most to us never concerned itself with being classified into a genre during its conception.
So until the vinyl is there to carry you away, take a few minutes to be transported by clicking above.
It’s come to my attention that one of my favorite vinyl spots from my young manhood is being threatened by yet another soul-crushing, small biz-bulldozing corporation known as Walgreens.
I’ve lived in NYC for the last 11 years but remember Everybody’s Records as one of the best indie record shops in all of Cincinnati. And I wish some of the shops in NYC were as good as Everybody’s! And it was owned, and I believe still is, by an old high school friend’s mom, Marilyn Kirby…who just so happens to be cool as fuck.
So even though we don’t have a TVD Cincinnati edition, it is all of our duties to look out for the great vinyl shops across the country. And shit, who the fuck needs another Walgreens?! And as this article states, there is already a Walgreens a tenth of a mile away from this location. And another article tells us there are “no less than 5 Walgreens within three miles.”
So fight the good fight for mom and pop record shops wherever you live and Cincinnatians, it’s time to hop to it now! Here’s your list of city council people to write to:
Well, as our economy makes it harder and harder for real independent small businesses to thrive, or even stay afloat, in these here United States of America, there are cities that still care about keeping this non-corporate part of our culture alive…like our beloved NYC!
I got an email a couple days ago from Nick Bodor, co-owner of the Lower East Side establishment, Cake Shop. I can’t tell you how many great rock shows I’ve seen in Cake Shop’s sweaty little basement with the Christmas lights above the “stage.” The last one being the absolutely kickass Mount Carmel. And EVERY time I’ve been to the Cake Shop, I’ve had a good time!
And the upstairs is great too: affordable drinks, friendly service, plush seating, good vibes, a small well-curated selection of vinyl, and of course CAKE, duh.
So the Cake Shop is having some financial trouble and could use the help of people like us who give a shit and don’t want to see the Lower East Side turn into a strip mall:
“Beck will make his Third Man Records Blue Series debut May 28th, releasing the one-off single “I Just Started Hating Some People Today” b/w “Blue Randy”.
The record will be available day of release via Third Man Records, iTunes, and of course the Third Man Records store at 623 7th Avenue South in Nashville, and finer retailers nationwide. There will be no pre-orders for this single.
Both tracks were recorded in 2011 while Beck was in Nashville working on new material for his long awaited next album. The songs spontaneously came together at the Third Man studio on Beck’s final day in Nashville.
Inspired by the title of “Blue Randy,” an extremely limited run of 100 Tri Color 7-inches will be available beginning 10am on Saturday, June 2nd at Randy’s Records at 157 East 900 South in Salt Lake City. An even scarcer scattering of 50 Tri Colors will be randomly inserted in mail orders for the single placed with Third Man.”
