Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Saturday, April 18, 2009
RECORD STORE DAY
well well well.
i'm willing to say that this year is the first since we've been open
that the recording industry has done us any favor.
the fact that Record Store Day and vinyl records have been pushed by the media
has really made a difference in our world.
THANK YOU MUSIC INDUSTRY!
THANK YOU RECORD STORE DAY!
i'm willing to say that this year is the first since we've been open
that the recording industry has done us any favor.
the fact that Record Store Day and vinyl records have been pushed by the media
has really made a difference in our world.
THANK YOU MUSIC INDUSTRY!
THANK YOU RECORD STORE DAY!
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Rolling out our Tops
THE TOP 30 RECORDS OF 2008
BY PETER GIANAKOPOULOS
GOLDFRAPP “SEVENTH TREE”
THE WEEK THAT WAS “S/T”
THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS “THE AGE OF THE UNDERSTATEMENT”
HERCULES AND LOVE AFFAIR “S/T”
FUCKED UP “THE CHEMISTRY OF COMMON LIFE”
THE HELIO SEQUENCE “KEEP YOUR EYES AHEAD”
GRACE JONES “HURRICANE”
ERYKAH BADU “NEW AMERYKAH P.1”
BABY DEE “SAFE INSIDE THE DAY”
BECK “MODERN GUILT”
PORTISHEAD “THIRD”
DUKE SPIRIT “NEPTUNE”
DAVID BYRNE/BRIAN ENO “EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS WILL HAPPEN TODAY”
AMADOU & MARIAM “WELCOME TO MALI”
BRAZILIAN GIRLS “NEW YORK CITY”
MRR-ADM “UNTITLED” 10” LP
LINDSTROM “WHERE YOU GO”
FLYING LOTUS “LOS ANGELES”
WIRE “OBJECT 47”
TED AUSTERLITZ “JOURNEY”
THE FIREMAN “ELECTRIC ARGUMENTS”
ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO “REAL ANIMAL”
Q-TIP “THE RENAISSANCE”
NOMO “GHOST ROCK”
MGMT “ORACULAR SPECTACULAR”
V.A. 1970’S ALGERIAN PROTO-RAI UNDERGROUND (LP)
V.A. NIGERIA ROCK SPECIAL
MOTORPSYCHO “LITTLE LUCID MOMENTS”
NURSE WITH WOUND “HUFFIN’ RAG BLUES”
V.A. ELASTE-V.2 SPACE DISCO
BEST REISSUE: DENNIS WILSON “PACIFIC OCEAN BLUE”
SONG OF THE YEAR: MGMT “ELECTRIC FEEL”
BEST OLD TITLE NEWLY DISCOVERED: MICHAEL CHAPMAN “RAINMAKER /FULLY QUALIFIED SURVIVOR” (2-FER CD)
Geoff’s Tops for 2008
1.Valerio Cosi - Collected Works
2. Leila - Blood, Looms and Blooms
3. Woven Hand - Ten Stones
4. Lulu Rouge - Bless You
5. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Pt. 1
6. Nurse with Wound - Bacteria Magnet/Huffin' Rag Blues
7. Nomo - Ghost Rock
8. VA: Elaste - Space Disco Vol. 2
9. Wire - Object 41/Read & Burn 3
10. Portishead - Third
11. Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
12. The Week That Was - s/t
13. Sam Ragga Band - In Dub
14. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
15. Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
16. Motorpsycho - Little Lucid Moments
17. Osunlade - Passage
18. Appleblim - Dubstep Allstars Vol. 6
19. Beck - Modern Guilt
20. Daniel Baldelli & Marco Donji: Cosmic Disco? Cosmic Rock!
Top 5 Unmixed Comps:
1. 1970s Algerian Proto-Rai Underground
2. Wackie's - Black World
3. BIPPP: French Synth Wave 1979-85
4. Nigeria Rock Special
5. African Scream Contest
Best Old/New DiscoveryCultural Amnesia - Press My Hungry Button
Robert’s Tops for 2008
Earles & Jensen - Just Farr a Laugh v. 1 & 2
John Zorn - Lucifer
Thoth Trio -Thoth Speaks
Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar - Go Marko Go!
