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Turntable Kitchen’s RSD 2013 Recommend Releases + TK Market Weekend Sale

April 19th, 2013

We’re HUGE fans of Record Store Day. For those who aren’t in the know, Record Store Day is the world’s only awesome shopping day (if you’re a vinyl record enthusiast that is). Hundreds of limited-edition exclusive vinyl records are released for one day only and available exclusively at independent record stores across the world. This [...]

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Turntable Kitchen’s Top LPs of 2012

December 31st, 2012

I think one of the best parts about compiling my year end list is forcing myself to take the time to look back upon the year in music. Around this time each year, I sit down in front of my record player and pull LPs from my collection to play them one by one. In [...]

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Turntable Kitchen’s Top 7″ Vinyl Singles of 2012

December 24th, 2012

As an avid fan of music, I love putting together my “best of” lists at year end. As an avid record collector, I especially love compiling by 7″ vinyl singles list. This year was an especially fun list to compile because there were so many good singles released. As usual, this list is not ranked. In [...]

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Turntable Kitchen’s Vinyl Record Collector’s Gift Guide

November 28th, 2012

Pictured: 1) Pro-Ject Speed Box; 2) Pro-Ject Debut Carbon in red; 3) Al Green’s Greatest Hits LP; 4) Grado SR80i headphones; 5) Acryl-it Platter; 6) Audio Technica AT-LP60; 7) Music Hall Cork Mat; 8) The xx – xx LP.  In the past few years, vinyl records have made a well-deserved comeback. They are collectible, they [...]

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Turntable Kitchen’s Top Highlights From Outside Lands 2012

August 15th, 2012

San Francisco’s Gourmet Music Festival returned this past weekend with an exceptionally eclectic lineup that included Beck, Metallica, The Walkmen, Tennis, Foo Fighters, White Denim, Sharon Van Etten, Washed Out, Neil Young, Justice, and Andrew Bird. And that was just Day One. Day Two included Geographer, Tame Impala, Father John Misty, Alabama Shakes, Michael Kiwanuka, [...]

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Turntable Kitchen’s SXSW 2012 Recap: Best + Worst, Instagram Photo Journal, & MP3s

March 20th, 2012

Note: We are now accepting new subscribers to the Turntable Kitchen Pairings Box, beginning with the April Pairings Box! Sign up and join the fun. Oh, and since we’re talking about SXSW, we should mention that Time Magazine listed April’s featured-artist (whose identity we’re keeping top secret for now) as one of the top artist’s to [...]

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It’s an EPIC Giveaway: Win Our Turntable + A Starter Record Collection (Value: Over $500)!

February 13th, 2012

Today we’re sharing something REALLY cool with you. A few months ago, we hooked up with the very talented Eric Slatkin of Highbeam Media (not to mention our friends Lindsey & Christian, who let us take over their house) to shoot a video that we hope captures what we feel is the Turntable Kitchen Pairings [...]

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Served Three Ways: Three Covers of The Clash’s “The Guns of Brixton”

January 24th, 2012

The Clash’s “Guns of Brixton” is probably one of the greatest rock songs ever written. Anyways, it is certainly one of the best rock tracks ever fused with another genre (considering it is maybe more reggae that rock). I love the way it just oozes defiance, rebellion and urban menace. The three covers I collected [...]

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Turntable Takeover: The Peach Kings – Thieves and Kings

January 10th, 2012

Please give a warm welcome to our good friend Hannah who is taking over the Turntable today. Kasey and I met Hannah and her boyfriend Jeff a few months ago when we realized that we shared a ridiculously large number of similar interests. Hannah is the managing editor at Indie Shuffle – so, yeah, like [...]

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Turntable Kitchen :: Top Albums of 2011

January 3rd, 2012 3522887579_8ac666c874_z-1

(full list of Top 30 Albums with MP3s below comments) Comments A recent New York Times article (sent to me by my friend Lindsey) sizes up the “mainstream rock music” in 2011 and concludes that “2011 may well be remembered as the most numbing year for mainstream rock music in history.” To be honest, I’ve [...]

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