
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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(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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