Love
And there's more. You remove the inner sleeves from the outer jacket to find not only are they sturdy and colorful, but they are accompanied by a large, full-color poster!
Stephen Mejias
Orange
Smile opens to this nightmarish orange scene of rocket ships and industrial revolution. Or something.
Smile
Boris is new to me, but Smile is the Japanese trio's 14th full-length album. The album boasts a metallic silver gatefold jacket and is limited to just 1000 copies.
Boris
I can't stop smiling. Boris arrived today.
My Bat-Lightning Heart
Alright, who's been hiding Natasha Khan from me? Friends, don't you know me by now? Is it not obvious that I would absolutely adore this woman?
The Dandelion in the Weed Patch
A couple of obvious errors here, but an">http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/aug2008/db20080822_… encouraging piece, nevertheless. What I especially like, of course, is this little bit:
Very, Very, Very, Very
A couple of weeks back, a staff writer from the">http://www.observer-reporter.com/OR/Story/08-15-turntables">the Observer Reporter contacted me.
The East Village Radio Music Festival
You can walk by 21 First Avenue on any given day to see some of our city's most beautiful and talented DJs spinning rare and wonderful vinyl. It's true! It's East">http://www.eastvillageradio.com/">East Village Radio. There's a big glass window. Look in and you might see Queen Majesty or Melody Nelson or Mark Ronson or a few of the colorfully dressed peeps from The Fader, those taste-makers. In fact, East Village Radio provides more than 70 unique, and often excellent, two-hour shows, covering musical genres from rock and electronic to jazz and folk to roots and reggae. Lots of good stuff.
Paul Mawhinney's Record-Rama
Here is the video that people are talking about:
Numbers, Percentages, and Cold Fact
The music industry is responding to our recent enthusiasm for vinyl, reports">http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/business/la-et-vinyl18-2008au… the Los Angeles Times. Original Recordings Group, a small vinyl-only label, needed only 24 hours to sell 4000 copies of TV on the Radio's excellent Return To Cookie Mountain. The label is on the way to grossing their first million dollars, and expects to double its vinyl output in 2009. Meanwhile, Warner Bros. has increased their vinyl production from 2000 copies per title to up to 15,000 copies. Such increases, of course, have a dramatic impact on pressing plants. Record Technology Inc's average pressing per title has doubled to 3000 units over the last few years.