Secret Chiefs 3 - Xaphan
Anthony Braxton 12+1 - Live at Victoriaville
Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
Kocani Orkestar - The Ravished Bride
Fanfara Tirana - Albanian Wedding
Melvins - Nude with Boots
v.a. - Sprigs of Time
v.a. – 1970s Algerian Proto-Rai Underground
Stefani's List
1 blind pilot - three rounds and a sound
2 quiet village - silent movie
3 low motion disco - keep it slow
4 milosh - III
5 human highway - moody motorcycle
6 michna - magic monday
7 benoit pioulard - temper
8 sun kil moon - april
9 eliot lipp - the outside
10 galactic dice - alleatoric grooves
11 pacific - reveries
12 anthony hamilton - the point of it all
13 populous with short stories - drawn in basic
14 leon ware - moon ride
15 elbow - the seldom seen kid
16 flying lotus - los angeles
17 french kicks - swimming
18 department of eagles - in ear park
19 nightmares on wax - thought so
20 anthiliawaters - the miles without you
Jodi's Top Records (In No Order) for 2008
1-Motorhead "Motorizer"
2-Beck "Modern Guilt"
3-Last Shadow Puppets "Age of Understatement"
4-Grace Jones "Hurricane"
5-Paul Austerlitz "Journey"7
6-Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds "Dig Lazarus Dig"
7-Nomo "Ghost Rock"
8-Amadou & Miriam "Welcome To Mali"
9-"Benjamin Button" soundtrack
10-Brazilian Girls "NYC"
11-George Clinton & His Gangsters of Love
12-Abiyou Solomon "In Search of My Roots"
13-Lee Perry "Scratch Came...."
BY PETER GIANAKOPOULOS
GOLDFRAPP “SEVENTH TREE”
THE WEEK THAT WAS “S/T”
THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS “THE AGE OF THE UNDERSTATEMENT”
HERCULES AND LOVE AFFAIR “S/T”
FUCKED UP “THE CHEMISTRY OF COMMON LIFE”
THE HELIO SEQUENCE “KEEP YOUR EYES AHEAD”
GRACE JONES “HURRICANE”
ERYKAH BADU “NEW AMERYKAH P.1”
BABY DEE “SAFE INSIDE THE DAY”
BECK “MODERN GUILT”
PORTISHEAD “THIRD”
DUKE SPIRIT “NEPTUNE”
DAVID BYRNE/BRIAN ENO “EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS WILL HAPPEN TODAY”
AMADOU & MARIAM “WELCOME TO MALI”
BRAZILIAN GIRLS “NEW YORK CITY”
MRR-ADM “UNTITLED” 10” LP
LINDSTROM “WHERE YOU GO”
FLYING LOTUS “LOS ANGELES”
WIRE “OBJECT 47”
TED AUSTERLITZ “JOURNEY”
THE FIREMAN “ELECTRIC ARGUMENTS”
ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO “REAL ANIMAL”
Q-TIP “THE RENAISSANCE”
NOMO “GHOST ROCK”
MGMT “ORACULAR SPECTACULAR”
V.A. 1970’S ALGERIAN PROTO-RAI UNDERGROUND (LP)
V.A. NIGERIA ROCK SPECIAL
MOTORPSYCHO “LITTLE LUCID MOMENTS”
NURSE WITH WOUND “HUFFIN’ RAG BLUES”
V.A. ELASTE-V.2 SPACE DISCO
BEST REISSUE: DENNIS WILSON “PACIFIC OCEAN BLUE”
SONG OF THE YEAR: MGMT “ELECTRIC FEEL”
BEST OLD TITLE NEWLY DISCOVERED: MICHAEL CHAPMAN “RAINMAKER /FULLY QUALIFIED SURVIVOR” (2-FER CD)
