The Vinyl District
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Weekly, TVD features well-considered reviews, live performance coverage, as well as vinyl and ticket giveaways from the largest international acts to the smallest "you should get to know" bands. Interviews range from industry legends to emerging artists. The Vinyl District is your daily brick and mortar, indie record store fix.
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VIA PRESS RELEASE | In early 1993, the legendary Johnny Cash found himself between contracts in his then nearly 40-year career and recorded an album’s worth of songwriting demos at LSI Studios in Nashville of songs he’d written over many years. LSI at the time was owned by his son-in-law Mike Daniels and daughter Rosey ..read more
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Celebrating Chris Mars, born on this day in 1961. —Ed. Minneapolis indie rock heroes The Replacements went from snot-nosed “let’s get drunk and puke on the ceiling then fall down on stage” punks to power pop legends on the strength of the deceptively effortless songcraft of Paul Westerberg, and Westerberg reached his peak on 1984’s ..read more
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Remembering Gary Wright, born on this day in 1943. —Ed. Namaste, fellow seekers! And welcome back to the Vedic District and your host, Michael Paramahansa Yogananda Little! On this week’s turn of the cosmic wheel we’ll be discussing New Age seer and synthesizer-around-the-neck avatar Gary Wright, whose chakra-cleansing songs and mystical crystal revelations make him ..read more
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Luminate Expands How It Counts Indie Retail Sales for Billboard Charts Via New Partnership: The data firm will now collect indie physical music sales data from StreetPulse as Billboard’s Tastemakers Albums chart is rebranded Indie Store Album Sales. Luminate, which provides data to the Billboard charts, has signed a new partnership that will enable it ..read more
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From the Civilian Arts Project to the Warehouse Next Door, the Black Cat, Comet Ping Pong, Artisphere, the Howard Theatre, U Street Music Hall, Penn Social, and Eaton DC—the DC Record Fair has brought out vinyl fans across DC (and VA!) for 15 years now. And for the 15th anniversary of the DC Record Fair ..read more
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VIA PRESS RELEASE | Robyn Hitchcock has announced that his eagerly awaited new memoir, 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left, will be published in the United States by Akashic Books on June 28. Pre-orders are available now. Told with the inimitable wit, wisdom, wordplay (and original illustrations) fans have come to ..read more
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Celebrating Björn Ulvaeus on his 79th birthday. —Ed. I love ABBA. I love them so much I contacted the Swedish ambassador last week to see if I could buy them. “ABBA are a national treasure,” the ambassador informed me. “But a thousand kroner would probably do it.” I was rather taken aback really, given ABBA ..read more
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Friends groaned when it came time for me to move and they had to hoist those boxes of old Trouser Press magazines I’d saved: Was I really moving them again? Well, yes. From the late ’70s until 1984, the plucky magazine was an invaluable guide to not only the best of classic British rock, but ..read more
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Living Waters is the fifth full-length record from E, a band with members based in Boston, MA (Thalia Zedek, guitar-bass, and Ernie Kim, drums) and Boulder, CO (Jason Sanford, guitar, electronic devices). The sound is piledriver heavy and the playing spring-action adept, qualities appropriate for this power trio cut from the cloth of noise rock ..read more
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Chicago, IL | Record Store Culture Celebrated At Beverly Records: Crate diggers gathered at Beverly Records for Record Store Day, celebrating the special role indie record shops play in their communities. It was one of those rare confluences of holidays, like having two solar eclipses seven years apart, when the (wink-wink) 4/20 and Record Store ..read more