Blog Profile / The Vinyl District
| URL : | http://vinyldistrict.blogspot.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Music / Rock & Pop | |
| Posts on Regator: | 3254 | |
| Posts / Week: | 12.2 | |
| Archived Since: | April 11, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
TVD Remembers Ray Manzarek
BY SHAUN McGANN | I never got a chance to talk to Ray Manzarek on the telephone, but I almost did. Sorta. I was sitting in on a friend’s radio show and he had Mr. Manzarek on the line, “Hello, Evan, how are you?” I heard him say. Then the call dropped. Not deterred my [...]
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TVD Premiere: There’s Talk, “The Salt”
Here at TVD HQ, music arrives daily. By the minute, by the hour, perhaps too much. So, when asked to premiere a track, the thinking is well, this really needs to be outstanding. Which is why we’re delighted to premiere “The Salt” from San Francisco’s There’s Talk. Because it is. Outstanding.—Ed. “The first time I [...]
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Natasha Kozaily: The TVD First Date
“My parents grew up on opposite sides of the globe, coming from different circumstances and world-views. Despite their life’s hardships and trials, music was salvation even in the most remote of places.” “My mother recounts growing up in the 60s and 70s in the Cayman Islands where the rest of the world seemed like a [...]
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Graded on a Curve: Blank Realm, Go Easy
Blank Realm has been knocking around Brisbane, Australia for over half a decade, spurting out small-press underground rumblings on all sorts of formats. But with the release of Go Easy they are swaggering confidently into a bigger spotlight. The record actually came out last year and kicked up a fair amount of positive dust, but [...]
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TVD Ticket Giveaway: Futurebirds at the 9:30 Club, 5/23
Athens, Greece is a city known for its great history and culture. Across the Atlantic in Athens, Georgia, emerges an American, indie brand of rock with a hint of psychedelia known as Futurebirds. The five-piece band is composed of Thomas Johnson, Carter King, Dennis Love, Brannen Miles, and Daniel Womack. Formed in 2008, Futurebirds gained a [...]
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Dear Georgiana: The TVD First Date
“Tucked away in a cupboard was where all the dusty vinyl lived in the house where I grew up. Being a child of the ’80s, record players were not something I remember. They were slowly being pushed out of style with the new and beholden on the shoulder boombox and compact discs making their way [...]
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Passion Pit: The TVD Interview
Electro-pop act Passion Pit has been gaining speed since its beginnings in 2007 as people across the country latch onto their clever beats, juxtaposed with frontman Michael Angelakos’ distinctive falsetto. This band, however, is more than just a smart orchestration of keyboards, synths, and drums. Upon closer inspection, it becomes evident that Angelakos’ music and [...]Show More Summary
TVD Live: Titus Andronicus at the Black Cat, 5/19
Ah, New Jersey. How I loathe it. For giving us the likes of Bon Jovi (that’s not a steel horse you’re riding, amigo, it’s the dildo of mediocrity); Patti Smith (poet-priestess my ass—try the bard of babble and blather); and Bruce Springsteen, who calls himself the Boss and as everybody knows all bosses are assholes, [...]
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TVD Video Premiere: Casey Shea, “I Don’t Wanna Wait”
“I was definitely part of the compact disc generation, but in my early teens, I began receiving Beatles albums on vinyl as birthday presents and gifts from family and friends of my parents.” “I had become a bit of a Beatles freak, and everyone knew that anything that had to do with the Fab Four [...]
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TVD’s The Idelic Hour with Jon Sidel
Greetings from Laurel Canyon! Night before last, I came home tired from a long week of shuffling from meetings to gigs, gigs to studios, and back to more meetings. Although I thought about “hitting the hay,” this week’s Idelic Hour weighed heavily on my mind. The truth is I have my issues with the show. [...]
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Savages map brief US tour for July
The female four-piece look to carry the torch as the next great post-punk revival band for a new generation. “Savages’ intention is to create a sound, indestructible, musically solid, written for the stage and designed with enough nuances to provide a wide range of emotions,” reads the first line to the fmanifesto posted by the [...]
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Lady Lamb the Beekeeper: The TVD Interview
We first heard about Lady Lamb the Beekeeper from fellow Brooklyn darlings Pearl and the Beard. As it turns out, word of mouth is a fabulous way to find new music and in the case of Lady Lamb, this suggestion offered us a musician who engages her crowd with her rawness, sheer musical prowess, and [...]
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TVD Recommends: Roadshow Revival: A Tribute to the Music of Johnny Cash, 6/15
“Roadshow Revival: A Tribute to the Music of Johnny Cash” is set to take over the Ventura County Fairgrounds on Father’s Day weekend, Saturday, June 15. The fifth annual event will feature outlaw country, rockabilly, bluegrass, rock ‘n’ roll, and Johnny Cash tribute bands, as well as a pin-up girl pageant, hot rods, custom cars, [...]
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TVD Recommends: Mid City Bayou Boogaloo
It’s hard to believe but this weekend marks the 7th edition of the annual three-day music festival and celebration of Mid City. As usual, the organizers have some great music in store for you. Here are my picks. The full schedule is here. You can’t go wrong with the whole lineup on Friday afternoon and evening. Corey [...]
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(Re)Graded on a Curve: Shoes, Black Vinyl Shoes
Those with a serious jones for power pop might already be hip to the Numero Group label’s dandy 150-gm repressings of the early work from the killer Illinois group, Shoes. However, interested parties new to the band of John Murphy (vocals and bass), Jeff Murphy (vocals and guitar), Gary Klebe (vocals and guitar), and a [...]
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TVD Live: Ghost B.C. at the 9:30 Club, 5/13
Their live shows are referred to as “rituals.” They wear masks and robes and remain anonymous. Nearly every song is a celebration of Satan. The mystery that is Ghost B.C. continues to grow every day. The Swedish metal band burst onto the scene in 2010 with their debut album, Opus Eponymous. Soon they were all the [...]
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TVD Ticket Giveaway: Korn at the Fillmore Silver Spring, 5/21
From nu metal to dubstep, there’s really only one act that comes to mind when you say the band whose name is a misspelled fruit: Korn. The rockers who helped define pre-millennial guitar music are coming to The Fillmore Silver Spring on May 21, and we’ve got a pair of tickets to give away. How can [...]
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Laura Stevenson: The TVD Interview
“Whatever you want to ask me, I’m an open book of honesty right now,” Laura Stevenson tells me, laughing. And there was lots of laughing during our chat. For someone whose music has been called melancholic and dark, Laura Stevenson is remarkably cheery about her songwriting and her career. The former sorta-punk turned country-tinged songstress released her [...]Show More Summary
Black Dog Prowl: The TVD First Date and Video Premiere
We’re delighted to premiere the brand new video from Washington, DC’s Black Dog Prowl, “No Robots.” The video and single will both be available on May 21. —Ed. “How many times have you looked back at a seemingly insignificant decision only to realize you made a catastrophic mistake? Some probably have more experience with this than [...]
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Graded on a Curve: Rhinoceros, (s/t)
While not forgotten, the late-‘60s group known as Rhinoceros seem to be remembered less for their music and more for the circumstances of their formation. In the end that’s no great crime, but they did knock out two very solid LPs in ’68-’69 (and a final one in 1970 that frankly isn’t so good.) The [...]
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