Geoff’s Tops for 2008
1.Valerio Cosi - Collected Works
2. Leila - Blood, Looms and Blooms
3. Woven Hand - Ten Stones
4. Lulu Rouge - Bless You
5. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Pt. 1
6. Nurse with Wound - Bacteria Magnet/Huffin' Rag Blues
7. Nomo - Ghost Rock
8. VA: Elaste - Space Disco Vol. 2
9. Wire - Object 41/Read & Burn 3
10. Portishead - Third
11. Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
12. The Week That Was - s/t
13. Sam Ragga Band - In Dub
14. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
15. Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
16. Motorpsycho - Little Lucid Moments
17. Osunlade - Passage
18. Appleblim - Dubstep Allstars Vol. 6
19. Beck - Modern Guilt
20. Daniel Baldelli & Marco Donji: Cosmic Disco? Cosmic Rock!
Top 5 Unmixed Comps:
1. 1970s Algerian Proto-Rai Underground
2. Wackie's - Black World
3. BIPPP: French Synth Wave 1979-85
4. Nigeria Rock Special
5. African Scream Contest
Best Old/New DiscoveryCultural Amnesia - Press My Hungry Button
Robert’s Tops for 2008
Earles & Jensen - Just Farr a Laugh v. 1 & 2
John Zorn - Lucifer
Thoth Trio -Thoth Speaks
Boban i Marko Markovic Orkestar - Go Marko Go!
Secret Chiefs 3 - Xaphan
Anthony Braxton 12+1 - Live at Victoriaville
Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life
Kocani Orkestar - The Ravished Bride
Fanfara Tirana - Albanian Wedding
Melvins - Nude with Boots
v.a. - Sprigs of Time
v.a. – 1970s Algerian Proto-Rai Underground
Stefani's List
1 blind pilot - three rounds and a sound
2 quiet village - silent movie
3 low motion disco - keep it slow
4 milosh - III
5 human highway - moody motorcycle
6 michna - magic monday
7 benoit pioulard - temper
8 sun kil moon - april
9 eliot lipp - the outside
10 galactic dice - alleatoric grooves
11 pacific - reveries
12 anthony hamilton - the point of it all
13 populous with short stories - drawn in basic
14 leon ware - moon ride
15 elbow - the seldom seen kid
16 flying lotus - los angeles
17 french kicks - swimming
18 department of eagles - in ear park
19 nightmares on wax - thought so
20 anthiliawaters - the miles without you
Jodi's Top Records (In No Order) for 2008
1-Motorhead "Motorizer"
2-Beck "Modern Guilt"
3-Last Shadow Puppets "Age of Understatement"
4-Grace Jones "Hurricane"
5-Paul Austerlitz "Journey"7
6-Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds "Dig Lazarus Dig"
7-Nomo "Ghost Rock"
8-Amadou & Miriam "Welcome To Mali"
9-"Benjamin Button" soundtrack
10-Brazilian Girls "NYC"
11-George Clinton & His Gangsters of Love
12-Abiyou Solomon "In Search of My Roots"
13-Lee Perry "Scratch Came...."
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Results are in, PUPS WIN!
The results are in, PUPS WIN by a large margin. 77% of those who polled voted for 'em!
Thanks for voting, those of you who did.....
Be on the look out at the bottom of our blog for the next poll!
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Record Reviews from the Forest Park Post
THE OLD SCHOOL REPORT CARD V.7 PT.1
DAVID BYRNE & BRIAN ENO “EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS WILL HAPPEN TODAY” CD (Todomundo/Opal)
For the first time in 27 years, the Talking Heads frontman David Byrne and one-time Roxy Music member Brian Eno have collaborated for one of this year’s best releases.
This time out, Eno asked Byrne to add lyrics and vocals to tracks he had created and they began passing tapes back and forth until session musicians and various recording studios involved amassed the project to a complete record.
This may not be the anticipated sequel to the sample-ridden masterwork of 1981’s “My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts”, but it is a great new David Byrne solo album with interesting accompaniment and production from master studio wizard Sir Brian Eno. Eno’s method is usually “less is more” and his minimal passive beats work to great detail on tracks like “I Feel My Stuff” that reminds me of some Robert Plant techno world-beat until the avant-garde jazz piano builds to a heavy rock crescendo.
This disc may be a bit artistic compared to later Talking Heads work but it recalls the “no-wave meets the 1990’s” as far as guitars meets electronics. They refer to it as folk-electronic-gospel. Let’s plug in and go to church.
