General all purpose vinyl movie/news/docu/ect thread

The Belly of the Beat
about the basement of A1 records in NY
http://vimeo.com/8275033

Vinyl (the documentary)

the homeless guy they show a photo of in the A1 vid looks like stinky steve! (notorious record dealer. lives in his car, basically. banned from wfmu record show forever.)

http://www.blogcdn.com/blog.winamp.com/media/2010/01/izotope-vinyl.jpg

http://blog.winamp.com/2010/01/19/how-to-make-your-mp3-sound-like-vinyl/

lol yes, vinyl is lo-fi, that's it/

hmm vinyl-is-lovable-lo-fi-nostalgia-medium is pretty tiresome, but I uh have to admit that it would be fun to mess around with that plug in!

some wicked pictures here ... :

http://www.synthgear.com/2010/audio-gear/record-grooves-electron-microscope/

http://www.synthgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/record_grooves.jpg

lol @ "winamp.com"

how the fuck does winamp still exist

i remember i had the bitchinest winamp skins in college, shit looked like a black and green computer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbaueEjXbaU

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-gary-calamar8-2010apr08,0,4516401.story

new book by ex kcrw dj, music supervisor, friend of my mom and all around good guy Gary calamar. "record store days"

http://vimeo.com/10284225

With an influx of digital solutions in the realm of DJing and music, the increasingly obsolete medium of vinyl is fully tributed in the upcoming “musicmentary” To Have & To Hold. With a previous generation of music fans still embracing vinyl, the documentary focuses on its meaning, its graphical element and interviews with various hardcore collectors including Bobbito Garcia, Chuck D, Questlove, Danny Krivit, Bruce ‘Bluenote’ Ludvall and others.

I Need That Record!

The Death (or Possible Survival) of the Independent Record Store

Coming To Indie Retailers on DVD April 17

f/ Thurston Moore, Ian MacKaye, Noam Chomksy, Mike Watt, Lenny Kaye
and more...

MVD Visual is pleased to announce the release of "I Need That Record! The Death (or Possible Survival) of the Independent Record Store" for North American distribution on April 17 (Record Store Day). It will be offered exclusively to independent record stores for a period of 90 days. Afterwards, it will be available everywhere on July 27.

Guerilla filmmaker Brendan Toller presents a documentary feature examining why over 3000 independent record stores have closed across the U.S. in the past decade.

Greedy record labels, media consolidation, homogenized radio, big box stores, Ecommerce, shoddy "stars" pushed by big money, and the digital revolution all pose threats on the very well being of our favorite record stores and the music industry at large. Will these stores die? Will they survive?

Featuring discussion and commentary by THURSTON MOORE of Sonic Youth, IAN MACKAYE of Dischord Records Fugazi/Minor Threat, activist/author NOAM CHOMSKY, MIKE WATT of the Minutemen, LENNY KAYEguitarist of the Patti Smith Group, CHRIS FRANTZ of the Talking Heads/Tom Tom Club, guitar composer GLENN BRANCA, PATTERSON HOOD of Drive-By Truckers, PAT CARNEY of the Black Keys, punk author LEGS MCNEIL, rock photographer BOB GRUEN, BP HELIUM guitarist from Of Montreal, and many indie record stores across the United States.

"This film has been a four year labor of love playing at over 25 film festivals worldwide (and continuing)," said Toller. "So when it came time to craft the DVD we packed it with 2+ hours of candid interview extras with: Thurston Moore, Mike Watt, Ian MacKaye, Lenny Kaye, Patterson Hood, Glenn Branca, Pat Carney, and Legs McNeil."

The film also features amazing animation by MATT NEWMAN. Currently Toller is working with Justin Skrakowski on a collagic film portrait of rock legend Danny Fields.

"An elegy for a vanishing subculture...a lively, bittersweet film that examines - with caustic humor, brutal candor, and, ultimately, great affection - why roughly 3,000 indie record stores have closed across the nation over the past decade..." - Johnathan Perry, Boston Globe

Websites: ineedthatrecord.com and brendantoller.com

Official Trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OePVFP7NJrQ
News Piece on the Film:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ybnosdeB7E

i never saw this one. it's got malcom and the closing of trash american style in it!

malcom opened his first store in my town when i was still in high school. i couldn't believe it. an honest to goodness punk rock record store opening up in MY sleepy town in connecticut! unbelievable. so many memories. even when he moved the store to danbury, just such a cool spot. and a true force for weirdness in such a non-weird zone.

speaking of, is Jr going to get Jean Deaux's leftovers or are they hoping to re-open at some point?

dan is gonna sell stuff from the massive storage spot that he found in hudson. or that's the last i heard. unfortunately, i have no time to go down there right now to help out/move stuff/take stuff up here to sell.

cool blog focusing on record label design:

http://collectornotcompletist.blogspot.com/

scott, what if you started a thread and nobody responded?
I NEED THAT RECORD! THE DEATH (OR POSSIBLE SURVIVAL) OF THE INDEPENDENT RECORD STORE

http://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2010/04/do-music-lovers-still-need-record-stores/39483/

My friend who joined my experiment, a casual music fan who doesn't buy music at Best Buy, ILX user 69 gave me a one-word review of her experience with memy article: "Boring."

i don't think i even understand that article. or what the point is? there is some sort of argument being made, but i don't get it. is it just: hey, i know how to download music so you better be extra nice to me?

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hornby killed the record stores! i knew that. he kills everything.

i was in the turn it up store in keene nh a month ago and someone in the store actually brought up the famous beta band scene from high fidelity! ahhhhhh! he was asking the clerk if he had ever seen it and the dude was like no sorry never seen it. you GOTTA see it! oof, i had to get out of there.

i hate the thought of newness becoming a threat to "what's good about music," and that is the epitome of hornbyism to me.

"Yet I still linger around, not just to browse but also to hope that conversations will bubble up with a clerk or another customer--"Have you read the 33 1/3 book about that record?" a doughy, early-30s guy might say as I finger a Big Star record. "

"The other clerks I saw camped out at the used CD kiosk, gabbing with a doughy, early-30s guy and giving me a snooty look as I approached."

poor lonely Sam is just looking for a doughy, early-30s guy