Destined to be a 2018 highlight, the California Roots Music and Arts Festival, kicks off tomorrow, and per last year’s California Roots Vol. 1, they’ve pressed the bands hitting the stage in 2018 onto a second comp, California Roots Vol. 2, which you can pre-order right here. To get you stoked for this weekend’s festival and the […]
Time was when alongside, say Prefab Sprout, The Blue Nile, Danny Wilson, Del Amitri, and Aztec Camera, the Trashcan Sinatras were among a classic era with their stunning debut release Cake, our original cassette copy worn down to a wobbly, stringy mess given its frequent rotation. The difference between the Sinatras and the other aforementioned […]
Friends, there’s a reason we tend to put special releases on your radar daily—it’s often for purchase at your local record shop, and at times because we’ll have one to give away to one of you. Such is the case with the gorgeous 3-LP set, The Who, Live at the Fillmore East 1968 which is in stores […]
Friends, not only are we living in the material world, we’re living in the physical world, one in which the lovingly assembled Concert for George—the live performance at London’s Royal Albert Hall in memory of George Harrison one year after his passing—has arrived on store shelves for the first time on vinyl. And we have […]
“The physical nature of vinyl has always had a transportive effect on me. Maybe it’s the extra steps in the listening process—flipping a few switches, unsheathing the record, lifting the needle—that seem to always place vinyl records in a specific time and place in my mind, but the effect is unmatched by any other listening […]
It’s often been asked of us, for a vinyl-centric and certainly record store-centric website, what’s with all the live photography? Simply stated, it’s the beating heart of the artistry that puts those vinyl records in the record shops, and it’s also the live performance circuit where the artists are making the bulk of their bank […]
To herald the arrival of the 40th Anniversary of News of the World, Queen’s monumental ’77 release and its accompanying special box set—in stores now!—a special Record Store Day Black Friday edition of the iconic double A-side single “We Are The Champions” / “We Will Rock You” arrives in shops this coming Friday. But heck, […]
PHOTO: STEVE GULLICK | Those of you with sharp memories will recall that it was only just last week when TVD’s Alan Snodgrass chronicled The Jesus and Mary Chain at the Fillmore in San Francisco, writing “…frontman Jim Reid commanded the open stage, a long mic cable wound up and clenched in his hand as […]
What’s more rare than a Led Zeppelin reunion tour? Why, that would be a test pressing of Robert Plant’s brand new LP Carry Fire—however we have one to give away to one of you. First, some official background on the new release which is in stores right this very moment: Robert Plant’s new album, Carry […]
While there are any number of Beach Boys Best-of comps resting in the racks, a long overdue appraisal of Brian Wilson’s solo career arrived in shops only last month—Rhino Records’ astute appraisal Playback: The Brian Wilson Anthology. We have three copies to give away to three of you, but first however some official background. Brian […]
“My first record was Let It Be by The Beatles. It was given to me by a random woman (I can’t remember where) when I was in the 8th grade. At the time, I had just started getting into the Beatles and music in general, so I didn’t have a record player. I had to […]
“We’ve always had an eclectic and wide-ranging taste in music. After a heavy phase of Relient K and Audio Adrenaline early on in our music listening lives, our oldest sister Chelsey was given a burnt CD of The Essential Bob Dylan that we quickly snagged. That pretty much opened the floodgates, like it has for […]
Sharkmuffin, the duo of Tarra Thiessen and Natalie Kirch, released their sophomore LP Tsuki in early May before hitting the road for a UK tour. The Brooklynites accurately describe their genre as “opti-mystic glam-grunge” and plan to one day serve cocktails and ice cream from the world’s first punk-rock brunch truck. (Sign us up.) Tsuki is […]
A beautifully produced pop record from a bygone era that dips its toe into the country, the americana, the folk, the cosmic, the psychedelic, and with songs like “Red Lips” we’re even hearing a nod to the Twin Peaks theme song. It’s the kind of record, and Cassandra Jenkins the kind of woman, that David Crosby would […]
Formed in 1984, Fire Records has a huge number of releases in its catalog, and this past week we’ve celebrated their thirty three and a third years of pushing platters into your local mom and pop shops by taking a look at thirty three and a third of the label’s highlights pressed to vinyl. But we’re […]