GRADE: A
THE OLD SCHOOL REPORT CARD V.7 PT.2
THE WEEK THAT WAS “S/T” CD/LP (Memphis Industries)
Field Music is an indie pop band from Sunderland, England, a town that brought the music world bands like the Futureheads and Maximo Park. Led by brothers Peter and David Brewis, Field Music went on hiatus after their debut to work on side projects. Earlier this year David debuted with School Of Language and now Peter has emerged with the more ambitious The Week That Was.
The Week That Was combine Linn drum machines and Fairlight keyboards harking back to the early 1980’s when artists like Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel and Genesis ruled the airwaves. It was the era more prevalent than on the work of Yes circa-“90125” when Art of Noise met prog rock. Tracks on this record are math rock when a pop sense fighting to get through. Think a poppier David Sylvian-led Japan or Talk Talk on a well medicated day. The opener “Learn To Learn” gets things driving from the get-go. XTC harmonies with Phil Collins-type drumbeats accented by math rock guitar arpeggios. Never was a marimba put to better pop-rock use. This follows into “The Good Life”, which has a Talk Talk pop feel. A couple of somber pop cuts continue until track five, “The Airport Line” which is the current third single released. Soothing strings and staccato rhythms make this one work on a pop level similar to Big Star,
Momentum changes for the last third of the record and then closes in a phenomenal fashion with “Scratch The Surface” that might remind one of Wire’s Colin Newman solo work or the Yes/Trevor Rabin era. This record clocks in at just over thirty minutes and is one of those great debuts like The Cars or The Pretenders’ first albums from back in the day that you could play over and over again and never get tired of. Top notch.
GRADE: A+
THE OLD SCHOOL REPORT CARD V,7 PT.3
GRACE JONES “HURRICANE” CD/LP (Wall Of Sound/PIAS)
At age 60, Grace Jones had disappeared but was never really gone. On her comeback record she is catching up with some of the trends that she missed in the nineties. “Hurricane” continues her dub tendacies collaborating again with the great reggae rhythm section of Sly & Robbie, now clashing it with Massive Attack and other electro influences. Had she continued her recording career all along, this may well have been the record she should have made in 1996. With groups like Spektrum out of the U.K. stealing her vibe, now was the perfect time for her to re-emerge and regain her diva-club-electro-dub-queen throne.
There isn’t a clunker in the bunch on this disc. Collaborating with Tony Allen, Sly & Robbie, Tricky, Brian Eno, Wally Badarou and producer Ivor Guest who created all the basic tracks in her inevitable style. Wendy and Lisa co-wrote the autobiographical track “William’s Blood”, which is a tribute to Grace Jones’ mother Marjorie, which was a wise choice for first single as will “Love You To Life” no doubt become a definite club hit. Apparently Ivor Guest produced some 23 songs of which nine appear here so we may see a follow-up record in the new year. Prepare yourself for the second wave of the hurricane.
GRADE: B+
DAVID BYRNE & BRIAN ENO “EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS WILL HAPPEN TODAY” CD (Todomundo/Opal)
For the first time in 27 years, the Talking Heads frontman David Byrne and one-time Roxy Music member Brian Eno have collaborated for one of this year’s best releases.
This time out, Eno asked Byrne to add lyrics and vocals to tracks he had created and they began passing tapes back and forth until session musicians and various recording studios involved amassed the project to a complete record.
This may not be the anticipated sequel to the sample-ridden masterwork of 1981’s “My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts”, but it is a great new David Byrne solo album with interesting accompaniment and production from master studio wizard Sir Brian Eno. Eno’s method is usually “less is more” and his minimal passive beats work to great detail on tracks like “I Feel My Stuff” that reminds me of some Robert Plant techno world-beat until the avant-garde jazz piano builds to a heavy rock crescendo.
This disc may be a bit artistic compared to later Talking Heads work but it recalls the “no-wave meets the 1990’s” as far as guitars meets electronics. They refer to it as folk-electronic-gospel. Let’s plug in and go to church.
GRADE: A
THE OLD SCHOOL REPORT CARD V.7 PT.2
THE WEEK THAT WAS “S/T” CD/LP (Memphis Industries)
Field Music is an indie pop band from Sunderland, England, a town that brought the music world bands like the Futureheads and Maximo Park. Led by brothers Peter and David Brewis, Field Music went on hiatus after their debut to work on side projects. Earlier this year David debuted with School Of Language and now Peter has emerged with the more ambitious The Week That Was.
The Week That Was combine Linn drum machines and Fairlight keyboards harking back to the early 1980’s when artists like Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel and Genesis ruled the airwaves. It was the era more prevalent than on the work of Yes circa-“90125” when Art of Noise met prog rock. Tracks on this record are math rock when a pop sense fighting to get through. Think a poppier David Sylvian-led Japan or Talk Talk on a well medicated day. The opener “Learn To Learn” gets things driving from the get-go. XTC harmonies with Phil Collins-type drumbeats accented by math rock guitar arpeggios. Never was a marimba put to better pop-rock use. This follows into “The Good Life”, which has a Talk Talk pop feel. A couple of somber pop cuts continue until track five, “The Airport Line” which is the current third single released. Soothing strings and staccato rhythms make this one work on a pop level similar to Big Star,
Momentum changes for the last third of the record and then closes in a phenomenal fashion with “Scratch The Surface” that might remind one of Wire’s Colin Newman solo work or the Yes/Trevor Rabin era. This record clocks in at just over thirty minutes and is one of those great debuts like The Cars or The Pretenders’ first albums from back in the day that you could play over and over again and never get tired of. Top notch.
GRADE: A+
THE OLD SCHOOL REPORT CARD V,7 PT.3
GRACE JONES “HURRICANE” CD/LP (Wall Of Sound/PIAS)
At age 60, Grace Jones had disappeared but was never really gone. On her comeback record she is catching up with some of the trends that she missed in the nineties. “Hurricane” continues her dub tendacies collaborating again with the great reggae rhythm section of Sly & Robbie, now clashing it with Massive Attack and other electro influences. Had she continued her recording career all along, this may well have been the record she should have made in 1996. With groups like Spektrum out of the U.K. stealing her vibe, now was the perfect time for her to re-emerge and regain her diva-club-electro-dub-queen throne.
There isn’t a clunker in the bunch on this disc. Collaborating with Tony Allen, Sly & Robbie, Tricky, Brian Eno, Wally Badarou and producer Ivor Guest who created all the basic tracks in her inevitable style. Wendy and Lisa co-wrote the autobiographical track “William’s Blood”, which is a tribute to Grace Jones’ mother Marjorie, which was a wise choice for first single as will “Love You To Life” no doubt become a definite club hit. Apparently Ivor Guest produced some 23 songs of which nine appear here so we may see a follow-up record in the new year. Prepare yourself for the second wave of the hurricane.
GRADE: B+
Thursday, December 4, 2008
THE OLD SCHOOL RECORDS DANCE PARTY!
THE OLD SCHOOL RECORDS
HOLIDAY WALK
DANCE PARTY!
FEATURING DJ OL’ ST. MICK OF
THREE CHILD PRODUCTIONS
SPINNING YOUR FAVORITE HOLIDAY TUNES AND MORE!
FRIDAY
DECEMBER 5, 2008
FROM 6 PM TO 9 PM
YOU’VE
GOT TO DANCE
WHEN YOU’RE WITH US!
COME HOOK UP WITH US AT
FLEX AND POINTE DANCE STUDIO
LOCATED JUST DOWN THE STREET AT
7515 W. MADISON
WHERE YOU CAN REALLY BUST A MOVE IN STYLE!
HOLIDAY WALK
DANCE PARTY!
FEATURING DJ OL’ ST. MICK OF
THREE CHILD PRODUCTIONS
SPINNING YOUR FAVORITE HOLIDAY TUNES AND MORE!
FRIDAY
DECEMBER 5, 2008
FROM 6 PM TO 9 PM
YOU’VE
GOT TO DANCE
WHEN YOU’RE WITH US!
COME HOOK UP WITH US AT
FLEX AND POINTE DANCE STUDIO
LOCATED JUST DOWN THE STREET AT
7515 W. MADISON
WHERE YOU CAN REALLY BUST A MOVE IN STYLE!
Saturday, November 29, 2008
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